Around 11% of the roughly 10,000 students who apply to Harvard Business School get in each year.
Those are intimidating odds for the roughly 10,000 students who apply to Harvard Business School each year.
"At the risk of sounding overly dramatic, the essays are the windows into your soul," said Patrick Mullane, the executive director of Harvard Business School Online and an HBS graduate.
She added to these credentials by working for two years on Wall Street as a precursor to her business school application.
"As with most successes in life, luck weighs heavily on why anyone is admitted to Harvard Business School, which should keep us all very grounded and humble," she added.