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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Does anyone have a sense of how many people ended up getting in off the waitlist in previous years?

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Sandy,

What's the recap from R3?

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Updated on: 05 May 2011, 16:37

Originally posted by hbsguru on 05 May 2011, 15:15.
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Sandy,

What's the recap from R3?

Dee enjoys going a bit outside the box in R3 -- ballet dancers, winemakers, and scrimshaw carvers (Those admits are exemplary --and not actual examples).
They also took some absolutely standard types, whom one wonders HOW COME R3, and beyond that, dunno, I'm still bugging people for outcomes, as I have said many times, some peeps who are calling me up 4x a day for two weeks b4 results, to hand-hold and share their hyperness, & LIKE DISAPPEAR AFTER THEY GET IN WITHOUT SO MUCH AS A THANKS or an email. Boo-hoo, I feel as rejected as all the dingsters on this thread :cry:

Ok, that is not true, but anyway, will post if I hear more, but there aint much to say.
What I dont know, and may not unless some R3 Admit page emerges on Facebook (and it may already have, someone post if they know liink) or some doobie starts counting class cards, is how many kids they did admit R3--altho my guess (excluding college seniors) is 25-40.

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Sandy--so far no mention of R3 admits on the c/o 2013 Facebook page, which means they are most likely awaiting approval to join the group. Or they haven't gotten around to joining yet.

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Firm says it erred
on Libya consultingA Cambridge consulting firm’s controversial bid to bolster the image of Moammar Khadafy and Libya should have been registered with the US government as a lobbying effort, an internal company investigation found. (By Farah Stockman, Globe Staff)
https://www.boston.com/news/world/africa ... onsulting/

MONITOR REGISTERS AS LIBYA LOBBYIST;
STILL PLAYING SEMANTIC GAMES;
PROF PUTNAM ADMITS HE WAS WRONG--BUT NOT MONITOR
PROF PORTER DOES NOT HAVE ANYTHING TO SAY--FOR FIRST TIME IN HIS LIFE
THEY ARE NOT RETURNING THE MONEY--UNLIKE RAPPERS AND OTHER CELEBS WHO TURNED TRICKS FOR KHADAFFY
HBS DEAN COULD NOT CARE LESS. WHY? B.C. HE IS BOGUS.
JUST ONE MAN'S OPINION--IS THIS ANYWAY TO RUN A SO-CALLED ETHICS BASED BUSINESS SCHOOL

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next year's dates for HBS app.
https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/appli ... ocess.html

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Application DatesThe application deadlines for the MBA Class of 2014 are:

Application Periods: Application submitted online by 12 noon Boston time: Notification of the MBA Admissions Board's decision:
Round 1 Monday, October 3, 2011 Monday, December 19, 2011
Round 2 Tuesday, January 10, 2012 Monday, March 29, 2012
Round 3 Tuesday, April 10, 2012 Thursday, May 17, 2012

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reliable but sketchy reports of kids getting off WL today at HBS--developing and dont ask me questions, but if anyone on WL gets in, please post.

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reliable but sketchy reports of kids getting off WL today at HBS--developing and dont ask me questions, but if anyone on WL gets in, please post.

oh man, how deflating.

Sandy - if reliable, why sketchy?

emont - any R3 or WL activity on the fbook group?

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jl12, the facebook page is viewable even if you aren't a member. Member total is now 637, up from Friday when it was (if my memory serves me) 629.

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jl12, the facebook page is viewable even if you aren't a member. Member total is now 637, up from Friday when it was (if my memory serves me) 629.

Adventurecap - I'm aware of that but it doesn't tell the whole story. There may be wall posts or such with more detail. The delta could be R1, R2 or R3 just joining.

Sounds like you got good news on Friday?

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jl12, the facebook page is viewable even if you aren't a member. Member total is now 637, up from Friday when it was (if my memory serves me) 629.

Facebook group is mostly people organizing local meet-ups and arranging to meet classmates this summer as they travel to cities in Europe/Asia. No posts yet on hatching plans for global domination or WL updates, and in all likelihood, there won't be - people won't join the group and say "Hi! I just got off the waitlist!" But I'll let you all know if I hear something.

