MBA Admissions during the COVID19 Coronavirus pandemic

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Today, HBS will release its Round 2 admissions decisions. Those who will get the email from Dillon House will have to grapple with decisions that no other generation of HBS students ever had to. Namely, what to do in the age of Cononavirus.

  • For those who get in, congratulations! Harvard Business School is a once-in a lifetime experience that has the power to alter the arcs of the lives of those who attend. Even if COVID pushes classes online for a period of time, HBS is world class in its technology and little of the experience will be lost in translation. I've been taking the new alumni-only online class "COVID-19 as a Novel Event and Risk Management Framework" and though there have been thousands of participants on each session, each has gone without a hitch.

  • For those who get the ding, don't let the perfect become the enemy of the good. Business school attendance is counter cyclical and an MBA program is a great place to hunker-down career-wise as the effects of COVID19 ripple through the economy. In times like this, the advice we are giving our clients is "any port in a storm." If you get another M7 offer, congratulate yourself, take it, and don't look back.

  • For those who end up on the waitlist, fret not. If you mount an effective waitlist campaign there is still a very good chance you can be admitted to HBS! Check out these posts we've written to help you mount an effective waitlist campaign and turn that waitlist notice into an offer of admission.