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...academic pressures do lead many B-School students into trouble, said Leopold. In any given year, she said, 20-40 percent of a class may "hit the screen", which is B-School lingo for encountering academic troubles. Of this group, Leopold said that some continue at the school, while others are advised to leave...
Deirdre Leopold, associate director of admissions at the B-School, said that students were rarely accepted straight out of college and that aspiring students of business would be better off applying with two or more years of work experience on their resumes...
...There are zero direct admits in the first-year class at the Business School," Leopold said. The B-School annually admits 850 applicants...
Besides explaining the B-School admission's policy, panelists described the school's case-oriented method of teaching. Harvard Business School is one of only two schools in the United States exclusively using the case-study method in its classrooms...
Leopold stressed that B-School students must cooperate with each other in order to succeed in class, and that the school is much less competitive than is generally perceived...