After posting and deleting (by accident) the thread, here we go again Time to start HBS story... HBS, as promised, released essay topics for class of 2012. Very similar to last season except for Q4 (which I think is cool b/c one can show creativity/personality) and Q3. 1) ESSAYS (source: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/writ ... ation.html ) 2) DEADLINES (source: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/appl ... dates.html ) 3) PAST THREADS 2009: calling-all-hbs-fall-2009-applicants-63410.html 2008: calling-all-the-harvard-gurus-fall-49915.html 4) IMPORTANT ANNOUNCEMENTS (source: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html and https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/inte ... tions.html and https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/writ ... ation.html ) 5) GMAT CLUB CANDIDATES R1: STATS: Total applicants: 51 Invited to interview : 16 Matriculating: Admits: 11 Dings: 31 Waitlisted: 4 Unknown: 5 Admit: HCGirl10 - invited to interview Icarus - invited to interview Izen* nerdgirl - invited to interview PatrickBateman - invited to interview PBateman- invited to interview redrobot* sc - invited to interview forzviol motionny Biology - invited to interview Waitlist: sharstarz12 - invited to interview skkingdom - invited to interview 2010HereICome - invited to interview warriorM33 Ding: 2009mba2012 adude* all - invited to interview audacityofhope DucRR eteusch1 - invited to interview fzt39806 - invited to interview Gelopwez JordinT* javaexe laurenbcn mba4me2010 MBAgirl2010 mbahopes2009 - invited to interview milias pook oompm* shadowsjc - invited to interview sm332 river zyskind cublu2 LetsGoMets NCMBA2012 Deepauk sapphireka CarpathianRidge - invited to interview USMCCommO zaphod shacster - invited to interview Aldrak CANDIDATES: 2012dreams ACNguy bigfernhead cacky1983 cassie2012 CharlieChaplin chrisahn112 Comrade CrushTheGMAT csino david2008 duderanch ezekiel2517 gmatbschool gravity1914 guitarguru hohoo JamesT - invited to interview jcol jolt kokkiri latammc lionvish mschumy Noodles nutmba radeal spiritworld steeler99 stillhoping surychen taken20 thedeadlyone tq17749 R2: STATS: Total applicants: 52 Matriculating: Admits: 21 Dings: Waitlisted: Unknown: ADMITS: Anonymous13 biotechgirl bunny27 bwizzle Demonic11 fsj434 HERM3S heywhassup jag120 kohlia LB20 Magellan matanga mba2012lfh meridian17 oneschoolwonder pilot RonMexico TorontoGirl ttocsik waitinganswers CANDIDATES: 2012dreams AceofSpades aditi123 Aenigma agnok aj1545 andrewcs Ashish369 BangaloreKid baxter bwizzle cesc4 christinee co2012 colequinn con Demonic11 egy ezekiel2517 fall2010mba gkumar GoalMBA2010 GordonBombay gravity1914 HBS2011 hbsr2 HERM3S hokiegenius infanteed jankynoname jimmyfunk Jivana kohlia lakai777 LB20 lbiggs mba12tech mp2437 mustafaj nikheel nlt22 nutmba pochcc qaum RonMexico Skysurf slingfox tdave theDreamChaser triple5soul Turnpike westsew R3: STATS: Total applicants: Matriculating: Admits: Dings: Waitlisted: Unknown: CANDIDATES: 6) USEFUL STUFF a) Sandy's HBS advice: blog with plenty of info on HBS: https://www.hbsguru.com/blog/ essays' analysis: https://forums.businessweek.com/n/pfx/f ... &tid=10180 b) Forcefeed's application tips from last season: calling-all-hbs-fall-2009-applicants-63410.html#p464989 c) CS @ HBS essay advice: https://www.computersexy.com/blog/2007/ ... lishments/ d) Chat with Deirdre Leopold, Director of MBA Admissions & Financial Aid at Harvard Business School: https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/c ... 175992.htm e) Take it with a grain of salt! About social life at HBS: https://www.asktheharvardmba.com/page/3/ f) About case method: HBS website on case method: https://www.hbs.edu/learning/case.html Entry from Harvard Bound blog: https://myharvardmba2010.blogspot.com/2 ... dents.html Entry from Mark and Jie's Journey to B-School blog: https://markandjie.blogspot.com/2004_03_01_archive.html Entry from AGirlsMBA at Harvard Business School blog: https://agirlsmba.blogspot.com/2007/12/ ... ation.html g) Weaknesses of HBS educational model: https://media.www.harbus.org/media/stor ... storiestab h) Advice on leadership essay from AGirlsMBA at Harvard Business School blog: https://agirlsmba.blogspot.com/2007/08/ ... ssays.html i) BusinessWeek's "Make Your Leadership Case for B-School Admission": https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/c ... 219087.htm j) HBS on recommendation letters: Entry from June 17, 2008 on https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog-all.html 7) OTHER INFO a) Link to 2+2 program: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/2+2/ . Note that it has different deadlines and app process. b) Class profile (2011): https://www.hbs.edu/mba/profiles/classprofile.html c) Additional class profile stats: https://www.hbs.edu/about/statistics/mba.html d) Podcasts: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/podcasts.html 8) DO I FIT? LIFE AT HBS - i.e. HBS blogs so that you can better understand the culture a) CS @ HBS - https://www.computersexy.com/blog/ b) Harvard Bound - https://myharvardmba2010.blogspot.com/ c) Inside HBS - https://www.insidehbs.com/ d) Sync - https://sync.bradleylautenbach.com/ e) Mark and Jie's Journey to B-School - https://markandjie.blogspot.com/ f) Will Hsu's HBS Bubble - https://www.xanga.com/home.aspx?user=wphsu99 g) AGirlsMBA at Harvard Business School: https://agirlsmba.blogspot.com/ h) Military to Business: https://militarytobusiness.blogspot.com/

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Submitted for R2 about an hour ago--final app of 4 in total. SO HAPPY TO BE DONE.

