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Type of Student: Domestic Asian Male
Undergrad Institution: HYP
Major(s): Engineering
Minor(s): Finance
Overall GPA: 3.7
Position in Class: Top 20%


GMAT Scores: 780
Q: 51
V: 49
W: 5.0


Awards/Honors/Recognitions: (Within your school or outside?) Prize for Research, National Merit Scholarship Winner

Pertinent Activities or Jobs: One summer of engineering research, one summer at high-tech startup, one summer at big engineering firm

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: Study abroad at Cambridge

it seems everyone here is a clear admit....

wow so the acceptance rate will be like 12%...that's pretty low..

good luck to everyone!!

haha, i hope so! That would be nice!

Obviously, we are all "juniors" but what are everyone's ages??

Reason I ask is b/c I took a 2 year leave and came back this past fall. I will be 24 this month.

You guys think that they will frown on the "older" age?

PS - the leave was to pursue my own business full-time.

anyone know what the approximate post-interview ding rate is?

50% right??

yeah...I guess approx. 200++ interviews. Wow, the profiles here are all great! I wonder why so few people sharing their info. in the thread though...application already passed.

My profile is

Type of Student: Indian Male
Undergrad Institution: India's best private engineering school
Major(s): Computer Science
Overall GPA: 3.15
Position in Class: Top 20%


GMAT Scores: 760
Q: 51
V: 42
W: 5.5


Awards/Honors/Recognitions:Goldman Sachs Global Leader, Class of 2008, Two National Scholarships, India's Young Ambassador to France, Two social sector fellowships

Summer Jobs: Setting up an all women rural enterprise (BPO), Optimizing field staff movement for India's 3rd largest MFI using GIS

Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: As the President of a Center of Excellence at my university, introduced a new course on entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Lost the election to the top post of Students' Union by 0.47% votes (out of 2800 voters)

rachitchandra,

Impressive profile, but the very last point of losing your student union election is irrelevant consideration

=)

Hey what happened to you guys?

I know everybody is anxiously waiting for the results and so as I. But we can have our usual discussion

By the way I read in a few post back,there had been around 844 applicants this year and there will be 200 interview invitations.So is this the official Number or just a wild guess?

The 844 number is correct, its on the HBS website. The 200 interview number is an estimate from last year's figures, I guess they might offer 200-230 interviews to accomodate the rise in applicants.

Btw, Is the July 15 date correct for the notification of interviews or is it late July?

I think, even though they say they are going to notify us by late of July, they will notify us in mid-July..
They just dun wanna promise us...esp. now there are so many applicants.
I really hope they notify us earlier...I (and many other ppl i believe) have to confirm the flights...

Hi all,

I know the waiting is quite a pain. And I believe the Admission Board is spending their heart and soul, reading everyone's application.

Therefore, I find some informative articles for those who still login onto the online application, re-reading their applications again and again.

1) The Road from Business School, Less Traveled:

A Harvard MBA who graduated without a job in 2006 finds it more a blessing than a curse

https://www.businessweek.com/bschools/co ... 917183.htm

2) This book will be helpful after one is admitted into the program:
https://www.businessweek.com/magazine/co ... 728337.htm

I think these articles present Harvard Business School more realistically, and show the flip-side of its degree value, both financially and professionally.

Hope this may ease the tension on the waiting process.

Best of luck to all.

rachitchandra
Any Miscellaneous Accomplishments that Might Help: As the President of a Center of Excellence at my university, introduced a new course on entrepreneurship in the curriculum. Lost the election to the top post of Students' Union by 0.47% votes (out of 2800 voters)

No offence But......
"LOST"

I wonder how is that an accomplishment?
To my best knowledge, A defeat can be a learning experience but not an accomplishment to be proud of

Anyways buddy, you really have a great score. Best of Luck

Trust me thats my biggest accomplishment to date.Running a month long campaign with a team of ~100 campaigners is no mean feat!