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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So, I'm really down...But is there any hope considering that there is still over a week left until d-day??

very minute amounts of hope. I'd start the coping process.

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Based on the breakdown of your clients who have received invites vs those who havent, do you see any more patterns in terms of invites for domestic vs international, georgraphic areas, traditional applicant vs non-traditional, etc? Your insight is much appreciated, thanks.
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Yes, clients w. high gmats, high gpas and who work for traditional feeder organizations are getting interview invites, and clients w. profiles away from those markers are not. SHOCKING!!!!!!

Every year there is a new class of applicants going on the same roller coaster ride. First they listent to the adcom BS about 'anyone can get in,' then some 'experts' blather on about how essay execution, and especially what the significance of the accomplishment was to you IS CRITICAL, then kids write and write, deluding themselves that their personal and by now sandpapered story matters SOOOOOO MUCH.............................................. then results come out, and 8000 out of 9000 applicants feel SCREWED when lo and behold, despite adcom song and dance, and despite really personal and ga ga essays, and despite urban internet myths about FedEx guy who got in, the SAME SCHMUCKS AS ALWAYS GET IN.

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So, I'm really down...But is there any hope considering that there is still over a week left until d-day??

very minute amounts of hope. I'd start the coping process.

hah. already started that process last friday

trying to focus my positive energy towards Wharton now.

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Are there still ~100 slots open in Boston? Or was that the wave...

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Don't give up hope until Nov. 3rd! I'm guessing another wave will be coming next Friday too and even possibly some on Monday 10/25 and Monday 11/1

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Any stats about remaining interview slots would be much appreciated.

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So, I've been getting about 5 e-mails from MIT every day about their various programs, info sessions, etc. It's annoying because my heart stops every time I see a new e-mail in my inbox with "MBA" in the subject line... anyone else having this problem?

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"It ain't over till it's over."

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I'm at work - so I counted up only the Boston (on campus) slots - roughly 41 are open, but that doesn't mean anything because i believe that each time slot lets multiple people register (i.e. there could be 5 or more interviewers for any certain time slot? So who knows, there could actually be 41 * 3 interviewers = 123 slots open in Boston

Plus, slots are being added constantly, so even if 0 remained for a certain region, they'll probably just add more slots anyways. So don't base your hopes solely on open or lack of open slots. 'Around 800 invites' also means that it could be 850 or 860.

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Yes - MIT is a bit overwhelming with their email marketing. Must have hired a consultant

I will forgive them if they interview me.

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Haven't received my hbs invite. Thought that i had a solid app. Even though I'm not a rock star by any measure, I work for big four accounting firm (in audit), 3.9 gpa (state public school), 690 gmat, single-handedly ran family restaurant/ got an excellent review from a local but major newspaper while excelling and working full time last year after to a big loss in our family. Any hope for me still?
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DEPENDS ON AGE + WORK EX. Fam biz story is nice color but will not flip outcome if basics are off. Big 4 audit is not a favored HBS feeder function (au contrary) and esp. if you are in year 5+, 4 is marginal, and aging, 3 is so-so, 2 is ideal.

Most Big 4 HBS admits start in Big4 and then move on in year 3 to Corp at F.500 (and apply fr. there) or Hedge Fund.

Big 4 is also common career path for minority admits, esp. women, seems like a reserved chair at Stan for the Big 4 minority female every year.

gmat in your case prob not a factor, 3.9 they like, but if you are older and present nerdy, well, looking grim. Looking grim in fact if you are just older and present normal. Keep me posted, and believe me, happy to be tweaked when you post back saying, JUST GOT THE INVITE.

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Inbox still empty - just went through the spam folder, again

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One thought Sandy -- is the acceptance rate higher amongst the applicants who received the first wave of interview invites? That is, we know the overall acceptance rate amongst those who received invites is 50-60%. Is it 70-80% amongst the first wave? I've heard that if you were in the first wave, it's yours to lose i.e. don't screw up the interview and you should have an excellent shot (this is from people at my PE firm, all of them went to HBS). Thoughts?

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Is there anybody else out there that is just a high-performing person who grew up in the suburbs in a middle class family that doesn't have either (A) a tragic story to tell or (B) a super wealthy, well-connected family to get them into HBS or (C) a minority status to point to - incessantly?

I don't think HBS cares for life profiles like that...

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Didn't grow up in the suburbs, but otherwise I fit the profile.

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Didn't grow up in the suburbs, but otherwise I fit the profile.

Me too. 99th percentile stats and work experience, and 0 diversity benefit.

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Updated on: 22 Oct 2010, 09:39

Originally posted by Emarc182 on 22 Oct 2010, 09:33.
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Also, how many of you did NOT succumb to the expense of hiring one of those blood-sucking leeches called Admissions Consultants. Talk about bottom-feeders! Its almost more shameful than the crazy, multi-billion dollar wedding industry!

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At the end of the day, I firmly believe that if there were no admissions consultants gaming the system and no Kaplan test prep courses, etc. that each class would be a fundamentally different, and better class. People would be admitted on their own merits, not on the manufactured merits of some obnoxious consultant. Their websites alone are enough to make me cringe at the banality of it all.

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I'm hoping for Dee to come out with an update on her blog today. we are almost halfway through the invite window, and it would be helpful to get some indication on how many invites are left! Straight from the horse's mouth!

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Any California invites today?

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No invite yet. I am an author of a book and presently running my training company for past 8 months. Worked with big 4 in management consulting for 2.5 yrs. GMAT - 730, average GPA. I think problem lies in my over-represented India pool and of-course they take very selected workex from India. Diversity sounds like a myth!

Anyone can please update about spots left in Mumbai? Thanks