MBA DecisionWire

alexbr4: IB investment banking, IM investment management

Anonymous: I strongly encourage you to consider where you want to live after school. If you want to be in New York, go to Columbia, or you'll be spending all your time and money flying there for networking. When I was considering Columbia, multiple current students all urged me to think about this, even suggesting I should go elsewhere because I did not want to land in NYC.

Anonymous: what's the meaning of IM / IB? Thank you!

anon: where do u think u fell short?

Anonymous: why so late? And why HBS over GSB?

Anonymous: Heheh i go to stern so I'm not bitter about Cornell but I would advocate choosing NYC over Evanston lol

@anon_below: Don't be bitter for loosing your Cornell buddy

Anonymous: How bad is Kellogg's yield that they're taking people so late from the waitlist?? they poached 1 fellow from cornell recently too.

Anon: Fantastic choice, from a fantastic set of choices! Congrats!

Anonymous: Another loss for Booth to Kellogg

Anonymous: Good. Chicago sucks.

Anonymous: Sloan it up! Congrats!

Anon: Down to the wire! Congrats!!

Anonymous: I see what you mean. Congrats. All the very best.

Anonymous: Whaaaat?!

Anonymous: Great choice! Good luck

Anonymous: Never heard of these programs

Anon: I would think RSM has the edge, but I'd check the two programs career placement stats.

Anonymous: you must have lot of $$$ to throw away to bother applying to some of these schools

Anonymous: I work for a consulting agency. The people I know are clients.

Anonymous: you know lots of unqualified people then. get better friends

Anonymous: I know around 10 people who applied to Oxford round 5. None got in. Only 2 got waitlisted and now they have been rejected. 1 got an email saying he was offered admission for 2018-2019 but nobody wants to wait the extra year.

Anonymous: Congrats, no summer internship but cbs has a well established in-semester internship for those who aren't making a drastic career change.

Anonymous: Hi can you share your timeline?

Anonymous: hope you don't need an internship because not going to happen w/j term

anon: this was a fairly obvious choice, good call

OP: Zero

Anonymous: Any scholarships from Ross?

Anonymous: Completely fair enough, it's a great place, good luck!

OP: Mixture of strength in regards to social entrepreneurship and just my dream of attending oxford.

Anonymous: Oxford has the best reputation in terms of undergrad though in the context of an MBA surprising you didn't go for LBS or INSEAD who are far stronger (overall) - can't speak for respective strength of each in terms of social entrepreneurship though so sure you've thought through and made the right choice for you!

OP: Not a fan of California.

Anonymous: Why duke over Berkeley?

OP: A few weeks ago. I was waiting to see if I could get off the waitlist for Oxford and Cambridge. I got off the waitlist for Cambridge and was told that 99% I’m rejected from Oxford. After careful though, I went for Duke.

op: I didnt say I am not interested. I am already an entrepreneur but my short term goal is not entrepreneurship it is a long term goal. I havent decided between whu and rsm.

Enidan3: Where did you end up?

Anonymous: Well if you're not interested in starting a business, why'd you put entrepreneurship as your post-Mba career mate? Hope you didn't confuse the Adcom like you did us. Good luck wherever you end up.

OP: @JC My friend is in the exact situation but he didn’t want to wait until 2018 so he went to Cornell.

Anonymous: That's really rude to call OP mental for picking Oxford. Unwarranted; it's a good school!

JC: @OP - is your friend in a similar position? @Anon - Ah I see, yes I have decided to enrol in 2018. I was waitlisted on Judge but was not given an offer. Given an offer with $ for Melbourne Business but decided on waiting for Saïd instead.

Anonymous: 15k from INSEAD? they dont give scholarships out ever...

Anonymous: Have to agree with below, absolutely a difference in reputation, but good luck, everyone has there own priorities

Anonymous: @OP There definitely is a difference in prestige in favor of INSEAD. Don't get me wrong, IESE is a good school and Barcelona a great city to live in but INSEAD/LBS are the 2 best schools in Europe and the school stays with you for the remainder of your career.

Anonymous: Congrats!

Anonymous: Did you have any deposits down @ other programs?

Anonymous: Cambridge is the best choice out of the bunch.

Anonymous: That is because Asians are smart. They realize the power of superbrands. Superbrand>Ranking in business world (entrepreneurship).