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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yanayana

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11 Feb 2011, 15:07

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BTW, Dean Nohria comes from IIT too

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11 Feb 2011, 15:15

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BTW, Dean Nohria comes from IIT too

I bet every Indian who applied to HBS knew that

IIT Mumbai (Chemical Engineering) by the way.

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11 Feb 2011, 15:36

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mbaaspiration2012

Can those of you who got invites pls reveal your profiles in some detail?

Look left and you'll see mine--PM me if you want additional details.

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11 Feb 2011, 20:08

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donna1

Are there any college seniors who applied in R2 and received interview invitations?

Well there aren't that many of us haha but I'm a college senior and I have not gotten one yet and neither have the handful of others I know.

hemselvan

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11 Feb 2011, 20:37

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Haven't yet recd. an interview invite for R2

33/F/Indian/univ topper in both B.Sc.(Electronics) and M.C.A/25+ academic awards/2 prof awards/PMP, OCP/ IT experience 9 yrs/Employers EDS,Oracle, JPMC, BCBSM/Voluntary teacher,Running a senior citizens home,cricket coach to my boys aged 11 and 8/polyglot 5 indian languages,french,german.

Beginning to think if I'm a little bit on the "older" side :roll:

hemselvan

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11 Feb 2011, 20:39

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GMAT 700/4.5
B.Sc 85% and MCA CGPA 9.37 out of 10

manohar

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11 Feb 2011, 21:42

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Well, there are nealy 100 profiles of admitted students from the last 3 batches on the Harvard website. very clearly Harvard seems to go for pedigree. They look for people who already managed to get into Mckinsey or KKR or such other organizations. This tells them that such a person can get and excellent job easily post-MBA.
Given that India and Indian universities are not that well-known in US except for the IT/BPO sector, I guess it is all the more important for Harvard to admit Indians with pedigree. They know that if some one is from IIT means he is pretty smart. and if he managed to get into Mckinsey he stands out even among IITians and can find a good job on his own.
Alternatively, Harvard also looks for people who have done Bachelors/ Masters from good schools in US and worked in US in well-known companies; this again means better employability- the recruiters have a better confidence in a candidate who has done Bachelors/Masters from US, from a pedigreed school and worked in a pedigreed company like Microsoft or Apple.
Other than these two kinds, Harvard does admit a very small number of people who studied in non-pedigreed Indian institutions and without any US pedigree; but obviously the odds for such applicants are very very low.

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define:IIT

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btw how come we don't have any invites for middle east and eastern europe; whats with the diversity and all that crap?

IIT stands for Indian Institutes of Technology. These are uber competitive institutes which produce the creme de la creme of Indian engineers.

Now given the fact, that HBS almost always prefers Indians from IITs (the men for sure), am not sure how they justify their stand on diversity. Infact, their definition of diversity and merit above all comes across to me as highly restricted with a very narrow scope. I have been following the class profiles of HBS for the past 3 years and have never come across an Indian guy who is not from IIT. While HBS ensures that a certain % of it's batch every year represents India, the color and flavor of this segment seems almost seems predetrmined. Which makes me assume that HBS likes to play it safe. Select the people who appear 'safest' and most probable to succeed. *Sigh* so much so for an enligntened world :shock:

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11 Feb 2011, 22:44

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I am also from IIT and know many people who got into HBS from IITs over the past 2-3 years. Almost each one of them was topper of his/her class, tons of EC and most importantly went to mckinsey. Last year alone, I know of four IITians from Mckinsey who got admit. So diversity is not taken so seriously within the Indian applicants pool!

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12 Feb 2011, 02:34

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TM212

Anyone apply with a GRE score? any invites there yet?

I applied with a GRE score (1420, verbal- 730, Quant- 690, AWA- 4.0), medical doctor/2yrs WE/ dont have a GPA cos medicine does not use/ West African/ went to the best school in my country/

I guess I will be writing the GMAT, CMA and CFA level 1 before September....anyone know how I can volunteer at Mckinsey or KKR (seriously cos right now that seems like one of the surest ways of going to HBS)

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12 Feb 2011, 03:11

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has anyone from the Middle East received an invitation?

Ankeet

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12 Feb 2011, 04:36

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In the book "What They Teach you at Harvard Business School", the author Philip Delves Broughton also mentions that the whole diversity thing in HBS is a bit of a let down as one discovers post joining that a lot of the students admitted from various nationalities have in fact done their under-grads from the US itself.

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12 Feb 2011, 10:07

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Ankeet

Doing your undergraduate degree in the US doesn't take away the fact that you're primarily a foreign national - your culture and senses might have adapted to living in the US, but it doesn't make you American, by ANY means. I'm in the same boat the author describes and I beg to differ that it lowers "diversity"

Such innate cultural tendencies don't go away from living somewhere for, what, 4-8 years.

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12 Feb 2011, 11:14

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mbaaspiration2012

Can those of you who got invites pls reveal your profiles in some detail?

I'm interviewing this Friday in Boston.

Profile:
26 year-old male from small town in Texas
750 GMAT (48 Quant, 45 Verbal)
3.9 GPA at a top 10 US undergraduate finance program
Completed year-long grad school fellowship through Rotary International
Post-grad diploma with distinction from Scottish university
3 years experience in corporate turnaround & management consulting with mid-cap privately held consulting firm (two promotions)
Extensive involvement with Rotary over the past 8 years

Wishing you all the best luck, and god speed!

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12 Feb 2011, 11:16

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Ankeet

I thought the book pointed out those that have essentially lived in the US their entire lives but born outside of the US. That is, if your family moved to the US when you were 2 and have never left the country then considering yourself "international" is a bit of a stretch.

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12 Feb 2011, 11:40

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mbaaspiration2012

Can those of you who got invites pls reveal your profiles in some detail?

Impressive!!

madness85

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12 Feb 2011, 11:59

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mbaaspiration2012

Can those of you who got invites pls reveal your profiles in some detail?

wow
impressive.

there's no competing with that

did any entrepreneurs get an invite?

HookemHorns2007

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12 Feb 2011, 13:50

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mbaaspiration2012

Can those of you who got invites pls reveal your profiles in some detail?

wow
impressive.

there's no competing with that

did any entrepreneurs get an invite?

Your compliment is appreciated and very well received, but the HBS students I met during a campus visit seemed to represent a wide range of backgrounds and unique stories (e.g. a number of students from enterprenerial, non-traditional, and non-profit backgrounds). All immediately struck me as incredibly passionate about life and equally brilliant. I mention this so as not to discourage aspiring fellow applicants with experiences and accolades far different from my own.

Will let you all know what sort of questions I receive in the interview.

All the best!

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12 Feb 2011, 14:58

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So, how did the interviews go?

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anyone know of any business owner/entrepreneurs that have invites?

I scored a 760 on the gmat, 3.7 GPA with ex curric and run my own business for 3 years.

Just curious if any have gone out.

alienfluid

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12 Feb 2011, 17:24

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Monday and Tuesday are going to be interesting - I predict at least 30-40 invites are going to go out. Not sure about 16th - I presume that's reserved only for ding notifications.

I am still hopeful though - I think my application is strong and I have a decently strong profile. In any case, I'll know whether I make the cut or not in a few days!