The 2+2 Application is to be released soon, so I figured this might be a good time to start a separate thread for the 2+2 applicants. The regular HBS thread is literally overflowing, and though the attention will most likely die soon, it's better to just have a separate thread! So here goes! HBS Business School Guide Add Your Name to the List HBS 2+2 Applicant Summary (Real Time) Quick Glance: GMAT Club vs. Latest Intake (Class of 2014) Detailed Applicant List: Add Yourself to This List (add HBS 2+2 to your profile) GMAT Club's Real-time Admissions Statistics Add Your Profile to This List Questions about this Roll Call ? REQUIREMENTS: Essays for 2011's Cycle Sandy's Advice for Students Applying to 2+2 : Please feel free to let me know if you need me to add anything else. And if you're applying to this round of 2+2, please post below with your stats - GMAT, GPA, Major, and other pertinent things!

Haha. I joined GMAT Club last summer, yes. That was when I heard about the 2+2 program and figured I was interested. I didn't fully decide to apply until I attended the College Students Day program HBS hosted in November, if I remember correctly. I have already applied now. I'm waiting for results. Good luck with everything!

I c. I am going back to Hong Kong in mid august and coming back in mid September... Where are you from?

Thanks! Good luck with you too! I know you will get in! I will definitely refer to you if I have questions possibly once you get in, alumni connection? haha. Are you finishing off your fourth year this year?

Questions about the motherland! Sent you a PM Thank you. If I get in, I'll definitely help as much as I can. I'm done with my third year and will be graduating May 2012.

Did you send me a PM? I got nothing in my inbox..

Yeah. It's in my outbox. I resent it.

HBS looks for 3 things in a candidate: leadership, intellectual capacity, and community engagement. The first 2 are self-explanatory. They are roughly in order of priority, ie leadership and academic ability are a prerequisite to admission. There is no circumventing these 2 qualities and no making up for them by demonstrating a lot of community involvement, for example. By 'community engagement' they really want to see that a candidate has EMPATHY. It's a rare quality where someone shows genuine concern for others. This quality manifests itself in the obvious ways like a pattern of volunteerism, for example. Or, it manifests itself more subtly as when you mentor a co-worker or tactfully resolve a dispute, for example. Given these 3 attributes, you need to pick which ones you want to emphasize for your particular case. See my blog post on picking the right themes for your essay. HBS Admissions Consultant hbs.consultant@gmail.com https://www.hbsadmissionsconsulting.com