New HBS deadlines for next year
| hbs deadlines and notification dates
Application Periods: |
Application submitted online by 5 p.m. EST: | Notification of the MBA Admissions Board’s decision: |
|---|---|---|
| Round 1 | October 1, 2009 | December 15, 2009 |
| Round 2 | January 19, 2010 | April 6, 2010 |
| Round 3 | April 8, 2010 | May 13, 2010 |
first of all, the QUESTION I am sure you are DYING to know the answer to: Her Majesty has said that Round 1 and Round 3 apps are due at 5pm EST, but as any mortal knows, October 1 and April 8 ARE NOT EST, THOSE DATES ARE EDT (DAYLIGHT TIME) SO IS THIS SOME CRUEL,CRUEL TRICK TO CHECK YOUR INTELLIGENCE, and will, in fact, apps submitted in the last hour of EDT not count because they are past the super sneaky EST deadline?????? I mean if you dont know that, you should not go to HBS right? Alas, no. They keep making this mistake, and I keep tweaking them about it, but do they learn???? NO NO NO. Honey, next year dont say 5pm EST, say 5pm local time (Boston). That is what Stanford does, after I corrected them about four years running, as well. (EST actually means EMPRESS’ SPECIAL TIME and can mean whatever HRH wants it to). OK, as to this conspiracy theory about H following S, dunno, we got these new posters, all of a sudden w. one or two posts, coming out of the woodwork — claiming this, odd way to debut on BW boards, but moving right along. Who cares. HBS announced a long time ago in a blog that apps wld be early this year, and first S announced it (and reported HERE and no place else to my knowledge) was at a Forum this past week-end, so not clear who is following whom. Seems that everyone is following Wharton who went to this sched LONG TIME AGO (well 3 or so yrs ago). It does mean that unlike past practice, H and S will pick kids in R1 b4 having the full docket of apps for R2. That can increase instability in making decision of R1 vs. R2–dunno, if they had that sched this year, where reliable rumor has it that R1 apps were up 20pcnt and R2 apps were flat, they may have projected WAY MORE R2 apps than they got, set the bar higher, etc. and lots of R1 admits mght have been on WL.
Anyway, one person LOVING this new sched is ME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! No more reading apps on New Year’s Eve. So YOUR MAJ, THANK YOU!!!
