ALSO OF INTEREST, HOW MANY APPS DOES AN HBS GRUNT ADCOM READ IN A DAY, ETC. GIVEN THE MATH REQ FROM DEE-DEE'S LAST BLOG ENTRY.
HOW MANY APPS A DAY DO HBS ADCOMS READ?????? POSTER SAYS 16, SK SAYS
PROB. MORE
[POSTER] I've done some rough calculation here...Let's say HBS has
received 4500 applications in R1 and 20 staffs to work on screening
for 8 hours per day, 7 days a week.Then, the Adcom needs to review
approximately 321 applications per day, which means 16 applications
per staff. In other words, each staff has to review 2 applications per
hour. If they could apply IF(AND(GMAT<650,GPA<3.0),"Fail","Pass"),
they could probably sort out some % of applications... Then, spend
few additional minutes to review "quality" appplications...?Hmm...
perhaps they are really operating under bankers' hours for these two weeks...?
reviewing 16 Applications per day is a piece of cake--my guess is,
they do more, maybe 20-25 a day, in some prelim way just to find
interview candidates. I also believe there are NOT 20 full time adcoms
involved in this, more like 15, since her Majesty and head handmaidens
over there got better things to do--believe it or not, one thing they
are doing right now is talking to 2+2 kids who got dinged, egging them
on to keep in touch etc. etc.
At Wharton, where they have student adcoms review applications, they
give em piles of 20 to do over a week-end, and these are PT employess
who ALSO have school work to keep up with.
Duh, I dont know what you think is so hard about reviewing an app. The
essays are 1800 wds long, and you soon get into a real fast glide path
of going thru part A. Recs can be read at about 4,000 wds per minute
and DUDE you get the idea. Sure, every once in a while you slow down
to figure something out, or scrutinize a transcript.
I do mock interview prep for HBS (ABOUT 150 A YEAR) and read the
app., and recs (if available) b4 the interview. Folks, I can do that
in an amount of time I am not going to admit to b.c. it would blow
your mind. (read the app, alas the actual interview takes an hour or
more) AND I DONT MISS A FRIGGIN THING. OK, I dont have to write up
anything,and if there is something that bothers me, well, I am going
to interview the kid and seek clalification, sooooooo, but still. The
real time sink in reading apps is not reading them, it is doing some
reqd prelim write up. The faster app readers are not nec. fast
readers, THEY ARE FAST TYPISTS. Another quality that separates the
chicks fr. the Hens in app reading is just what your stamina is--sure,
anyone can plow thru the first 5 apps of the day, real fast, but how
many then take a walk, or surf the net (just like you) or go over to
Spang for coffee as Her Maj notes, and then whoa!!!! IT is one hour
later!!!! Then you sit down to do five more, and gal in next carrel
pops over to read you hysterically stupid answer fr. her app pile
and you are both cracking up, and WHOA, another 30 minutes shot, and
JEEPERS it is time for lunch and you have read a total of 6 apps.
Kids, trust me, adcoms are reading this and saying THE GUY KNOWS, HE
DEEPLY KNOWS.