Hmmm
I belive the study compared crooks, theives and white collar professionals and they noted that crooks, like white collar professionals are at their peek in their late 30s.....
Honghu, I was at meeting with some Exec-MBA program directors and they told me most of their class is over the age of 35! It was strange since I am 26 and my company was sponsoring my EXEC-MBA (not anymore untill the end of the merger
) most of the program directors said to me I was too young, though ironically at the same level as those much older than me, the story the program director from INSEAD gave me was that I would be too young for my peers and might feel isolated....no wonder these french never figured out anything....
so my advice, apply for the exec-MBA or part-time PhD program....maybe that will fit your profile better...once you get in you can always switch to whatever you like!
HongHu wrote:
I remember reading a paragraph (perhaps a GMAT reading material
) that says that many great contributions in different fields are made by people when they are younger than 40 or so. But a theory is that the first 10 years when a person enters a field is when his/her creativity is the strongest and after that he or she tend to be more conformed by the main flow in the field and may lose the initiativeness a bit. In other words the performance is related to the time a person stays in the field more than to his/her age.
Plus it's not like academic research is something new and difficult for me to grasp. I just want to change the focus a bit. So I'm not worried myself. I just need to let them see it my way too. :D