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seems like this year APP volume is down a bit ;)
Im waiting to apply next year myself.
Yeah, app volume seems to be down. The businessweek MBA forum is a ghost town.
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I've heard applications are down this year. We'll have to wait to see what the round 1 numbers were from the top schools.
BW forum is totally dead. I remember two years ago the place was a mayhem.
BW forum will pick up substantially in a couple weeks when the wave of decisions are released on the first round. That said -- I do believe that apps will be down substantially this year, at least from IB / PE types. We're past the point in the recession where all the folks lost their jobs and decided to apply to b-school as a safe haven. Those who didn't get laid off tended to be the stronger of the bunch, many of which will elect to forego business school altogether. Maybe this is just wishful thinking on my part, but I suspect chances will be better this year than the last couple of years. That said, the hard numbers continue to creep up. I remember 3/4 years ago the quoted GMAT scores at HBS/GSB were closer to 710 than to today's 730. A 20 point jump doesn't seem large, but once you get into the 700s, this is huge.
i know stanford was that high but still though HBS was 715ish or so? and the rest of the crew generally 700-710
Compbanker – the gmat increase has been crazy, especially for the schools in the lower half of the top 15. The mean GMAT at Darden and Cornell was just 670 a few years ago and now it’s up to 700.
Admissions in 2007 – 2009 had to be historically difficult.
One active MBA forum is gmatclub but that place sucks. You have to filter through 100 asinine posts (Will I get dinged because I said I was VP of the finance club when I was only co-VP?) to find something insightful.
yeah ive noticed that too im wonderingif that is going to have some mean reversion over the next few years
I'm not so sure about that shorttheworld. I suspect that part of the reason for the increased # of applicants is the fact that you've got a ton of international applicants flooding the top schools and acing the heck out of the GMATs. Probably doesn't do me much good, but I wonder if I would have been a shoe-in to the likes of HBS / GSB five years ago. I feel pretty good about my profile, but I'd feel a heck of a lot better if this were 2005.
The military has started (or maybe they have been all along) offering free GMAT prep courses and encouraging more people to go/offering to pay for Bschool...something to factor in as well I suppose
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