Best of luck to you all!

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Hmm, it does show 637. I'm hoping these are joining due to R3 since there is inherently going to be some delay between acceptance on Thursday and joining of FB. Even if there were WL'ers admitted on Friday, I'm also crossing my fingers and hoping WL acceptances are going to be through a trickle process rather than one event. However, common sense tells me that it probably was a relatively “large” event given that they had probably already estimated a number of students who wouldn’t matriculate and already had a number of WL applications reviewed and ready to accept once they got the notifications of denial from students on 5/5. So I wouldn’t be surprised if they sent out majority of WL invites on Friday. Again, I’m hoping common sense doesn’t prevail here…

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WL is more of a trickle, they call you up and expect an answer real soon, since, duh, that is what you have affirmed by being on WL, an ability to pull the trigger right away. Thus, they do not send out 20 WL admits and wait around to hear, as they do, even in R3 a bit. It is really retail, w. small numbers, and each case being curated by an admissions officer. Often Dee or Elaine Chang.

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So who is up for R1 this comming October?

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I love the enthusiasm fsaq! I was thinking about that too. But is it smart or just masochistic? I can't imagine putting in all that time just to get rejected or waitlisted again. I suppose the big question is how does HBS look at it if you apply again quickly 9 mo after your last application? Do you have to reinvent the whole application?

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Essays (MBA applicants only):
All application questions below are required.

•Tell us about three of your accomplishments. (600 words)
•Tell us three setbacks you have faced. (600 words)
•Why do you want an MBA? (400 words)
•Answer a question you wish we'd asked. (400 words)

Joint degree applicants:

•How do you expect the joint degree experience to benefit you on both a professional and a personal level? (400 words)
Recommender Questions (for both MBA and 2+2 applicants)
Recommendations must be completed online. The recommendation form includes the following four essay questions, along with other types of questions.

•Please comment on the context of your interaction with the applicant. If applicable, briefly describe the applicant's role in your organization. (250 words)
•How does the candidate's performance compare to other well-qualified individuals in similar roles? (250 words)
•Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response. (250 words)
•Please make additional statements about the applicant's performance, potential, or personal qualities you believe would be helpful to the MBA Admissions Board. (250 words)

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I think R3 is a joke. People apply knowing that there really isnt a chance of getting in. Besides, if what Sandy says about wlisters and favors is true, then most R3 spots go to wlisted people whom will be helped by a bigshot to get into the program. I am just kind of amazed I actually didnt get an interview. I thought I had the diversity thing going for R3 because of my industry profile. According to Sandy there were "absolutely standard types admitted".

I wouldnt worry to much about being a "reapplicant", especially if one applied in R3. Good thing is that the new questions will force my application to be different. I was worried about running out of stories for the royal court to enjoy.

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How to answer the new HBS essay questions --

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How To Answer Harvard’s New Essays
by John A. Byrne

The official start to the new MBA application season for the Class of 2014 began yesterday (May 9) when Harvard Business School released its new essay questions . . , the publication of Harvard’s questions is “the bugle that starts the Kentucky Derby,” says admissions consultant Sandy Kreisberg, aka HBS Guru. “That’s when anyone who is focused on applying next year starts paying attention. We’re talking about the first round mindset, the bankers, the PE (private equity) guys, the consultants. These guys have known they were going to apply years ago.”

This year’s big news: HBS applicants no longer have a choice among questions. They have to write as many as 200 more words than this year. And there are two new questions, including one that requires you to fess up to three setbacks as well as three accomplishments.

FOR FULL INTERVIEW AND ADVICE GO TO POETS AND QUANTS
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Hey Lennman1 did you apply on R3? I will give it another try. I will try to get my GRE scores a little bit up although I think they are reasonable. were you waitlisted or interviewed?

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fsaq, I was r2. Thinking not putting enough time into gmat was what may have gotten me, I got reasonably far in the process / have an unconventional background. I was thinking of doing GRE instead this time if I do it again as its more fungible across grad programs.