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akhilesh1988 · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 7:51 pm Post subject: impressive

i have to say, your profile is impressive!

akhilesh1988 · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 8:36 pm Post subject: resume font size?

i have a doubt. what must be the font size of the 1 page resume we are required to submit>?

chintanjadwani · Posted: Mon Jun 29, 2009 11:32 pm Post subject: Help!

and if anyone knows, while filling the testing information. wat do we include in the ''english usage'' fields, i guess its for those who have given the toefl, and i have.! so lemme know ....pls..!! (desperate)!!

Comiskie · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 12:22 am Post subject:

I submitted my app. today! here's my info:

[b]Type of Student:[/b] International (Asia), Male,
[b]Undergrad Institution:[/b] Best Engineering School of the nation
[b]Major(s):[/b] Computer/Electrical/Communication Engineering
[b]Minor(s):[/b]
[b]Overall GPA:[/b] 3.98
[b]Position in Class:[/b] Top

[b]GRE/GMAT Scores:[/b] 680
[b]Q:[/b] 48
[b]V:[/b] 35
[b]W:[/b] 5.5

[b]TOEFL Total:[/b] 114

[b]Awards/Honors/Recognitions:[/b] Software Contest, Dean's List, Full Scholarship�

[b]Pertinent Activities or Jobs:[/b] Two Interns. One media and other IT in Bank.

[b]Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help:[/b] Pretty good recom. One from work and one from professor.

looking forward to hear from you all...good luck to all!

btw, I guess this is the only active board regarding HBS 2+2 on the web. I anticipate an application pool of over 1500 this year...I guess it's gonna be tough ><.

chintanjadwani · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 2:08 am Post subject: wat abt this??

and if anyone knows, while filling the testing information. wat do we include in the ''english usage'' fields, i guess its for those who have given the toefl, and i have.! so lemme know ....pls..!! (desperate)!!

Rivkid · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 8:55 am Post subject: Applied!

I submitted my application last night...

Type of Student: Female, international (Canadian)
Undergrad Institution: Queen's University ("Harvard North" lol)
Major(s): Engineering Chemistry
Minor(s):
Overall GPA: 4.0
Position in Class: Near the top, dropped a bit this past year

GRE/GMAT Scores: 780
Q: 50
V: 50
W: 6.0

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Several scholarships, innovation award, music and volunteering awards

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Management positions in school clothing company and coffee shop

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: We'll have to see...

Does anyone know how we find out about interviews?

For the english usage thing, I don't know for sure, since it's my first language, but I get that a lot in Canada for French, and it normally just means the context - Do you speak english at home/school/ or work, do you correspond often in english, are you normally surrounded by english speakers, or do you normally stick to your first language. Good luck!

chintanjadwani · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:07 am Post subject: ....

awesome profile! Smile

nd thanks a lot..!!

u'll get to know abt the interviews by e-mail by mid-july!

akhilesh1988 · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 9:25 am Post subject: Rivkid

Thats a very impressive profile!

jmsells · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 11:45 am Post subject: app submitted

I submitted my application.

Type of Student: Caucasian Male, US
Undergrad Institution: Top 30 Private College
Major(s): Double Major Chemistry/Education
Minor(s): Entrepreneurial Studies
Overall GPA: 3.63
Position in Class: Top 25%

GRE/GMAT Scores: 720
Q: 44
V: 45
W: 5.5

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: FedEx Global Supply Chain Employee Excellence Award/Ohio Leadership Award/Dean's High Honors

Pertinent Jobs: Founded,managed a perfume manufacturing company with 7 employees/Worked at FedEx Global Supply Chain/Internship with City Dept of Health

Activities: Church Trustee/VP Of College Health Advocy Group/AmeriCorps/United Way Board Member

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Basically starting my own perfume manufacturing company, running it for 5 years, and then selling it when an offer was made to acquire it.

galacticos · Posted: Tue Jun 30, 2009 5:40 pm Post subject:

Submitted my app today. My last recommender still hasn't submitted his part of it and if he doesn't get around to it by tomorrow at around 2ish I'm going to give him a call.

Type of Student: Domestic White Male
Undergrad Institution: Top 15
Major(s): Econ / PoliSci
Minor(s): N/A
Overall GPA: 3.6ish
Position in Class: cum laude

GRE/GMAT Scores: GMAT: 740

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Dean's list, not much else

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: Not much in the way of ECs. One really solid internship and another that proves to them that I wasn't originally headed towards b-school

I'm fairly confident that my lack of activities will keep me out.

myohmy · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 6:12 am Post subject:

Just submitted my application -- what a headrush that was! You guys all look like rockstars, so I'm not sure that I what kind of chance I have but...

Type of Student: Indian Female, US citizen
Undergrad Institution: Top 20 Private College
Major(s): English
Minor(s): Religion
Overall GPA: 3.59, STRONG upward trend, will likely make cum laude or magna cum laude next year
Position in Class: Top 15-20% (no idea what rank as they don't do official ranks until they calculate Latin honors)

GMAT Score: 760
Q: 48
V: 47
W: 6.0

Awards/Honors/Recognitions: Deans' List, Student Employee of the Year, not much else (the curse of going to a pretty egalitarian school with very little by way of named scholarships/awards)

Pertinent Jobs: 2 strong internships with lots of opportunity for me to take initiative, work 5 jobs while in school (25 hrs/wk)

Activities: Volunteer with local elementary schools, tour guide, tutor other students in writing and lead writing workshops, last year raised $15000+ to bring a speaker to campus that united town and gown

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Not an accomplishment, but my mother and several other family members are HBS grads which I think (hope?) might help.

rachitchandra · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 11:33 am Post subject: Interview Invites

The final reminder mail from HBS says interview invites will be given out in late July!

I thought interview invites will be posted on 15th July.

juyau800 · Posted: Wed Jul 01, 2009 9:26 pm Post subject:

maybe they realized there are too many applicants....

I have a stupid question,
if I dun receive an interview invitation by end of July,
does that mean I can safely assume I am rejected?

myohmy · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 9:50 am Post subject:

844 applicants this year, according to the HBS website

I think if you don't receive an interview offer they send you your rejection soon after interview offers go out. I think I remember reading something like that somewhere.

hbs2014 · Posted: Thu Jul 02, 2009 10:29 am Post subject:

Wow!!!!

A 34% increase! reducing the admission rate to abt less than 1/8, which is truly competitive this year. I believe the HBS Admission Comittee is happy to lower the admission rate sharply in the second application season.

Regarding the interview: All admitted candidates will be interviewed. An interview is mandatory for all enrolled 2+2 applicants (This is shadowed from the online application interview section, if I remembered it clearly). I believe at the end of July, one either will receive an invitation for interview, or a simple rejection without an interivew.

Best of luck with everyone who had applied this year.

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