Oxford / Saïd - 07-17-2017 | Clear Admit DecisionWire

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July 17, 2017 12:15am ET

Enrolled: Oxford / Saïd

Admitted: Boston College / Carroll , U. Chicago Booth , Carnegie Mellon / Tepper , Cornell / Johnson , IMD , Minnesota / Carlson , UCLA Anderson

Applied: Boston College / Carroll, U. Chicago Booth, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Cornell / Johnson, Emory / Goizueta, IMD, Minnesota / Carlson, UCLA Anderson

Entering Year: 2017

Post MBA Career: Entrepreneurship

GMAT: 720

GPA: 3.9

Location: United States

Notes:

1 year MBA and Oxford brand is appealing. Round 4 acceptance. Rumor is they got filled early this year and took virtually nobody afterwards. Can anyone confirm? Thanks. I am very fortunate in hindsight.

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Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 turning down tuck for oxford. wow. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Tuck is an OK bschool in an OK university. Said is a mediocre school in an awesome university, but the bet is that that it would become an OK school in an awesome university, I guess. Also, 1 year is pretty sweet, so I don't understand the wow-feeling at all. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Good luck getting a job w/1 yr degree from not highly regarded MBA program is all I'm saying (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Doesn't it trouble you OP that Oxford actively hides their employment reports? (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Dartmouth is definitely better than "OK"... (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Who cares? For all you know, he is helping his family run a multi billion empire. He obviously has his reasons where brand > job hunting. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 you figure a multi billion empire would get you into HBS (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Not looking for a job. I have my reasons to go for Oxford over Dartmouth. Nobody knows Dartmouth in my country. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 You mean the country of United States? (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 I am only in the U.S. temporarily. Will return to Asia afterwards. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Ahh I see. The typical not good enough for M7 schools but still want a brand name to brag to Asian folks syndrome. Sorry you're not a doctor (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 But I have way better connections than most people at M7 schools. Does that make me worse off? Lol. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Clearly your connections need some work or otherwise they would have gotten you into HBS. And you certainly wouldn't be wasting time applying to Wash U Olin if that was actually the case (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Ancestors Hear my plea Help me not to make a Fool of me - Mulan (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 If heading back to Asia Oxford a way better choice - Dartmouth is only ok in the US and unknown as a brand outside US (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Leaders like myself and my classmates at HBS did not need connections to get in - true grit, determination and vision are what set us apart - true leadership is not something that can be bred simply by exchanging business cards at a cocktail party (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 except in Asia where they are all about Ivies (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Not school connections..... (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 In that you guys are better than me, talking about leadership and that stuff. Was not arguing. I have no problem with getting groomed for a future partner role in the family real estate empire. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I agree. Just show me the money. I don’t care what school you went to but my mindset is that I am better until that “leader at HBS” surpasses my net worth. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 So your family has a real estate "empire" and you thought Wash U olin would give you credibility? Umm ok. (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Ever heard of a safety school? Lol (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 you would figure someone from a real estate empire would never go to wash u olin. good candidates have schools like kellogg as a safety. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 it's sad that your own family doesn't think you're smart enough (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I think OP is the protagonist of slum dog millionaire (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Sad or not, your path to success is a lot more arduous than mine. Good luck. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Lol at this tread. For what it’s worth, this HBS guy kept attacking OP for no reason. He got terribly owned at the end. Great leader hahahahahahhaaaaa (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I like how OP poses as other people. No one believes he is part of a real estate empire (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 This HBS is a huge troll. He posts everywhere and then pretends to be OP to screw around. Don’t believe anything. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 100% not actual HBS material. Probs cannot even get into the lowest ranked MBA. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 HBS guy(s) needs someone from Harvard medical school to check him out. Big mental issues (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 That person is not a HBS guy. Just a troll. Living in a cave in the mountains. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Lol at the previous comment. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 It's important to take the moment to laugh. It helps keeps things in perspective and appreciate the important things in life. That's what the case method prepares us for and that's what makes us future leaders (0)

JC Likes Earned: 0 Seems to be true. I applied in R5 and told that spots were all filled up. On the waitlist for 2017 with an offer to enrol in 2018. (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 Thank you JC. Ever since I posted trolls have struck nonstop, even pretending to be me. Good information wanted to know for a friend who also applied. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 JC, are you attending 2018? Same exact thing happened to me. I chose to go somewhere else instead of wait. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 This guy is seriously mental. (0)

JC Likes Earned: 0 @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. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 That's really rude to call OP mental for picking Oxford. Unwarranted; it's a good school! (0)

OP Likes Earned: 0 @JC My friend is in the exact situation but he didn’t want to wait until 2018 so he went to Cornell. (0)

anon15189 Likes Earned: 1 This thread us making me reevaluate my decision to pursue b-school (1)