Harvard Business School Application for the class of 2013 is online. This thread will also serve as a master thread for the 2+2 applicants for the class of 2016 (June 2011 Applicants!) APPLICANTS: Please fill out your stats in the Google Doc attached and keep updating your information whenever you see fit! We will keep this thread updated as well (GIANT Post - Be warned ) Current Students: Harvard Admits 2+2 APPLICANTS REQUIREMENTS: GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION: 1. Essay Questions : 2. Application Deadlines : To be announced for the Summer of 2011. For the Summer of 2010 class: 3. Letters of Recommendation : 4. Sandy's Advice for Students Applying to 2+2 : REGULAR APPLICANTS All quoted sections of this post are from the Harvard Business School Admissions Website GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION: 1. Essay Questions : 2. Application Deadlines : 3. Letters of Recommendation : APPLICANT LIST: HBS Applicant List Google Doc 0Avb_1Ns4jB92dHp0UTJQcWpEajJwdENjYW9PVEc1TEE OTHER RESOURCES: Useful Web Pages for Application * HBS Director's Blog for All Important Updates * Last year's thread for HBS (Regular Applicants) * Last year's thread for HBS 2+2 Applicants * Veritas Prep School Report for Harvard Business School (Please register your email id, and Veritas will send a link to the download and you can download multiple school reports at once if you want!) * Class Profile for 2+2 * FAQs * HBS Director's Blog for All Important Updates * Clear Admit's Essay Analysis for Harvard Fall 2011 * Veritas Prep Essay Analysis for Harvard 2011 Life at HBS - Blogs a) CS @ HBS - https://www.computersexy.com/blog/ b) Harvard Bound - https://myharvardmba2010.blogspot.com/ c) Inside HBS - https://www.insidehbs.com/ d) Sync - https://sync.bradleylautenbach.com/ e) Mark and Jie's Journey to B-School - https://markandjie.blogspot.com/ f) Will Hsu's HBS Bubble - https://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=wphsu99 g) AGirlsMBA at Harvard Business School: https://agirlsmba.blogspot.com/ h) Military to Business: https://militarytobusiness.blogspot.com/

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I checked this morning and my application is "Under Review" at HBS. That's less than 3 days after the submission deadline. Any idea what this means or has the status changed to "Under Review" for everyone?

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14 Jan 2011, 19:10

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from the deans blog

Update to "Submission Status"
Date: February 03, 2010

In response to many helpful suggestions, we are changing what you see after you have submitted your application. Instead of just the message that the application has been submitted, you will see an additional note indicating that your application is "under review." Hopefully this will give more reassurance that we are indeed moving applications through the process - something we've been doing all along, but the messaging was confusing.

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15 Jan 2011, 00:09

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any R1 Waitlisted applicants recieve a poll request yesterday afternoon?

I got an email asking to confirm my Waitlist status

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15 Jan 2011, 02:54

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Count me in R2

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15 Jan 2011, 06:54

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Mine says that too. I guess it's just to signal our applications made it into the review process. Nothing major

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15 Jan 2011, 07:15

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Yep, this little blurb wasn't there as of last night:

"Your application is under review. MBA Admissions will contact you if we need further information. Please note that this field will not change again until the notification date."

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15 Jan 2011, 07:23

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I guess its confirmation that we are definitely in R2

... best of luck, guys!

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How bad is this: two of my recommendations are two days late... and the third one is still not submitted yet.... AND... just as I'm reading my essays, missing one key word, and some (read "SOME") grammatical errors (due to last minute rush)...

I'm ready to hear the bad news already....

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Not sure if this helps, but the admissions Director in her Blog said the following:

"What if we don't have all your recommendations? We start reading applications if we have 2 recommendations. We'll contact you via email within a couple of weeks to let you know we need the 3rd. If we have only 1 or none, you will be moved into the next decision round."

I think there is some room for speculation in this statement...
- it could mean that you're fine as long as the two recommendations came in before they started reading your application,
- or it could mean that you're in R3 as they didn't have your recommendations by then.

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html

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17 Jan 2011, 12:31

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I applied in R2.

