This chart was published by HBS and official updated data (not in chart form) confirms it–if you apply this year and graduated college in 2004 or before, you got problems. Those 100 folks are mostly military, PHD’s and MD’s.
That view is confirmed by my own mock interviewing of 80 applicants for Round One, almost no one (but docs, mil, phds) got in who was class of 2004.
Read the full article: HBS and age–just for the record