Great post!
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27/male/Lima, Peru (no green card)
710 - 4 yrs of exp in Supply Chain
As someone that posted before, I have already been accepted in the MMM class at Kellogg in R1, so i´m facing the LGO process more relaxed as I already have a great program with me.
Being an international, I know that my options at LGO are very limited. I don't believe that the reason for why they don't accept too much internationals has anything to do with visas. It's MIT. I believe it has more to do with the reason of the program. An LGO student told me the story: the former LFM program was born as a response to the manufacturing problems of the US in the 80's.
At that time, many companies started producing in asian countries, ad US factories started to shut down. So MIT and some major manufacturing companies in the US built the program to produce leaders in manufacturing with knowledge in management. Obviously they would not take as a student an Indian or Chinese that after the program would go back to his homecountry and contribute to take jobs away from the US. I guess this orientation is changing slightly this last years to make it more global, but it doesn't depend of MIT, the companies play a big role here.
Do you know when are people told if they are dinged from LGO and passed to Sloan R2?
@everyone: is the regular MBA at Sloan superior than the MMM from Kellogg? (this is my GREAT doubt)
@LGOgirl: where are you from?