When does school start?

Question

For those of you starting this fall, I will like to know the your respective schools and start date. I plan to enroll next year and I want to know if the start date is going to conflict with our August family vacation.

Thanks!
Yinka

pelihu · Answer

School starts 8/20 at Darden, but there is a mandatory orientation BBQ on 8/17 (I don't think they will kick you out if you miss it though).

What really gets me are the schools that have mandatory pre-matriculation courses weeks in advance. Seriously, why don't they just call that the start of classes if it is mandatory.

lhotseface · Answer

If you are going to be a future Duke MBA, then school starts on the 9th of August (July 29th if you are doing Health Sector Management).

futuredukemba · Answer

Thanks...I may need to change my screen name to futuredardenmba ;-)

. Our family vacation is planned around my mom's birthday which is August 8th

EconGirl · Answer

Madatory pre-term at Wharton starts August 1st! Pelihu, I was wondering this as well. My guess is that there are 2 reasons: there is a pre-term fee which school charges on top of tuition and also 2nd years don't start till september.

kidderek · Answer

I noticed Anderson starts in Oct. Weird . . . That might be nice, but I believe they also graduate mid June.

pelihu · Answer

Yeah, they are on the quarter system. As an undergrad there, I can tell you that the late start is pretty nice, and the quarter system allows you to have a worry free winter break (don't know if that's true for b-school) because you are between quarters. However, it really sucks when everyone else is done for the summer and you still have 4-6 weeks to go. I imagine it will really really suck at the very end when everyone is moving along to a paying job.

drMBA1 · Answer

MIT: Preterm (optional) - 20th August
 Orientation (mandatory) - 27th August

But you have to show up at school by the 24th to matriculate even if you didn't sign up for pre-term.

lhotseface · Answer

Oh well, not everyone can go to Duke :wink:

dukes · Answer

Insead:

Voluntary Pre-term: August 19
Mandatory Orientation: August 27
Classes: Sept 3

GMATT73 · Answer

Just in case you really want to take a long summer vacation next year, UW doesn't officially begin until September 17th. We have an  optional  one week boot camp and career workshop from the 10th.

lepium · Answer

HBS starts Sept. 4th, right after Labor day. There are some courses going on since about July 20th (preMba for internationals and Analytics), although these are mandatory only for the people who are told to attend (not my case).

L.

rajpdsouza · Answer

For the Mandatory pre-term at Wharton that starts August 1st. Does it go all the way up until regular classes start? Or is there a break between pre-term and regular classes?

GMATT73 · Answer

The Whartonians are already slugging it out at boot camp? Those kids really don't waste much time. :shock:

rajpdsouza · Answer

You're telling me. :lol:

EconGirl · Answer

It goes almost all the way up. At the end of August we all go on a Learning team retreat for 2 days. For those of you who don't know - everyone is assigned into a learning team , a group of 5-6 people who will spend the next year working together on all group projects. 

I was not excited about having my summer cut short but actually pre-term has been a blast so far. It is a great way to meet your classmates and get to know them better before "real" classes start.

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