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A lot of Doctors too, visited a fair back in India. There were surgeons thinking for an MBA
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Why? Doctors should go usmle route much safer no layoffs high salaries much less if any debt

Also military and doctors have zero corporate experience what roles they even get hired for?
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Why? Doctors should go usmle route much safer no layoffs high salaries much less if any debt
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It’s though process
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Dont need company to apply Green card
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Don't know man, in MBAs I'm seeing too much diversification
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True but 55 percent of IMGs get residnecy who apply compared to 5 to 30% acceptance rates of t20

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Yes even though it seems without relevant experience of years hiring difficult now still
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For doctors it makes no sense tbvh, for the military in the US it's fine as they must want some safer career options
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True also mba is free for them i have heard so makes perfect senae

I to would prefer free MBA over rankings in current climate to be honest so for domestics it makes even more sense
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True but 55 percent of IMGs get residnecy who apply compared to 5 to 30% acceptance rates of t20
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That’s broad
It again varies
South Asian has more competition and less acceptance rate

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Dow , Aga Khan and KE alumni in USA and professors intentional promote and recruit there school students to residency where there is a chance
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That’s broad
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I didnt know they broke down stats by country maybe true. Visa requiring IMGs would include for example canadians so makes sense though.
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Lot Canadians, Africans , central and South America
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1061 accpeted in 25 out of i think 6500 something visa requiring IMGs so 15 percent of total were from pakistan

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Not really plenty from other schools to agha khan does get preference though but for rest its same as everyone. Also program directors normally give preference to those IMGs with whom they have good experience. There are programs who only hire latin americam imgs no matter who applies so this does happen

But thats true for every job most ppl prefer to hire a reference especially today or atleast all else equal give preference to a reference
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I think the first wave of admits would be Veterans.....
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That is getting more obvious over the years
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For those who don’t want to look it up, person who got accepted per clearadmit was military, p low GPA and average GRE. Based in NY.
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Average gre - a 327 is not an average gre at all.

This site is ruining people’s perception I stg.
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I didnt know they broke down stats by country maybe true. Visa requiring IMGs would include for example canadians so makes sense though.
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Canadians don’t really require the same scrutiny as other internationals. Same with Australians which are even more streamlined.
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Your answers actually make sense. And I appreciate that you framed them in a nicer way.
And as someone who wants to break into banking from data analytics (also with a finance major), I am of course not a fan of that perspective.

Let’s say I have 7 months between admissions offer and matriculation, first semester is all recruiting and interview preps, then I have 6 months in second semester, then summer internship and 9 whole year before full time role. That’s 2e months of basically a lot of other prep you can do.

So let me ask you this: can anything be done to prepare and not be a “pain in the ass mba associate”? Is it to become accounting guru? Any ideas? What relevant experience in finance will help other than working with 10Ks, 10Qs and having real deep understanding of fin statements?
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Best thing you can do is actually get curious and learn for the sake of curiosity rather than memorization, and prioritize, your accounting more than your finance. You need to have a deep understanding. Part of the difficulty of what I’m saying is that getting the internship can be done but you need to get the return offer and you should be preparing for that rather than just preparing to get the internship.


The best thing I tell people is to get their CPA if they’re not already in Banking because it trains you more than anything else. Obviously you need to be an accounting already to do it but if you’re not, I would really encourage you to start learning through course courses intake classes, so you can prepare yourself and dive as deep as you can.
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Best thing you can do is actually get curious and learn for the sake of curiosity rather than memorization, and prioritize, your accounting more than your finance. You need to have a deep understanding. Part of the difficulty of what I’m saying is that getting the internship can be done but you need to get the return offer and you should be preparing for that rather than just preparing to get the internship.


The best thing I tell people is to get their CPA if they’re not already in Banking because it trains you more than anything else. Obviously you need to be an accounting already to do it but if you’re not, I would really encourage you to start learning through course courses intake classes, so you can prepare yourself and dive as deep as you can.
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Yeah, that makes a lot of sense, thank you for sharing this. I looked over the BIWS prep materials , and I completely agree that without genuine understanding, memorizing answers is pretty pointless.
It’s clear that being able to think in accounting terms, not just reciting models, is what separates people who perform well once they are on the desk. CPA would be unattainable at this point, but I will definitely dive deeper into the accounting side.

Appreciate the honesty, it is helpful to hear this from someone who’s actually lived it.
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Most MBA programs include a core accounting course in the first semester, but by that point, recruiting for IB is already underway. The reality is that you need to be ready before school even starts. The MBA coursework will help refine your understanding, but it’s too slow paced to build the technical depth required for interviews. So the class serves as a polish, not a crash course.
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Most MBA programs include a core accounting course in the first semester, but by that point, recruiting for IB is already underway. The reality is that you need to be ready before school even starts. The MBA coursework will help refine your understanding, but it’s too slow paced to build the technical depth required for interviews. So the class serves as a polish, not a crash course.
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What about nirmal corp dev work after mba ia the mba alone enough?
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I think It depends on the company, but generally yes.

Having some accounting definitely can help you stand out. But the difference is that in corp dev, you are not expected to hit the ground running with modeling at the same intensity as IB so you should have more room to learn on the job.
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