Harvard Business students undergraduate schools

Hello Monkeys,
I'm jumping off my regular Q&A Forum to post a link about "feeder schools" to top business schools. I know that Poets & Quants has done an excellent job aggregating the top feeder schools, but I do want people to know that a lot of it is a function of from where students apply.

I hope the link of the HBS class of 2014 below is encouraging -- who knew there were students from the University of Macau? LSU? Cal Poly, Bard?

http://www.hbs.edu/mba/admissions/admission-requirements/Pages/undergraduate-institutions.aspx

I cannot find Stanford GSB, but I have personally worked with students from a range of students there -- sure a lot are from glam schools, but I recall a few from state and state-like schools -- Cal State Long Beach, Oregon State, Texas Tech....

So if you are worried that your undergraduate school puts you at a disadvantage, as long as you did well there, you should be fine.

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It's just one year -- so if you think hard, you can probably come up with a perfectly decent school that doesn't have a representative in the class of 2014. One that comes to mind is UC Davis, one of the better schools in the UC system, and I know for a fact a member of the class of 2014 at Stanford went there,and I am sure you can think of some smaller schools like Grinnell or Bucknell that just didn't show up this time.

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Betsy MassarIt's just one year -- so if you think hard, you can probably come up with a perfectly decent school that doesn't have a representative in the class of 2014. One that comes to mind is UC Davis, one of the better schools in the UC system, and I know for a fact a member of the class of 2014 at Stanford went there,and I am sure you can think of some smaller schools like Grinnell or Bucknell that just didn't show up this time.

Betsy, since we are on the question of HBS admissions, I have a personal question to ask you.

It seems like conventional wisdom that HBS/Stanford are trending younger, and targeting people with 3-5 years of W/E and assuming most people graduate college at 22, competitive applicants will be in the 25-27 age range.

My question is, is it really the age that they are looking into, or post-college W/E. I'm asking because I started college late, and I will graduate when I am 24/25.

Anyways, good to see schools similar to mine in that list. Keeps my hopes of getting into a top B-School alive.

 
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JamesHetfield

Betsy, since we are on the question of HBS admissions, I have a personal question to ask you.

It seems like conventional wisdom that HBS/Stanford are trending younger, and targeting people with 3-5 years of W/E and assuming most people graduate college at 22, competitive applicants will be in the 25-27 age range.

My question is, is it really the age that they are looking into, or post-college W/E. I'm asking because I started college late, and I will graduate when I am 24/25.

Anyways, good to see schools similar to mine in that list. Keeps my hopes of getting into a top B-School alive.

Actually, the numbers are not trending younger. Come over to my Q&A thread and I will answer in more detail. Don't want to hijack this thread.

OH and for those who are looking for the Poets & Quants feeder schools articles, here's the HBS one

http://poetsandquants.com/2011/08/15/top-feeder-colleges-to-harvard-bus…

Please note that the data is not perfect, and it simply shows that there are a lot of people applying from these "feeder" schools too.

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LinkedIn and Facebook, but they don't have the full sample, usually. Hence, errors.

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