[Personal Branding]An inspiration from "older" applicant

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Q:

Male 35 >age>40; married & two sons ;Under top10 in China;Ph.D from US University almost ten years ago;GMAT 740(50/40); TOEFL waiveredPick up GMAT last July (15 y after GRE), take test on Oct30; then apply R2 (Jan round)Rejected by Ross & Columbia without interviews;Rejetced by Yale & Emory after interviews;Accepted by Cornell/AMBA, UNC, & Vandy ($35k/y)

A:
All due respect
The reasons for rejections may lie in why you want an MBA after a Ph.D
what happend in these 10 years, and why it led you to this point for an MBA
since with your superior package, which includes 10+ years work experience, a U.S. Ph.D, and a 740 GMAT
it should be frankly easy to get admitted in top 10
probably you can share more and we can find out the problem together

[BW Forum]Chinese Ask David

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All due respect. It's not only about the best school offers, it's about your career fit through your MBA. Find out your REAL LIFE career through "3 CAREER ELEMENTS": Passion, Characteristics, and Professional Capabilities. Then find out your FIT MBA accordingly.

MBA Career Consultant for 3 years, Scholarship Committee from top MBA in international field, 3,000 articles in Taiwan and China MBA forums regarding career pathing, curriculum fitting, and personal branding. Consulted 700+ Chinese MBA applicants to find out career passions, and those who later attended their ture fit in top 20 U.S. MBA. Clients also from different cultures including Indian, Korean, Japanese, Thai, and also American.

Personal experience struggled through sales, marketing, market research, and operations functions, in IT, media, telecom, and traditional industries, both in B2B and B2C channels, then found my life-long passion as a career consultant through my MBA. So well familiar with MBA logic on career management. Key MNC experience including IBM, HP, Cisco, and TIME Inc. in global or regional scope.

Just realized here is the real major league and the articles can benefit people from other parts of the world, while we can all learn more from more diverse perspectives.

Please share your brief situation, and I'll try my best to help you on career pathing, curriculum selection, personal branding for your true career-fit MBA.

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[Program Fitting]该选哪个offer？？？谢谢各位提供意见(2)

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Q:

该选哪个offer？？？谢谢各位提供意见
１。Boston University : 扣除奖学金后，自费４万／２年。优势：（１）喜欢学校的位置，可能以后方便找工作　（２）我公司在美国有offices, boston 有个挺大的事业部，但是没人保证我毕业一定进我们公司波士顿的office
劣势：要自费４万　
2. 。Penn state univ (滨州州立大学，注明：不是沃顿）：有GA,　学费全免，每月还有６００补助？？？
优势：不用给钱读书　　劣势：学校地理位置比不上波士顿
３。Washington Univ in St. luis (Olin): 拿了５０％奖学金，打算据掉，所以基本不考虑了　（我这个想法对么？）
可以申请公司赞助１万，但是不知道结果如何及要附加什么条件。如果条件多多，我不打算要。如果没啥特别条件，就要。
毕业后有两种想法
（１）留美，做financial management,　我现在就做这个（２）进在香港，新加坡的IB　或者中国的基金公司（原因：估计美国的进不了），对这个兴趣大些
我马上要答复学校了，谢谢各位的意见！！！

A:
BU has fairly limited finance program
only offer 11 courses in finance concentration, and quite fundamental
whereas Olin offers more than double, 25 courses
you can see the courses are much more sophisticated and well-rounded
then you may have less to prove what you've learned from BU when you interview
BU is ranked 40 in US NEWS by specialty in Finance
Olin is ranked 25
PSU is also around 40

Olin's Finance
http://www.olin.wustl.edu/MBA/Academics/index.cfm?sid=48&tid=59#concentrations
Advanced Corporate Finance I - Valuation
Advanced Corporate Finance II - Financing
Advanced Corporate Finance III - Frontiers of Valuation
Advanced Derivative Securities
Data Analysis for Investments
Derivative Securities
Financial Institutions
Financial Intermediation
Financial Issues in Leasing
Financial Markets
Fixed-Income Securities
International Finance
International Financial Markets and Institutions (offered in Summer London Program)
Investment Banking
Investments PraxisInvestment Theory
Mergers and Acquisitions
Mortgage-Backed Securities
Options & Futures
Real Estate FinanceReal Option Valuation
Risk Management
Venture Capital and Private Equity

BU's Finance
http://management.bu.edu/gpo/fulltime/mba/curriculum/courses.html#FINANCE
FE814: Intellectual Property and Business Strategy
FE815: Competitive Decision Making
FE820: Corporate Financial Management
FE821: Advanced Corporate Finance
FE822: Fixed Income Markets
FE825: Advanced Topics in Investments
FE827: International Financial Management
FE827: International Financial Management
FE829: Futures, Options & Financial Risk Management
FE848: Real Options in Valuation, Risk Management, and Strategy
FE850: Private Equity: Leveraged Buyouts

[Program Fitting]有关选校，诚请各位高手提供意见！

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Q:
有关选校，诚请各位高手提供意见！
我的背景是生物博士后。今年申请MBA, 得到Penn State和 Hult的offer，不知选择哪一个，具体利弊如下：

