A Debrief Of My Harvard Business School Interview

After my interview I had a tour of the Harvard i-lab, faculty-led lunch, student-run campus tour, and finally a coffee chat with current students. I will say that the i-lab was really cool, and though I have seen other implementations done at various institutions and cities, this one was unique. They had a current student get up and share their start-up experience leveraging the vast resources of the university to accelerate the product from idea to true viability while in school.

If admitted, I can see myself becoming immersed in that environment.

By the end of the day I was exhausted, but had a fantastic idea of what HBS was about. I’m not going to lie, I wasn’t sure what the people would be like at an Ivy league – much less the preeminent business school in the world. I was however happy to find that the students and faculty were warm, very intelligent, but ultimately normal people who share a common drive to learn through each other. In my application process I kind of only applied to HBS because of the brand-name, but I can definitely say I am sold on the idea of attending. I can truly see myself at this institution come next fall. In fact, I really want to be there. I just need to invest in better winter clothing.

GrantMeAdmission is a young corporate (Fortune 50) finance guy for a Fortune 50 company who blogs at GrantMeAdmission!  A graduate of a leadership rotation program, he’s dreamed of going to a top MBA program and has structured his life to support that journey (making plenty of mistakes along the way). After graduating from a college in California and working for two years, he found transferred to the East Coast so he could visit schools and complete his research. He applied to one school (Tuck at Dartmouth College) and was wait listed for five agonizing months. The process totally caught him off guard, leaving him dazed and confused. 

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