NYC MBA Event Meet up (Road to Business School)

Question

There is an MBA event taking place in NYC, sponsored by Kaplan ( Road to Business School )  Date: Saturday, Aug 7th, 2010

A number of GMAT Club members are going to this event (as well as  Destination Business school , a 2-day Kaplan event that overlaps with Road to Business School)

If you are in NYC, please join us for a meet up and possibly some time after the event.
Here is who's attending so far:
1.  Mohater  (Destination 2-day event)
2.  Shaselai  (Destination 2-day event)
3.  Silvers  (Sat)
4.  Mba2013  (Sat)

Schedule for the Event: 
12:30 – 1:00 Registration
1:00 – 2:00 Panel with Admissions Officers
2:00 – 4:30 Business School Fair 
2:00 – 2:45 GMAT Training Session
3:00 – 3:45 Admissions Strategy Session

Participating Schools 
 Baruch College (Zicklin) • Boston College (Carroll) • Boston University • Brandeis University International Business School • Carnegie Mellon (Tepper) • Chicago Booth • Cornell University (Johnson) • Cox School of Business at SMU • Dartmouth College (Tuck) • Duke University (Fuqua) • Georgetown University (McDonough) • IMD • INSEAD • New York University (Stern) • Manchester Business School • Massachusetts Institute of Technology (Sloan) • Melbourne Business School, Australia • Ohio State University (Fisher) • Pace Business School • Pennsylvania State University – University Park (Smeal) • Rotterdam School of Management • Rutgers Business School • Thunderbird • Tulane University (Freeman) • UCLA (Anderson) • UNC - Chapel Hill (Kenan-Flagler) • University of Illinois-Urbana-Champaign • University of Maryland – College Park (Smith) • University of Michigan – Ann Arbor (Ross) • University of Notre Dame (Mendoza) • University of Rochester (Simon) • University of Texas – Dallas • University of Virginia (Darden) • University of Washington (Foster) • Vanderbilt University (Owen) • Yale School of Management

mohater · Answer

I have pending dinner plans, but I should be available to hang out during the event/after the event for a bit.

bb · Answer

Also, if you want to watch videos from Last Year's Road to Business School event - here is a link to 4 videos posted on our blog: https://gmatclub.com/blog/category/blog/kaplan-blog/

mba2013 · Answer

bump! are people still attending today?

bb · Answer

I know Mohater is there. 
Shaselai - did you make it?

bb · Answer

Debrief posted by Shaselai destination-business-school-kaplan-experience-98810.html

sandeep800 · Answer

Great Debrief Shaselai....after reading it seems we guys have missed a lot... thanx a lot 4 ur post .....Hoping to read more inputs from mohater and other guys.....

BB can u please edit the url posted above and make it a link actually.....
thanx

mba2013 · Answer

Debrief from Saturday:

To start, I was only there for a grand total of 15 minutes. I'd been up since 7 that morning for work and was exhausted and tired. So my experience may be different.
I attended the school fair (the free part) on Saturday and like Shaselei said it was packed. Most people flocked to the top 10 schools while some lower tier schools looked like they didnt get a visitor the entire time. I couldn't think of any really unique questions to ask and frankly I was braindead by the afternoon so I was more comfortable listening anyway. Lots of questions about financial aid, interviewing, school visits, etc. No one really stood out by any super unique questions, but some people did make themselves look bad by asking "Do you think I have a chance based on XYZ criteria?" or "I should register during the open-interview timeslot or else I probably won't get an interview, right?" :roll:

So there wasn't much upside but definitely a potential downside. Overall, I didn't hear anything from any adcom or student that I couldn't find on the website. If that sounds cynical it may just be the exhaustion kicking in. I did value getting to see and hear adcom's and current students face to face though.

bb · Answer

Thanks. Usually if you feel strongly about one school or another, there is value in being able to interface with adcom face-to-face and get their contact info and trying to be memorable. They are usually pretty open, so you could leverage this at a later time if you needed any help/questions, and also getting yourself out there, will give them a chance to vouch for you when it comes to slashing and cutting.

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