Harvard Business School Application for the class of 2013 is online. This thread will also serve as a master thread for the 2+2 applicants for the class of 2016 (June 2011 Applicants!) APPLICANTS: Please fill out your stats in the Google Doc attached and keep updating your information whenever you see fit! We will keep this thread updated as well (GIANT Post - Be warned ) Current Students: Harvard Admits 2+2 APPLICANTS REQUIREMENTS: GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION: 1. Essay Questions : 2. Application Deadlines : To be announced for the Summer of 2011. For the Summer of 2010 class: 3. Letters of Recommendation : 4. Sandy's Advice for Students Applying to 2+2 : REGULAR APPLICANTS All quoted sections of this post are from the Harvard Business School Admissions Website GENERAL APPLICATION INFORMATION: 1. Essay Questions : 2. Application Deadlines : 3. Letters of Recommendation : APPLICANT LIST: HBS Applicant List Google Doc 0Avb_1Ns4jB92dHp0UTJQcWpEajJwdENjYW9PVEc1TEE OTHER RESOURCES: Useful Web Pages for Application * HBS Director's Blog for All Important Updates * Last year's thread for HBS (Regular Applicants) * Last year's thread for HBS 2+2 Applicants * Veritas Prep School Report for Harvard Business School (Please register your email id, and Veritas will send a link to the download and you can download multiple school reports at once if you want!) * Class Profile for 2+2 * FAQs * HBS Director's Blog for All Important Updates * Clear Admit's Essay Analysis for Harvard Fall 2011 * Veritas Prep Essay Analysis for Harvard 2011 Life at HBS - Blogs 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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Per the Dee (HBS Director of Admissions):

# November 3 - all candidates not invited to interview will receive either a decision indicating that "we are unable to offer you a place in the Class of 2013" or an invitation to join our waitlist
# November 1 - 21 - interview weeks, both on and off campus
# December 14 - decision notification (admit, deny, or waitlist) for all interviewed candidates

If this was in response to my post, i think you misunderstood the question. I was wondering if it would be a bulk mailing, or if the email would come at a certain time.... just based on what happened last year. Obviously we won't know until tomorrow exactly what happens, i was just curious what has happened in the past.

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Update from Dee: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog. ... 2010-11-02

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Round One Decisions
Date: November 02, 2010

It's November 2. Tomorrow afternoon we will be sending out three kinds of emails:

A few more invitations to interview
Roughly 100 offers to join the waitlist
"Release" decision

You've probably noticed that I tend to keep these updates short and to-the-point. I could go on and on about various things - the strength of the applicant pool, how the challenge here is not about "evaluation" (again, because of the strength of the pool), but more about "selection." The challenge is not to rank order candidates, but to comprise a balanced class. I could talk about how I wish we could give customized feedback to denied candidates - but even if we had the resources to do this, most of the conversations would be, "You're fine, but so are many, many others." I could describe our evaluation process - and reiterate that each candidate not invited to interview gets at least two reviews.

But I'll stop - and end this update hoping that this "early release" experiment is seen as a positive step.

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thanks Moss! and thanks Dee!!! so tomorrow afternoon...

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Update from Dee: https://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog. ... 2010-11-02

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Do we think that "a few" is necessarily less than 100? or am i reading too much into the wording? maybe she just doesn't want anyone to know that number but the waitlist number is fine to go out?

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I think there is a lot less visibility into the waitlist number than the invite number, so its nice that she'd give us a bit of insight.

I don't know if there is an implication that the number of invites to go out is <100, but Dee has told us that there are 800 total invites going out R1 and now we know that there are 100 R1ers on the waitlist as well. Good intel, I suppose.

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surprisingly.. all our rampant speculation was pretty on the ball.
a "few more invitations to interview"

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I do think few = very few... But I see only 100 = good news for waitlisters... this would mean that a waitlister actually gets a shot if the R1 interviews don't turn out as favorably as they had hoped for.

So here is the math. Let's say that they had targeted 60% yield on the 800 invites: 800*60%=480. So assume they are looking for 480 admits from R1, now you use that 480 / (800 + 100) = 53%. 53% is still within the range of expected yield. If 50% of the waitlisters get an interview, the yield would be 480 / (800 + 50) = 56%, totally within the range of historical interview/admit yield. Obviously this is a pure statistical argument... but I'd say a waitlister would get a 50% shot at receiving an interview.

Good luck to all of us tomorrow afternoon!

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Hi,
I've been lurking around the chat for a bit. First, good luck to everyone waiting for an invitation tomorrow. Second, I'm wondering if HBS ever releases decisions before 10/14. Do any of the top schools (Wharton, Kellogg, Columbia) release decisions before their stated date?
Thanks!

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Some do, especially schools that like to call their acceptees. Traditionally, HBS has not done so, from what I can glean of the past years.

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Got it. Thanks, Jeanette!

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I second fugaz778, preparing yourself for the ding email on Wednesday sounds like the best option!

Thousands of people get rejected from HBS each year. There's no shame in it. While I'm disappointed that I wasn't extended an invite, I have no doubt that I, and all the other talented and intelligent people on this forum, will find success and happiness elsewhere. Best of luck in future endeavors everyone!

I think this is the right attitude. Yes no-invite from HBS must hurt because for many of us here HBS is the dream school, but at the end of the day everyone one will get their best out of this MBA app process.

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With the WL without int, it really depends on the quality of the R2 pool whether you will get the invite.

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Big day ahead! :-D

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It's 8:32am in Boston right now.. I can close my eyes and imagine the Admissions Committee members having a coffee, or maybe being still stuck in traffic, getting ready for today's work, which will shatter dreams and rekindle hope...

Have an excellent day, AdCom!

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IF YOU'RE READING THIS, CLOSE YOUR WINDOW AND GO TO YOUR EMAIL

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IF YOU'RE READING THIS, CLOSE YOUR WINDOW AND GO TO YOUR EMAIL

Too vague!!! What did you get?

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IF YOU'RE READING THIS, CLOSE YOUR WINDOW AND GO TO YOUR EMAIL

Too vague!!! What did you get?

Nothin yet. Just pointing out that for most of us, this board will be obsolete in a few minutes / hours.

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IF YOU'RE READING THIS, CLOSE YOUR WINDOW AND GO TO YOUR EMAIL

Too vague!!! What did you get?

Nothin yet. Just pointing out that for most of us, this board will be obsolete in a few minutes / hours.

Might want to phrase that better. Made people (i.e. me) think that you had received an email from adcom...false alarms are not cool (especially when they're all in caps).

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Too vague!!! What did you get?

Nothin yet. Just pointing out that for most of us, this board will be obsolete in a few minutes / hours.

Might want to phrase that better. Made people (i.e. me) think that you had received an email from adcom...false alarms are not cool (especially when they're all in caps).

My sincere apologies to your nervous sensibilities Jmw 125. Best of luck.

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Also, remember that Dee's post from yesterday said "tomorrow afternoon" they will be sending out emails...no need to have adrenaline pumping all morning (more to myself than anyone in particular)