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- Accepted and Matriculating BigBad - Accepted and Matriculating cpgmba - Accepted and Matriculating Mikus - Accepted (Withdrawn for Stanford GSB) zoinnk - Accepted (Withdrawn for Wharton) gt7er - Interviewed js594 - Interviewed MattG2185 - Interviewed rosav - Interviewed Waitlisted Accepted 4/3 hobart - Interviewed Waitlisted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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hey! Congrats to those who got interviews. I just got waitlisted at wharton. I am a college junior and I am thinking of applying to harvard round 2. does anyone have any advice? how are the round 2 statistics compare to the round 1 stats? I know Harvard is more friendly towards younger applicants! any piece of advice will be appreciated as I do not know what to do and the deadline is approaching FAST ! thank you!!

I think HBS is one of the schools where R1 and R2 are fairly even in acceptance rate, but I'm not 100% sure. R3 certainly is tougher. Considering Wharton tends to like older applicants, or so I've heard, your waitlist there probably bodes well for HBS, which seems to like younger applicants. Good luck!

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I'm a R1 applicant and wasn't lucky enough to be part of the first "750" interview invites. Anybody know when the next 100 invites are being released, or are they done already?

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I think at least some of them went out in the few days after the 750. I would be surprised if there are many left, but who knows.

bucktooth911

I'm a R1 applicant and wasn't lucky enough to be part of the first "750" interview invites. Anybody know when the next 100 invites are being released, or are they done already?

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Just a question for R1 applicants....

Q3.4 i.e. What is your career vision and why is it meaningful to you?

How have your differentiated this question from a general goals essay for any other school.
Did you really indicated why MBA part in here?

Request your advice.

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i talked a little bit about why MBA, but mostly i focused on my career choice and why it's meaningful...really tried to answer the question. put a lot of passion and honesty into your essay and really think about why it's meaningful to you.

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Dee Leopold was at one of the events I attended, and she addressed this question directly. She said there's a reason the question didn't focus on Why MBA? Why Harvard? She said to focus on answering the question. They know you're interested in HBS by virtue of your application. Having said that, I think it's perfectly fine to weave in a sentence here and there on Why MBA / Why HBS, but I would say to make sure that 80% of the essay is directly answering the question at hand. Just my humble opinion though!

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Ditto to this. Same question was asked at an on-campus info session, and same response was given.

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it also seems like hbs used to ask this question since it's one of the sections in the 65 hbs essays book. so there must be a reason it's no longer an explicit question.

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The final R1 lap has begun... good luck to everybody...!

Update on Round One
Date: December 22, 2008

Greetings from snowy Boston...

Just a few things before the office officially closes for the holiday break from December 24 through January 4.

This week - and up until the notification day on January 21 - we are reviewing candidates post-interview and also building the Round One waitlist. I expect that around 100 Round One candidates not yet invited to interview will be asked to join the waitlist on notification day. As we get a closer look at Round Two candidates, we will be inviting some of the waitlisters to interview in the Round Two cycle. Thus, you could say that a Round One waitlist decision is essentially a "further consideration" message. Everyone asked to join the waitlist will receive detailed information about the process and will have a contact person in Dillon House. We have every intention of admitting some candidates from the waitlist.

For those of you working on Round Two applications, expect a message here early next week.

Wishing you all happy, safe and peaceful holidays.

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog. ... 2008-12-22

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Mikus,

Given your excitement, I take it that you will be joining HBS over Wharton, if you get through.

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good question... with decisions coming out in 29 days, who here will be attending HBS if they get in?

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good question... with decisions coming out in 29 days, who here will be attending HBS if they get in?

I applied to HBS but have not yet received an interview invitation. I can only assume that a large part of this failure is the fact that I am 29 years old. If, by some miracle, I am one of the few who are put on the W/L, I will probably pull my app and stick with my plan to attend Booth. After months of consideration, Booth just seems like the better fit.

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bball

good question... with decisions coming out in 29 days, who here will be attending HBS if they get in?

Do you think HBS has more early career applicants ( <3 years since graduation) than Wharton and Booth? I have a hunch I got waitlisted at Wharton because of that....

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HBS has more early applicants than Booth and Wharton. Their adcom are pretty clear about that and their 2008 admit stats reflect that as well.

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Mikus,

Given your excitement, I take it that you will be joining HBS over Wharton, if you get through.

I honestly don't know what my comparative preferences are, but I do know I'd be happy at any of the schools I applied to. I try not to rank schools I haven't yet heard back from because I think that's a recipe for heartbreak...

Guess I'm just classic risk averse. What about you?

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Mikus,

Given your excitement, I take it that you will be joining HBS over Wharton, if you get through.

Guess I'm just classic risk averse. What about you?

I think I will go to HBS if I got through everywhere.. but looks like I wont have that choice...

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does anyone know if hbs calls admits before decision day like other schools?
my interviewer said there will be an email at noon (my interview was a few weeks ago so my memory is a little fuzzy but im 90% confident that she said noon) on the decision day but now im wondering if they do anything pre-emptively, like they did with interview invites.

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If past years are any indication, HBS does not call admits... I think there is only an email prompting you to check your status online. Someone please correct me if I'm wrong.

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bball I believe you are correct.

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thanks bball and msday!

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