AMA with the Founder of Harvard’s Deferred Program

Kerry Patriarca helped launch the HBS 2+2 Program during her six years on Harvard’s MBA Admissions Board, which gives her a rare view of how a committee evaluates applicants with no full-time work history yet. Most top programs now offer some version of deferred admission, and the questions applicants have tend to be specific: how much internships really count, what your first job choice signals, how to show leadership on a mostly college résumé. This is an open AMA, so the agenda is yours. Bring the question you haven’t found a straight answer to, whether it’s about HBS specifically or deferred admissions more broadly, and hear it answered by someone who has read thousands of applications from the other side of the table.