Message to All Round One Candidates:
How do we notify candidates of admissions decisions? Everybody will find out in the same way at the same time — on line on January 16. We try to do this around noon . . . but we're sure it will be some time during business hours.
Phone calls? No one will be notified via a phone call from the Admissions Office — either before or on January 16. That's a promise. If anyone gets a call like this, I'd like to hear about it!!
Admitted candidates will begin to receive congratulatory phone calls from several HBS sources beginning in the afternoon or evening of January 16.
We are unable to provide individual feedback for candidates who are denied admission. There are basically two reasons for this — one is that we don't have the staff resources to devote to this and the second is that we're not sure that this would really be helpful to a candidate. The majority of applicants to HBS are certainly "qualified" — but the nature of a selection process is to assess a candidate relative to the rest of the pool on a variety of dimensions. Trying to capture this in a conversation about an individual application can be misleading. We do consider ourselves to be a "re-applicant friendly" process — all applications in a given season are read without regard to the disposition of a case in prior years.
