Harvard Enrolls A 510 GMAT Student

The consultant went on to explain that his client “landed one of the most coveted jobs in the world for a 22-year-old and then became the youngest person in the organization’s history to rise to a leadership position. One of his recommenders, a high profile HBS graduate, explained that the 570 GMAT Student was more responsible than anyone for securing a multi-billion dollar contract that found its way to the front page of The Wall Street Journal.  Along the way, the 570 GMAT student has earned more than 20,000 Twitter followers and been interviewed on CNN, CNBC, and podcasts for Freakonomics Radio, where we met.”

The morale of the story: You got to have a lot going for you to get into Harvard Business School with a 510 GMAT, possibly even more than the 570 who got in last year. The new low presumably surfaced after the preliminary reveal of stats because he or she could have been wait listed and was invited later in the admissions cycle.

Otherwise, most of Harvard’s final class profile for the Class of 2016 was pretty much what the school released in early June, with just a few slight tweaks (see Sneak Peak At Harvard Business School’s Class of 2016). Besides the new low GMAT score, the other big change was the number of international colleges where enrolled students got their undergraduate degrees. That stat went up to 143 from 119, while the number of domestic universities fell to 139 from the preliminary 141 number. The number of countries represented in the new class is now 73, up from 72.

HARVARD’S YIELD FELL A PERCENTAGE POINT FROM THE PRELIMINARY NUMBERS TO 89%

Yield—the percentage of admitted students who enroll—fell by a point to 89% from 90% during the “sneak peek” of Harvard’s numbers. Leopold had said that she expected to enroll between 930 and 939 students. The exact number turns out to be 936. The school’s avceptance rate remained the same 12% for the 9,543 people in the applicant pool last year.

There also was a tiny change in the undergraduate backgrounds of the class. Some 40%, rather than 39%, have STEM (Science, Technology, Engineering and Math) degrees. The one percentage difference was taken from the economics and business majors who slipped to 41% from 42% in the preliminary stats.

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