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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Sandy, do R3 invites always trickle till the notification or was it different in previous yrs?

hmmmm, they are not trickling out, there was a "wave" on Day 1, and then one report today, and my guess is, there may be one more wave (smaller) maybe trmrw. The interviews start soon, 4/21 I think, and aint going to be too many invites after that, altho there might be 1 or 2.

given the tiny size of the universe, we may not know what is happening--so far, except for peeps who have contacted me for mock interviews, only 2 other invites have shown up in toto on this thread. Or maybe 3 ?

at any rate, that seems to be way this happened last year, altho I dont think HRH gave any framing hints about dates etc. She is becoming quite the babbling brook of information in her HIGH REIGN.
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Exactly, I'm making that assumption based on the HBS update saying "90% of the class is determined by the end of R2" So it's safe to assume ~800 seats have been filled.

can some upstanding citizen who was admitted in R2 remind us when deposit is due?
altho not a critical date, that is when they will know fer sure what R2 yield is, altho my guess is, they got
pretty good idea of that now.

A non-refundable deposit of USD 1,000 is due on 5-May-11 at 5:00 PM EST

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Still no news...

We've had a few interview invite confirmations, but is anyone aware of Round 3 WL or Release notifications being sent out?

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Exactly, I'm making that assumption based on the HBS update saying "90% of the class is determined by the end of R2" So it's safe to assume ~800 seats have been filled.

dunno how much of that quote you can take to the bank and use as base for assumptions about 100 openings being left. I think what Dee meant was, "a large chunk of class is already filled" --the 90% was a figure of speech not an actual number.

can some upstanding citizen who was admitted in R2 remind us when deposit is due?
altho not a critical date, that is when they will know fer sure what R2 yield is, altho my guess is, they got
pretty good idea of that now.

also note, a good number of R3 interviews are college seniors, whose numbers do not go into 'this' class, since they will not enter for 2 years.

my revised thinking is total number of r3 interviews will be 50-80, leading to the usual 30-45 offers, a wad of whom could be college seniors. As to how this impacts WL, dunno, but my recall of last year was that number of WL admits post R2 was 10-13 and might have been less, like 8. And WL was bigger. If there is some contra evidence out there, someone please point me to it.

Sandy,

Based on previous posts of WL letters on your blog from last year, about 50 were admitted off a WL in the 200-250 range, 20-25% chance.

Are you saying that the size of the WL is an indication of the number of potential WL admits?

Is there a possibility of more scrutiny in sizing WL this year? After all, about 50 were admitted from R1 WL this year already.

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Obscure post on Dee's blog during past summer noted that total WL take last year was 53, which was prob. the final number. What I find troubling is that my sense of how many were off WL rounds 1 and 2 last year, was I think high 40's. 48 comes to mind. Sooo number of WL admits R3 last year was small. If 50 kids already off WL, and last year they took 53 total, dunno, I think you got some idea of what number of WL admits is going to be, maybe not 3 per se, but not 30 either, and not even 20. More like 0-8 is safe bet. If current WL is 100, well, they aint going to run out of WLers--also they will put some R3 kids on WL, as mosiacs, to fill in any last minute 'missing tile' needs.

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Saw the blog post, but I think the 53 is for WL after R2 decisions since the May WL letter said that 40 admits had been made in the two weeks before the letter and that there were 10 more to come.

Would it be fair to view the 50 admits from R1 WL as more of R2 pool and independent of the "true" WL?

Thoughts?

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Not totally sure of your question, and those WL letters are intentionally fuzzy for a reason

1-Here is what we know: last year, according toyou, they said 40 kids had been taken w. 10 more to come, and they took 13--when those 13 were taken, a bit unclear.
2-last year they took 53 kids. and this year they have already taken 50.
You can view that glass as 13 more-to-come FULL or 3 more-to-come empty.

I've got no more interest in taking a tweezer and laser beam to their previous fuzzy remarks, and building speculative models on that, esp, when it is possble at this pt that

1. No one, not even adcom, knows what is going to happen
2. If you did know, so what???? what could you do about it?

It seems pretty clear if you are on WL at this pt, chances of getting off are NOT GOOD, altho could be as high as
1-9, but I dont think so, I think chances more like 1-15/20 but in either case, DONT COUNT ON IT.

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lol, agree, no point in speculating

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Sandy,

Apologies for the constant questions you are receiving, although I'm sure your responses are very much appreciated.

I have one question, concerning the relationship between WL and R3 applicants, that I was hoping you could help me with.

I understand that several applicants are placed on a WL during/following R2. Are those applicants interviewed in priority to R3 applicants?

Guidance on this point would be very much appreciated.

Regards,
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keep in mind some WLers have had i/vs

i think i read a past post from Sandy on here that WLers without i/v are evaluated together with R3

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Does anybody know when the adcome need official transcripts, degree certificates etc? Thannks

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Does anybody know when the adcome need official transcripts, degree certificates etc? Thannks

Only after you are admitted

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Sandy,

have you heard of any new people invited to interview this morning or on friday? Has anyone on this board heard of anyone?

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Just out of curiosity, is there anyone else on here who applied in round 3 and still has not heard anything at all re. interview?

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I applied in Rd 3 and absolutely no news yet. Based on previous comments (i.e. date of interviews etc) I have given up, honestly.

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I have seriously .... OD...ed on serial mail checking habit...... i guess its not happening .

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I didnt print what I submitted in my application (the pdf that you get) and I checked two days ago and I still had the option of checking it out and downloading it. I just checked my application status and the whole page has nothing on it except the usual thank youf or your submission status. Can anyone confirm if they can print or see their pdf document on their online application?