Penn State: 学校较好，可惜要两年才能毕业，且奖学金不多。觉得有些浪费时间，但找工可能会有利些。

Hult:学校没名气， 但一年即可毕业，奖学金差不多。时间短，但找工可能会有不利。

万分感谢！

A:
Penn State is much more decent in MBA league
and at least in major job arena
Hult may be less competitive against Penn State
one year program may also have some pros and cons
pro is to get out faster
the major con is not learning much

[Program Fitting]该选哪个offer？？？BU, PSU, WUSL

http://forum.chasedream.com/dispbbs.asp?boardid=13&id=314761&star=1#2847373
Q:
该选哪个offer？？？谢谢各位提供意见
１。Boston University : 扣除奖学金后，自费４万／２年。优势：（１）喜欢学校的位置，可能以后方便找工作　（２）我公司在美国有offices, boston 有个挺大的事业部，但是没人保证我毕业一定进我们公司波士顿的office
劣势：要自费４万　
2. 。Penn state univ (滨州州立大学，注明：不是沃顿）：有GA,　学费全免，每月还有６００补助？？？
优势：不用给钱读书　　劣势：学校地理位置比不上波士顿
３。Washington Univ in St. luis (Olin): 拿了５０％奖学金，打算据掉，所以基本不考虑了　（我这个想法对么？）
可以申请公司赞助１万，但是不知道结果如何及要附加什么条件。如果条件多多，我不打算要。如果没啥特别条件，就要。
毕业后有两种想法
（１）留美，做financial management,　我现在就做这个（２）进在香港，新加坡的IB　或者中国的基金公司（原因：估计美国的进不了），对这个兴趣大些
我马上要答复学校了，谢谢各位的意见！！！

A:
Olin is the best school out of these three
its finance program is extensively solid and sophisticated if you take a closer look
well-rounded in every detail of finance
it's competency could almost be equivalent to the other 2 programs combined

[Program Fitting]URGENT-BABSON VS UNIV OF FLORIDA

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Q:
Hello
I have been admitted to the MBA programs at Babson (Boston) and UF (Warrington at Florida)
Please help me decide which one I should take (both are 1 year MBA programs)
Profile - GMAT 6XX, greater than 3 years exp in sales (outside US)
Target - marketing position after MBA in USA
Advantages of Florida = higher ranked (rank 37 in US news ) / marketing program is ranked 15 (in US news) / lesser costs
Disadvantages of Florida = since i want to work in the US, not a very strong job market for MBAs in florida
Advantage of Babson = good brand / boston is a good market for mbas
Disadvantages of Babson = higher costs / known only for entrepreneurship
Since the economy is weak , i am not sure whether an international will find a job in US next year .. so i might have to go back to my home country and this will make it difficult to pay the student loans
PLEASE ADVICE URENTLY

A:
although Babson is the best for entrepreneur, you can see why in their very sophisticated program design, it's at least 3 to 4 levels more advanced than UF, no matter in marketing, finance, operation, leadership...etc., whereas UF is not particularly weak but mostly fundamental generals in all fields. But it's good for entry-level, though.
sorry for being quite bias here, my sister graduated from UF and it's a great school. But if you're going to marketing, you'll meet lots of well-seasoned entrepreneurs with tons of real-life marketing experience, and believe me, as an entrepreneur myself also, you'll know how hard is the real-world marketing, also you learn about 30 times deeper than those fundamentals, while the subjects are still the same.
go for the more experienced, way more sophisticated curriculum design, and also more down-to-earth network. it'll worth it.

[Program Fitting]IU, OSU, MSU

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Q:

Hi Guys,
Its that time of making choices. I have been accepted at following schools
IU - Good ranking, great marketing program, waiting for schol info
OSU - great resources, strong ops and logistics, waiting for schol info
MSU- great supply chain and ops, bad location, full schol + stipend
Vandy - great finance, good location, 30k schol
I am an engineer and most likely want to do operations and finance...
Any suggestions are appreciated...
My profile 700/5yrs WE-Automotive/Operations & Finance major.

A:
Hi Harry
For some reasons, I believe your decision doesn't lie in these schools or which one has the best fin or ops or whatever it is. All 4 schools have totally different career paths for you. The main criteria is why and how do you need your fin and ops based on you 5 yr engineer background. It depends heavily on where exactly are you heading for, and what specific parts do you need from either fin or ops. How do you weight them and why.

Why would you like to go operation and finance as an engineer? these are totally 3 different planets. I believe the reason lies within your original rationale and it must be a good one, and it'll definitely be your criteria to choose these schools from. What's your goals and career paths look like?
IU has almost the best marketing strategy curriculum in the league, while it's really shining on this field that it's easy to overlook its strong finance. While Vandy does have almost 2 levels more sophisticated courses than Kelley, Vandy goes to experiencial and higher academic finance.

For the supply Chain and operations, OSU connects more completely toward the front end and market-oriented, and it's harder and tougher to balance through the value chain. But there's a weird part that MSU although has a better reputation on supply chain and ops, the courses seems smaller selection than Fisher.

But all these are only the school part. All that matter is where exactly are you going? what kind of combination or mixture do you need on fin and ops, and why that mix will help you achieve your career in which field? the school selection should be based more specifically on what elements do you need and why, not from any rank or vote.

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