Wharton received roughly 600 applications in R3, bringing their season’s total to 5,670 applications – just 1% below last year’s total. This is the first time in nearly three years that application volume has held relatively constant at Wharton (it had been slipping for the last two seasons at most top schools). Combining this bit of information with current GMAT volume (up 4.8% in January), it seems like the lean years of 2002-2004 are potentially a thing of the past. Of course, we’ll have to see what sort of volume the other schools report for this season before we can draw any broad conclusions.
Discussion rages on about the Harvard “119“. In addition to an AP article that offers a slightly different take (from the applicants’ perspective), it seems as though there are actually HBS 119 t-shirts now available to commemorate this story. Our favorite reads/discussions for today are as follows:
The Saga Continues
by Wharton-bound blogger Brit-Chick
http://blogs.law.harvard.edu/philg/
by an MIT professor (interesting take on software/hacking)
http://fluxt.org/wordpress/index.php?p=74
(critique of ApplyYourself software)
http://www.usatoday.com/news/education/2005-03-09-rejected-applicants_x.htm
(applicants speak out in USA Today)
http://forums.businessweek.com/bw-bschools/messages?msg=61983.167
(current HBS students weigh in on the BW forums…)
