2+2 Applicants - Please add yourself to the 2+2 Roll Call which will be put up on this thread: HBS 2+2 Class of 2016 HBS Business School Guide HBS Applicant Summary (Real Time) Quick Glance: GMAT Club vs. Latest Intake (Class of 2013) Latest GMAT Club Member Profile Updates Detailed Applicant List: Add Yourself to This List (add HBS to your profile) GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Add Your Profile to This List Questions about this Roll Call ? Members Invited to Interview HBS CLASS ADMITTED THIS YEAR (entering 2011) VS LAST YEAR (entered 2010) FINANCIAL SERVICES BLOODBATH HEADLINES 1. apps DOWN fr. 9524 to 9134 2. PE/VC Down fr. 18pct to 13pct -HOLY COW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! 3. Women up 36 to 39 pct 4. Class size up fr. 910 to 918 5. Investment banking and Investment Management DOWN fr. 14 to 12 pct Class of 2013* https://www.hbs.edu/mba/perspectives/class-statistics/ Admissions Total MBA Enrollment 918 Applications 9,134 % Admitted 12% Yield 90% Class Composition Women 39% US Ethnic Minorities 23% International 34% Average Age 27 Countries represented 68 Undergraduate institutions represented 243 GMAT Score Range 490-790 Median GMAT 730 Citizenship North America 70% ?United States 66% Asia/South Pacific 13% Europe 10% Central/South America 4% Africa 2% Oceania 1% Undergraduate Majors Business Administration 20% Engineering/Natural Sciences/Technical Disciplines 36% Humanities/Social Sciences 43% Other 1% Pre-MBA Industry Consulting 21% Consumer Products 6% Financial Services** 12% Healthcare/Biotech 6% High Tech/Communications 9% Manufacturing 14% Military 5% Non-Profit 8% Other Services 5% Venture Capital/Private Equity 13% Unspecified 1% * As of June 1, 2011 – subject to change ** Includes Investment Banking and Investment Management ============================== Preliminary Profile of the Class of 2012 https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog-all.html entry for July7,2010 Date: July 07, 2010 Here’s a peek at the Class of 2012. This is still officially “preliminary” until registration in September. Admissions Total MBA Enrollment 910 Applications 9,524 % Admitted 11% Class Composition Women 36% US Ethnic Minorities 23% International 34% Countries represented 73 Undergraduate institutions represented 243 GMAT Score Range 510-790 Middle 50% GMAT Score Range 710-750 Average GMAT 724 Citizenship North America 70% ?United States 66% Asia/South Pacific 13% Europe 12% Central/South America 3% Africa 1% Oceania 1% Undergraduate Majors Business 23% Engineering/Natural Sciences/Technical Disciplines 33% Humanities/Social Sciences 43% Other 1% Pre-MBA Industry Consulting 22% Consumer Products 7% Financial Services* 14% Healthcare/Biotech 6% High Tech/Communications 6% Manufacturing 9% Military 5% Non-Profit 7% Other Services 5% Venture Capital/Private Equity 18% * Includes Investment Banking & Investment Management BTW: A GREAT, GREAT RESOURCE FOR ALL HBS APPLICANTS IS LAST YEAR'S THREAD, CALLING ALL HBS 2011 APPLICANTS, calling-all-hbs-2011-applicants-including-96063.html#p739570 ESP THE FIRST POST, WHICH ITSELF GIVES RESOURCES. SPENDING AN HOUR READING THRU THOSE POSTS WILL GIVE YOU AN EXCELLENT IDEA OF WHAT THE YEAR AHEAD WILL LOOK LIKE AND PROVIDE YOU WITH MANY, MANY PROFILES AND THEIR OUTCOMES. Interview questions:

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I agree, I've been very impressed with the communication from HBS. A few simple explanations have saved a huge amount of stress for the thousands of applicants anxiously waiting.

Do you mean communication through their website or through emails? Coz I haven't received any..

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I agree, I've been very impressed with the communication from HBS. A few simple explanations have saved a huge amount of stress for the thousands of applicants anxiously waiting.

Do you mean communication through their website or through emails? Coz I haven't received any..

Through their website, specifically Dee Leopold's blog https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html

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HBS INTERVIEW QUESTION WORTH HAVING AN ANSWER FOR:

What do you think of Occupy Wall St.???? any suggestions?

Not bathing for a few days certainly doesn't improve their job prospects. This just makes things worse: https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/10 ... /?mod=e2fb
Can you imagine an OWS protester applying to BSchool this year? That'd be a fun interview to watch/conduct.

