"Harvard Business School’s MBA application rate declined by roughly 6 percent in this year’s application cycle, reflecting a decline in application rates visible at business schools nationwide.
Harvard Business School received 9,228 applications in the 2018-2019 cycle, compared to 9,886 applications during the 2017-2018 cycle.
Chad Losee, the admissions director at the business school, attributed the decline in application rates to a change in the school’s admissions policy in a blog post earlier this fall. The Business School held two rounds of applications during the past admissions cycle, compared to three rounds of applications in previous years.
Losee wrote that the Business School received 9,335 applications in 2017-2018 if the third round admissions cycle was excluded from the data." …
https://www.thecrimson.com/article/2019/10/30/business-school-applications-decline/