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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30 Oct 2010, 19:28

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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.

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.

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?

My guess is that has more to do with the fact that we're seeing what people input by a year later to what they input during the process.

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A lot of lurkers actually post only when they get an interview or get admitted. The forum stats often get higher after the fact.

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A lot of lurkers actually post only when they get an interview or get admitted. The forum stats often get higher after the fact.

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I would agree with that. Last year I remember there was a flood of lurkers on the admit day. However RonMexico blew everyone away last year - he was the STAR.

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Hello,

I've been a lurker, but wanted to throw in my 2 cents... I'm still waiting for my invite too. From what I've been reading on the forum, it seems like there was a big wave of invites sent out early in the process and since then, it's been quiet. So my theory is that their top/definite candidates got their invites early in the process. And they're probably going to wait 'til the 3rd to send out the last few invites along with rejection and wait list emails. I don't know the numbers or have any evidence on that, but I can't imagine all the invites being sent out already and there being nothing but WL and rejections coming on Wednesday. Or maybe I'm just being hopeful...

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Sounds logical. I guess we'll just have to wait and see.

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So we are confirmed that NO ONE has received an invite after Friday, October 22nd?

Have you?

Do you know of anyone who has?

If this is the case, then it is almost a surety that SOME invites will go out on/before the 3rd. But I have reason to believe the number is quite low.

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Given that the size of GMATClub is only a small fraction of total applicants, we can't confirm any negatives in the application process (i.e. we can confirm there were invites on Oct. 15th but we can't prove there weren't any on friday). That said, I think it likely there will be some invitations given out... but not many. The odds, at this point, are decidedly not in our favor at this point, and I would take a waitlist into the next round at this point.

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I'm pretty pessimistic at this point either way. The way I see it, if we haven't received an invite this far, even if we receive one it puts us conservatively in the 10-15th percentile or lower of invited applicants. If 60% of invited applicants are accepted, we'll have to jump to the 40th percentile. Its quite the task. A waitlist may as well be a ding -- I'd be surprised if anyone placed on the waitlist before getting an invite was let in. How could an applicant jump from suddenly not even worthy of an interview to being accepted?

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How could an applicant jump from suddenly not even worthy of an interview to being accepted?

If Round 2 apps come in lighter (and weaker) than expected.

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FWIW one of my recommenders, who is also an HBS alum, was told by the admissions office today that invites have been sent out in random order and that the timing of an invite has absolutely no relation to how they perceive you as an applicant.

Unless they're lying (why would they?) getting an invite on Wednesday is as good as getting one on the first day.

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This is what they (and all schools) have said all along. Either you believe it or you believe one of the myriad of theories on the previous 33 pages....

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Thats good to hear. Did they mention anything about if there are more invites to go out?

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Thats good to hear. Did they mention anything about if there are more invites to go out?

He was left with the impression that yes, there are.

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no more invites for monday ..... time to head home in boston ....2 more days to go ... getting ready to embrrace rejection!!

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Did anyone receive anything today??? I second fugaz778, preparing yourself for the ding email on Wednesday sounds like the best option!

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I second fugaz778, preparing yourself for the ding email on Wednesday sounds like the best option!

Thousands of people get rejected from HBS each year. There's no shame in it. While I'm disappointed that I wasn't extended an invite, I have no doubt that I, and all the other talented and intelligent people on this forum, will find success and happiness elsewhere. Best of luck in future endeavors everyone!

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I have no clue how many (certainly not zero) invitations are going out on the 3rd, but I don't think you can really infer how good of a candidate you are from when you got your invite.

The issue is that they have thousands of applicants to look through. I work at a VC firm and we process LOTS of business plans. Ultimately, we're struggling to get through all of them, and aren't thinking as much about the messaging inherent to when a meeting invitation is sent out.

There's two forces at work here: when they see your application, and when they feel strongly about interviewing you. Therefore, you might be seeing a late invite because a) they saw you early but weren't sure, so you're on the fence, or b) they just saw you and still think you made the cut after 75% or more of the invites have gone out, so you're a rock star. It's impossible to know, so it's best to stay positive.

Maybe it's just wishful thinking.

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i'm so glad hbs will end my agony on the 3rd instead of doing so later in the month

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Do any reapplicants know if they will update the status (ding, interview, waitlist) at a certain time tomorrow? Or all at once? or will it trickle throughout the day?

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Per the Dee (HBS Director of Admissions):

# November 3 - all candidates not invited to interview will receive either a decision indicating that "we are unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2013" or an invitation to join our waitlist
# November 1 - 21 - interview weeks, both on and off campus
# December 14 - decision notification (admit, deny, or waitlist) for all interviewed candidates