tuck20xx wrote:
hey guys i did the ambassadors program this week and i wanted to share my opinion. let's remember, this is solely an opinion and an extremely small sample at that. my impression was that it was extremely nerdy and consisted of a high population of asians (those are separate ideas, not trying to infer that asians are nerdy). i asked my ambassador what differentiated sloan and his response was that people at other schools like to party and that wasn't the case at sloan. i also asked him if he enjoyed exploring boston and he said "no, there's nothing to do in boston and everything is so old." this was probably a bad person to have as an ambassador.
the feeling i got from the students was that it's academically rigorous and very quantitatively oriented and there is not as much focus on soft skills. however, the class i visited was a core first year class and extremely basic. everything was covered in an undergrad business 101 class. although, i suppose that's what core classes are all about. i also got the feeling that if i was interested in entrepreneurship in an industry other than technology, the program may not be right for me. when i think about what the T stands for in MIT, this is no surprise.
sorry to rag on sloan, there are some really cool things about the program like GLAB, the innovation period, 100K competition, etc. don't let one person's opinion ruin it for you - i urge all of you to visit before blindly applying.
What to say about his comments on Boston ? Wonder how perspectives can differ. I found Boston to be one of the most liveliest cities to live. There's so much to explore in Boston and of course some parts of the city are very old, no doubt. "There's nothing to do in Boston" is a completely baseless statement, IMHO.