Excited to get back into the real world again, sleeping, going out with friends, not staring at my computer screen all night, etc.

WOOO. Good luck to everyone.

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last application for this year (hopefully)... thank goodness for HBS' later submissions deadlines. i managed to cram all the other schools' essays prior, then spend a good deal of time with HBS. i think my HBS essays are the best among the 20+ i've had to write.

add me up to the R2 list.

GMAT 730, top 2% university, P&G background + entrepreneur. 29 yo. let's see whether what they say is true about HBS being biased against us older entrepreneur folk... i'm really hoping to get in, but the blogs around the net haven't been encouraging.

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18 Jan 2010, 22:12

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Another one for R2, done with all 2012 apps....let the waiting game begin!

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18 Jan 2010, 22:17

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In for Round 2...
one more to go (Haas R3)... good luck to all

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I'm thrilled to have submitted my last app for this season too. Looks like 8/66 admits for R1 = right around the 12% that you'd HBS usually admits. I think, like many of us here, that my profile is competitive but I'm certainly no superstar.

I just cleaned out some of my application books, and threw away mountains of notes. It's taken months of my time and effort, and a good chunk of change too.

Good luck to everybody here.

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Done with HBS Rnd 2 as well, this concludes this painful process. Good luck to everyone!

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Submitted for R2 and Phew! All apps done.
Feels like the last day of exams back in college.

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Hello,
I need an advice here.
as for third reco: lower level manager who knows me well vs ex-upper who knows me little vs dean of my undergrad faculty who knows me well ?
the first two: current supervisor, executive director of my department

Conventional wisdom always seems to say that you should find recommenders who know you. It seems like you already have two work-related recommenders who probably know you well. If this is true, is the lower level manager going to add much new info? If you think he will, then maybe that's the way to go (although then I would ask whether the the first two recommenders really know you very well). Otherwise, I'd probably go with the dean from UG. He can provide an alternative perspective on your academic performance and abilities. The "ex-upper" who doesn't know you very well seems like a bad choice.

For what it's worth, my three were a current supervisor/manager, department head from UG major, and another professor from senior year. The first two knew me extremely well, and I had a good relationship/rapport with the third from the semester in his class.

thanks for the advice- seems like I will go with the UG professor

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Hi guys - just submitted for Round 2. Would request someone to please put me down for it.

Good luck to all.

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just submitted.

good luck all

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Does the application get pushed to the next round if my recommender cannot get the rec in by this evening?

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Does the application get pushed to the next round if my recommender cannot get the rec in by this evening?

It depends. (But don't tell your recommender that. Let 'em sweat!)

Here's what Harvard's Admissions Director recently posted on her blog:

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Do I have to wait for my recommenders to finish before I can submit my application?

That's an easy one to answer: no.

We hope that all recommendations will be received by 5:00pm on January 19. Of course, that rarely happens. Our advice: don't wait until you get the notice that your recommendations have all been submitted before you hit the "submit" button for your application. We will start to read your application as long as two of your recommendations have been submitted. "Late" recommendations received within a day or two after the deadline will be added to your file.

Bottom line: you need to have two recommendations already submitted. Then you have a grace period of a day or so. I hope that helps.

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How much does it hurt my chances in case a third recommendation is not received and the adcoms start reviewing my apps.. Is this a gonner?

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How much does it hurt my chances in case a third recommendation is not received and the adcoms start reviewing my apps.. Is this a gonner?

I don't know 100% for sure--but I'm pretty positive that if you don't have 3 recs you can't get into HBS. Anyone have better information on this than that?

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I'm with you, LB20. Agnok, my impression is that you have a couple days' grace to get that third recommendation in, but you must submit it to be considered for admission.

If you think your third recommender is going to be a few days late, and there is a good reason for this, you might try calling the admissions office to see what they say. If you think that third recommender is never going to submit, or will submit too late for you to be considered in Round 2, you might try finding someone else right now who is willing to turn around a recommendation for you quickquickquick -- i.e., in the next day or so. Good luck!

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Best wishes to R2 applicants. I hope to see ALL of you in Cambridge this September.

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Last minute tweaks to my application...

This might be considered a minor question, but on the application, what do most private equity professionals put for Job Function? They don't have PE, so the closest ones I believe are Finance: Investment Management; Finance: M&A; Finance: Venture Capital; or Investment Advising.

I called the school but of course they brushed it off, saying to put whatever I think seems closest

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Well.. just spoke to my third recommender and he is working on it.. His phone was turned off since he was on a plane.. I almost had a heart attack thinking he may not get it done! Thanks all for the ideas!

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Does HBS need our official gmat and/or transcripts before we get admitted?

Accordingly to first round's post no-official-papers-until-admitted-list-88244.html it seems like they don't.

But in my online application form, HBS states that all applicants are required to send in official GMAT scores, but transcripts are only required after we get admitted.

Just got a little confused with this contradicting information. Fellow applicants can someone please clarify?

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When you took the GMAT, you had the choice of reporting your scores to 5 school. You can't escape that. As long as you chose HBS as one of the five you are safe. See you official score sheet to see the list of schools you chose, or log in to My MBA section on www.mba.com. Otherwise, log into the www.mba.com site and request that they send your scores to HBS right away.

And official transcripts are to be sent after acceptance.