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14 Oct 2014, 14:10
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Hi, I am studying for the GMAT with the intention of applying either this year or next for a full time MBA. I have a degree in economics from a top-5 eastern public school with a 3.49 GPA. Based on past standardized test scores (99% LSAT and SAT), I think I can get 700+, but I have forgotten pretty much all of this math. Let me get down to it, though. I want to live in the west, specifically in Colorado, Washington, Oregon, or California. As far as cities go: 1) Seattle, 2) Portland, 3) San Francisco, 4) Denver 5) whereever a cool company is located in the region. I am open to several career paths, including working with a start-up, non-profit management, or marketing for a company I believe in, but some companies/organizations I am particularly interested include Patagonia, REI, Cliff Bar, Starbucks, North Face, Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation, TOMS shoes. Basically, an organization doing things I care about (outdoors, sustainability, conservation, general crunchy thing).
I am guessing I will be able to get into a couple schools in the 7 - 25 range. Barring an acceptance to Haas, which seems insanely selective, or Stanford (not sure I'm even going to bother applying), does it make sense to choose a school like, say, Fuqua or Yale SOM or Kellogg or NYU over Foster? Basically, I guess, my question is do I take rank over region or region over rank?
My tentative school list from which I'll draw my final list is:
1. Stanford (huge reach)
2. Berkeley Haas (reach)
3. UCLA
4. Texas McCombs
5. NYU Stern
6. Yale SOM
7. Northwestern Kellogg
8. Duke Fuqua
9. Cornell Johnson
10. Vanderbilt Owen
11. Oxford Said (1-year)
12. IE (1-year in Spain)
I am guessing I will be able to get into a couple schools in the 7 - 25 range. Barring an acceptance to Haas, which seems insanely selective, or Stanford (not sure I'm even going to bother applying), does it make sense to choose a school like, say, Fuqua or Yale SOM or Kellogg or NYU over Foster? Basically, I guess, my question is do I take rank over region or region over rank?
My tentative school list from which I'll draw my final list is:
1. Stanford (huge reach)
2. Berkeley Haas (reach)
3. UCLA
4. Texas McCombs
5. NYU Stern
6. Yale SOM
7. Northwestern Kellogg
8. Duke Fuqua
9. Cornell Johnson
10. Vanderbilt Owen
11. Oxford Said (1-year)
12. IE (1-year in Spain)
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15 Oct 2014, 12:59
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The advice I've received has been:
1. Go to Harvard
2. Go to Stanford
3. Go to the best school in the region you want to live (in your case Haas/UCLA/Foster).
4. One caveat might be that the Tuck/Kellogg/Fuqua kids might be recruited for different/better roles at the Amazon's/Microsoft's (however, I don't have any specific knowledge on that).
But if you're not interested in High Finance or M/B/B consulting go to Foster over NYU, Yale, Cornell, etc (despite them being great schools).
1. Go to Harvard
2. Go to Stanford
3. Go to the best school in the region you want to live (in your case Haas/UCLA/Foster).
4. One caveat might be that the Tuck/Kellogg/Fuqua kids might be recruited for different/better roles at the Amazon's/Microsoft's (however, I don't have any specific knowledge on that).
But if you're not interested in High Finance or M/B/B consulting go to Foster over NYU, Yale, Cornell, etc (despite them being great schools).
15 Oct 2014, 13:23
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Thanks for the feedback. That's my hunch as well. Since I'm not from the west, it seems prudent to go to school there. Yale SOM seems like a good program fit, though, so I plan on giving them a look.
