HBS Fall 2009 Applicants: Round 1 GMATClub Stats: Total Applicants 40 Admits: 6 Interviewed: 19 Dings: 18 Waitlisted: 6 Unknown: 8 msday - Accepted and Matriculating Bball - Accepted and Matriculating BigBad - Accepted and Matriculating cpgmba - Accepted and Matriculating Mikus - Accepted (Withdrawn for Stanford GSB) zoinnk - Accepted (Withdrawn for Wharton) gt7er - Interviewed js594 - Interviewed MattG2185 - Interviewed rosav - Interviewed Waitlisted Accepted 4/3 hobart - Interviewed Waitlisted Accepted 4/2 k88 - Interviewed Waitlisted krispy - Interviewed Waitlisted mikenyc - Interviewed Waitlisted rca215 - Interviewed Waitlisted CompanyMan - Interviewed Dinged egy - Interviewed Dinged emirtumen - Interviewed Dinged falibay - Interviewed Dinged Mishari - Interviewed Dinged AZCFA balki1867 BSchoolorBust Milspec walker Zenzen belfi devansh_god Gil irishspring isa olive MeddlingKid nj24 OhThatMBA Paradosso pguard Sept09 terp26 Round 2 GMATClub Stats: Total Applicants: 31 Admits: 5 Interviewed: 7 Dings: 4 Unknown: 21 matterhorn762 - ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING Atlantic - ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING ma.agrawal - ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING garbus222 - ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING foodstamp - ACCEPTED and MATRICULATING Magellan - Waitlisted ashaker - Ding MBAAspirant2008 - Ding lasttotheparty - Ding maverick2011 -Ding w/ int bouncer1981 cesc4 csboard23 dglasser fresinha12 hannah10010 levfin2003 llest ndiaconu oziozzie peaceyall praz preeyah sset009 stopper5 sudhir18n syd999 syings TL Wolfie2011 ZoeMoe *** Class of 2011 Essays: What are your three most substantial accomplishments and why do you view them as such? (600-word limit) What have you learned from a mistake? (400-word limit) Please respond to two of the following (400-word limit each): What would you like the MBA Admissions Board to know about your undergraduate academic experience? Discuss how you have engaged with a community or organization. What area of the world are you most curious about and why? What is your career vision and why is this choice meaningful to you? Joint degree applicants: How do you expect the joint degree experience to benefit you on both a professional and a personal level? (400-word limit) Recommender Questions for the Class of 2011 Recommendations must be completed online. The form includes essay questions along with other types of questions. Please comment on the context of your interaction with the applicant. How long have you known the applicant and in what connection? If applicable, briefly describe the applicant's role in your organization. (250-word limit) Please describe the most important piece of constructive feedback you have given the applicant. Please detail the circumstances and the applicant's response. (250-word limit) Please make additional statements about the applicant's performance, potential, or personal qualities you believe would be helpful to the MBA Admissions Board. (250-word limit) Also the filing deadlines were reported as follows: Application Periods: Application submitted online by 5 p.m. EST: Notification of the MBA Admissions Board's decision: Round 1 October 15, 2008 January 21, 2009 Round 2 January 6, 2009 April 2, 2009 Round 3 March 11, 2009 May 13, 2009 For better viewing, click here: Deadlines and Written Application Ok, Here's a brief summary of HBS class of 2009...... Class of 2009 Total MBA Enrollment 901 Applications 7,424 % Admitted 14% Yield 89% Class Composition Female 36% US Ethnic Minorities 24% International 33% Admits Within 3 Years of College Graduation 34% Undergraduate Majors Humanities and Social Sciences 36% Engineering and Natural Sciences 34% Business Administration 25% Other 5% Months of Work Experience Average Months of Post-College Work Experience 48 Range of Months of Work Experience 0-160 Pre-MBA Industry Consulting 20% Other Services 11% High Tech/Communications 7% Venture Capital/Private Equity 13% Manufacturing 8% Non-Profit 8% Investment Banking 8% Consumer Products 6% Healthcare/Biotech 6% Other Financial Services 5% Military 3% Investment Management 3% Other 2% Citizenship North America 69% (United States 63% ) Asia/South Pacific 13% Europe 11% Central and South America 4% Africa 2% Oceania 1% Let's pour out all our love(and disgust) for HBS in this thread....... :wink:

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Hi Guys,

Would you say that HBS interview only has customized questions from one's applications? I ask because my wharton interview didnt spring any surprises in terms of the questions asked and after reading through numerous interview debriefs, I was roughly prepared for all of them.. Even though I know that Wharton interview is blind while HBS is not, but are there any questions that are always asked in an HBS interview?
Would you say that a HBS interview would be remarkably different from say a Wharton Interview?

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My guess is that every HBS interview is different and that there are few overlapping questions. I say this because I had not seen on the various interview debrief sites most of the questions I was asked. However, I think one is commonly repeated - is there anything else you would like to tell us?

I'm unfamiliar with Wharton interviews, so I can't compare.

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does anyone know how many of the 100 invites are left to be sent out - or is it likely that there are no more interview invites to be released?

