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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Dear MBAgirl2010, i think you forgot following fellows, correct me if i'm wrong :

Cbs2010
HookemHorns2007
crackalack
smartperson

btw, didn't find any posts by ATB ont his forum...

So we have a total of 37 Gmatclubber who got HBS invites - a sample set around 37/1500=2.5% ? not that bad after all !

OK so let's add @formerlyknownas as well.

Congrats formerlyknownas! can you tell us more in details how the interview went?
What kind of specific essay-related questions was asked and how the interviewer articulated those questions from one to another?

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21 Feb 2011, 15:43

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Best of luck of all your HBS interviews !

Thank you gepeios!
Good luck for your Stanford one!

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21 Feb 2011, 17:16

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there were no surprises. the typical hbs questions were asked. what i would advise to everyone who is interviewing is, speak with care. they ask a lot of followup questions so don't say anything you can't back up with details and examples. think before you speak (even though easier said than done). Don't blurt first thing that comes to mind. Even though people say the first thing that comes to mind is usually the right answer, I would suggest you examine it closely and quickly (few seconds) before blurting it out.

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21 Feb 2011, 18:26

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Completely optional. They had name tags for everyone interviewing that day and from what I could gather there was about 50% of people who showed up. It was mostly interactions between applicants and the adcoms were mostly off in their own corner after introductions. I found it relaxing to speak with other applicants and had a few people debrief their interviews for me. Not sure how necessary it would be for you to rearrange your schedule, clearly a personal choice. The lunch format may be different for other interview days. The admissions office set this up because there were no student lunches and/or class visits.

p.s. Welcome to GMATclub. You should update the googledoc for tracking purposes and the benefit of future applicants.. pay it forward :arrow:

Thanks for the information. Good luck from here on out.

I will add my name to the googledoc.

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21 Feb 2011, 18:27

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Just so we can track how we do hereafter, here is the list of everyone who reported R2 interview invites in order of reports on the forum. Some have already mentioned their interview its complete. I am adding this to the spreadsheet as well, so feel free to mention more about your profile there.

smileyface
emont
Cille
downtown
lennman
gobig2011
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wjjw
matticusfinch
manabs
babyif19
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peachapple
LaVerdad07
ATB
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sfmba2011
icemanjs4
zommyboi
mbahopeful5yo
antelB
MBAgirl2010
asca65290
mmbbaaa11
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Even more than that. We had quite a few R1 People as well. So we should be looking at just the R2 subset (37/750= ~5%)

You can add me as well.

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wjjw

Even more than that. We had quite a few R1 People as well. So we should be looking at just the R2 subset (37/750= ~5%)

You can add me as well.

OK sure. Great that you showed up! When did you receive the invite?

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Did anyone find out information about Dee possibly allowing a small amount of time to give feedback to dings?

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Just curious to know if anyone over 27 got interviews in the second round or acceptances in the first?

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Just curious to know if anyone over 27 got interviews in the second round or acceptances in the first?

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Just curious to know if anyone over 27 got interviews in the second round or acceptances in the first?

I'm 29 and have an interview on Monday. The Google doc shows another 29 year-old and a 28 year-old with R2 interviews as well as R1 admits who are 28, 29, and 30 years old.

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Just curious to know if anyone over 27 got interviews in the second round or acceptances in the first?

icemanjs is 31, check posting on Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:33 pm

Yup, I'm 31, and will actually be 32 at matriculation (assuming I get in) :-D

Honestly I was pretty surprised to see that they'd take older candidates. However when I asked the adcom on campus why they don't have a lot of older candidates, they said, because they don't apply.

Now I wonder if it's a bit of self selection at play here.

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HBS INTERVIEW ADVICE: MY FUNNY RETORT TO HARBUS 'STUDENT NEWSPAPER' ADVICE ABOUT NO CLEAVAGE AND NO BAGGY SUITS FOR GUYS.

https://poetsandquants.com/2011/02/23/sa ... nterviews/

And the main story: https://poetsandquants.com/2011/02/23/ha ... e-a-no-no/

THIS IS ACTUALLY HARBUS MAIN ADVICE--WORTH A LOOK, ASSUMING YOU ARE NOT PLANNING TO FLASH THE INTERVIEWERE

And: https://poetsandquants.com/2011/02/23/qu ... pplicants/

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SOME SELECTIONS FROM MY BRILLIANT LIST OF DO'S AND DON'TS--FULL ARTICLE AT LINK ABOVE --ANY OTHER SUGGESTIONS WELCOME

Sandy’s Dos & Don’ts for Harvard Business School Interviews
by John A. Byrne

Sandy Kreisberg, an MBA admissions consultant known as HBS Guru, has created his own list of dos and don’ts for applicants who have been invited to interview by the admissions office at Harvard Business School. This more irreverent list of suggestions, really a send up on the recently published 2011 Unofficial Harvard Business School Interview Guide, is a complement to his more substantive advice in How NOT to Blow Your Harvard Interview.

His two cents:

1) Don’t wear ear buds, no matter how cool your playlist is, and don’t ask if you can finish eating this cookie.

2) Cover up gang insignia.

3) Don’t pack visible firearms, even if licensed.

4) Don’t ask interviewer if it is okay if you ‘friend’ them after the interview.

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23 Feb 2011, 08:13

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Just curious to know if anyone over 27 got interviews in the second round or acceptances in the first?

icemanjs is 31, check posting on Thu Feb 10, 2011 12:33 pm

Yup, I'm 31, and will actually be 32 at matriculation (assuming I get in) :-D

I went for an adcom event and the admissions officer made it clear that they were moving away from the zero experience model. But, does that mean that they are taking people with more experience/older candidates? I don't know.

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Updated on: 17 Mar 2011, 08:53

Originally posted by formerlyknownas on 23 Feb 2011, 08:19.
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not in itself, but if it confirmed impression interviewer was getting about your speaking skills fr. other answers, NOT GOOD

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Did anyone find out information about Dee possibly allowing a small amount of time to give feedback to dings?

am interested into this also.

maybe someone could ask while interviewing on campus?

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Great to know ZERO ain't that cool any more!

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Great to know ZERO ain't that cool any more!

sure is

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I will be 29 at matriculation and completed my interview recently. I don't think it is relevant at all as long as you clearly articulate your motivations for pursuing an MBA at this point in your career.