Sandy – what’s your guess of the % of Round 1 applications that get an
invite from HBS?
hmmm, depends on number of apps, they will pretty much interview 800-850 kids fr R1 pool, so if e.g. 4200, 4500, 5000, 5300 apps (all pzzble altho 4500 a good bet) well do
da math.18-21Â percent a good consensus figure.
Sandy,
So assuming HBS admits 12% again – (and first round admits at least 12%) – we are looking at maybe 55-70% of people who got HBS R1 interviews (12% of 18-21% of total R1 applicants) will get offers.
I once heard from an “Wharton insider” that Wharton gives out approximately 40% people interviews and accept 40% of that… hence the 16% overall. Is this true?
HBS gives fewer interviews but hands out more offers out of the interviewed???
Wharton gives out more interviews but take a smaller % of the interviewed???Standard HBS practice is to interview ~1800 peeps and accept ~1000 for
class of 900 –but last year the class was ~940, so not sure if they int. more or not, aside fr. that. In years prior, the 1800 fig is regardless of number of apps!!!!!! so dont go backwards w. the math and yields.
Usual post inter accept rate at HBS is 58-62%Â 10/18ths.
Yeah Wharton does interview more and take less (real numbers here, but not last year, prior year but representative)
- no of apps=6189,
- Â admitted 1165,
- Â enroll 800,
- number inter. 3000,
- percent admitted post int. 39.
Wharton has the kids and alums do interviews as well as junketeering adcoms in Beijing etc. And interviews are just based on resume not whole app, so it is more of a factory operation. That is how theyprocess 3000. How come they bother, they are actually priming reapps-a big market for them.
Sandy,
This is very insightful. Thank you. Looks like Wharton’s yield is only 69% for class of 2010. I think on their web they mentioned their class of 2011 yield was around 71%. I guess they lost applicants to HBS, Stanford, people who decided up to attend… and maybe even CBS’s
R1 Early D.
Columbia’s overall acceptance rate is at 15%… have you ever tried to guestimate CBS’s R1 (early decision) % of applicants interviewed and acceptance rate? I would assume it to be higher than its other rounds? That $6000 deposit gotta commit a majority of accepted to
Columbia… and the victims of the CBS ED program are “similar”
programs like Wharton and Chicago?
Columbia’s overall acceptance rate is at 15%… have you ever tried to
guestimate CBS’s R1 (early decision) % of applicants interviewed and
acceptance rate?
haha, that WOULD be an interesting stat, I dont have enuf data altho I do handle a bunch of COl apps every year. (I do have enuf HBS data to make valid projections in most cases based on my own clients and mock interviews) My guess is, there are NOT a whole lotta people who 1. Got dinged at Col if they submit say OCT/NOV who 2. wudda been an accept ED. ED rarely changes an outcome for early applicants–but the JOKER at COlumbia is early submission even if you are not ED, get that
app in b4 Dec/Jan. Adcom director is on record about this in subtle ways in prior interviews. There are people who get dinged in Jan/Feb etc. who wudda been accepted in October, even non-ED. Yes, the 6k/ED deal does lock up some Wharton maybes. But dude, HBS 2+2 program locks up a whole gifted and talented high school, and keeps it away fr. S/W MIT and maybe COL ED, so it is hard to make the case that Col is being predatory any more. HBS is now the creepy guy driving around w. the open car door and the lollipops. Â
