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Re: Which ad-com cares the most about career goals?
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13 Jun 2010, 02:03
Interesting. The usual rap I hear from bankers is that it's a little exasperating to get engineers who mistakenly think banking is about applying their quantitative skills. M&I (a good resource for banking, more directed at the analyst level, which is where the heavy lifting takes place) repeatedly emphasizes that point.
I'm not sure this adds up. It's more likely that most people who want to get into straight-up investment banking post-MBA are scoring well below 50 on the quant, and schools and employers have no problem with it.
(Note: just based on observation, I don't want to be a banker so I haven't researched this ad nauseam, but looking at profiles on this forum and on other resources, that seems to be the case).
As for the work vs the GMAT, they're different animals. Banking is a marathon, so naturally the volumes of work are much, much higher than a quick, rapid-fire sort of test like the GMAT. However, it appears to be more challenging purely in terms of iteration.
So, to summarize, it looks like in general, it's used as a screener for goals that are completely out of sync with the applicant's profile.
MIT Sloan doesn't seem to care all that much. Avernusaur, since you've looked into that school, does "fit" seem to be a more important factor there?
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