HRH Leopold’s blog updates on Round 1 deadline for next year and WL notice dates and numbers for later this Spring.

Dee’s recent WL and Round 1 2010 post

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/blog.html#post-2009-04-09

 THE WORDS OF HER MAJESTY  THE COMMENTS OF RABBI KREISBERG                                             

A Few Miscellaneous Updates

Date: April 09, 2009

…in no particular order:

  • Our Round 1 deadline for the next application season will be earlier in October, BEFORE fall class visits are open. We encourage those of you who are thinking of applying in Round 1 to consider a class visit this spring – class visits are available until May 8. Visiting an HBS class has absolutely no impact on the application process – we just want everyone to know that you are welcome.
  • We will be making more offers from the waitlist this year, and we hope to make the majority of these decisions as soon as we can – definitely before the end of May.
  • International students will have access to loans without needing a U.S. co-signer. We will release details/terms on specific programs as they are finalized.
 As to Round 1 HBS application deadline being earlier in October next year , well, for the record it was Oct 15th this year (Oct 2008) BUT OCTOBER 2ND FOR 2007, soooooooooooooooooo, my guess is, Her Madge and her court had a little coffee klatch and figured out real early Oct 2nd etc. was better for lots fo reasons, including Xmas shopping, interview junkets, etc, etc. Thus,  I’m saying its going to be first week in October for 2009.  Like anyone reading this forum now really cares. Well, re’app’ers care. As to WL ‘update’ –spec. this text:

  • We will be making more offers from the waitlist this year, and we hope to make the majority of these decisions as soon as we can – definitely before the end of May.

    As to above, well, get out your tweezers.  I do not think it means, “we will be making more WL offers this year VERSUS LAST YEAR, altho that may in fact be true, it just means, in some casual one-glass-of-wine way, that they will still be accepting some kids off WL (right we already sorta knew that fr. Chang-O-grams) in a maternal, resassuring way, lese majesterial way. For all you suckers still on WL, some of you are going to win the lottery, and we plan to have that drawing before the end of May (keep in mind that r3 decisions go out May 13th, so by that time they got a pretty good idea of the class, altho not sure when R3 kids have to give deposits. etc.) It also seems to my ear, that majority of decisions will be made by end of May means that about 80 percent of remaining WL decisions will be made end of May, and after that you are talking about another 5 or WL accepts in June, July, etc. til they kill the thing off.  SO that is how Rabbi Kreisberg interprets this particular piece of Talmud, feel free to chime in, WLers are a very responsive and attentive group. As Dr. Johnson ~~ said, “When a man knows he is about to get dinged in a fortnight,  it concentrates the mind……”

    As to international students and loans next year, HBS has issued a press release covering that–

    Harvard University Secures New Source of Funding for International Graduate and Professional Students

    http://www.hbs.edu/news/releases/creditunionloans

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