| Round One Deadline Sep 10th 2013, 17:30 We're less than a week away from the Round One application deadline. For all of you working hard to get things ready, I'll try to say helpful things here. TECHNICAL STUFF - We've posted some technical FAQs already. We think we're on top of things and are responding quickly to your questions. Remember, the email is slatesupport@hbs.edu.
- We will be responding to emails over the weekend.
- Phone coverage will also be available over the weekend during the following times:
- Saturday, September 14 – 12noon-2:00pm ET
- Sunday, September 15 – 3:00-6:00pm ET
NON-TECHNICAL STUFF - This may not be easy to hear, but it's true: Writing this (optional) essay is not a tightrope walk. One false move (i.e. only discussing professional things, only discussing personal things, only talking about things that happened recently, only talking about things that happened long ago, etc., etc., etc.) is not going to have you "fall". It just doesn't work like that. I know that this question is being experienced by many of you as very ambiguous. But, seriously, it's ambiguous in a good way, not in a "gotcha" way. Maybe you would have preferred fill-in-the-blank responses or questions we've used in the past so you can search for "successful" essays (which are really not going to have any relevance to you), but that just isn't going to happen and that's a good thing for you. Read the essay prompt slowly a couple of times. Your "blink" response is, in my opinion, what should guide you. Write it down. Read it out loud to see if it makes sense. Edit it for spelling errors. Move on.
- Recommendations: This is kind of housekeeping vs. substantive. Encourage your recommenders to submit before Monday. It's not mission-critical, but it will probably make for a somewhat better weekend for you. If recommenders are having trouble getting in gear on Monday by noon, we're ready for it. We will keep the system open a while longer for them.
- The fill-in-the-blank stuff on the application: I know it's hard for every single scenario to be captured in the format presented. Try not to worry too much about what-to-fit-where-when-it's-not-exactly-what-you-want-to-tell-us. I mean school majors, extra-curriculars, employment roles and timelines. We'll figure it out from your resume and if we can't, we'll contact you.
Onward. Good luck. |  |
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