Harvard Business School just published its class of 2013 class profile, showing a few constants and some interesting changes. This year, the HBS class is made up of 39 percent women, up three points from last year — a record year for the school. U.S. ethnic minorities and international students have remained the same at 23% and 34% respectively, although only 68 countries are represented, compared with 73 last year. GMAT scores this year had a wide range from 490 to 790, with a median score of 730 – so the GMAT average is up, but the range has widened (giving hope to all!) Notably, HBS received almost 400 fewer applications, although the class size remains close to its traditional 900 at 907. And, it seems that HBS may be steering away from candidates with Humanities/Social Sciences backgrounds as the class of 2013 has only 21% of students with those undergraduate majors, compared to 43% in the class of 2012. Of course, with all of this data, candidates will start to fret about what they are or are not. Remember, there is no template or formula for getting into HBS.
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