<p>masters plus an MBA why not?</p>
<p>Would it hurt to apply now, and if i get rejected, then go for Masters?</p>
<p>if it depends on your MBA preference. If you want M7 get your masters work 3-4yrs then apply for MBA</p>
<p>M7 is definitely my goal, but Iām afraid I would not get in right away because Iām not sure how the admissions department would view my work experience (1.5yrs in a small public accounting firm).</p>
<p>Would they look at me differently with an MS applying into an MBA program?
BTW, thanks Cmoss, really appreciate your help.</p>
<p>I stand by my original statement āIf you want M7 get your masters work 3-4yrs then apply for MBAā OR get a 760+ on the gmat.</p>
<p>Makes sense.</p>
<p>Thanks a bunch, really appreciate it.</p>
<p>hey thereā¦I followed this thread of conversation and I really like your way of explaining thingsā¦
will u please help me out a little here as wellā¦? i am currently doing economics honors for my under graduationā¦and look forward to seeking an MBAā¦but at the same time it makes me worry about all those eligibility criteria<code>sā¦one of which is work experience for most of the reputed institutions. Are there job oppurtunities for an economics graduateā¦? with a plain vanilla bachelor</code>s degree in hand who would give me a job? i will have to tell you that I am not āthe bestā student who will surely be selected and get a job in a company when they come for recruitmentā¦then will it be hard for me to do an MBA from a prestigious B-school? is work experience really necessary?</p>
<p>More so I am an international student and studied science in high schoolā¦could not get into a good engineering college so decided for economics honorsā¦but I still have the time to drop out of it and go for engineering degree by a institute which would take me without an entrance testā¦ should I go for it? because I have this naive thinking that a B-TECH holder has some employablity when he graduates as it is a professional courseā¦? </p>
<p>i should have really asked you this earlier but I do not know enough about MBAā¦what kind of a job or working enviornment/aptitude does one have with a MBA degree???I have searched the internet but in vainā¦it just tells me how I can go about it or what is an MBAā¦but none answers what is really expected out of you after you have done a masters in buisness administration? is it all money matters!!!
thankuā¦:)</p>
<p>would an insurance underwriter be considered quality mba work experience?</p>
<p>hey guys. hereās my situation. i go to a large state school, with a high (3.8) GPA, honors program, solid ECs (president of tutoring group, student instructor, volunteer organizer for local congressmanās campaign). iāll also be interning under a senator in DC next semester. after i work for a few years out of undergrad, iāll be applying to top b-schools (HBS, Whart, Tuck, Yale). the trouble is that i clearly donāt come from a blue chip educational background, and i probably wonāt be going into blue chip full-time work (IB, Consulting, etc).</p>
<p>i guess my question is: with my work in the future, how can i plan to position myself best to get into the schools im aiming for? should i go try to get into a top think tank like Brookings? as far as WE goes, iāve heard a variety of opinions: that top b-schools want diversity of WE in an entering class, and so they value non-traditional backgrounds as long as you show a history of success. on the other hand, iāve also heard that if you arenāt working in a prestigious firm or organization, youāll have slim chances of admission.</p>
<p>i know iām probably going at this from the opposite direction iām supposed to, but any input would be appreciated.</p>
<h2>Hi,yes according to me experience matters a lot.So gain it before going for MBA.</h2>
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<p>Hi everybody!To say that I have a situation ādifferentā from otherās in this thread would be an understatemant.l am an artist and probably wouldnāt be interested in MBA in any way hadn`t l found a dual degree MFA/MBA program which got me realy interested.
