![\"\"](\"https:\/\/fortunaadmissions.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2019\/05\/HBS-1024x544.png\")
<\/p>\n<\/p>\n
They\u2019re all MBA candidates in the Harvard Business School Class of 2020, where 9,886 applicants vied for one of 930 spots. The rope-skipping champion is also an entrepreneur who worked at Deutsche Bank. The Obama Foundation staffer was also a senior business analyst at McKinsey. And the reality TV star is also a Harvard-trained lawyer and BCG financial analyst. (Aside: He\u2019s not the only classmate with the reality TV distinction; another competed on the Discovery Channel\u2019s Girl Starter.)<\/p>\n
As reported in my related article for Forbes<\/a>, it\u2019s not surprising that some 21% of admits to the HBS Class of 2020 worked for a top three consulting firm and 26% had a finance profile. But you\u2019d be wrong to presume that only MBB or a top investment bank position will help you make the cut for HBS.<\/p>\n You can major in geography at the University of Georgia before winning a peacebuilding award as Generation US Fellow. Then there\u2019s the Chinese biologist and product innovation researcher for a global candy brand who is also the mother of a five-year-old.<\/p>\n Our deep dive into the HBS Class of 2020 provides a wealth of previously unpublished insights into what the HBS is looking for, which I summarize in Forbes. Similar to our Deep Dive Analysis of the Stanford GSB Class of 2020<\/a>, my Fortuna colleagues executed a feat of labor-intensive research to canvass the LinkedIn profiles of last year\u2019s incoming class. In doing so, they identified the educational and professional backgrounds of 893 of the 930 candidates \u2013\u00a0a 96% sample size that represents the most extensive analysis ever published.<\/p>\n If you\u2019ve already explored our topline analysis in Forbes<\/a>, we invite you to request a copy of our full deep dive summary report<\/a>,\u00a0<\/strong>which includes a scrupulous level of detail, such as:<\/p>\n For admissions advice and informed strategy on how to get into HBS, check out our team\u2019s most popular articles and video blogs related to Harvard Business School:<\/p>\n If you haven\u2019t yet seen it, check out our deep dive on the Stanford GSB Class of 2020<\/a> in Forbes and related article on the Fortuna blog<\/a>. Or, request a copy of the full report on the GSB<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What does a Swedish world rope-skipping champion, Obama Foundation chief of staff and reality TV star from CBS\u2019s Survivor: Ghost Island have in common? They\u2019re all MBA candidates in the…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":160,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1831,775,243],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-47543","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-fortuna-admissions","category-admission-consultants","category-blog","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543","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\/160"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=47543"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/47543\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=47543"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=47543"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=47543"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Request a copy of the full deep dive summary report<\/h3>\n
\n
View more HBS admissions advice<\/h3>\n
\n
Check out our deep dive on the Stanford GSB Class of 2020<\/h3>\n