MBB have always been feeder companies to M7 but I'm curious what the acceptance rates are to HSW these days. I saw a comment on reddit saying BCG had a 64% admission rate to HBS, but this was a few years ago and bschools have been accepting from more diverse backgrounds so wondering if this would still hold up.
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less of a pipeline than it used to be to HSW, but still pretty fucking good. 64% may be a bit of a exaggeration, but it's not going to be that much worse. M7 is a near lock as long as u put some effort into ur app and get decent scores
I legitimately think HSW is still very very very likely. I have NEVER seen anyone from my target school not attend H/S from MBB.
I went to a non H/S M7 and we had a decent amount of MBB people
Lol 64% is outrageous and definitely not true. Stanford GSB has a 6.1% acceptance rate. Let's pretend that MBB increases your odds by 3x, that's a 18.3% acceptance rate, which sounds far more realistic, and is pretty damn good. The reason I say this is because there are plenty of former MBB people who go to Booth, Kellogg which clearly means that it isn't a 64% lock for HSW.
That number is way higher than the actual reality -- it's way less than 64%. You have to remember that a ton of MBB people go to non H/S/W MBA programs. You also have to remember that many don't get into H/S/W despite trying to, and so they just decide not to get an MBA.
The vast majority who are admitted to H/S/W are just admitted to W. There's a reason H/S are a different tier. Many from MBB will end up at Wharton without doing much other than performing average at MBB. The very top performers or most interesting people from MBB end up at Harvard and Stanford GSB.
Saw this somewhere else and I tweaked it a bit but thought it was a wonderful summary that aligns with what I see:
Wharton is not uncommon at all for those with a 3.6/730+ (pretty average for MBB) and 2-3 years of work experience at time of application (so 3-4 at matriculation). People end up here more than at any other school and generally EC's don't need to be anything special at all.
HBS tends to take those who are super active in the office (recruiting, affinity groups, volunteering, etc) and spend their time building up some extracurriculars. Good stats are a given.
Stanford GSB is a lot less clear and definitely the hardest. Outside of URM's, it seems quite uncommon for someone to go directly from MBB to GSB if they're from the US (but it's more common for international MBB applicants). Domestic applicants typically do something interesting for 1-2 years post-MBB before matriculating to Stanford. This is just a crazy selective school.
the only companies where you have anywhere close to 64% odds of getting into HSW is one of the Tiger Cubs, or one of the top 3 VC firms, being a former NBA player etc. I would be shocked if MBB comes anywhere close to that number.
Not true, Wharton is pretty safe bet/target for a lot of people at MBB. H/S are obviously a different level.
While the above posters make valid points, remember that this figure most likely includes international offices for whom it is relatively easier to place in HSW (fewer people interested in MBAs or going to local programs instead, bringing internationals helps raise the profile of the school so they try to have a certain number each year), which might explain the discrepancy with what is reported by BCG.
A lot of dumb responses above. Put it to you this way - at my non-HSW M7, the only people there that were from MBB were from random international offices. Literally not a single person from a US MBB office. I’m assuming this is because they all got into somewhere better.
You can go to the firm’s website and search the school and it will pop up a page with all their people listed at that school. Search HSW then search the others and you tell me how likely it is to get into HSW (answer: very).
This is incredibly wrong. Unless you've worked at MBB, you shouldn't be answering this because you haven't seen the internal data.
Point out what is wrong or stfu. Pointless post
Just my experience but the 64% cannot be close to true. I wouldn't be surprised by 30-35% but not that much higher. I went to a target and know multiple people from my undergrad class at CBS, Booth, and Sloan who worked at MBB and had a GPA >3.7 (most >3.8).
I also know a handful at H/S but I know of more who went to Wharton than H and S combined. These are all very smart people. I'm sure there were a bunch more who only got into non-HSW or non-HS M7s and just decided not to get an MBA.
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