MBAAspirant2008 wrote:
chineseburned wrote:
MBAAspirant2008 wrote:
Hey,
Has any of the admitted students in R1 received the link to pay $1000 deposit ?
You may be the only one from R1 who has (or plans to) accept at UCLA
Is UCLA that Bad ?
Oh no, that's not what I meant. I think UCLA is an excellent program and has probably some of the best faculty, better than alot of top10 programs. What I meant is that people who were admitted in R1 were also admitted to other top 10 schools and chose to go elsewhere lured by historical facts about strength of certain specialty areas, overall national (or even international) reputation, and probably outdated salary figures. With this glooming economy on the horizon, I suspect the difference in value of an mba from a top school vs a 2nd-tier one will shorten in the next couple of years as starting mbas from top 10 schools have been notoriously overpaid recently and companies simply can't afford to do that any more.
I know I'll probably get lashed for those comments but really unless you are rich or get some sort of substantial fellowship, going in massive amounts of debt to attend an expensive top school seems like a very very risky strategy to me these days.