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Does anyone know what the verification process entails? My current employer knows I applied and wrote one of my two recs., but I haven't told him I've been accepted or that I definitely plan to leave. I've deliberately delayed telling him because I'm concerned I won't get any interesting assignments or spot bonuses (I got one this month) before I leave in July.

I plan to give him at least four weeks notice, but I'd like to delay when I inform him for as long as possible. At the same time, I don't want him to learn that I've been accepted and that I plan to matriculate from some third party.

Thanks in advance.

Just one more week for you R2 folks. Good luck. From what I can tell, based on my experience in R1 and looking back over previous cycles, you will NOT receive a call and you will NOT learn before the published deadline. I'm not certain, but I believe the few exceptions where applicants learned early that they'd been accepted were cases where Fuqua's system had a glitch and thus, the Adcom released decisions a day or two early. I know it may be stressful for some of you and you may feel anxious, but there isn't anything you can do about it. You'll get an email thanking you for applying and informing you that a decision has been released. You'll then need to log on to their application site, scroll to the bottom of the page and click on a link that will open your letter of admissions or F.O.A.D. letter. Scholarships, assuming there is money left at this point, are awarded within two weeks of admissions decisions being released. From what I understand, scholarship recipients were called about a week after R1 decisions went out.
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Yale vs Duke? I have a few days to make a decision. I'm interested in investment finance (maybe pe/vc/hedgefund). Appreciate your thoughts!!!

I work in investment finance now. The Duke network is either pretty deep or maybe they are just more boisterous about it. Especially since it s a big basketball school lol
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Yale vs Duke? I have a few days to make a decision. I'm interested in investment finance (maybe pe/vc/hedgefund). Appreciate your thoughts!!!

I work in investment finance now. The Duke network is either pretty deep or maybe they are just more boisterous about it. Especially since it s a big basketball school lol


Wait, Duke has a basketball team?
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For roll call purposes: I just dropped the card in the mail to turn down the offer from Duke/Fuqua. It's a spectacular school, and I wish you all the best.
same here...I just sent an email to admissions to withdrew my application.
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Yale vs Duke? I have a few days to make a decision. I'm interested in investment finance (maybe pe/vc/hedgefund). Appreciate your thoughts!!!


I assume you've already explored this...

https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/areas/fin ... index.html


Duke desperately needs to build a new website.
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Duke desperately needs to build a new website.[/quote]

Seriously! For a school that has one of the top reputations in marketing you'd think they could put together a sizzling website!
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For the time being, despite having Cinderblock hallways, I think Fuqua has better facilities. This will change once Yale SOM builds their new campus, but I'm not sure you'd see the new facility before you graduate.

Also, Yale SOM has a reputation as being the non-profit MBA program. I wouldn't worry about that too much though, as it looks like no more than 20% of its students go into the public sector. Of course, given their small size, that may also mean even fewer alumni upon whom you'll be able to call.

I'd second you ... I'd pick Duke. Duke is a more well rounded program with a lot more resources and if you are looking at management consulting / general management / marketing recruiting numbers @ Duke, they woulld beat Yale. But, for finance, they are both equally good when it comes to recruiting, although the proximity to NYC might give Yale the edge there. I come from one of the top 5 consulting firms at business schools and Duke is definitely regarded as a better brand / MBA program in the consulting world (in fact it is regarded as one of top 7-8 consulting schools) .. again this is strictly the consulting world, may not be in all industries.

In the end, it won't matter where you go ... they are both great programs. Go to where you feel you are a better fit. Its important you enjoy your time at school and build a network that will back you throughout your career.

I got into both these schools and have done a lot of research on them. Feel free to PM me if you need any info.
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For the time being, despite having Cinderblock hallways, I think Fuqua has better facilities. This will change once Yale SOM builds their new campus, but I'm not sure you'd see the new facility before you graduate.

Also, Yale SOM has a reputation as being the non-profit MBA program. I wouldn't worry about that too much though, as it looks like no more than 20% of its students go into the public sector. Of course, given their small size, that may also mean even fewer alumni upon whom you'll be able to call.

In the end, it won't matter where you go ... they are both great programs. Go to where you feel you are a better fit. Its important you enjoy your time at school and build a network that will back you throughout your career.

That essentially is the most important thing. I had a chat with a co-worker recently and her advice is that the school gets you your first job post MBA but it's the network that you build that matters starting 4-5 years out.
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Duke desperately needs to build a new website.