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17 Jan 2011, 16:36

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Are you all checking your status on the apply yourself page or by some other means?

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JFK'S HARVARD COLLEGE APPLICATION PUBLISHED BY KENNEDY LIBRARY TODAY: EXCERPT FROM HIS ADMISSION ESSAY

"The reasons that I have for wanting to go to Harvard are several," he wrote. "I feel that Harvard can give me a better background and a better liberal education than any other university. I have always wanted to go there, as I have felt that it is not just another college, but is a university with something definite to offer. Then to[?], I would like to go to the same college as my father. To be a 'Harvard man' is an enviable distinction, and one that I sincerely hope I shall attain."

HMMMM? MAYBE HE HAD SOME OTHER QUALITIES.

https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2011/01/1 ... 09524.html

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18 Jan 2011, 06:42

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In for round 2. Good luck to all!

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18 Jan 2011, 06:47

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I m in R2 as well

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18 Jan 2011, 09:43

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In for R2 as well

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Do you think there is any point in applying to HSW in third round. I am quite optimistic bout harvard, given the fact that Nitin N is reshuffling, as it seems, the admission process and also looking at the admission outcomes of rd 1, which you have pointed out to be a blood bath for certain traditional people for BS. Some people were also pointing out the DEE l, said "i wished you were working in coal mine", it seems dramatic enough to apply to rd 3 and be optimisitc. WHAT DO YOU THINK?

I am not your traditional applicant.

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Round 3 is always hard, for openers, and w.out knowing your stats and story, hard to specualate. In general, you are better off being a non-trad candidate in R3 than e.g. working in IB or MC or PE, but dont take that too far.

Nor should you take too far Dean Nohria statements or the 'bloodbath' for certain trad. peeps in R1, or Dee's coal mine (actually she said auto plant) allusions. . It may be true that HBS is reorienting its metrics to include more "old" economy companies, and newer MNCs like telcoms etc., and also prob. boosting the international and female stats a tad, but all those chances will take place in very small moves, e.g. 1 or 2 pct pts a year, or even less. E.g. Female enrollment might crank up 1 or 2 pct a year til it rivals Wharton (40pct), it is currently 36--that might happen over 2-3 years, but even if they boosted female admits 2pct per year, that "only" means ~40 more females out of total female app pool of several thousands!!!! HBS will stil REJECT a whole lotta females, many of them super qualified. Similarly, cutting back on IB/PE cohort might mean cutting back 1 or 2 pct, and they will still take PLENTY of IB/PE types, as they did in round 1.

Also, the more likely roadmap to this is encourage MORE FEMALES to apply, that is why Dee has formed gyno-commando units to perform special ops at places like Women's Schools and other places (nunneries???) e.g. current female students who will do road shows at colleges urging kids to apply or at companies. Sure, Dee could increase female or any other demo enrollment, w. the flick of a pen, but that is not the HBS way, the make a super big deal out of everything, and budget it, and then yak about it, then form teams, and have retreats and write interrum reports, blah, blah.

Hey, it's more fun than reading folders.

But anyway, don't expect any radical changes soon.

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Everyone out here seem to have gone on a l'll vacation or something ?!!

Come on guys n gals .... lets keep the thread alive !! First week of Feb is just two weeks away!

The R1 interviews went out in 12-13 days .... whereas for R2, they seem to be taking almost a month.
Also, all that debate on the PE vs PC selection. Would the adcom have taken notice on the post-decision hue & cry & again reverted to the traditional high-PE selection for R2 again?
Sandy, do u feel that its possible? Or is it safe to assume that the Dean would take a second call on his methodology of class composition only after this class takes shape ... i.e for class of 2014?

Thoughts, anyone ?!?!

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20 Jan 2011, 10:04

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In for R2.

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20 Jan 2011, 14:01

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Come on guys n gals .... lets keep the thread alive !! First week of Feb is just two weeks away!

I think everyone is catching up at work... :-D

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20 Jan 2011, 14:59

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yea this thread has been dead for the last week or two, probably because there is nothing to post on, the deadline just passed and there are no status updates to the applications, it will be buzzing again in a few weeks when invites start going out!