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To ease Indian nerves here, there are 2 friends of mine, both from mgmt consulting, 3 years WE and female. 1 hasn't got an invite till now and the other has - she's in gurgaon and is a born and raised Indian, in case someone now starts speculating on ethnicity and citizenship. She got it on the 26th itself.
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I was doing well without that information :(
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To ease Indian nerves here, there are 2 friends of mine, both from mgmt consulting, 3 years WE and female. 1 hasn't got an invite till now and the other has - she's in gurgaon and is a born and raised Indian, in case someone now starts speculating on ethnicity and citizenship. She got it on the 26th itself.

I was doing well without that information :(
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Absolutely second that. How does it ease Indian nerves ?!
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To ease Indian nerves here, there are 2 friends of mine, both from mgmt consulting, 3 years WE and female. 1 hasn't got an invite till now and the other has - she's in gurgaon and is a born and raised Indian, in case someone now starts speculating on ethnicity and citizenship. She got it on the 26th itself.
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thanks for sharing, I am going in essay writing mode again. (looks like u got lots of consulting girl+friends). good luck to y'all.
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Lol ... Well i was spking abt the nerves easing on whether any indian has received an invite. Whether you have or have not, is a separate issue :) all the best though.... Hope u guys get one.

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While we're at it, may be they've just sent out invites to Indian females and not Indian males. May be males will be sent invites exclusively during the next rounds. So may be.. well may be.. well forget it. I'm just sad..
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While we're at it, may be they've just sent out invites to Indian females and not Indian males. May be males will be sent invites exclusively during the next rounds. So may be.. well may be.. well forget it. I'm just sad..
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lol, I like the way you hope.
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Well, maybe they have issued invites to NCR folks only. Ha ! I knew it. :D

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it would be great to get ethnicity on these too...

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The Interview Invite Results have been posted in the first post (duplicating it here):





The average age of the applicants who got interview invites is very interesting. Most of them are 28+. This defies the usual saying that HBS prefers younger applicants. Wondering if HBS is trying to change that perception with the next year's class?
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Looking at these stats makes me want to apply for HBS! The only reason i did not apply was because I thought they only took in younger candidates
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Well, maybe they have issued invites to NCR folks only. Ha ! I knew it. :D

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Ah! the perks of living in the capital.. Should've moved to New Delhi..
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Ah! the perks of living in the capital.. Should've moved to New Delhi..
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Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but I know someone from Bombay who got an invite as well. I seriously hope that Sandy is wrong about that 80% number!
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You guys have gotta chill out. I haven't gotten an invite yet, and if I do I do, but there's no way you're going to be able to look through a mysterious crystal ball and guess based on who was invited and who wasn't from GMAT club. And yes, I'm sure Sandy's database, although helpful, is victim to a certain extent of sampling error. Sure, he has a wide array of clients from diverse backgrounds, but all of them have the liquid capital to drop three grand on a consultant, so that's a biased demographic by default. Not saying he isn't probably in the general ballpark, but there's just no way to know and no point in guessing.

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does anyone know if they start sending out admissions decisions on a semi-rolling basis as they do the interviews, or is it sort of like the interview invite process where it's done on batches on designated days?
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does anyone know if they start sending out admissions decisions on a semi-rolling basis as they do the interviews, or is it sort of like the interview invite process where it's done on batches on designated days?
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I think it's only one day (December 20) where you can log on and view your decision.
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Ah! the perks of living in the capital.. Should've moved to New Delhi..

Sorry to burst your bubble guys, but I know someone from Bombay who got an invite as well. I seriously hope that Sandy is wrong about that 80% number!
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No matter - gmatpapa, girlinblack, et al. We will move on in spite of the naysayers. MBA is but a springboard to success, which will come no matter what, to those determined. :P
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shekmba, totally agree with you. For the past one week, since HBS first set of results have come out and I didn't see an invite for me, I have become all the more confident that even if I don't get an admit this yr, I'll still achieve my goals. My brain is working much more active and everyday I dream of new business ideas and ways to make my dreams come true :-)

So irrespective of what happens, I am on the path to achieve my success and I am confident each one of you will as well.
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shekmba, totally agree with you. For the past one week, since HBS first set of results have come out and I didn't see an invite for me, I have become all the more confident that even if I don't get an admit this yr, I'll still achieve my goals. My brain is working much more active and everyday I dream of new business ideas and ways to make my dreams come true :-)

So irrespective of what happens, I am on the path to achieve my success and I am confident each one of you will as well.
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hehe.. application process is indeed a self-awakening process, getting rejected is again a means of moving forward. cheers to the spirit.
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shekmba, totally agree with you. For the past one week, since HBS first set of results have come out and I didn't see an invite for me, I have become all the more confident that even if I don't get an admit this yr, I'll still achieve my goals. My brain is working much more active and everyday I dream of new business ideas and ways to make my dreams come true :-)

So irrespective of what happens, I am on the path to achieve my success and I am confident each one of you will as well.
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That's a great attitude to have 8-).

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Ugh, so currently pretty down about this process.

I just talked to a friend who got invites for BOTH Wharton and HBS. I mean, he's a great guy, but nothing really out of this world spectacular. He got the same gmat score as I did. The difference? He's an engineer and works for one of the big 3 consulting companies.

I mean, so much about liking diverse backgrounds right?
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Guys, it's never been a secret about what types of backgrounds the top tier MBA programs recruit. If you went into this application process as a nonprofit guy/gal or a humanities major (like me, in both cases), you have to know that you're at a disadvantage compared to somebody applying with 4-5 years experience at M/B/B, Blackstone, TPG, etc. It doesn't matter that you scored a superb GMAT and have a GPA that's well within the middle 80%, or that you wrote the great American novel in your essays. H/S/W use GMAT and GPA, etc to discriminate and distinguish among candidates who are from like backgrounds, NOT to pick applicants from diverse industries over each other.

If you're an Art History major from UConn whose spent the past 4 years working a non-rockstar job (possibly with an unemployment stint due to economic turmoil), it doesn't matter that you scored a 760 and got a 3.7 UGPA.... you're not getting an interview/admit over a guy/gal from Google or KKR who "only" got a 720 and 3.5 (s/he also majored in Economics at H/Y/P).

H/S/W, like all other programs, worry about the hireability of their students, their class profile (stats-wise), and the ability to develop a class that will interact in a manner that is predictable and desirable to them and the head honchos in their administrations. Do they say they want a diverse class, and that they love "oddball" candidates? Sure. But let's be honest, you're not going to wake up one year and find out that the # of incoming students with management consulting w/e has dropped from 21% to 12% because the adcom "loved the oddball candidates this year." We're not going to simply wake up in a fantasy world and find that this year HBS has 18% of its incoming class from entrepreneurial backgrounds.

This whole process will just be easier and less stressful for you if you recognize that, for most of us, the odds are stacked out of our favor, and the best we can do is just apply and see what happens. If you get invited to interview, then good on you, because you obviously did something to make your application stand out in an otherwise unlikely scenario. Take that opportunity and run with it, and hopefully it pans out into an HBS admit! But it's silly to get down on yourself or waste time trying to pyschoanalyze who has already got an invite and who hasn't, especially on a forum like this, where the sample size is so infinitismally small (this thread is tracking 207 applicants for ALL ROUNDS to HBS, when likely around 4,000 applied R1).
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