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I just finished my interview. It was very similar to everybody else's here: no "why HBS, why MBA" type questions. Instead they were very focused on my company, my role, and follow up questions were all related to that. Some questions related to my group/company specifically because they have been in the news lately. It was definitely the most nerve wracking one I've had, probably because it's a bit more formalized than other schools- you're not sitting with an alum chatting away at a coffee shop, etc. The one piece of advice I will give is do not bullshit- it is not necessarily a stress interview but they will press you on anything you say that piques their curiosity. As long as you know what you are talking about, you will be fine. Good luck to everybody and I hope we do well come January 21st

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Congrats! Sounds like it went well! The next 44 days will be not fun.

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if you're typing a thank-you email how do you address your interviewer (if her name was say Mary Smith, do you say "Mary" or Ms. or "Mrs. Smith"?)

what is the right form for the adcom's email addresses? <firstinitial><lastname>@ what?

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they gave us pieces of paper with our interviewer's name and a generic admissionsboard(or someting like that) @hbs.edu address. I just wrote my thank you there. I was worried about the appearance of sending to a specific address when one wasn't given to me. that said, if you are intent on reaching your individual interviewer... yes it is <firstinitial><last name>@hbs.edu

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I also got no why HBS or why MBA questions. They were focused on all the same things for me as well. I haven't done any other interviews, but I was surprised at how friendly and conversational (although we did cover a lot in 30 min) my interviewer was because past reports indicated adcom was very serious and poker faced.

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

Mine was maybe a 7-8. During the interview they were more professional (maybe a 6-7), but before and after, and during closing remarks, they were maybe an 8. How about you?

Also- are you basketball on the BW forums? Any idea as to what happened to the HBS thread?

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

A 10, for sure. She was probably the friendliest and most receptive interviewer I have encountered.

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We probably had the same person! :-)

Mine was definitely a 10.

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

A 10, for sure. She was probably the friendliest and most receptive interviewer I have encountered.

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We probably had the same person! :-)

Mine was definitely a 10.

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

A 10, for sure. She was probably the friendliest and most receptive interviewer I have encountered.

haha, maybe we all had the same interviewer, because mine was extremely friendly as well. i was a bit shocked actually after hearing stories from current students.

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on a scale from 1 to 10 (1 being serious/cold, 10 being outgoing/extremely friendly) what have people experienced in terms of friendliness of adcom for interviews?

yep. nope, no idea what happened the thread. I emailed the moderator asking about it but haven't heard back. GC > BW.

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Hi guys,

I'm applying for round2 and I need some advice on my essays.

I'm not sure what strengths to elaborate in each essay question. I have strong community involvement, however, I will be writing this in the "how have you been involved in the community" essay question and I do NOT want to repeat this in my accomplishments essay (main essay), although it is one of my main accomplishments.

The way I see it, each accomplishment gets 200-words max in the first essay and it won't do justice for my community involvement portion of the application.

Instead, I've chosen to use 3 of the following accomplishments:

1) a proprietary product I built at work
2) proof my leadership and initiative at work
3) my undergraduate experience which includes a summer where I first became involved in this non profit organization along with while taking up leadership positions in several organizations, playing soccer for the college team, leading a tutor program and graduating with very good grades.

There already is an "undergraduate experience" essay, but I rather use my 400-words to talk about the community involvement instead. I'm a little concerned with using my undergraduate experience in my accomplishments since I've been working for four years now and I know this essay is generally used by applicants who have limited work experience.

Would this be the right approach?

Any feedback/suggestions will be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

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Here's another sure way to get into HBS.
Date Jenna Bush or President's daughter. You won't even need a college degree....

Blake Gottesman—An argument could be made that Gottesman, the high-school boyfriend of first daughter Jenna, is the biggest winner of the Bush White House. He started off autopenning signatures in Governor Bush’s presidential campaign, then instead of going to college became the President’s “body guy,” took a break to get an MBA from Harvard (despite still never having graduated from college), and this summer returned to the White House as assistant to the President and deputy chief of staff—at 28, the youngest member of the President’s senior staff.

https://www.washingtonian.com/blogarticl ... 10155.html

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Funny, when i was at my class visit at hbs, Bush's current "body guy" was visiting as well. Apparently that's a good path to hbs.

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I've always been astonished by the fact that he was admitted. I've read his story a few times and simply don't see why they had an interest in him. So the guy is good at making sure the President always has socks in order. Big woop - any dope can do that. What value could he possibly have added to his class other than a few funny stories about the White House (which anyone can get from a $10 book from Barnes & Noble). While I'm usually impressed by the people HBS admits, on occasion they really surprise me.

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does anyone have Jenna bush's number? I would like to date her too...just cause it will get me accepted into Harvard...studying for gmat and writting essays aint my thing..

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does anyone have Jenna bush's number? I would like to date her too...just cause it will get me accepted into Harvard...studying for gmat and writting essays aint my thing..

Too late buddy. I think she's either engaged or married...(the guy probably beat you to your idea..)
But she does have a twin sister.....