Kellogg School of Management

Is there a thread dedicated to the 1Y Kellogg admits/applicants? I would like to see their profiles.

No clue about that club beyond bringing in lots of CEO's to speak. If you want to work on developing leadership, take a few of the MORS classes like Kramer's Managerial Leadership course and then just put yourself out there. Its not something you can learn on your own in your room if you arent a born leader, you need to go out and try to be one. B-school is a great place to do that no matter what the school, and dont be afraid to embarrass yourself or to fail.

No 1Y-specific threads for now as far as I know, but I'd be glad to answer any comments about it.

The vast majority of students live in downtown Evanston, within walking distance. Originally my wife and I were planning on living closer to chicago and split the commute but after DAK we realized that everyone living in Evanston is one of the greatest things about the school. Everyone talks about how it really adds to the closeness of the community, when you leave your apartment to do just about anything you are going to run into classmates...whether its going to the gym, shopping for groceries, or heading out to a bar to hang out with friends...there will be other students there.

You can ride the normal train and the commuter rail, everyone says the commuter train is much faster and the way to go if you are heading downtown. My wife will most likely end up working downtown and it seems very common for significant others to commute into the city and it is a pretty easy ride. The condo we are renting is only a few blocks from the train station, so my wife will have a five minute walk to the train and I will have a ten minute walk to campus...everything else like whole foods, the gym, and all the downtown spots are all within 5 to 10 minutes walk of many of the apartments.

I think most people can find their niche at any school the apply to. Out of 500+ classmates you will find plenty of people who you share a lot in common with. I personally didnt sit in on Kellogg classes or anything but still feel my why Kellogg essays were convincing (obviously they worked well enough to get me in). If you can visit during a normal class period then thats an advantage and can really tell about fit. Even then dont put too much into one class visit. I know my GSB visit the class I sat in on was miserable, students werent very engaged and most seemed lost, but that is going to be unusual and will happen at every school on occasion. The big thing is meeting people and see personalities. I must say during some visits at schools, students interacted but if you look you can spot differences.

Find out how different groups interact, what the overall feel is, when you meet students get a sense of not their hyping their school but how they really appear to be enjoying there time. Find out what students dislike about schools. I heard at some that students segregate themselves into their own demographics, some students complained about social life or lack there of, and others complained about silly things like terrible food at the school. Seeing what people dislike is often more enlightening than learning what they like.

TwinkleToes are you talking fulltime or part-time? Fulltime no classes are on weekends but its a 7 day a week life in many ways. You will definitely spend weekends socializing and doing group assignments. PT has evenings and weekend program, depending what works better for you. Start for fulltime is in the fall for everyone but the 1Y's who start in July but you need a business background for that program. Part time I honestly have no idea.

Transferring would probably be on a case by case basis but its only 2 years and programs are so competitive to get into I doubt that happens at all for most schools. If you are going to start you are going to want to plan on finishing and your husband may have to deal with it for a year.

Also Kellogg is extremely competitive to get into so if you want to start in 2010 you better get to work on your applications now.

BTW. PT is downtown not in Evanston if you are thinking of doing that program and they require you to work fulltime during it.

another spouse related question - what is the travel time between chicago booth and kellogg? I'm applying to kellogg and my husband is applying to both schools for a JD so assuming i get kellogg and he gets into univ of chicago, can we live at one school and have one person commute to the other or is the distance so significant that we'd have to live somewhere mid way?

thanks for the help!