My wife and I attended an information session last night for HBS. They send out people to tour around holding these two-hour sessions about the application process and such. Ours was hosted by Pamela Ralston, who is on the admissions committee, along with an HBS alum and another girl whose job description I didn’t catch.
If you have a chance to attend one of these I would highly recommend it. There were a few tidbits of information relevant to the application process that are going to help me out.
1. Two or more people read each application cover to cover. This is helpful to me because I wasn’t sure if they would have one person reading just one essay and then rating it and moving onto the same essay from the next person or what. Now I know that if I emphasize something important about myself in one essay I don’t need to say it again in another because the reviewer will already have read it.
2. First and second rounds are much better than third round, but neither first nor second is better than the other. Not helpful to me, but perhaps to somebody else.
Rats, I can’t remember much else right now. I’m sure it will come back to me as I continue working on the application. All I remember off the top of my head (which is quite full of the day’s work at the moment) is that there wasn’t a ton of new information, but there were 3-4 things that will change how I write my essays, and that was enough value to spend two hours there.
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