{"id":23831,"date":"2014-05-13T13:42:57","date_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:42:57","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=23831"},"modified":"2014-05-13T13:42:57","modified_gmt":"2014-05-13T20:42:57","slug":"weighting-your-needs-and-wants-in-an-mba-program","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/weighting-your-needs-and-wants-in-an-mba-program\/","title":{"rendered":"Weighting Your Needs and Wants in an MBA Program"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"hanging-scale\"<\/a>\u201cWeighting Your Needs and Wants\u201d is excerpted from the Accepted.com special report, <\/em>Best MBA Programs: A Guide to Selecting the Right One<\/a>. To download the entire free special report, <\/i>click here<\/a>. <\/i><\/p>\n

A little more work is needed on the needs and wants issue<\/a>. It will be helpful to weight them\u2014though not rigidly. Simply, understanding the importance of a given factor will save you time up front by not considering schools that don\u2019t meet your core needs. It will also help to uncover any contradictions that you might need to resolve (e.g., prefer to attend schools in the southeast, but also want to be near boyfriend in Boston).<\/p>\n

For each of the wants\/needs you\u2019ve identified, assign one of the following categories:<\/p>\n

Essential<\/strong> \u2013 This category applies to things that you must have no matter what \u2013 without them, you can\u2019t attend a program. If you are making a career change<\/a> into marketing, you need a program with strong marketing curriculum and recruiting. Period.<\/p>\n

Very<\/strong> important<\/strong> \u2013 This category applies to the things that are highly important to you, but are not \u201cmust-haves\u201d like those above. Things that you would consider compromising on if you really, really had to, but really, really don\u2019t want to. For some people that might mean a geographic location, for others a warm and open community, for others the chance to take courses in the university\u2019s law or public policy program.<\/p>\n

Important<\/strong> \u2013 Consider this the \u201cnice to have\u201d category\u2014things that would make a program more attractive to you but wouldn\u2019t necessarily be a deciding factor.<\/p>\n

Neutral<\/strong> \u2013 This category means simply not a factor. Some people would just as readily have curriculum flexibility or structure; would just as readily live in Palo Alto or Fontainebleau, strange as that may seem.<\/p>\n

The main purpose of this exercise is to think about and define your priorities. Some people may be comfortable keeping these rankings in their head as they go through the next steps; others will make a spreadsheet with them.<\/p>\n

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\"Cindy<\/a> By Cindy Tokumitsu<\/a>, co-author of The Finance Professional\u2019s Guide to MBA Admissions Success<\/a>, and author of numerous ebooks, articles, and special reports. Cindy has advised hundreds of successful applicants in her last fifteen years with Accepted.<\/em><\/em><\/p>\n

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Accepted.com's experienced admissions consultants<\/a> can help you create the most impressive application possible with comprehensive packages<\/a>, <\/i><\/b>or provide targeted assistance from picking perfect programs<\/a> to designing a dazzling resume<\/a>, constructing engaging essays<\/a>, or preparing for intense interview<\/a>s<\/a>\u2026and more! Accepted.com has guided thousands of applicants to acceptances at top MBA programs since 1994 \u2013 we know what works and what doesn't, so contact us<\/a> to get started now!
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This article originally appeared on the Accepted Admissions Consulting Blog<\/a>, the official blog of Accepted.com.<\/em> <\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

\u201cWeighting Your Needs and Wants\u201d is excerpted from the Accepted.com special report, Best MBA Programs: A Guide to Selecting the Right One. To download the entire free special report, click…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,1,939,775,113,243],"tags":[1264,1262,782,1114],"class_list":["post-23831","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-mba","category-uncategorized","category-accepted","category-admission-consultants","category-applications","category-blog","tag-choose-business-school","tag-choose-mba-program","tag-choosing-a-business-school","tag-choosing-an-mba-program","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=23831"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":23833,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/23831\/revisions\/23833"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=23831"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=23831"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=23831"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}