BombayPride wrote:
Have any of you seen the comments from this article? Not the comments from Businessweek but from the 100+ post below responding to the article. It is truly shocking. Duke has a party culture but it does not seem to be racist. I don't know what is more shocking - the response from alums who are internationals, the arrogance of current students or the immaturity from prospective students who wish to go there.
[www]poetsandquants dot com/2012/12/04/the-worst-things-mbas-say-about-their-schools
Please comment and share your thoughts. I was highly considering Ross before this but this place does not seem to have a "collaborative" culture as advertised.
Reality is that Ross's culture is extremely collaborative, and my experience has been that the community on a whole is very inclusive. There are, of course, always going to be some people you don't love in a community of Ross's size, but my strong inclination is that anyone who feels/felt excluded must have made efforts to avoid being included.
Related to that, it needs to be said that many of those comments' authors focus on what the community didn't do for them, without any mention of what they attempted to do for the community. As always, you need to be a _contributing_ part of the community if you want to really be a part of the community. This is basic life-skill stuff.
Also, any talk of any degree of latent racism reveals a perspective so skewed that rebuttal is unnecessary.
All of that said, it would be a shame if you let a single idiotic comment thread convince you not to apply. What you should do is visit the school: chat with some MBAs in the Winter Garden, attend a class, and maybe even go to the weekly happy hour. Ask the questions you want answered and decide for yourself.