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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arindamcanada

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I just received a very nice email reply from Dee after I wrote her a little thank you email. Those of you who are in the upset/angry mode; please remember it's not about a fault in you, but is more about having a diverse class. Be gracious and keep moving forward. I know I am. :-D

Did you interview with her, or did you write a thank you email to Dee after a ding?

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16 Feb 2011, 21:45

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Did you interview with her, or did you write a thank you email to Dee after a ding?

I wrote the letter after the Ding. No point in me being upset, so I wished her and the new class the best in the coming year.

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16 Feb 2011, 22:57

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Ding as well.

In retrospect I am still glad that I applied. The process itself caused me to stretch and dig deep. I learned alot about myself through this application and I know that it only served to strengthen my applications to other schools. I take comfort in knowing that I gave it my best shot. I will not have to wonder "what if I had applied to HBS?" the rest of my life.

Good luck to everyone. Exceptional things await all of us on the horizon!

Could not agree more. I did try my best because HBS has been my dream since high school time. If I could get admission(s) from the other school(s) that I've already got interview invites, HBS would be a dream unrealized. I would make my children apply for HBS some day :D. Otherwise, I would play the re-applicant game next year.

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16 Feb 2011, 23:45

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Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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16 Feb 2011, 23:50

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Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

I would strongly recommend Manahattan series.It benefitted me a lot. They have separate book for each section in verbal (CR, SC and RC). pick the ones in which you struggle the most. I used SC one and it helped me a lot to get a good score (not that ultimately it mattered as I got dinged from both HBS and Stan, two of my top choices

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17 Feb 2011, 00:00

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Milenochka

Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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Thank you so much for the reply, I will read Manhattan books. Btw, what do you think about "Verbal bible" and "CR bible" (Power Score)? Your score is outstanding, I am sure you will get into another school and will be happy :-)

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17 Feb 2011, 00:07

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Milenochka

Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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Not sure about the other two. Didn't refer it. I used OG, Manhattan, Princeton (which i didn't like), Kaplan (decent not great). Thanks for your wishes.

I already have an admit from Kellogg from R1 and heading there in Aug.

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If in the end it was a question of diversity, I really wonder how many German entrepreneurs they had applying in R2...sometimes I have a bit of a feeling that they do not want tooooooo much diversity.

Anyhow, many of us proved wrong the words of Art Williams who said "All you can do is all you can, but all you can do is enough." At least, in my case this wasn't true.

Cheers,
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17 Feb 2011, 04:35

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Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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Manhattan SC
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GMAT Prep (current version) + retired version (can find it on GMAT Club).

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Diversity for Indian male applicants stops at IIT's. I applied despite being advised that I wouldn't make it; I am glad I did atleast I wouldnt have the "what-if" I question.

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17 Feb 2011, 05:57

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Has anyone in the past (ding without interview) received feedback from HBS on why they were rejected? What is the best method to ask? Email or Phone Call?

Dee provided a 1 hour window of time for a week so rejected applicants could call her for feedback after round 1 decisions. It's not the same this round? There's some content about this in this thread, I just don't remember which page.

i couldn't find this in the search.. and the thread is veeery long to read it post by post. do you know how and when was that announced?

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Has anyone in the past (ding without interview) received feedback from HBS on why they were rejected? What is the best method to ask? Email or Phone Call?

i couldn't find this in the search.. and the thread is veeery long to read it post by post. do you know how and when was that announced?

Go to page 44. An email came on December 13th last year (I'm a round 1 applicant). There have reports of some dinged IB/PE types calling her and Dee mentioning that she wished they worked in the automotive industry instead or something like that. HBS guru may be able to comment. It looks like with the new dean, who is far from a Mormon, they are trying to shake things up a little this year regarding class diversity. All of this is anecdotal...

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hbsguru - can you chime in on how to reach out for ding feedback? Phone call or email to Dee? I assume a phone call would catch them offguard and they would defer as they wouldnt have the info on hand.

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17 Feb 2011, 08:30

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Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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Power score bible is great for CR, and manhattan books for everything else. Moved my verbal from 70th%ile to 95th.

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17 Feb 2011, 11:02

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Milenochka

Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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I second the recommendation for Manhattan GMAT. I signed up for one of their online live courses, and I think the structure it provided really helped me stay focused.

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17 Feb 2011, 11:19

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Milenochka

Ding here as well. Cheer up guys :-)

This was the first time for me to apply to HBS, and I guess my GMAT score was not competitive at all. So I am back to GMAT Club. Guys, please suggest me some books to improve my Verbal score.

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I second the recommendation for Manhattan GMAT. I signed up for one of their online live courses, and I think the structure it provided really helped me stay focused.

I third the MGMAT books. I pulled my score up from 640 to 700 in a couple of months. I could have scored even higher had my sister not going into labor 20 min before my test (talk about stress during the test sheesh!).

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Hi guys,
can we move the GMAT discussions to another section of the forum. We need to keep the HBS thread to the point so people who refer to it next year and beyond, don't get bogged down in irrelevant stuff.

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So now I'm curious. Did anyone receive an interview invite on 2/16 like HBS claimed would happen or were the notices all dings and WLs? It doesn't really matter at this point, but I'm just curious if anyone really did receive an interview invite.