How closely correlated do you think results are across HBS and GSB apps? If dinged at HBS, still a shot at GSB or give up hope now?

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If got into HBS
Likely have <50% chance at Stanford

Just by acceptance volumes

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Was dinged from Harvard but got interview this week for Stanford R2, not sure how correlated they are.

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I imagine highly correlated, but independent events

GSB also interview 1in3
HBS is more like 1in2

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In the sense that having a high or low gmat score affects your interview chances?

But no they are independent probabilities

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Not very, because at HSW level it’s essentially a lottery.

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There’s about 100 cross admits a year. Vast majority 1400-1500 only get accepted to one of the two

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