<p>I think those comments are designed to reflect the sentiments of the students attending the schools. Dartmouth is such a niche program, it only atracts students who really want tobe there.</p>
<p>In defense of SMU...Dallas is going to be a growing city for a long time to come (0% Texas state income tax, low business taxes, etc)...It will pass the non business friendly markets on the coasts and Chicago soon enough...I dont' know how California & NY continue to attract people and businesses with 10% state income taxes on top of the cost of living.</p>
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<p>Well, I can't speak for NY, but regarding California, one major advantage it has over Texas is that it won't enforce employee non-compete agreements. That is, if you want to quit your job to take a similar job with a competitor, you are free to do so, and do so immediately, regardless of what contract you may have signed with your former employer. In other states, including Texas, this is not really true: if you resign, or even if you are fired, you may be barred from taking the same job for some other company for up to 2 years. What that means is that if you have specialized skills (i.e. a PhD), you may find yourself not being able to pursue your chosen career at all.</p>
<p>I have heard of one woman who had quit her company and had her ex-boss calling her every week to make sure that she had not taken a similar job, because that would be a violation of her non-compete and hence would have given the company grounds to sue her. She basically had to take a far worse job in a non-related field because she didn't dare take a job in her desired career lest she get sued. If she had been in California all this time, she wouldn't have this problem.</p>
<p>Income tax is not such a bad thing. Countries like Canada, Denmark, France, Germany, Holland, Norway, Sweden and Switzerland have managed to maintain standards of living as high as the US with higher taxes. I like taxes, and I am a fiscal conservative.</p>
<p>Yale SOM itself is the joke.</p>
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Yale SOM itself is the joke.
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<p>Why is that exactly?</p>
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Yale SOM itself is the joke.
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<p>Why is that exactly?</p>
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<p>Is this a good thing? It's not like any of those countries have the huge national defense spending the US has. Also, the should have lower infrastructure costs too.</p>
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<p>Yes, but apparently you have "issues."</p>
<p>As for SMU, I agree that it is a great place to go if you want to live in Dallas, but is not as well respected outside of the metroplex and while there are some good employers that recruit there many of the most coveted employers do not.</p>
<p>Lets all remember that Citi and Lehman used to be "coveted employers"!</p>
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Just exactly how do you know? You mean you run around to ask people where they went and where they were rejected? People don't think you are weird and "rough around the edges" (what you said about Chicago grads) when you do that?
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<p>How exactly is discussing MBA applications with friends, classmates, colleagues when we're all going through the process together weird? </p>
<p>If you are at all discerning, you can tell someone with an MBA who attended UChicago vs Harvard, Tuck, Kellogg. There is a reason that historically the former has had a much higher acceptance rate than the latter three and from personal experience the only ones who attended UChicago were not accepted at these other three (+Stanford, Wharton).</p>