{"id":358,"date":"2009-02-26T11:00:11","date_gmt":"2009-02-26T19:00:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/?p=358"},"modified":"2009-02-27T02:23:51","modified_gmt":"2009-02-27T10:23:51","slug":"mba-in-finance-forget-it","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/mba-in-finance-forget-it\/","title":{"rendered":"MBA in Finance: Forget It?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In forums, chats, and emails I read a lot of speculation about the wisdom of declaring an interest in pursuing a career in finance after business schooll. With all the Wall St. carnage, does such a goal doom your application? . Has the possibility of a career in investment banking, private equity, or hedge funds disappeared with Lehman Bros., Bear Stearns, and the money in our 401K's?<\/p>\n<p>I decided to ask several admissions directors at schools noted for their strength in finance. I will be posting my question and their responses in individual posts over the next few days. There is no significance to the order in which I am posting the responses.<\/p>\n<p>I found the directors' responses thoughtful and informative. I hope you will too.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In forums, chats, and emails I read a lot of speculation about the wisdom of declaring an interest in pursuing a career in finance after business schooll. With all the&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[41,22,19,43,39,40,52,66,181,53,44,36],"class_list":["post-358","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized","tag-chicago","tag-finance","tag-investment-banking","tag-london-business-school","tag-mba-admissions","tag-mit-sloan","tag-northwestern-kellogg","tag-nyu-stern","tag-private-equity","tag-uc-berkeley-haas","tag-ucla-anderson","tag-wharton","entry"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358","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=358"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":359,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/358\/revisions\/359"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=358"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=358"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/gmatclub.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=358"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}