Will Ballers get in to HBS again?

Not trying to be political - but the HBS demographic shifted pretty evidently for some time and consider shifts in policy as of late, it seems to be shifting back towards where it used to be. It seems like HBS outside of McKinsey consultants and top PE bros was full of ballers who had hundreds of thousands to blow from around the world and 2 years to network, party, and kick it. Wondering for those of you going / who are there, do you see this? An older cousin of mine who went in the early 2000s just partied for 2 years and made friends that he does business with till this day, but he had a pretty non traditional impressive career path.

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