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- Accepted and Matriculating BigBad - Accepted and Matriculating cpgmba - Accepted and Matriculating Mikus - Accepted (Withdrawn for Stanford GSB) zoinnk - Accepted (Withdrawn for Wharton) gt7er - Interviewed js594 - Interviewed MattG2185 - Interviewed rosav - Interviewed Waitlisted Accepted 4/3 hobart - Interviewed Waitlisted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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Hmmm... back to round 2 applications? Are R1 decisions made and HBS is just waiting another week to see how R2 looks?

Fun. I guess we'll find out on the 21st (is that the decision date?) what that means

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I knowingly scheduled a 12pm Eastern dentist appointment for next Wednesday to avoid the ritualistic and inevitable refreshing of the email every 2 seconds ....

BigBad = Major Psychological Issues?? :roll:

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throwing my hat into the ring as well guys

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14 Jan 2009, 17:51

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Haha! I did the exact same thing! I scheduled a Dr's appointment. My wife and I are going to meet at home to get the news together. (Either way we're excited because an admit is an admit at HBS, while a ding means we're set on Kellogg and heading to Chicago!)

EDIT - Just wondering, does anyone know if HBS does a lot of waitlisting? And if so, what are your chances once on the WL?

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Well from Dee's blog:

" I expect that around 100 Round One candidates not yet invited to interview will be asked to join the waitlist on notification day."

That tells me that they only WL candidates not interviewed already. I doubt that their WL is much more than 100 for R1 with a 90% yield.

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15 Jan 2009, 08:27

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6 days until decision day! Latest blog entry from Dee:

Round 1 Decision Day
Date: January 15, 2009

Next Wednesday, January 21, is the day we release decisions to all first round applicants. Here's what you can expect:

Some time on Wednesday - most likely before noon - you will receive an email from HBS MBA Admissions indicating that your decision is available. You then log in to your account and there it is.

We don't make phone calls in advance of this. Really. None. Admits will start to receive congratulatory calls later in the day, but notification is always online. So if you're waiting to hear from Harvard, no need to jump when the phone rings or worry when it doesn't.

Applicants invited to join the waitlist on January 21 will receive a follow-up email later in the day on Wednesday from Eileen Chang, waitlist manager. The waitlist will be comprised of a mix of candidates who have been interviewed already and those who haven't.

For those candidates who are not admitted, we are unable to offer personal feedback about your application. Even if we had the staff capacity to do this during the application season, it probably wouldn't be as helpful as you wish. The vast majority of applicants are certainly academically qualified to be here and would bring something interesting to the classroom. The challenge of selection is different from the process of evaluation - in our effort to bring together a diverse and textured class, we make many very tough calls.

I know how difficult it is to wait... but it's not too much longer.

Dee

https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html

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15 Jan 2009, 10:48

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I suspect most of the R1 WL applicants will be selected from the pool of those already interviewed.

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15 Jan 2009, 11:01

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So does this mean that the email itself won't indicate an admit/ding?

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I think it'll just say "Your status has been updated online", or something to that effect. I think it's a standard message used by the applyourself outsourcing company.

Yikes.

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15 Jan 2009, 12:45

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Final countdown!

I'm so not going to be getting any sleep the night before.

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I suspect most of the R1 WL applicants will be selected from the pool of those already interviewed.

That seems to go against her earlier blog post saying that ~100 non-interviewees would be WL'd. How big could this waitlist be?

Good thing I'll be rejected out right, I won't have to worry about such trivialities. :roll:

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FYI

BW is reporting HBS admits

https://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/fo ... &tid=78923

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16 Jan 2009, 11:13

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FYI

BW is reporting HBS admits

https://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/fo ... &tid=78923

its not real

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FYI

BW is reporting HBS admits

https://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/fo ... &tid=78923

its not real

No... thats looks totally real....

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20 Jan 2009, 11:36

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look alive people! big day tomorrow...

wonder what time that email is gonna come through... hbs blog says most likely before noon!

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20 Jan 2009, 13:29

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Big day indeed! And I'm glad to see that I'm not the only one who has all his chips on tomorrow. :-)

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look alive people! big day tomorrow...

wonder what time that email is gonna come through... hbs blog says most likely before noon!

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20 Jan 2009, 13:31

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I can't wait to receive my official ding

Good luck to those hoping for good news!!

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20 Jan 2009, 13:33

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I can't wait to receive my official ding

Good luck to those hoping for good news!!

I thought the word on the street was that HBS was so overwhelmed by your app that they were gonna admit you w/o an interview? :wink:

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Best of luck everybody. isa, please dont lose hope.

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