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wmay
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Location: Singapore
Concentration: Healthcare, Finance
Schools: Tuck '17 (A) CBS '17 (D) Kellogg '17 (M) Stern '17 (A) HBS '17 (D) Darden '17 (A) Wharton '17 (D) Booth '17 (A)
GMAT 1: 720 Q49 V40
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Schools: Tuck '17 (A) CBS '17 (D) Kellogg '17 (M) Stern '17 (A) HBS '17 (D) Darden '17 (A) Wharton '17 (D) Booth '17 (A)
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24 Apr 2015, 04:43
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And Wharton (Penn) is part of the Ivy League
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I have no doubts about Darden's prestige in US. And my primary plan is to find a job in US after graduation. I think Darden is a great choice when your primary plan is to settle in US and to compete for a job in consulting. Just I am trying to figure out potential risks by brain storming with people who have same experience. If I will not be recruited in US due to visa or another problem, what will be the picture for me about recruiting in Europe or Middle East? When it comes to get a loan around $100K, I think such a quest for valid answers is understandable.
I gave Wharton example in order to figure the settled mindset among people. Even Wharton (UPenn) and Tuck are part of ivy league, elite and amazing business schools, familiarness of these schools is relatively less as compared to UCLA or Cornell (at least in Middle East). One can criticize such an anxiety about branding or reputation but my advice will be to take the cultural differences into account when judging some choices and questioning. Moreover, while I was writing this post, I remembered a topic opened by a Greek applicant in which he/she shared the same mindset that I try to emphasize.
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Dude I'm your age. Every year over 30 it gets harder and harder to be competitive for B-School, and socially the gulf between you and the median student will widen. If you were younger I'd say you may be able to take another year. As an aside, Darden can get you MBB but my understanding is for all the non-M7 schools you need to be really competitive; I spoke to someone at Tepper who said that everyone there who interviewed for MBB had a 740ish GMAT. Similar story at Ross. It may be a bit lighter on GMAT for M7 but not much. That being said, I still think that you should take the opportunity staring you in the face. You'll be able to land a consulting gig, either MBB if you up the GMAT or big 4/second tier if you work hard at Darden. It's also an amazing business school and UVA has good sports teams, a ridiculously attractive student body (important? no. perk? yes.), a gorgeous campus and is actually WARM for most of the year. The program's rigor is well known and regarded. A friend of mine recently graduated and speaks volumes of the program.
Wouldn't it suck to wait a year, work hard to add 50 points to your GMAT, get a bunch of dings and end up in the same position, now graduating at 33? You'd be a 35 year old consulting associate. If you think you can leverage the year into an opportunity at a higher ranked school that is a fit for you that's fine, but it had better be substantially better to compensate for the risk.
Wouldn't it suck to wait a year, work hard to add 50 points to your GMAT, get a bunch of dings and end up in the same position, now graduating at 33? You'd be a 35 year old consulting associate. If you think you can leverage the year into an opportunity at a higher ranked school that is a fit for you that's fine, but it had better be substantially better to compensate for the risk.
