The Sting of the Ding

Top 25 Business Schools That Ding More Than 1,000 Applicants A Year

School	Number of Dings	Percentage Dinged
Harvard Business School	8,038	88%
Stanford Graduate School of Business	6,155	93%
Columbia Business School	5,602	84%
University of Pennsylvania (Wharton)	5,218	81%
Northwestern University (Kellogg)	3,979	80%
MIT (Sloan)	3,906	87%
New York University (Stern)	3,798	86%
University of Chicago (Booth)	3,252	78%
UC-Berkeley (Haas)	3,031	88%
Duke (Fuqua)	2,554	74%
Yale School of Management	2,287	81%
Dartmouth College (Tuck)	2,250	82%
University of Michigan (Ross)	1,992	68%
UC-Los Angeles (Anderson)	1,936	71%
University of Virginia (Darden)	1,702	75%
University of Texas-Austin (McCombs)	1,690	75%
USC (Marshall)	1,333	73%
Cornell University (Johnson)	1,307	73%
Carnegie Mellon (Tepper)	1,173	76%
UNC-Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler)	1,066	62%

Source: Business schools reporting to Bloomberg BusinessWeek

Data is for applicants to the class that entered in the fall of 2011.

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