Applying to business school primarily for the network?

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That’s a good question. There’s probably no bad reasons to get an MBA. I guess there may be a such as in ability to find a job after undergrad that’s probably the one in Maine bad reason I can think of. But in general and NBA provide you with a lot of value. It gives you an ability to restart your career to energize it, to take a bit of a break and reflect and also evaluate your strengths and weaknesses and usually pretty much everyone comes out thinking that it was the right decision for them.

However, if it were so great and so good why isn’t everyone getting two or three of these things right? 😂 first of all, you get as much as you put in and it is a pretty challenging process to to go through the whole thing and if you’re not sure about it, chances are you won’t follow through because the application process is demanding.

Most people get an NBA to get a fresh start and turbo charge the career. They do it to get confidence, to get a boost of a strong brand behind them and the whole power of the alma mater. However, at the same time there is one misconception many people do not fully think about, and that is that a person makes a program and the person makes them selves rather than the other way around. This means that two people who graduated from Harvard or Michigan or Anderson, I’m going to be pretty different even if they graduated from the same program. It’s possible unlikely that one of the Andersen graduates may be even stronger than the Harvard ones. The point is that your results in your performance depend on yourself. Think about business school as a car, if someone is a bad driver, it doesn’t matter if they have a jaguar or a BMW, they’re still a bad driver.

So, now that I forced you to read all this crap, coming to the question of Network. You get the value of the net work if you stay close to the business school after graduating. This with mean staying in Los Angeles is it if you go to Andersen and staying in Chicago if you go to booth. And I think one good question would be what would you do with your net work. That’s something to dry run potentially. What Business school will give you is it will give you credibility. And if you’re looking for financing for your own future business or someone to help you with a deal, having an MBA can be very valuable it can make a break the deal, but at the same time, it will also give you a $200,000 bill. Which if you’re planning to be an entrepreneur, I highly recommend looking for programs that offer scholarships which means applying to a variety of MBA programs, potentially some overranked so that you not burdened with the debt upon graduation which would basically preclude you from entrepreneurial activity. At the same time, if you were open to doing tech or product management, jobs and bonuses have been very generous lately with people reporting paying back their loans within five years comfortably…

Personally, I think you want more reasons. The application process is grueling and painful. If you’re not desperate and motivated enough, you may not be driven enough to finish the race. Of course I don’t know you and it’s just two strangers talking on the Internet but these are some thoughts. 😂

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