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/

Sure, I'll be a man and cry this one out too.. Ding. Oh well, I was expecting it, really..

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stupandaus

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03 Nov 2010, 10:01

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Ding. Are all decline letters the same?

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03 Nov 2010, 10:05

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I'm torn even though I was expecting this. I'm going to be a girl and cry this one out of my system.

Shoulder, anyone?

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03 Nov 2010, 10:11

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ding

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03 Nov 2010, 10:13

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Dinged.

However, the last couple weeks of discourse on this thread, some deeper reflection on my application, and further educating myself about the nuances of the top-tier MBA admissions process has definitely alerted me to some significant ways I would have liked to change my application - as they say, hindsight is 20/20. If my two remaining applications lead to dings as well, I'm looking forward to taking a second run at HBS next fall as a wiser and hopefully more savvy applicant, even if I'm dinged at HBS again next year, I'll at least never have to wonder "what if" I gave applying to HBS another shot employing the big things I learned from my first time around.

It was great being associated with you folks even in this limited, virtual capacity and I wish you all the best at HBS or wherever your life plans take you!

razvanteslaru

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03 Nov 2010, 10:16

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I'm torn even though I was expecting this. I'm going to be a girl and cry this one out of my system.

Shoulder, anyone?

Sure, I'll be a man and cry this one out too.. :-D

Ding. Oh well, I was expecting it, really..

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03 Nov 2010, 10:18

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Thats a great sentiment! Although i have not been hugely active here, i have always read all the great speculative posts and comforted myself. Thanks a ton guys!

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03 Nov 2010, 10:46

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Ding!

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03 Nov 2010, 10:50

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Ding.

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03 Nov 2010, 11:02

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Ding!

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03 Nov 2010, 11:19

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I'm tempted to start a 'We will still end up being superachievers without Harvard's help!' thread.

That was always our goal. HBS was just one way to get there.

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03 Nov 2010, 11:40

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Dinged~ I guess this is an early set back that will make you stronger later in life.. good luck everyone on rest of the apps.

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03 Nov 2010, 12:33

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Ding

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03 Nov 2010, 12:57

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Ding as well.

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I'm tempted to start a 'We will still end up being superachievers without Harvard's help!' thread.

That was always our goal. HBS was just one way to get there.

Amen!

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HBS WAITLIST ADVICE

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November 3, 2010

DEAR MR AND MS. SUCKER:

The MBA Admissions Board has reviewed your application materials and we will be deferring your application for further consideration in round 2. Until then, you will be placed on our waitlist.

This waitlist decision is an indication that we remain interested in your candidacy, but would like to continue to review your application. After the round 2 submission deadline of January 11, 2011, we will have received the majority of applications that will be considered for the class of 2013 and will be able to make a final decision on your application.

Please indicate whether you would like to accept a place on our waitlist through the online waitlist poll. A final decision will be communicated to you on Tuesday, March 29, 2011, which is the decision notification date for round 2.

You are being placed on the waitlist without an interview. If during further review of your application in round 2 we decide to extend an invitation to interview, that invitation will be sent when round 2 interview invitations go out in February. Interviews are by invitation only—please do not contact our office with a request for an interview.*

Tomorrow our waitlist manager, Eileen Chang, will be in touch to provide additional clarity on our waitlist process.

We will continue to give your application full and thoughtful consideration as our admissions season continues. We appreciate your interest in Harvard Business School and are grateful for your patience.

Sincerely,

Deirdre C. Leopold
Managing Director, MBA Admissions & Financial Aid

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*this is being written in tiny print-you can ignore that stuff about not contacting us, you should contact us in a smart and impactful way!!! How? By having someone famous bug Dee Leopold!!! She is both annoyed and tickled at such interventions (man, did she like talking to George Clooney, she was floating for two days and blushing like a teenager) -- and they sometimes make a difference, altho, gotta tell you, some days she is in a good mood, and some days . . . . So be patient and correctly servile.

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03 Nov 2010, 14:01

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My first post here - I just received my HBS rejection. It does help knowing lots of other people got the same news today.

Regardless of the long-term outcome of their decision, it's still disappointing to put so much effort into something and not achieve the outcome you were anticipating.

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03 Nov 2010, 14:17

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Mark the wise words of technologista.

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I'm tempted to start a 'We will still end up being superachievers without Harvard's help!' thread.

That was always our goal. HBS was just one way to get there.

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worth reposting

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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.

Jmw125

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03 Nov 2010, 14:30

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worth reposting

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Sort of makes me wonder why my two friends and I who had 760, 770, 770, good GPAs at Ivies, worked 2 years at bb banks and are all now in PE all got dinged....oh well