{"id":29558,"date":"2015-07-14T11:23:17","date_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:23:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=29558"},"modified":"2015-07-14T11:23:17","modified_gmt":"2015-07-14T18:23:17","slug":"hbs-8-fatal-flaws-to-avoid-in-your-application","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/hbs-8-fatal-flaws-to-avoid-in-your-application\/","title":{"rendered":"HBS: 8 Fatal Flaws to Avoid in Your Application"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>From The Staff of MBA Admit.com, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><\/p>\n<p>To benefit from our free webinars, click <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/\">https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Recent Webinar Topics: Getting Into the Top-10 MBA Programs; Overriding a Low GPA; Overriding a Low GMAT Score<\/p>\n<p>For a free Profile Evaluation, fill out the profile evaluation form on our homepage at <a href=\"https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/mbaadmit.com<\/a>. <\/p>\n<p>MBA Admit.com: Proudly, one of the most affordable MBA admissions consulting companies<br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>HBS: 8 Fatal Flaws to Avoid in Your Application<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>When applying to Harvard Business School, it is a given you should have strong academic credentials.  It is a given that your GMAT should be solid, preferably with a strong quant score.  It is a given you should have valuable experiences and that ideally you will not have yet \u201caged out\u201d of the ideal age range for the HBS program.  But these are often \u201cnecessary\u201d but not \u201csufficient\u201d requirements of the typical successful HBS applicant.  <\/p>\n<p>They are not \u201csufficient\u201d because, even if you have all of the above, you can still fail to gain admission to HBS \u2013 and there are several common reasons why some candidates fail to make it into the 11% of applicants who are granted admission to HBS.  Consider 8 of the most common flaws in HBS applications:<\/p>\n<p>1.\tFailing to focus somewhere in the application\/essays\/recommendations on your successful leadership<br \/>\n2.\tFailing to note your desire to make a notable impact in the future<br \/>\n3.\tFailing to draw solid attention to your key selling point(s) and stress them<br \/>\n4.\tFailing to convey evidence of your intellectual curiosity, analytical rigor and originality of thought<br \/>\n5.\tFailing to highlight somewhere in the application\/essays\/recommendations your proven teamwork capabilities<br \/>\n6.\tFailing to convey proof that you have been a top performer in your professional career<br \/>\n7.\tFailing to distinguish yourself from the pack of similar-profile applicants<br \/>\n8.\tFailing to provide two stellar recommendations (one flat recommendation can close the door!)<\/p>\n<p>Be mindful of these common flaws as you put your HBS application together!<\/p>\n<p><strong>Need Assistance with your application?  Contact us at <a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><\/strong><br \/>\nBest wishes,<\/p>\n<p>Dr. Shel (Shelly Watts)<br \/>\nPresident, MBA Admit.com<br \/>\n<a href=\"https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com\">https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com<\/a><br \/>\nEmail: info@mbaadmit.com<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From The Staff of MBA Admit.com, https:\/\/www.mbaadmit.com To benefit from our free webinars, click https:\/\/mbaadmit.com\/webinars\/ Recent Webinar Topics: Getting Into the Top-10 MBA Programs; Overriding a Low GPA; Overriding a&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":115,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[368,11,6,1242,775,113,243,766],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-29558","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mobile-blog","category-mba","category-current-events","category-mbaadmit","category-admission-consultants","category-applications","category-blog","category-top-stories","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/115"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=29558"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":29559,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/29558\/revisions\/29559"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=29558"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=29558"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=29558"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}