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This just in:

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Round 1 Interview Invitations
Date: October 24, 2011
OK...this is the week we start sending interview invitations. Here's the plan:

We're going to send out invitations on the next 3 Wednesdays - October 26, November 2 and November 9. NOT on any day in between. Many will go out on October 26, some will go out on November 2 and 9. On November 9, everyone who applied in Round 1 will hear something - either an invitation to interview, an invitation to join the waitlist with the possibility of an interview in Round 2, or a "release." ...

Kudos to Dee for this. HBS has made tremendous progress in improving their process over the last 3 years. I dare think forums like GC might have helped, since we make the candidate side of the process more visible to Admissions officers, but I give Dee full credit for acting upon the things she sees as problematic.

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24 Oct 2011, 09:35

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If you would like to hear me read this message out loud to you, you're welcome to call me at 617-496-6835. Seriously, we're deeply appreciative that you want to come to HBS and know that waiting is difficult and the anxiety can be high.

I called that number, wanting to hear Her Majesty actually read this aloud, and expecting a recorded messgage. Always thrilling to hear her voice. You actually get her answering machine, and I expect she may be keeping track of idiots like me who actually call. Sooooo, advice is, DONT CALL.
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24 Oct 2011, 09:44

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HBS INTERVIEW QUESTION WORTH HAVING AN ANSWER FOR:

What do you think of Occupy Wall St.???? any suggestions?

SERIOUSLY--that is a dangerous answer to give in an actual HBS interview, no matter what your actual feelings. The "P.C." and correct answer is similar to ones given by Obama, and other dems etc. I understand their 'pain' etc. at job losses, dislocation, and fin. insecurity, esp. kids w. big student loans, etc. They expect you to give a balanced and structured answer to Q like that, altho you are free to finish up w. your own opinion, e.g. maybe not effective but here is what is driving it.

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True, they've made a huge improvement over the years but I still fail to understand if they can send majority of the invites on Oct 26, then why not all? Also, why isn't there any clarification on which invites come first and which later?

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24 Oct 2011, 10:15

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HBS INTERVIEW QUESTION WORTH HAVING AN ANSWER FOR:

What do you think of Occupy Wall St.???? any suggestions?

That was a joke, not an attempt at answering, but your point is important. When answering always think how your answer would sound if you were in front of 90 people in a section, instead of an Admissions person. I suspect that is how they are seeing it.

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I suspect there are always candidates that are subject to discussion before being offered an interview. They might also delay invites so they can have enough interview spots - a bandwidth problem, that has nothing to do with the candidates (other than their location). I can imagine they might hold off on sending invites to australia until they have an interviewer there, etc. I'm sure there can never be enough clarification from our perspective (down to questions as specific as "why can't I check my status as it progresses", etc.. there will always be more questions).However, compared to Stanford, Wharton, and other programs, HBS seems to be far ahead of the game this year, in terms of clarity.

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Poets and Quants story about 'new' HBS interview sched.
So-called expert (ahem, me) quoted in story raps knuckles of S and W for not being this clear + calls Wharton habit of sending out 25 pct (or more) of invites in final days of its window akin to slacker writing a term paper.

https://t.co/wDJFjRp6

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Starting to get nervous.

I don't think I'll get an invite, specially since I made some form filling mistakes, but oh well. Still nice to be in the waiting game for HBS. It is already kind of an honor.

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HBS INTERVIEW QUESTION WORTH HAVING AN ANSWER FOR:

What do you think of Occupy Wall St.???? any suggestions?

Not bathing for a few days certainly doesn't improve their job prospects. This just makes things worse: https://blogs.wsj.com/metropolis/2011/10 ... /?mod=e2fb
Can you imagine an OWS protester applying to BSchool this year? That'd be a fun interview to watch/conduct.[/quote][/quote]

HAHA, and worth noting this as well.

Wealth Inequality: A Harvard Take
Harvard Magazine
In surveys of wealth-inequality perceptions and preferences conducted by Harvard Business School (HBS) associate professor Michael Norton, respondents always estimate that wealth is more equally distributed in the United States than is actually the case ...
https://harvardmagazine.com/2011/11/mich ... ey-results

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24 Oct 2011, 17:12

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hmmm.. ~60 points increase in GMAT score in 15 years.. At this rate, the avg GMAT of Class entering 2026 will have an avg GMAT of 790 :lol:

+10 points over the last 1 year for some schools like Sloan. In 15 years... :!:

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24 Oct 2011, 17:54

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so 9:45 AM pacific time wednesday...??

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24 Oct 2011, 18:05

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so 9:45 AM pacific time wednesday...??

From last year's thread, it seemed like it was 11:35 eastern.

I haven't felt this anxious in years. I don't know how I'll be able to go to work on Wednesday.

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Oh ok, thanks! I assume all the invites go out at the same time?

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I wonder how I'm supposed to get any sleep tonight. With a fight with my boyfriend and this deadline looming. Geez, should be a fun night and day tomorrow.