I will try to be as concise as l can in explaining.Iām 28 y.o.from Belgrade(Serbia).Got into the Art Academy at 23,reson for that:small % gets in straight from high s.majority gets admitted from 2nd,3rd,4th shot(hard to get in).l have a bachelor degree in painting and plan on going to MFA program in US.Obviously l am not interested in banking business or pursuing a career in corporate jungle,nothing on that scale.But l was always more than interested in being more than active participant in art scene but understanding the mechanism of it aswell,the business and the economy behind it.The whole thing is fascinating to me and definatly something l would like to learn more about.l didnt put much thought to it , being my subject of study in Academy unfortunately had no common points with those interests.Than l accidantly bumped across dual degree program at the University of Michiganās Art and Design School, which realy got me thinking.MFA is great and l got it pretty much covered when it comes to requirements .But the merging of MFA and MBI programs resulted in pretty intriguing curriculum.
Now hereās my problem.Being someone who went to Design High School then Art Academy l clearly have no working expiriance of the sort that all the fuss is about.ltās very hard to get a job as a student here while being a full time student because the curriculum doesnt allow it.l was very lucky to find job cleaning offices for the last 2.5 years and belive me l was the anvy of my class!Talk about starting from the bottom!!!So hereās my question , how does someone who is driven,persistant and hard working,has talent and ideas to offer and above all,who wants to learn and move ahead but sadly only has the B.A. in paintng,ā¦how does one findās his way arround it?l red the posts in the thread and l get it ,the expiriance,the maturaty,networking,the contacts you bring alongā¦itās complex and it makes sence.l am pretty realistic,not daydreaming of ivy league or anything like that,just want to hear honest opinions on whether there are any REAL chances what so ever for someone with my background and interests to get into decent MBA in joint program and what could be done to make those chances better.</p>
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<p>Hi,</p>
<p>Iām looking to get into a less selective, yet still respected tier 2 or 3 mba program. Some of my targets include Georgetown, Vanderbilt, USC, Villanova, George Washington, Notre Dame, University of Denver, and NYU and Duke as stretches.</p>
<p>Hereās my thing. I am a second semester junior right now at the University of Colorado at Boulder as a political science major. I have a 2.85 right now, which is right on the lower end of the middle 80% range for most of the schools I am applying to. I have taken a practice GMAT and got a 695. I want to go to business school right after my undergrad, so I will be applying without any post graduate work experience.</p>
<p>My counter to the low GPA is the fact that I did well in my quantitative classes (A- Calc, B+ stats), and was very busy with extracurriculars such as the National Society for Leadership and Success, FOCUS, Young Republicans group on campus, playing in a band, and working part time. I chose my extracurriculars carefully, so that they covered a broad expane of areas with things I find important including politics, religion, creativity, leadership, networking, and business experience.</p>
<p>As far as work experience is concerned, I had a very unique internship experience. My father is a well respected figure in the private equity and hedge-fund community in Denver, so I was able to meet many people and build a strong networking base. I began working as an intern with a startup company that was a subsidiary company of the company for which my father is a partner. This company sells information on distressed real estate and reo property, as well as lien data for those properties to banks like Fannie mae, and also private investors. It so happened, that while working there, this company began to take off, and at the same time, we layed some people off. As a result, my internship experience moved away from getting coffee, filing, and faxing, to valuable work. I actually ended up earning their trust, and some of my accomplishments include being put in a leadership role for maintaining data integrity within our database, training new employees on how to maintain data integrity within our system and maneuver through trustee and assessor databases, as well as our site, training indian workers that we outsourced some of our work to over conference calls, writing an instructional handbook for future employees on how to maintain data integrity within our database that is now used today, and also performing market research and analysis into new entry markets and writing an expansion report, which became a key piece in determining which areas our company would expand into. They liked me so much that they have kept me on part time during the school years, and by the time I apply, I will have worked for this company for 2 and a half years.</p>
<p>Due to my success and the length in my internship experience, as well as the fact that I was entrusted with duties that not many interns are, do you think its possible that this could help me, or that some schools might view this as viable work experience? Also, given my profile, along with the fact that I am applying to good, but not elite mba programs, what do you think the chances of me getting accepted into a few of the aforementioned programs might be? If it is low, do you have any recommendations? Also, for Notre Dame, I am family friends with one of the priests at the school who said he might write a recommendation for me. </p>
<p>Thanks for any help, Iāve been pretty stressed :)</p>
<p>hiā¦i am a final year engg studentā¦fromā¦chennai,indiaā¦i ll be completing my course by this mayā¦i just want to knowā¦whether work experience really mattersā¦when it comes to applying for an mba in U.k</p>
<p>Hi-</p>
<p>My credentials:</p>
<p>Graduated cum laude (3.8) from Loomis Chaffee (CT Prep School)
Graduated Vassar College (3.65) cum GPA; BS History, Italian
Speak fluent Italian and Spanish
President of Mentoring/tutoring group; taught Italian for 2 years
White Jewish male
Dad went to Columbia Business School, uncle went to HBS- both have donated for 20+ years
Have worked for a gourmet food importer for 1 year
Job description: sales, PR, marketing, consulting, research, analytics, among other jobs
Am taking the GMAT in the spring
Looking to apply for MBA for Fall 2013</p>
<p>Would ideally like to go to HBS, Columbia, NYU or Cornell.</p>
<p>Can someone answer the following:
What are my chances of getting into these schools?
