This is admittedly an odd post to be publishing on a blahg selling services to help you get into business school, but there it is. Go watch this Exhibit A video: Transiting to a new industry by leveraging transferable skills Of course, that advice is 100% sound. It’s what we help applicants do in […]
Continue reading...($) The pre-MBA internship: Pros and Cons (Part 2)
This is the second part in our reblahgged series for the crazy folks super-motivated ones. Yesterday we explained in broad strokes what a pre-MBA summer internship is and probably got some of you a little bit excited about it. However, there are also some important downsides that you need to be clear on, before you...
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($) Offers and on-campus recruiting
(Trigger Warning: We’re talking about ETHICS again today. If that just turns your stomach, click away now.) We’ve walked through our stance on ethics and applying in a school’s binding Early Decision round plenty o’ times before on the blahg. (Which isn’t really “our stance.” It’s more like, “This is how a person of honor...
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($) What if you never took the GMAT? Are you at a disadvantage if you go to bschool with a GRE score instead?
This is a follow-on to some previous GRE vs GMAT posts. In case you missed those: GMAT vs GRE strategy questions: Which to take for an MBA? “I took the GMAT. If I take the GRE now, do I still have to submit the GMAT score in my MBA app?” This question isn’t about admissions...
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What salary can you expect if you want to go work at a startup?
Short answer: Much less than what your peers graduating with MBAs into consulting and finance are making. Scary answer: Maybe not any more than you’re making today??? Here’s some information captured in a tiny-ass footnote towards the end of the Chicago Booth Class of 2016 Employment Report : Accepted offers in these functions include graduates […]
Continue reading...($) The Lemming Effect
There’s this unavoidable phenomenon that the schools themselves must be acutely aware of and yet apparently powerless to fix for themselves. So we’ll attempt to fix it. The phenonemon is this: Everyone applying to School X talks about the same stuff in their essays. They’re all a bunch of lemmings, racing furiously on cute little...
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($) Pre-MBA Internships
A question has come up infrequently over the years but it’s a good one and someone asked about it not long ago so we thought we’d cover it here for all of you. It’s about pre-MBA internships – and yeah it’s usually the uber-motivated teacher’s pet type overachiever who is thinking about doing one. Or...
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($) Big-picture thinking.
We lurked in the background of a Chicago Booth chat awhile ago where one of the BSers asked this*: This is addressed to the second years. In your internships, did you feel a difference between you and the other interns from other schools. If so, at what level and how did Booth differentiate you from...
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