Comments on: Let’s Talk B-School: A Dealbreaker Reader Poll

By: guest

guest — Tue, 14 Apr 2009 04:39:41 +0000

pick columbia and free up a waitlist spot in chicago for me.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:38:06 +0000

@7,
@11 is dead on the money. Take a pass on the third tier.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:24:37 +0000

@258 You are absolutely correct. Finance at Stern is very much so top notch.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 22:13:05 +0000

the top 10 schools all deliver value…not just HWS.

By: guest

guest — Thu, 09 Apr 2009 00:05:54 +0000

Just don’t go. B-school is the last place you want to be during a recession. Less than half of the normal recruiters will be missing, the ones that show are going to hire less than a quarter of thier usual load. Its better to stay working (if you are working) and go when the econ improves

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 22:05:28 +0000

HBS is a joyride and complete shit for non-consultants.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:28:58 +0000

257 Why you loathin’ Stern? Did great things for my career and I find that the Stern grads I hire are the ones that invariably deliver for me: smart, practical, quick. None of this mouthing off theory like the rest of em – HBS esp take note.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:17:27 +0000

93/94 is that a joke? for your sake I hope so. fuqua is like, what, battling it out with stern to gain entry to the second tier? (stern wins, in my opinion, and I loathe stern)

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 16:03:12 +0000

I know what you mean – my experience also. It happens because Columbia is something of a GMAT whore. Their admissions officer literally pees in her pants for a bump up on their GMAT. So they admit people who had no chance at the better schools because they’re not well rounded and somehow need to feel like they went to an Ivy. Having said all that, I would still take Columbia over Chicago. That “Booth” thing is really weird, and Chicago still has lesser name recognition. Chicago is way cold for basically the entire school year. I have had a better experience with Chicago students. Some pretty solid people. Whereas Columbia is some swagger and sometimes not much else.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 04:28:09 +0000

My desk hired a first year associate out of Columbia. He is a complete moron. Seriously, what the hell is going on uptown?

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:52:28 +0000

By the way @251 no person who went to Harvard, Wharton, Stanford would be caught dead defending Kellogg.

By: guest

guest — Tue, 07 Apr 2009 02:48:04 +0000

@251 Bitter Kellogg-er alert. Based on your comment re the alum network clearly the proud owner of a wharton ding letter

By: guest

guest — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:10:50 +0000

@248 – I would if I could but I am abroad right now and will be for the next few months. Im having an alum send an email on my behalf. Unfortunately, they dont take any addl info on the applications. I have a contact in the admin office and have emailed her but no word back yet.
@250 – I will prob do that but I will say when i went to Tuck I met several ppl who turned down wharton for tuck, due to fit etc. I was pretty surprised myself but thats just the way it goes I guess. Def leaning towards tuck at the moment until i hear back from $ at Kellogg. If Wharton comes through who knows what ill do. 100K is a lot right now

By: guest

guest — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 18:08:06 +0000

@250 who are “the hitters at the consulting and banks”? those hanging on to their jobs by a thread?
since these sectors won’t be recruiting much for the next couple years, no difference between Tuck and Wharton. Take 100K now vs. some vague benefits in the future. The Wharton network isn’t as strong as you’d think in terms of asking alums for jobs- I know because I went there.

By: guest

guest — Mon, 06 Apr 2009 16:59:24 +0000

@246 pray for Wharton, otherwise take Tuck. you’re right that those 2 are too close and $100K makes the difference. Kellogg did a great job marketing (itself, anyway) for a few years but of all the Kellogg-ers I’ve met none of them really had the attitude that they went to a top tier. they know better, and the hitters at the consulting and banks know better too. if Wharton comes through I would take it over the free ride to Tuck though.