HBS interview chances: March 13, 2008 :-(
Sandy– on the HBS blog, it states that some Round 2 candidates may be waitlisted without receiving an interview invite. Why would HBS eventually take a waitlisted candidate that it has not interviewed over a waitlisted candidate who has gone through the interview process (and did not mess up the interview)?
That doesn’t make sense to me. It seems like if you don’t receive an interview request then your odds of eventual admittance are close to zero. Am I missing something?
chances of getting an HBS invite at this point are in the “1 percent or less” category, but they will prob. hand out some “lottery tickets,” just to SPITE ME, like Round 1, where HRH [adcom head Dee Dee Leopold ] in her blog claimed to send out invite or two on D-Day.
As to getting on WL on D-day and then being called for interview later, it happens, and it HAS happened already this year in R1, or so people have claimed. That has happened in years prior as well, and yes, some admits.
As to chances of being put on WL on R2 D-day without interview, and then being called for interview, and getting IN, dunno, there could be 2 or 3 kids like that, with class of 1000 admits, all kinds of weirdo stuff happens in tiny numbers. I do know a guy who got an interview invite sorta around now in Round 1, and got in, I have absolutely no idea why the timing went that way, he was perfectly standard dude, in terms of background, etc. As to why these blips and hiccups happen, dunno, my guess is HRH has a deskful of oddball cases, and in response to micro motives (someone says at a meeting ‘we need more nerds’ ) or just her own internal rythmns, she shuffles thru the pile every once in a while and decides to play God. It aint more complicated than that, altho feel free to concoct all sorts of speculative systems. She also responds to bigfoot pressure, dean hints, and the general vibes that run thru HBS ‘air’ — it’s a tightly wound place, and no syllable goes unnoticed, and some syllables are more important than others.
