Agentfish36 wrote:
I agree, outside the top 50 is a complete waste of time & $$. I got my undergrad degree from the university of Cincinnati and their MBA program does nothing for you (median salary 55k). I still don't understand how you're not looking at higher ranked programs with an ivy league JD. Did you just not take the GMAT or score in the 500's?
Even at this stage in the game, schools have money left. I got a GA offer at Purdue, finished my app 2 weeks ago. Good schools have spaces & money left. Reach out to a few and network. If you don't get a good feeling, apply to good schools in the fall...
Agentfish36 wrote:
I agree, outside the top 50 is a complete waste of time & $$. I got my undergrad degree from the university of Cincinnati and their MBA program does nothing for you (median salary 55k). I still don't understand how you're not looking at higher ranked programs with an ivy league JD. Did you just not take the GMAT or score in the 500's?
Even at this stage in the game, schools have money left. I got a GA offer at Purdue, finished my app 2 weeks ago. Good schools have spaces & money left. Reach out to a few and network. If you don't get a good feeling, apply to good schools in the fall...
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There are so many personal factors for me:
1) I dont want to take education loan for top 50 programs as total program cost will be $90,000+. I had paid my law school loan after 7 years since graduation. $ in big factor for me. I had applied to UT Dallas three week back in the hope of scholarship and did not hear from them.
2) I am earning well in Singapore in Big 4. I have work experience in corporate law from last 6+ years. Employer do see its moreover a legal role. I am not a eco./commerce grad by qualification. I have only three options left.
1) do what i am doing and see myself at the place of my boss after twenty years, as a head of leagl department of big 4.
or 2) start a job in general management at the lower lever (say asst. manager) leveraging J.D.
3) pursue MBA from average Bschool, than in next two years i need to invest my two years salary + $60,000, but possibility to have a start as Manager in fortune 500 company, which is 6 years head start. As without an MBA, you will start as intern/ asst. manager based on you prior relevant work experience.
Needless to add that 50% Harvard & NYU MBA grad join Consulting (Bain & Co) or Investment banking firms at the intern level or associate level based on their prior experience. I know my close friends were working at the top management prior to MBA and joined at low level in Consulting or inv. banking. No doubt that they earn more than anyone and have better prospect. My point is that i dont want to start a fresh and want to utilize what i did (i.e. like a policy analyst who work in various functional verticals of a firm, or in general management team who works in various functions of the organization etc.).
Be true, in my case, even the harvard, stanford will give me an offer for MBA, by any chance, i cant take a risk of paying the debt at my present age. My present GMAT score is 620 in a month prep. and i can improve it. But i cant wait for next year intake for a MBA. I had applied in a round three this year and did not apply in any top 20 MBA program in USA.
Further, I am a good candidate for executive MBA program but dont want to opt for it due to cost attached for it. NYU Stern & Wharton ect. EMBA require no GMAT but only work ex. & $$$$$$$$. However, I got through Imperial College London (which is among top 7 in UK) for full time MBA. But it doesnt make any sense to run for that MBA program in UK because of rank, given the fact that i have a good work experience in US and want to work in US. Its a one year course and UK immigration laws are not good.
I look forward for the name of the Bschool in the post provided above. But it is implied that people run for the rankings & reputation of the program. If the ranking does so, not the logic, than all fortune 500 CEO's should be from top 20 Bschools. But i dont deny the fact that even a law school grad can be a fortune 500 company CEO - see
https://www.usnews.com/education/best-gr ... law-school