Today the Wall Street Journal published an article around the mix of students that make up the newest Harvard Business School class, the class of 2013, and comparing it with prior years. Typically the bulk of accepted HBS students come from finance backgrounds (private equity, banking, venture capital), but this year the school has accepted more students with manufacturing and technology backgrounds. Another change in this latest HBS class of 2013: more women. 39% are female — HBS’ highest percentage ever. If you’re curious, this compares to 45% (up from 40% last year) women that make up University of Pennsylvania’s Wharton School.

25% of the 919 students in the class of 2013’s 919 students have finance backgrounds, down from 32% last year. The WSJ article cites an admissions consultant (founder of HBSGuru.com) experience, explaining how many of his clients this year with finance backgrounds were not accepted and he believes they would have been in prior years. He suggests that the institution is changing its desired mix of students, but HBS’ stance is of course that, “We don’t run with quotas or targets … We drive towards what they can contribute to the overall learning.”