"... One thing’s for sure: He had plenty of disappointed company when Harvard Business School turned down people on Oct. 1 (see These Extraordinary MBA Applicants Were Just Rejected By Harvard for more profiles of dinged applicants with analysis on why they failed to make the cut). Last year, Harvard dinged more than 8,100 of its 9,228 applicants to put together an incoming class of 938 MBA students this fall. That means 88% of an already self-selecting pool of applicants to HBS gets rejected." ...
https://www.forbes.com/sites/poetsandquants/2019/10/10/who-gets-rejected-by-harvard-business-school-meet-some-of-last-weeks-disappointed-applicants/#4298b5093772
https://www.forbes.com/sites/poetsandquants/2019/10/10/who-gets-rejected-by-harvard-business-school-meet-some-of-last-weeks-disappointed-applicants/#4298b5093772