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The dearth of mirth
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A Talk with Harvard's Admissions Director Brit Dewey, along with second-year student Deana Menkes, with advice on how to present yourself in the application process Harvard Business School (No. 3 in BusinessWeek's latest B-school rankings) received a record-breaking 10,382 applications for the current first-year class. Admissions director Brit Dewey -- an HBS alumna herself, class of '96 -- had to sift through that huge pile to put together the Class of '04. She and second-year student Deana Menkes recently spoke with BusinessWeek Online management-education reporter Brian Hindo about what Harvard is looking for in MBA applicants. Following are edited excerpts of their conversation: Q: Harvard Business School applicants must submit their applications online. When you receive an application, how is it evaluated? What gets looked at first, and by whom? Dewey: The application has several components -- transcripts, recommendations, essays, the résumé, the description of work experience, outside activities. All of that is in the application, so it's reviewed by a member of the admissions board. It gets reviewed again by another member of the admissions board. Then, for the strongest candidates, the evaluation process can include an interview. We take [the interview] into account and make the final decision based upon all the information that we have from each of the reviews. Q: Is there a specific process, or are members of the admission board able to vary the ways in which they review people? Dewey: People have different styles. But what we're trying to do is look at all the information in the application in order to get a strong sense of who the candidate is and the strength of that candidate on three things. The first is academic ability. We look at transcripts, the Graduate Management Admissions Test (GMAT), rigor of work experience, and the Test of English as a Foreign Language (TOEFL), if applicable. Second, we try to assess the strength of a candidate's leadership experience. That can be from outside of work, in informal or formal roles. The third criterion is your personal qualities and characteristics. Q: And that comes out in the interview? Dewey: From essays, recommendations, through the applicant's voice, perspective, and insights. Also from the interview, if we do one. Q: HBS interviews all admitted candidates, with the help of about 80 alumni interviewers. Do you have sense of how much of your applicant pool gets interviewed? Dewey: We don't have a target for how many people to interview each year. So it really depends on the quality of the applications.
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Title: The dearth of mirth
Words: 2065
Rating: None
Pages: 8.3
submitted by: offline69
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