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tronghieu1987
Joined: 29 Apr 2014
Last visit: 13 Jan 2022
Posts: 105
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Given Kudos: 17
Location: Viet Nam
Concentration: Finance, Technology
Schools: Neeley '18 (A$) Olin '18 (A$) Owen '18 (M$)
GMAT 1: 640 Q50 V26
GMAT 2: 660 Q51 V27
GMAT 3: 680 Q50 V31
GMAT 4: 710 Q50 V35
GMAT 5: 760 Q50 V42
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12 Oct 2015, 07:54
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ab87
I attended a webinar of Owen and asked the same question about the fee waiver policy. The adcom asserted that a 720 score will be granted a fee waiver. So you could be happy with your score
tronghieu1987
Joined: 29 Apr 2014
Last visit: 13 Jan 2022
Posts: 105
Own Kudos:
Given Kudos: 17
Location: Viet Nam
Concentration: Finance, Technology
Schools: Neeley '18 (A$) Olin '18 (A$) Owen '18 (M$)
GMAT 1: 640 Q50 V26
GMAT 2: 660 Q51 V27
GMAT 3: 680 Q50 V31
GMAT 4: 710 Q50 V35
GMAT 5: 760 Q50 V42
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12 Oct 2015, 08:41
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thisisatestonlyatest
Hi. I am considering apply to Owen in R2. I have experience in Laws Enforcement and Inspection for the State Securities Commission of Vietnam (think SEC in US). I would like to know are there many students with the similar background in Owen class. And in the curriculum, are there any related cases that I could contribute to?
Thank you a lot for your help!
kheown
Hi kheown,
I'm glad to see you're interested!
There are a few reasons I chose Owen.
1. Career Center. Read McNamara and the CMC team here at Owen are outstanding. This was one of the most important pieces for me. Vandy has had excellent on-campus recruiting, it has had enormous success placing people in internships, and the job rate is among the highest in the country. Owen also does not mess with the job numbers like some other schools do. You can see the complete report/PDF for each of the last several years.
Employment report: https://www.owen.vanderbilt.edu/employer ... report.cfm
Poets and Quants article about employment report: https://poetsandquants.com/2014/11/05/op ... mba-stats/
Economist ranking of Owen's Career Management Center (9th in the world!!): https://www.economist.com/whichmba/mba-r ... er-service
2. Financial Aid. Owen has been known to be generous with its financial aid packages for qualified students. I felt I got a very competitive offer. You can see from the following article how it compares to other schools. https://poetsandquants.com/2014/11/20/mb ... schools/2/
3. Size. Owen is not a large program. I have found the small size to be a big advantage for me. Faculty are willing to work with students one-on-one on academic projects and professional endeavors. It is easy to get to know everyone in the class. People are very helpful and receptive.
4. Vanderbilt. Owen is a Top 30 MBA program. Vanderbilt is a Top 15 National University. The school is very highly regarded in the marketplace. Also, I've found the student body has all of the brains of the 'elite' East Coast schools...but it also has all of the down-to-earth niceness of the South and Midwest. It is a very happy atmosphere. It's a wonderful culture.
5. Nashville. It is a fun place to be. It is wayyyyy cheaper than Chicago, Philadelphia, New York, and Boston. I don't think people should overlook how important it is to decide *where* they will be for two years getting their MBA. This is a one-time event in your life. Find somewhere where you'll enjoy yourself. Nashville is certainly that kind of place for me.
kheown
Last year I lived walking distance from campus. I lived with another first-year MBA student and we got a two-bedroom, one-bathroom apartment for $1,580/month. We each paid $790. After utilities and cable/internet, that came out to about $900/month. It was a very nice complex.
This year I live driving distance from campus (though also on a main bus route that is a straight shot to Vandy if you don't want a car) and I am living with a recent Vandy grad in a two-bedroom, two-bathroom apartment for $1040. We each pay $520 and after utilities and internet the total is about $600/month.
I made the move strictly for financial reasons. I loved my set-up last year. BTW, if you live walking distance from campus, you also live walking distance from downtown. So that is a big deal for some people.
kheown
Typical outdoor activities that I know of are hiking/biking on the Natchez Trace https://www.nps.gov/natr/index.htm, road trips to Atlanta/Memphis/Louisville/Bourbon Trail/New Orleans/Chicago/etc, and I've seen students go rafting and many climb walls in Nashville.
Any Vandy undergraduate or graduate student can join the outdoor adventure club/class. https://studentorgs.vanderbilt.edu/wilskills/ To be perfectly honest though, I don't know anyone who has and I doubt an MBA student would find the time to do it. (Especially in their first year.) There are a variety of other outdoor activities available in Middle Tennessee. I'm just not the best person to ask. //sorry
Let us know if you have any other questions!
~Anchor Down
12 Oct 2015, 08:51
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tronghieu1987
Hey tronghieu1987,
thisisonlyatest will be able to speak more fully about the background of Owen's finance students. I will let them answer.
In terms of how your background would fit at Owen, I think you'd have a great time. Actually, the core finance professor, Bill Christie, has previous work that might be right up your alley.
"By studying the operations of the major financial markets in the mid-1990s, Bill Christie, along with Paul Schultz of Notre Dame University, concluded that Nasdaq market makers were implicitly colluding to maintain artificially high trading profits at the expense of investors. His research subsequently resulted in a sweeping reform of the NASDAQ market, the introduction of the SEC Order Handling Rules, and a $1.027 billion settlement against the defendants."
https://law.vanderbilt.edu/bio/william-christie
I am sure you would really enjoy his class and many others and be able to contribute in a variety of significant ways.
~Best
