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16 Aug 2011, 16:25
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Ok, so here is my profile. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
1) 710 GMAT 46V 41Q 6.0 AWA (first try, never took a practice test).
2) B.S. Business - State School; 3.2 Undergrad GPA (3.7 Major); Worked 30 - 35 hrs/wk in school; Fraternity member; Numerous community service projects.
3) 6+ years of work experience in real estate - specifically student housing. Experience in public and private sectors, promoted several times, went from entry level to top manager in company quickly. Lots of recognition, awards, etc. in large private company. Quick success, great letters of recommendation from both Universities and private company. Much of my work experience has revolved around quantitative analysis (forecasting, market analysis, budget development and oversight) which could help off-set the skewed GMAT score.
4) 29 year old white guy. Grew up in farm family, parents do not have college education. Have always supported myself; paid for education, paid to study abroad and learn Spanish / Intl. Business. Unique experiences moving from place to place with company doing internal consulting, due dilligence, marketing, etc.
5) I have worked in privatized student housing and learned much about the operations, acquisition, and financing of existing properties. I then moved to the public sector to gain experience in development of new housing from the public angle. I want to go to a top MBA program to network and find individuals to eventually begin a student housing company.
I currently live in SoCal and am looking at the big schools in the area first (UCLA, USC, UCI Merage), but I am also interested in branching out (Haas, Stanford, Kellogg, Wharton, Ross, Booth, Stern). What do my chances look like for these programs? Would I be more suited for a lower tier program? Any suggestions? Any advice would certainly help. Thank you!
Ok, so here is my profile. Any advice would be greatly appreciated.
1) 710 GMAT 46V 41Q 6.0 AWA (first try, never took a practice test).
2) B.S. Business - State School; 3.2 Undergrad GPA (3.7 Major); Worked 30 - 35 hrs/wk in school; Fraternity member; Numerous community service projects.
3) 6+ years of work experience in real estate - specifically student housing. Experience in public and private sectors, promoted several times, went from entry level to top manager in company quickly. Lots of recognition, awards, etc. in large private company. Quick success, great letters of recommendation from both Universities and private company. Much of my work experience has revolved around quantitative analysis (forecasting, market analysis, budget development and oversight) which could help off-set the skewed GMAT score.
4) 29 year old white guy. Grew up in farm family, parents do not have college education. Have always supported myself; paid for education, paid to study abroad and learn Spanish / Intl. Business. Unique experiences moving from place to place with company doing internal consulting, due dilligence, marketing, etc.
5) I have worked in privatized student housing and learned much about the operations, acquisition, and financing of existing properties. I then moved to the public sector to gain experience in development of new housing from the public angle. I want to go to a top MBA program to network and find individuals to eventually begin a student housing company.
I currently live in SoCal and am looking at the big schools in the area first (UCLA, USC, UCI Merage), but I am also interested in branching out (Haas, Stanford, Kellogg, Wharton, Ross, Booth, Stern). What do my chances look like for these programs? Would I be more suited for a lower tier program? Any suggestions? Any advice would certainly help. Thank you!
17 Aug 2011, 19:05
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If you're looking to start a company right after school (i.e. almost certain of it), then go to a local program to save money. Going to a top program isn't going to give you some key to a secret club where you'll get access to billions of untold capital that is not available to the peons outside the golden gates. Most of your fellow classmates even at the top b-schools will be knee deep in student loan debt, and freaking out about getting a full-time job to pay it off. Sure, you may bump into a Huntsmann, Miliken, Trump, Rothschild, Mittal or some son/daughter of a big whale, but just because you're breathing the same air as them doesn't mean they will open their family coffers or their contacts for you, anymore than going to Harvard undergrad would give one a shot at Natalie Portman when she attended there. Everyone *appears* egalitarian at some of these prestigious schools, but it's not really as equal as it seems. Fact is, the overwhelming majority of MBA students won't be interested in starting companies right out of school, and one of things that tends to happen is that many MBA students realize that it makes no sense to have too many MBAs as founders of the same company (too many cooks). Most MBAs even at the top schools are just hard working people from working to upper middle class backgrounds -- looking for good paying jobs. And most by and large end up happy, hard working people who still have to work for a living (even if they are living in nice areas, but the overwhelming majority aren't multimillionaires or anything).
Again, if you're pretty sure about what you want to do and you want to stay in SoCal for your career, then just look at schools in the area like you listed -- UCLA, USC, UCI, Pepperdine.
Again, if you're pretty sure about what you want to do and you want to stay in SoCal for your career, then just look at schools in the area like you listed -- UCLA, USC, UCI, Pepperdine.
18 Aug 2011, 08:13
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Thanks, Alex. I appreciate the straight reply.
I am working at a CSU right now, meaning that I could go to one of our campuses to get an MBA for next to nothing. Would this be an even better option? Still get a good education - maybe not top tier - but have zero debt? What do you think?
I am working at a CSU right now, meaning that I could go to one of our campuses to get an MBA for next to nothing. Would this be an even better option? Still get a good education - maybe not top tier - but have zero debt? What do you think?