Is History a well regarded major for b schools?
If I had a 3.65 in History and Italian from Vassar, worked for 3 years and broke 700 on my GMAT, could I get into these 4 schools?
Thanks,
Robert</p>
<p>Would Peace Corps be considered āwork experienceā if it is in a business development field? It is a 2 year volunteer program abroad. Is it enough as a full time work experience?</p>
<p>Hi all.
I wanted to ask about postgraduate degree. Is there any college or university in UK to do a MBA degree for HND and Work experiences. I have done a HND Course in management and have 6 year experiences in administration field.
Thanks in advance!</p>
<p>Peace Corps experience is great to have. Adcoms like it and consider it an alternative to traditional FT work experience. It may not be enough by itself if they want 3-4 years, but it certainly is part of the total and generally well regarded by adcoms.</p>
<p>What kind of work experience is most valuable if you want to get into a top MBA program 2-3 years after graduating with a BS in engineering?
Is it better to go into management consulting then go to business school or work in corporate or a mid-size company?</p>
<p>Iām graduating in 2013 and am contemplating my employment options. I donāt want to take a technical role so Iām looking to see whatās best for my long term goals.</p>
<p>What type of work experience would be needed in this case ??</p>
<p>Dear sakky,
I have read the whole thread and I find your answers appreciable.
I am facing a problem which I guess you can help me with.
To be honest, I did my B.Tech in Chemical Engineering from a reputed college in my country.
But the branch, i.e. chemical engg. was opted on the basis of my rank, and since at that point I had no exposure or likings and the college brand mattered more, I completed my B.tech.
I passed with a 7.63 cgpa and presently working in a petrochemical company which is also a fortune 100 company and the remuneration is also fab.
But the dilemma I am facing is:
- I understand engineering and the job requirement and if I stay here or in my core industry I will survive and even do well.
- But the job gets monotonous, I want a job where there is more thrill or should I say, I want to explore places, which i cannot do in a core industry as all plants are in desolate places.
- Also I find that my soft skills which I honed will be of no use; the only knowledge required here is engineering and in the later stage man power handling.</p>
<p>Now what should I do?
I have considered doing an MBA which I find is necessary if I want a job at VC, CEO level.
merely an engineering degree wont suffice.
But when to do this MBA?
and can I do this MBA after working for several years in an engineering firm or like you suggested to the law firm guy; I need to change my field to some consulting company.
Another concern of mine is that, after MBA I will be in a different sector.
Now I know that engineering for me is not very juicy but I know it well, but what is the guarantee that the other sector would be juicy or satisfying as well??
Now you suggested to that guy to leave the law firm and do a job that is on business lines.
But finding a job isnt that easy and the package I am getting here is good enough. Taking a loose risk will break a lot of expectations that my parents have on me.</p>
<p>Kindly help in any way you can!!!
Please</p>