[color=#4000FF]Well, not gone, but shrinking, as per ukase by Tsar Nohria to cut back the PE Kulaks and get some kids fr. the Tractor factory

(sorry for dog's breakfast of Russian totalitarian references here) . No, she did not say work in a coal mine, but she did hint that they were tilting towards kids who did work in tractor factories (not on assembly line, but maybe in biz develp or supervisory role on floor) in fact, old economy companies are the new Black(stone) at HBS.

Sandy, could it be that we have a lot more people with PE background nowadays, compared with like 2-3 years ago, so naturally you see more applicants from PE (in nominal terms) that didn't get accepted? My personal impression is that plenty of this year's admitted profiles have finance background. In fact, I'd venture to say that at least 30% of those finance profiles I've seen have PE elements in them. Of course, it'd be interesting to see the actual stats after all rounds are finished.