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No invite for me :(

How many Indian applicants have received invites?

I haven't heard any Indian applicant confirming an invite.

Are they done sending out invites? Or is there going to be another round? There's no update on the website..
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No Indian confirmations yet :(..

someone on BTG community had called up HBS and they said that interview invites will go out day long.. so, we can hope to wait.. Would love to hear if any indian invites are there??
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There's always a possibility, buy it seems unlikely

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No Indian confirmations yet :(..

someone on BTG community had called up HBS and they said that interview invites will go out day long.. so, we can hope to wait.. Would love to hear if any indian invites are there??

Well, that's good news!

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I doubt they're gonna send out any more today. They've not done that in the past as far as I know...

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I believe that they have sent an invite to only those applicants who are in and around areas where they are scheduling interviews. Indians as well as others who are bound to choose the skype offers have not been contacted.

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Dear God,

If not an interview invite then please at least give me sleep.

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The HBS invites/decisions have always come out once a day for the days they have identified. Today's time was 12:00 -12:03 noon EST. Sandy has a number of clients from HBS so he usually does an estimate of % of invites sent based on his pool. People who were scheduling interviews last year were also able to give the forum an approximate count about how many interview slots were open per location. (that changes as they open more slots periodically, so its not an ideal indicator)

Congrats to Lala10 and to all the interview invite recipients! GMATClub has an interview practice setup on Skype described in a page linked on my signature - feel free to organize yourselves and do mock interviews with each-other to prepare for the interview.
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Got an invite.

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Sandy,

Do you mind sharing your historical success rate for trial interviews for last year? Would love to do know how many you conducted, and how many of those were accepted.

Thanks!
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HOW MANY HBS INTERVIEW INVITES WERE SENT OUT TODAY?

My guess is ~75 percent of the total of all round one invites, which is based on my large-ish internal data base of kids whom I expect to be interviewed (about that number got invites, and some peeps who I feel strongly will be interviewed did not) and also is confirmed by Dee Leopold's own characterization in her prior blog post saying that "many" invites would go out today and "some" would go out in the next two send dates

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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."
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HOW MANY HBS INTERVIEW INVITES WERE SENT OUT TODAY?

My guess is ~75 percent of the total of all round one invites, which is based on my large-ish internal data base of kids whom I expect to be interviewed (about that number got invites, and some peeps who I feel strongly will be interviewed did not) and also is confirmed by Dee Leopold's own characterization in her prior blog post saying that "many" invites would go out today and "some" would go out in the next two send dates

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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."

do you know how they decide which 75% are sent interviews the first day? are these people their top picks/strongest applicants?
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HOW MANY HBS INTERVIEW INVITES WERE SENT OUT TODAY?

My guess is ~75 percent of the total of all round one invites, which is based on my large-ish internal data base of kids whom I expect to be interviewed (about that number got invites, and some peeps who I feel strongly will be interviewed did not) and also is confirmed by Dee Leopold's own characterization in her prior blog post saying that "many" invites would go out today and "some" would go out in the next two send dates

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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."

Ouch - odds just got significantly lower for those who did not receive an invite if 75% is the case...assuming they interview 20% of the total applicant pool, 15% already received invites and those who did not get an invite have a 5.9% chance of getting an invite...
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do you know how they decide which 75% are sent interviews the first day? are these people their top picks/strongest applicants?

Based on guys I know who were admitted vs. dinged last year, no. Trying to ascribe any logic or find any hidden nuances in adcom's blog posts or emails is just going to give you a headache and won't get you anywhere. HBS was the most transparent of the five schools I applied to in terms of giving us good information in a reasonable amount of time, so just trust that they're not going out of their way to make people miserable or stressed.
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Got an invite today!

New to the forums, and looking for advice on interview guides. Anyone have any suggestions?
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Got an invite today!

New to the forums, and looking for advice on interview guides. Anyone have any suggestions?

Congrats. Your GMAT is 800?
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Got an invite today!

New to the forums, and looking for advice on interview guides. Anyone have any suggestions?

This guide was pretty helpful for me last year.
https://www.hbsinterview.com/

So was this website:
https://www.clearadmit.com/wiki/index.ph ... dInterview
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