Of the 35 round two rejected applicants who asked HBS Guru.com Founder Sandy Kreisberg for a ding analysis, 29 scored a 730 GMAT (the current median at Harvard Business School) or above and 15 of them hit a 750 or better. They hail from Ivy and Near-Ivy League schools, the best colleges in their home countries, graduated summa cum laude. They work for the likes of McKinsey, Bain, BCG, bulge bracket banks, IBM, GE, Raytheon and Microsoft.