I am proud to say that I was one of the firsts to join the HBS Class of 2012 Facebook group, and I immediately began stalking my soon-to-be classmates. I’ve always known how HBS seeks to diversify their classes tremendously, but from the first 50 members, I’ve already encountered people from Pakistan, China, Ireland, Columbia, and other countries across the globe. After about 65 members joined, I began noticing ages ranging from 21 (the fresh-out-of-college newbies) to 28. There was a married guy (I’m sure there will be more), people with medical, engineering, law, and hospitality (me!) degrees, and the prerequisite bankers and consultants galore.
Something worth mentioning: during my business school research, I noticed that HBS seems to admit more “military/army” people than other b-schools. As of today, the FB group has 122 members, and from my cursory count, I’ve already seen 6, which is just under 5% of those of us in the FB group. Not trying to draw any sort of deductions or calculate with any misleading/arbitrary statistics, but my theory is already proven. Since I don’t know any military/army guys, this will be an awesome chance to learn from them and to understand their style of leadership.
Already, I am loving the way the class is shaping up, and I absolutely cannot wait to start meeting people. As a matter of fact, on the Discussion Boards on the HBS Prematriculation website (I’ll update you all on what that’s about on a later post), a discussion has started about organizing a get-together for all NYC-area admits in January. Really looking forward to it.
Well, it’s late, and I’m signing off. Be back soon. Happy Holidays to all.
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