<p>I just looked at the HBS 2+2 Class Profile for the class of 2014 on the HBS website. It shows that 6% of the 115 people admitted had a background in Business Administration. I found this somewhat interesting since the HBS FAQ also says the following:</p>
<p>"The 2+2 Program is primarily targeted towards students who are not already on a business track (i.e. students studying the liberal arts, sciences, engineering, etc.). If your current academic training and internship experiences put you on a solid foundation to advance in a business career, 2+2 may not be the right program for you. We encourage candidates with a strong track record of leadership and business exposure to consider applying as college seniors to our regular MBA Program."</p>
<p>So basically this means 6-7 people were admitted to HBS 2+2 WITH a background in Business Administration. Can someone please give me possible reasons why such people (who are directly opposite of the target applicant) may have been accepted? I guess there is an exception to every rule. Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Was there really a need to post this question for a 4th time? </p>
<p>I think you might be better off doing some individual research or possibly contacting an alum from your school who either was accepted into the 2+2 program or if not in the program at least attends HBS and knows someone in the program and can give you some insight.</p>
<p>You are asking WHY the admissions office chose to accept 6 people. I’m afraid no one can tell you that except the adcoms themselves, and clearly they felt that these people had other attributes that justified overlooking the fact that they were majoring in business (and they really don’t care if you have business internships, they even like it) the “business administration” piece just relates to major) - and I agree with roneald, posting this question 4 times is absurd. No one can tell you why THESE applicants were accepted, but I will say that 6/844 applicants is a very small number.</p>
<p>I only posted it 4 times because I wasn’t getting satisfactory answers (and I posted in different threads, with different people, to get a different take). Infact, 2plus2, you gave me an unsatisfactory answer and didn’t reply to my follow-up question…</p>
<p>Posting the same message four times is equivalent to a four year old poking their parents in traffic asking “When will we get there?” over and over. The answer (“I don’t know”) doesn’t change, but the repetition of it gets tedious, so eventually people stop answering.</p>
<p>I’m sorry you haven’t received satisfactory answers - admissions to HBS, or any school, is not a grid into which you fill in the blanks. There is no step-by-step process that will guarantee your admission, no set of numbers or job titles that will make you get in. That is the nature of holistic admissions. You are asking a question no one here can answer - WHY did these six specific people get admitted to HBS? The only people who can answer that sat on the admissions committee. I apologize that my answer was unsatisfactory to you, but I suggest that instead of focusing on why others did or did not get into HBS 2+2 and resenting the fact that people here (who are not obliged to answer you at all) have given you what you consider insufficient answers, you focus on making your own application the best it can be.</p>
<p>2plus2, the fallacies of your various arguments are too many. Moreover, you seem to have a tendency for distorting the truth and thus I will not go back and forth with you over this straight forward matter.</p>
<p>Nevertheless I do feel it is worth mentioning that I did not ask “WHY did these six specific people get admitted to HBS?” I asked for “possible reasons why such people (who are directly opposite of the target applicant) may have been accepted?” I wanted to know what kinds of things MAY have set these people apart and made them attractive to HBS 2+2 recruiters despite the fact that they are business majors. It is a shame that you could not read carefully since you are supposedly in the HBS 2+2 program.</p>
<p>OP quoted: “The 2+2 Program is PRIMARILY targeted towards students who are not already on a business track (i.e. students studying the liberal arts, sciences, engineering, etc.). If your current academic training and internship experiences put you on a solid foundation to advance in a business career, 2+2 MAY not be the right program for you.” emphasis added</p>
<p>My rumination is that the 6 folks that you are so concerned with fit into one or more of the following categories:
1- exceptions that prove the existence of the rule
2- folks with a BA background that didn’t rise to a “solid foundation to advance”
3 - the program preferences are not hard and fast rules
4- they had a connection</p>
<p>I’d guess that someone so concerned about parsing the essentially unknowable would have gone into theoretical physics?</p>
<p>epiclegend, I answer questions in this forum simply because I appreciated answers I received when I was applying. I will not engage you further as you are clearly looking for a fight/to debate things where there is essentially no right answer. Good luck with your application.</p>
<p>It’s truly amazing to me how rude you could possibly be to someone who is taking their own time to try and answer your questions. I have a question for you: My interviewer from Deloitte was a graduate of my school, and upon telling him that I was interested in the 2+2 program, he gave me the contact information of a friend of his who was accepted into the program if I had any questions. If you were put in a similar situation and he gave you what you deemed an “unsatisfactory answer”, would you go about conversing with him in the same manner and tone that you talk to 2plus2 with? If so, I can’t wait to see how well you network, and if not, I don’t understand why you are doing it here. Is it because your relation with 2plus2 has no implications on your professional life since you don’t personally know him? I’m glad to see you have so much character. </p>
<p>
</p>
<p>I’m sure the people who would have opened the thread “Harvard 2+2 Program” are completely different from those who would have opened the thread “Harvard 2+2”, and both of these groups of people are also completely different from the group of people who would have opened the thread “Harvard 2+2 program?”. </p>
<p>Thank god you made the thread “6% of 115 admits to HBS 2+2 have business background!” to encompass all of the people with knowledge of the 2+2 program that wouldn’t have clicked on any of those, but by your logic will undoubtedly click on this one. If I were a recruiter I would have accepted you into HBS based on this display of knowledge and critical thinking alone! </p>
<p>
</p>
<p>Oh really now? So you don’t want to know what things were actually done by students to get in with business majors, but rather what is in the sphere of possibilites that can get you in if you were a business major? My sincere apologies, if I had known that I would have answered your question on my own! Here are a few, if I think of more later I’ll let you know:
becoming CEO of Goldman Sachs while in college
finding a cure to cancer
becoming President of the United States
becoming the Chairman of the Fed
becoming the Dean of HBS
winning multiple Nobel Prizes
ending world hunger
solving the problem of scarcity
starting a new business school that ranks ahead of HBS (has to be USNews Rankings though)</p>
<p>Now, those are some things that a business major may do to set themselves apart and get accepted into the 2+2 program. </p>
<p>If this is not what you’re looking but are instead looking for examples of what students actually got into 2+2 with as business majors, you owe 2plus2 an apology. For someone to provide you with this information, they would either have to know a candidate who got in or know someone in admissions, because I know extremely well qualified people who were rejected with stellar resumes (started businesses, non-profits, interned at BB’s for 3 summers, you name it).</p>