首先，非常謝謝HAO版主熱心專業的花時間教導我，讓我更了解PTT版上的規則和精神。根 據版主的建議，我在這裡直接回答版友對我文章的發問，來提供對申請者更有幫助的訊息 。因小弟的無知而造成大家的困擾，請各位見諒！ Moloch - 謝謝你的發問！我一時沒時間確認實際進入所有學校的人數。但就M7而言，我 們總共有17位台灣客戶錄取。除了我們客戶以外，根據客戶們收到的各M7學校錄取歡迎郵 件上人數統計，應該還有7-8個台灣申請者上M7，所以總共大約是24-25人錄取M7.這應該 是個大家可以感到樂觀的數據！ Ben Affleck – Don't worry; I won't tell you to "Argo f__ yourself", hahaha! Thank you for your inquiry. Regarding the Wharton interview, it was definitely one of the most challenging parts of the admissions process this year. The Wharton interviewees were assigned to groups of six people and each group was asked to discuss a specific topic. For R2, the topic asked the group to help Wharton decide how to invest a US$1 million alum donation to promote global reach, social impact or innovation. For R1, each group was asked to discuss either 1) what is the most important skill that a leader should have, or 2) what is the one social area that the business community can do a better job of supporting. Each of the six applicants in the group had one minute to present his/her idea, and once everyone finished presenting the ideas, the group engaged in an open discussion for 30-45 minutes. For the group interview, the Wharton adcom evaluated applicants according to the following five dimensions: 1) Encourages ideas and contributions from others members 2) Contributes a powerful idea that is generally accepted by the group 3) Facilitates dialogue among team members so that all fully contribute 4) Values contributions from others on the group 5) Strong interpersonal and communication skills Most of the Taiwanese Wharton applicants did their group interviews in Shanghai, and some did theirs in Singapore. But, because Wharton did not organize the timing of their interview invites very well, two Taiwanese applicants ended up not doing a group interview at all, but instead did one-on-one Skype interviews with a Wharton adcom. For these one-on-one interviews, Wharton adopted the same behavioral interview format and content that they used last year and the year before. It did not hurt the admissions chances of these two applicants – they both were accepted! In terms of HBS, the interview itself was similar to the interviews that they had conducted in the past years – non-blind interview with an adcom, and no alum interviews. But, the new challenge this year was that after the interview, applicants needed to submit a “post-interview reflection” essay within 24 hours that constituted the “last word” of the applicant in his or her “campaign” to get into HBS. We spoke with HBS admissions director Dee Leopold earlier in the application season, and she emphasized to us that she absolutely, positively did NOT want to see post-interview reflection essays that clearly were written before the interview itself; instead, the essay needed to be based largely on what actually happened during the interview and why the applicant thought he/she should be admitted to HBS based on what happened in the interview. According to Dee, she wants the entire HBS application process to simulate the real business world, and in the real business world, after you make a presentation to an important client, you would need to follow up with a quick but effective email within 24 hours of the presentation to “close the deal”. Along the same line, HBS significantly shortened their essay requirements this year because they feel that in the real business world, people do not write pages after pages of formal essays, but instead need to communicate and close deals with much shorter writing. Therefore, the challenge for HBS applicants was to figure out how to present his or her “greatest hits” within such a limited space in the application. All in all, HBS required only 800 total words in two essays in their application, and most of our successful HBS applicants (both in Taiwan and across the world) wrote 400-600 words for their post-interview essay (HBS did not specify a word limit for that essay). As for MIT, their change this year was less drastic, since other schools already had the video option in their applications in previous years. Out of our approximately 25 MIT clients across the world who got into MIT this year, only three decided to do a video, so it really wasn’t a big change. If you’ re interested, I would be happy to ask one of my clients who did a video to see if he’s willing to share this work, so let me know! As for the profiles of all our admittees from Taiwan to top schools, you're correct that due to NDA concerns, I do not feel comfortable disclosing specific aspects of their backgrounds – especially in a community as small as Taiwan, people tend to figure out who they are very quickly! But, I certainly would be happy to ask them to come forward and share their experiences in more detail as long as they feel comfortable doing so, so stay tuned! I know that interest in these “superstar” applicants is always high. What I can disclose right now is this: contrary to the popular belief that you need to work in certain specific industries or companies to get into the very top schools, especially Stanford/Harvard/Wharton, the admittees from Taiwan this year had very diverse backgrounds – marketing, finance, consulting, tech, healthcare, real estate, and entrepreneurship are just a few of the industries that had applicants get into M7 schools this year, and even many who got into Stanford/Harvard/Wharton had very different backgrounds. So, one thing I definitely want to emphasize to future applicants to these top schools is, do NOT feel that certain schools are out of your reach just because you don’t work for certain prestigious companies! Hope this answers all your questions! Thanks to everyone for your continued interest in CA. Please do not hesitate to contact me if you want to learn more details about any of the issues I've addressed. Best, Kevin --------------------------------- Kevin Chen [email protected] Senior Admissions Counselor, Clear Admit LLC (http://www.clearadmit.com/) Stanford Graduate School of Business, class of 2005 Harvard Kennedy School of Government, class of 2000 Princeton University, class of 1994 Previous work experiences: McKinsey; NBA; Reuters --

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