HBS Round One Interview Invites, the real skinny
below are excerpts from Dee Dee’s blog entry about HBS round 1 interview invites, and our annotations, and amplifcations. Her full blog entry is after the dotted line.
–We will be interviewing from November 5 up until notification day, January 16 (and beyond if we need to).I think we will begin sending interview invitations during the week of October 22.
this is the normal prior gap between end of applications and first invites: about 20 days. That is what the gap sorta was in year’s prior. The invites pulse out in sort of a bell curve, OVER THE NEXT 30-40 DAYS, so if you have not received an invite by Decemeber 1, your chances of getting an invite are less than 5 percent.
if you are totally parnoid, you can plot your odds, by using stock image on left, and subtracting 3.2 percent every day, altho obviously if you dont hear fr. Oct 22-29 you have not lost 21percent, since invites get thicker, cresting around November 8-14 is my guess, it is not a symmetrical bell curve, it falls off faster after Nov 8-10, than it rises. Sorry for any stats boo-boos but hope you get the idea.
We will be interviewing from November 5 up until notification day, January 16 (and beyond if we need to).
This is true, but needs a footnote. They do interview and send out interview invites outside the 90-95 percent window of Oct20-Nov 23rd–but dont count on that being you. If you have not gotten an interview invite by Thanksgiving, things are looking real grim. Exceptions: you get on WL on decision day, and get interviewed later (that is maybe, duh, ~10 kids a year out of class of 1000, maybe less) or your letter on decision day is an interview invite (sell that on E-bay dude, it is very rare).
There is absolutely no discernible pattern to how/when interview invitations are issued.
hmmmmm, this is mostly true, BUT for interview invites for HUB cities–this year first round that means – London, Paris, Mumbai, Delhi, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston and possibly Austin and Seattle – do in fact go out in pulses and patterns, and if you live in SF and you find out that SF hub interview is going to be e.g. on November 16th, well, duh, a lot of SF invites will go going out 6-10 days prior to that, and if you miss that window, it aint good, altho you are still alive. You can get a later invite on campus, or an alum interview, etc. but NOT GOOD.
to repeat, there will always be a number of interview invitations issued up to and including January 16.
to repeat, there will always be a number of six-leaf clovers, flying pigs,and POWER BALL lottery winners. http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.htmlWe conduct interviews on campus and will also be traveling to London, Paris, Mumbai, Delhi, San Francisco, Chicago, Los Angeles, Dallas, Houston and possibly Austin and Seattle this year in Round One. In addition to our Admissions Board, a small group of alumni conduct admissions interviews in key cities to expand our reach. In situations where a face-to-face interview is impossible to schedule, the Admissions Board conducts phone interviews.We will be interviewing from November 5 up until notification day, January 16 (and beyond if we need to).
I think we will begin sending interview invitations during the week of October 22. These are sent via email and contain complete directions and information about the process. In order to minimize inconvenience and cost and maximize choice of location, interviewees will be using an online self-scheduler.
There is absolutely no discernible pattern to how/when interview invitations are issued. I promise you that it has nothing to do with citizenship, residence, employment, first letter of your last name or anything else. It is a result of where your application folder happens to land at any particular moment. There is also no special time of day at which invitations go out but most will be during Boston’s business hours.
I will let you know via this blog when we begin and periodically throughout the round. There will not be a point before the notification date at which we announce we’re finished because we won’t be: to repeat, there will always be a number of interview invitations issued up to and including January 16.
August 24th, 2008 at 6:13 pm
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August 24th, 2008 at 6:56 pm
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August 24th, 2008 at 10:33 pm
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November 12th, 2008 at 10:07 am
Hello, I was wondering if you thought reapplicants were handled differently by any chance… do they typically get read last (I was a R2 applicant last year and was invited for an interview fairly early on)? Also, I’m not near a hub city but I am in the US, how does that impact the timing since you brought up that as a factor?