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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