HBS Round 1 Invites: Who Are The Last 10 percent
Sandy–If HBS currently has less than 10% of the allotted slots available for interviews, would you say that the remaining interview invites go to underrepresented minorities, legacy applicants or other unique applicants to help even out the class based on the make up of round 2 applicants?
Wednesday, December 05, 2007You’d think, but it does not work out that way, lots of times kids invited to late interviews [and taken off WL in late spring] are just overlooked stars of the very normal type, altho, looking back on THE SORTA FEW (but not rare, just way less than first weeks) invites I’ve heard about since my 80 percent call, the mix was high side of normal tilting towards groups you ID. So maybe if oddball mix [however defined, e.g. your categories above] of whole pool is X, Oddball cohort of late Round 1 interview pool could be X+25 percent. The issue of what the impact on Round 1 is of arrival of R2 applications, which my guess is, gets statistically broken out immediately (e..g total numbers, numbers of Ints, numbers of M and W, numbers by Industry etc. Average gmat and gpa, blah blah blah, someone does this a sorta full time job, and that someone does that job beyond ways anyone cares about, just like at your firm], hmmmmmmm, usually result is not surprising, e.g. it can almost always be predicted fr. Round 1 itself, and to the extent that there are UNPREDICTED spikes in any category, that can easily be dealt w. by beefing up WL, not interviewing new people after Jan 3 [that almost NEVER happens, sorry, dead enders], soooooooooooooooo, to some degree, kids who are WL without Int, may be the result of micro tuning Round 1 post arrival or R2, but even that is less likely than it sounds, basically, the process is sound, professional and rational but not machine tooled, my guess is there are always 25-50 folders on Dee Dee’s desk each round that she kinda keeps looking at, and may move around fr. Ding to WL to Int, just like you have bills and issues on your desk you keep putting off. What happens to those folders is not scientific but just as ‘fair’ as if it were.
