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Gryphon
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08 Jun 2011, 14:06
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Sandy, correct me if I'm wrong, but I thought HBS was making a concerted effort to lower the age of its classes 2-3 years ago. Age has now ticked up to 27...a modest increase correct?. Is this an anomaly, a byproduct of taking fewer finance studs and emphasis on less traditional applicants? I would think that the 2+2 group would drop the age number quite a bit. Any ideas? What served as the impetus for the initial effort to bring age down? Recruiter driven?
Thanks.
09 Jun 2011, 08:40
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HMMM, some tips for your HBS 'setback' answers fr. news anchor Ann Curry, who owns up to
1. doing her first ever TV interview as a reporter without loading film in the camera (small station and she was also camera crew) and
2. recently giving a commencement speech at Wheaton College (Mass) where she did some late nite research after dinner and Googled famous alums fr. other Wheaton College (IL) whom she put in speech. Lesson: dont Google while tipsy (she claims, but I think she was just careless).
(she also apologized big time, post speech).
For app purposes first one is better, since she went back and begged subject to redo the interview, which was real message and lesson. Of course, as noted in my app. writing tips, the setting is what really counts, and being a young, "early" woman, TV reporter for small station IS a good setting for a setback. 2nd one is really an anecdote, altho funny, since it is no big whoop that famous, current, Ann Curryis getting honorary degree, school was prob. drooling that she attended.
https://is.gd/WdabdW
1. doing her first ever TV interview as a reporter without loading film in the camera (small station and she was also camera crew) and
2. recently giving a commencement speech at Wheaton College (Mass) where she did some late nite research after dinner and Googled famous alums fr. other Wheaton College (IL) whom she put in speech. Lesson: dont Google while tipsy (she claims, but I think she was just careless).
(she also apologized big time, post speech).
For app purposes first one is better, since she went back and begged subject to redo the interview, which was real message and lesson. Of course, as noted in my app. writing tips, the setting is what really counts, and being a young, "early" woman, TV reporter for small station IS a good setting for a setback. 2nd one is really an anecdote, altho funny, since it is no big whoop that famous, current, Ann Curryis getting honorary degree, school was prob. drooling that she attended.
https://is.gd/WdabdW
09 Jun 2011, 14:56
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dunno, but my guess would be taking older non-traditional kids (manufacturing???) or this is just some kind of "static", anothe thing to watch is the "years out of college," they usually publish a chart with that in bar form and you can see a real sweet spot of admits for kids who graduated 4, 5 and 6 years prior to year of admit, e.g. for the class entering in 2010, last September , the sweet spot graduation years were 2005, 2006, 2007
viz:
GRAD YEAR --NUMBER OF ADMITS
2003--30
2004-66
2005-177
2006288
2007-242
2008--85
[with small numbers prior and after]
HBS has not published this data for class entering in 2011 yet, so let's keep our eyes out for that.
Maybe that distribution remains sorta the same and kids who graduate college are getting a bit older, or maybe HBS has gone 'older' so some degree.
Also average age, dunno, could be rounding issue, they might have published 26, 8 months as "26" and 27 one month as "27" or sumpthin like that.....I would not make too much out of that gross stat?
The orginal age jihad was recruiter driven and also a sense of faculty that younger kids were cuter and more easily 'molded' while geezers were too set in their ways and cynical.
