It looks like the criteria for getting a top-notch MBA has gone down.

The WSJ reports that Harvard is the latest B-school to adopt a program called “2+2″ which allows undergrads to win a spot in the MBA program when they’re still sucking their thumbs in junior year. Up to 90 students, or 10% of the future class of 2013 of HBS, will be accepted from these ranks.

Google and other employers are working with Harvard to develop 2-year long stints for these 2+2ers to do in between schooling. Though UT Austin’s B-school has been offering a similar program (3 years instead of 2) for years, but future grads of Wharton, don’t hold your breath — the head of admissions there doesn’t seem in much support of the plan.

Bizarrely, the advocates of the program say that the measure will help attract a more diverse group of people to business, including drawing more women. While I can see the argument for why this would attract more women (if less work experience is required, then women can attend sooner, which is anecdotally what I hear as a reason for why there are more women in law school), I don’t quite understand how limiting work experience to 2 years and funneling undergrads who have no clue what they want to do directly into B-school will provide a better group of students. In fact, I think the students who are likely to apply to this program are precisely the risk-averse, programmatic type of students that make the business field already too homogeneous.