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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29 Oct 2010, 10:32

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must...not...give...up...hope!

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29 Oct 2010, 13:18

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Has ANYONE received an invite this week? Please report back if you know the answer to this!!!

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29 Oct 2010, 13:31

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I have not heard anything from HBS ...but got my Wharton invite today!!!

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29 Oct 2010, 14:10

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I have looked at various forums and havent seen anyone report an interview invite this week. Maybe they are all out of them already, since the interview process has started, they must be just bundling all the rejection notifications. Nov 3rd is our D day.

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29 Oct 2010, 14:25

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I have not heard anything from HBS ...but got my Wharton invite today!!!

Congratulations Chinki!

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29 Oct 2010, 14:35

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I have not heard anything from HBS ...but got my Wharton invite today!!!

I'd call that quite the consolation prize!

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Good job Chinki!

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We've recently released another batch of business school guides. See the link below and share any information that you'd like to see listed in each guide.

Thanks!

Detailed Program Information: GMAT Club's HBS School Guide

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I disagree--there's been almost no movement on this in two weeks. Our best estimate is that about 60 percent of the interviews have been offered. That means that more than a third haven't been. Seems to me like we should be expecting a big dump on Wednesday.

In the meantime, I'm going to have a beer and keep my hopes up.

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That estimate is truly very low. It's possible that 60% of invitations went out the FIRST DAY, much less until now (though it was probably more like half). It's more likely there are 90%+ of interview invitations out. Keep your hopes up if you want -- it'll make no difference in the end -- but probability is not your friend at this point.

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29 Oct 2010, 18:27

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did u get a call jeanette? you have an outstanding profile!

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Still haven't seen anything from HBS, though I received an invite from Wharton today so maybe there is still a ray of hope.

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I'm with you on that same boat, folks.

International, applied to HBS, Stanford and Booth. Already got invites from Stanford and Booth - nothing from HBS, and I have to admit I really thought I put together a very nice application...

As this is the first time HBS is doing this "mid-decision-window" thingie - I think that this year, more than in previous years, we are all speculating without much base.

Still, the fact that no waves went out for over a week is a good sign, I think.
I choose to think that the adcom ppl finished reading the applications and right now they are all up there in Dee's office - and she is using the rest of the window to go through these let's say 300-350 files - 200 will get the invites, 150 others will get WL - and the rest are in the Ding pile anyway...

Yes, it's a total guess and a random speculation - but hey, it helps me go through the weekend.

The other good thing is, that it really doesn't matter, it's totally out of our hands and we'll all be much wiser on Wed.

Good luck everyone anyway!

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Did u post in Stanford forum? Didnt think they sent anything out yet...

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I did not. I'll do it now - I was certain they did.
I've heard of at least 2 others who got invites and scheduled off-campus interviews.

All internationals though.

It was quite funny. I was obssesively refreshing my email, hoping for the HBS invite to pop up, and then got the one from S. - That was PURE JOY there!

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Ya I know of a bulge PE guy who already interviewed with Stanford this past week.

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Congrats on the Stanford invite...can you please share your profile..

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How long do they give for the Stanford interview? I think maybe we should discuss this in Stanford thread.. Thanks!

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I have to agree with disposable8201. Last year's HBS thread (which didn't even include the 2+2 applicants) tracked 51 Round 1 applicants, 16 of which eventually got interviews. This year our thread is tracking (via our GoogleDoc spreadsheet) 55 Round 1 applicants and we've only confirmed 5 interviews! Assuming characteristics of this year's applicant pool is comparable to last year's - roughly the same magnitude of applicants, similar caliber, about the same number of applicants participating in this thread and eventually updating the spreadsheet, etc - something is definitely off! My hunch is either another wave of invites is going out on or before Nov 3 or a decent number of folks are going to get interview invites sometime after getting placed on the waitlist on Wednesday.
Other thoughts?

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nice analysis LionO. 60% of those interviewed get admitted. so last year: 16/51 interviewed. if 50% got admitted then 8/51 were admitted, which is still above the 10% that HBS admits. we would like to assume normal distributions but last year's data was ANYTHING but normally distributed. my money is on 40-60 invites being sent out next week.