Simon (U of Rochester) 2013 - Calling All MBA Applicants

Glad to hear that you had the opportunity to talk to J. Manser at the Admissions dept. I think the they are going to set up an Ask Admission - Simon soon, in case you and others have more questions (or post them here).

Glad to hear that you had the opportunity to talk to J. Manser at the Admissions dept. I think the they are going to set up an Ask Admission - Simon soon, in case you and others have more questions (or post them here).

Hi Vunsuk,
For reputation and research (which are the areas I know best), I believe that Simon dominates Illinois by quite a bit of a margin.

Give me a bit more info if you can - area of specialization that you are looking for, and how much is the difference in pay for the two years?

I applied in R3 on Jan 4th and got my interview invite 2 hours ago

Hi nerm,
Congratulations on being accepted at Simon! Well done!

About the question, my knowledge of Simon is that they now have a dedicated area in their career services to IT consulting, and a professor that was hired a few years back from McKinsey, specialized in IT consulting (If you want the name of the professor, please PM me). They get Deloitte to go recruit from their students, and Accenture also hired this year from Simon (although I don't know if it was in the IT area), and of course leads to other companies as well.

They do have academic concentrations also specifically in IT, but I know that area less well than the IT consulting.

Unfortunately, I don't know anything about Arizona State program, so it's not a direct comparison, but I hope this helps nonetheless.

Best of luck!