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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nikki4nikki

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18 Mar 2011, 11:30

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No not close to boston, I'll be shipping my stuff from the midwest and the 1st estimate I got for pack and ship was about $2000-3500. But I think I can get it cheaper, so I'm still looking at some different shipping companies

Got it. I'll have to price out some shipping companies as well at some point. Shipping a car over is gonna be expensive as well but I'd really prefer not to do a 26 hour drive.

Yeah, I actually decided not to bring my car - I'll be shipping it to some relatives to keep until after I graduate.

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18 Mar 2011, 11:48

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Can we have a car if we live on campus? I'd love to bring mine up there. Otherwise it has to go into storage (of course I have to get accepted first - but it's never too early to plan)

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18 Mar 2011, 11:59

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Can we have a car if we live on campus? I'd love to bring mine up there. Otherwise it has to go into storage (of course I have to get accepted first - but it's never too early to plan)

Yeah you can have your car on campus - but you have to buy a parking permit to park on Campus . I think the estimate for the parking permit/sticker was about 2500 a year - but that varies depending on the exact area though

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18 Mar 2011, 12:18

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Can we have a car if we live on campus? I'd love to bring mine up there. Otherwise it has to go into storage (of course I have to get accepted first - but it's never too early to plan)

Yeah and if you're at OWA or SFA, you can rent a parking spot for like $250-275 a month.

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18 Mar 2011, 12:23

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That's good to know - thanks everyone. Do you think it's worth having a car there?

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18 Mar 2011, 12:52

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That's good to know - thanks everyone. Do you think it's worth having a car there?

I don't know. I'm gonna have a car because I want it for going to H-mart/Target/etc., visiting friends in the 'burbs, going on weekend trips to NYC, snowboarding at Killington, etc.

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Anyone know when the round 2 admit weekend is? I don't want to jinx it, but I need to co-ordinate some things my end.

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19 Mar 2011, 08:08

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HBS FAQ doesn't give any more detail than March and April right now. I'm guess they'll pass more information to those who get admits.

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Do a lot of students move furniture from home to their dorms/apartments? I've got a fully furnished house, and wouldn't mind having some of the comforts of home while in a new city.

Excuse me friends for breaking your conversation.

icemanjs4,

thank you for your response.

I attempted to reply to you in PM multiple times with more details about me. But, the messages are not moving out of my outbox.

Is it possible for you to provide me with your email ID? You can drop a blank email to my gmatclub screen at gmail.

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20 Mar 2011, 10:48

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Anyone know when the round 2 admit weekend is? I don't want to jinx it, but I need to co-ordinate some things my end.

Round 2 admit weekend/welcome is April 28 and 29.

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I applied in R2 this year and got dinged. I have interviewed at another comparable school, so all is not lost.
I have a question to folks who have interviewed or are going to HBS this year - who all of you used an admission consultant?

I used a well known admission consultant, but soon I realized how generic their advice is. I did not find it helped the process for me at all, it ended up consuming more of my time with no real value. Even though my essays came out fine, I now think application would have been better if it was not touched by the consultant. Any one else here who got in and thinks the same?

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Does anyone know if any scholarship packages are communicated along with the admit? Just curious as I believe it is the case with some other schools?

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I didn't use a consultant because I didn't feel like consultants would have added any more value than what I already had

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Anyone know when the round 2 admit weekend is? I don't want to jinx it, but I need to co-ordinate some things my end.

Round 2 admit weekend/welcome is April 28 and 29.

thanks

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I also didn't use a consultant. I wanted my application to be my voice and I was afraid that a consultant, while offering good advice, would change my thinking.

Is it a good idea to go to admit weekend for all the schools that admit you?

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Is it a good idea to go to admit weekend for all the schools that admit you?

If you're undecided between two or more similar schools, yes. There's no need to visit your safety schools if you get into one of your top choices, but if you get into both your #1 and #2 (or #1 and #1A) then it's probably worth going to the admit weekends to help you make your decision.

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Does anyone know if any scholarship packages are communicated along with the admit? Just curious as I believe it is the case with some other schools?

HBS' financial aid is need-based (vs. merit based at other schools) so financial aid packages are communicated later on once you complete a separate application. This is also the case for any legacy and demographic based fellowships.

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I didn't use a consultant because I didn't feel like consultants would have added any more value than what I already had

ditto.

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I used a well known consultant for interview prep and I won't give any more details. I would leave it at that.

I will tell you that for what I got, the fee charged was way too much. I didn't leave the mock interview feeling better prepared. And consultant spent too much time trying to put words in my mouth rather than let me find the words that are in me. I am not even sure that the consultant read my application cover to cover as happens in a HBS interview. Overall, I was not too happy.

As you can see from R1 admits, you don't need a consultant to get into HBS or any other school.

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My experience w/ admission consultants was a positive one. I could be mistaken, but it seems that many of you only worked with a consultant during the months leading up to your app/interview. I purchased a package from one of the major companies during early 2010, and worked with a primary consultant for a solid year fine tuning my profile and preparing my applications. In many respects, my consultant took on the role of a professional coach. While I did the legwork and writing, etc, my consultant/coach served as a constant balancing force w/ suggestions and brainstorming exercises that helped me get back on track when I got stuck in a rut or had difficulty articulating my story. Personally, I consider the experience similiar to that of competitive athletes who work with a coach/mentor who is well versed in the fundamentals and who will notice things that you would otherwise miss. And then there is of course the additional value added that stems from their familiarity with particular adcoms, etc.

I was admitted to Sloan during round 1, interviewed and am waiting to hear back from HBS during round 2, and received an interview invite from NYU Stern that I have not yet attended. While I can only speculate what my success rate would look like if I had not hired a consultant, I firmly believe that it was well worth the investment. Fingers crossed to see what happens next Tuesday, though.

This was just my experience, but thought I would share to illustrate that there can be value in hiring consultants.

All the best -