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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Calling all HBS 2011 Applicants!! (Including 2+2)

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No interview yet. I can only hope. And wait.

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good luck to all who got invite and many who helped with advice here. i did not at 12:24 so most likely a ding for me. best wishes

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My friend who went through the process last year told me two things:
1.) the first wave are adcom interviews, which are traditionally stressful
2.) the trickle invites are for alumni interviews, which are traditionally more relaxed.

The moral of this story is to be calm and that you might possible be in better shape with a trickle invite

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04 Feb 2011, 13:48

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Thank for the cheerful information. Waiting for my interviews from all the univs ...............................

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i thought all interviews by HBS were done by ADCOM. I think #2 above is incorrect?

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04 Feb 2011, 13:52

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i thought all interviews by HBS were done by ADCOM. I think #2 above is incorrect?

Nope, they use Alumni too.

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04 Feb 2011, 13:54

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Hi all,

I'm still waiting for an interview invite as well. I submitted my app on 1/11 but didn't get my last recommendation letter in until 1/22. Anyone else in my shoes?

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i thought all interviews by HBS were done by ADCOM. I think #2 above is incorrect?

Nope, they use Alumni too.

hmm, i have never heard of HBS alum conducting interviews

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04 Feb 2011, 14:06

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i thought all interviews by HBS were done by ADCOM. I think #2 above is incorrect?

Nope, they use Alumni too.

You are incorrect. They occasionally hire contractors for off-campus interviews, but they do not use alumni's directly per se. Maybe in the past but nearly positive that is the case now. Harvard and MIT are both known for their scrutiny in ADCOM only interviews.

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For R1, I got my invite the middle of the 2nd week - and as Dee has said on her blog, invites will keep going out until the Feb. 16th.

Additionally, when I went to sign up for an interview slot, there were quite a few spots open. So all the speculation about 90% of invites going out on the first day is just that....SPECULATION. That may have been true for 2009 and 2010 applicants, but HBS is doing things very differently for 2011

So if you are still waiting for an invite, DO NOT LOSE HOPE until you get the dreaded ding email on the 16th! Best of luck to those till waiting!

Thanks so much nikki4nikki- you are keeping the hope factor alive in all of us. I am getting so disheartened.....but again keeping my fingers crossed. Would you know around when they send out invites on other days --is it around Noon EST?

For R1, invites started going out on 10/15 at about noon EST, didn't get mine till 10/22 at 9:50am central time (10:50am EST)

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Hmm, appears that my friend interviewed two years ago. I guess it could have changed since then. Sorry if my info is incorrect. I saw the alumni interviews on the clear admit wiki and had my friend saying the same thing, so I assumed it was still the case. Either way, there are still more invites to come. :-D

Don't worry, be happy, and know it will all work out for the best.

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04 Feb 2011, 14:28

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Don't worry, be happy, and know it will all work out for the best.

I've got several HBS alumni friends who interviewed with alumni as well but that was a couple years ago. I had to go to Boston to interview with adcom in R1 and didn't have the option to interview with alumni.

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Anyone know what the date range for interview slots is going to be?

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Adcom does all the interviews even in the hub cities, correct? Is there any benefit to doing the interview on campus (assuming you've already visited)?

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Waiting stil. Applied in r2. Stressful day:(

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super stressful day. tuck decisions went out today and interview invites from hbs. got a ding from tuck (tear) and all is silent from hbs.

looking like i am going to be playing the reapplicant game.

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What's the consensus on doing on-campus vs. off-campus for HBS? Do they unofficially weigh on-campus more than off-campus? Is spending a day there prior to the interview worth it in terms of your ability to talk about the school?

Obviously I'll have to wait til Monday to see what the available dates look like, but my nearest option is Menlo Park so I'm looking at a 45 minute flight to go there for a day trip vs. a cross-country flight and a two or three day trip to do it at HBS.

The HBS students I've talked to so far are split in their opinions.

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Congrats to all the GCers who got interviews!

If someone doesn't mind, could someone post the interview slots / stats that you guys see when the interview sign up opens up on Monday please? Will at least give us hopefuls a rough idea how many interviews went out today. Thanks!

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Guys I just called hbs admissions and I was told this was just the first wave of invites and there will be"quite a few more" over the next two weeks. She emphasized the QUITE so let's be patient and hope for the best

Even if this is not true, you do make my day. Thanks for cheering the folks who are waiting stilll

Interview invites should go from Feb 4th - Feb 17th.