<p>ok say i go to a school like baruch in NY, which i heard is an ok school for undergraduate business but obviously not the best, and then i get into a graduate business school like say....harvard..or MIT...would investment banks or other various recruiters care about where you went for undergraduate school, and how i did there?, i mean would i still have a pretty good chance of being employed by a good company if i went to a not so great undergraduate business program but did extremely well in it and got into a great graduate business school, like harvard? Maybe i have a really skewed idea of how business schools operate? fill me in please thanks =D</p>
<p>Well you'll need to work for 4 or 5 years before grad school if you want a top program like Harvard or MIT. So where you go to undergrad will effect the jobs you can get, so go to the best school you can get into. Top graduate schools of business also have a huge percentage of students from top undergrad schools.</p>
<p>so youre saying that business schools arent like med schools?, you dont go to a college, then take the GMAT, and if you score high enough and get a high enough GPA, go to a good business school? it doesnt work like that? you have to work?.. please explain</p>
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so youre saying that business schools arent like med schools?, you dont go to a college, then take the GMAT, and if you score high enough and get a high enough GPA, go to a good business school? it doesnt work like that? you have to work?.. please explain
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<p>It is not like that at all. The percentage of student at the top B-schools who have no work experience is vanishingly small - i.e. usually less than 5% of the class. Work experience is, far and away, the most important criteria towards getting into a top B-school. The average work experience of the entering students of those B-schools is generally 4-6 years.</p>
<p>what kind of work experience would be adequate?</p>
<p>Well, there's no hard and fast rule. People get in with all kinds of myriad experience.</p>
<p>But the most typical path is obviously to work as a management consultant or banker. Those 2 paths represent the majority of all incoming students at the top B-schools.</p>
<p>so if i understand this correctly, i go to college for 4 years get a bachelors, then try to get a job as a banker, hopefully i do, then work there for about 4-5 years, and only then apply to harvard business school? </p>
<p>(by the way, how hard is it to become a management consultant or a banker)</p>
<p>Unfortunately it is very hard coming from Baruch. Top Ivy League students compete for most of these jobs along with the Top Ugrad B schools like Wharton, Tepper, Stern, Ross, etc.</p>
<p>well say i cant exactly get into one of those top schools just yet mainly because i didnt take 2 SAT IIs, is it possible to transfer into stern or any of those for example?</p>