djy2378 wrote:
I'll think again the common belief that GSB steal a large portion of HBS admit...So it is possible they really have different eyes for candidates?
Alright, this made me wonder... Apparently, they are looking for different things in some cases. But here are the numbers, according to
poetsandquants (I added the "not enrolled" line")
StanfordApplicants: 7,204
Accepted: 488
% Accepted: 6.8%
Enrolled: 389
Not enrolled: 99
Yield: 79.7%
HarvardApplicants: 9,524
Accepted: 1,071
% Accepted: 11.2%
Enrolled: 903
Not enrolled: 168
Yield: 84.3%
Stanford's not going to steal a huge portion of anything, because it's just too small, but assuming that all 168 of the people that turned down HBS went to Stanford, that would be around 19% of HBS's admits.
However, what's perhaps more interesting is that both schools together got a total of 267 not-enrolleds. Assuming that all refusals to one of these schools was to go to the other one (not true, of course, but as a very rough estimate), that would mean that only 267 people got into both schools--which would be 55% of Stanford's admits and 25% of HBS's. So a lot more Stanford admits would have been accepted at HBS than vice versa... but 45% still wouldn't have. (Unless I've done something crazy with my math here.) Food for thought?
ETA: This of course has very little bearing on anyone's chances of getting into both if they apply to both, since the people who apply to one definitely don't always apply to the other. Just talking about how much overlap there would be at the end of the day.