nawangagrawal5, yes, you can apply to the MBA and the MSx at the same time -- usually people with 8+ years of professional experience choose to apply to both, just to hedge their bets
vamkrispk
Is applying ar 30 too late for Stanford
MBA program ?? Is round 3 terrible for an Indian applicant ?
Posted from my mobile device Chronological age does not matter as much as # of years of work experience (and what’s been accomplished in those years) -- the older you are, the higher the expectations will be for what you will have accomplished / the impact you will have had. That is, when I’ve worked with people over age 30 who get into GSB MBA, they are really performing and leading at an "Oh, wow..." type of level. Of course, the younger applicants also need that "Oh, wow..." factor, but obviously the older someone is, the higher the expectation will be re: "ok so are they on their way to ’changing the world’, or at least, being the sort of person who WILL one day ’change the world’?"
TL;DR: "Age 30" by itself is fine... though if you’ve got 8+ years of work experience at the time of applying, apply to both MBA and MSx at the same time, to hedge your bets
vamkrispk
Is applying ar 30 too late for Stanford
MBA program ?? Is round 3 terrible for an Indian applicant ?
Posted from my mobile device And yes, usually Round 3 is really, really hard. This is because by the time the decisions come out:
1) It might be a super-stressful sprint to try to get a student visa in time to get to campus by August.
2) It might also be tough to line up student loan financing in time to make the first tuition payment (which I’m pretty sure is BEFORE August!)
and of course, by the time Round 3 rolls around, pretty much all seats have already been taken.... and I also advise R3 applicants (well, first of all, I don’t really advise that anyone bother with R3!, but....if they insist...) I advise R3 applicants to explain WHY they waited so long. After all, MBA deadlines are the same pretty much from year to year to year... it’s not like the deadlines sneak up on anyone? So, if someone is applying so late in the game, I usually advise that an explanation be provided as to why an earlier application wasn’t possible.
Hope this helps!