Seriously! For a school that has one of the top reputations in marketing you'd think they could put together a sizzling website![/quote]

I don't think this problem is unique to Duke. I've checked out the websites of most of the top 25 or so U.S. programs, as well as a handful of international b-schools. The only two that are any good (and this is my subjective opinion) are those of Tuck and Yale SOM. I know Tuck's website was completely overhauled last Fall and I believe Yale's site is new this cycle as well.

Sloan, HBS, Kellog, Stern, Darden, Ross and Anderson all have ok, though extremely vanilla, websites.

This seems like such an obvious place for a top b-school to invest their resources. It really amazes me just how bad these sites are.
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https://faculty.fuqua.duke.edu/areas/fin ... index.html

To add insult to injury regarding their lackluster website, I think I found a misspelled word. Look at the first sentence of the second paragraph. I'm no vocabulary whiz or anything, but shouldn't that be "gamut" instead of "gambit".

Maybe one of you waitlisters should send in the correction :)

"The Finance curriculum includes over 20 electives that run the gambit of basic corporate finance to more specialized courses in derivatives, venture capital, emerging markets, asset allocation, venture capital, private equity, fixed income and mergers and acquisitions. Over 85% of the Fuqua students take the corporate finance elective."
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Well in their defence, they are aware of the problem. My interviewer was an alumnus who now works with Admissions, and he spent a good 5 to 10 minutes of my interview cribbing about the website and how it really needs to be revamped. In his words, "you can't find anything!"
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Well in their defence, they are aware of the problem. My interviewer was an alumnus who now works with Admissions, and he spent a good 5 to 10 minutes of my interview cribbing about the website and how it really needs to be revamped. In his words, "you can't find anything!"


Glad to hear they recognize the problem. Hopefully Fuqua won't just copy the vanilla format of many of their peer institutions.
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I was wondering if any of the waitlisted applicants have news on when we can expect to hear back...
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you may get a decision for your WL during subsequent rounds. so the earliest you can expect to hear back would be mar-25th when the r2 results come out.
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What is Duke's yield and acceptance rate? The figures vary based on source.

I've been reading that Duke's Career Centre facilitates 70-80% of jobs every year (from their employment statistics). While that is impressive, does anyone know what that figure is for the top schools, particularly schools located in major cities (Read: Columbia, Chicago etc.)?
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What is Duke's yield and acceptance rate? The figures vary based on source.

I've been reading that Duke's Career Centre facilitates 70-80% of jobs every year (from their employment statistics). While that is impressive, does anyone know what that figure is for the top schools, particularly schools located in major cities (Read: Columbia, Chicago etc.)?

From BW:

Acceptance: 24%
Yield: 53%

Anyone have any thoughts on why the Yield is so low? Or, low in comparison to some other peer schools such as Michigan?

Primary source of job offer:
School-facilitated activities: 70 %

That's the first time I had seen that number. During interview weekend, the CMC said about 30%-40% of jobs were from "on-campus" recruiting - a number they were very comfortable with. However, the CMC posts jobs on their website for companies who want Fuquans but can't afford to recruit in Durham. Talking to current students, it sounds like they also have the option to cold call alumni - some of whom are probably referenced by the CMC. I think it's a really tough stat to understand and compare because a School can "facilitate" in so many different ways.
For comparison: Booth 83%, Columbia N/A, Michigan 58%

Personally speaking, I think location is why you see such a difference in yield. UMich is tucked away in the beautiful Ann Arbor (not saying Durham is not great either), but its closeness to Chicago probably draws a lot of its applicants in. Not only Chicago though, you're only so far away from Detroit and generally speaking, the 'mid-west'. And truly, New York isn't that far away either.

Duke, being situated in Durham, is really only close to Atlanta and DC. Both are great strategic locations, but most people probably perceive this location as the "south", which in the short span of time the 'south' has a sort-of negative connotation. I don't think this negative connotation correlates with the low yield, but as far as I can believe, Duke, Michigan, and UVA are all peer schools hugging each other on the ranking. I think it's the location of Michigan that drives the school's higher yield than anything else.
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Quite frankly, I think Duke is a "safety" school for a lot of top tier applicants. Just in terms of name recognition, I think the general "Duke" brand holds the most weight among its peers like UVA, UMich, and UCLA. And up until recently they had a 30%+ acceptance rate. It's an easy choice for someone who wants to have a safety school but doesn't want to do much research. None of this was the case with me, but I can imagine some people feeling this way.

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