[QUOTE]Originally posted by happs22
Wow, I don't know how you full-time work, part-time school guys do it!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by happs22
Wow, I don't know how you full-time work, part-time school guys do it!

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by Kekoa

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by happs22
I've noticed a lot of West Coast MBA'ers on the board.

 

Thanks for the advice cyber and kekoa. I really need to score well on the GMAT, and I think that is stressing me out more than anything else right now. I have decent work experience (consulting for 4 years), and will have good rec's from alumns from the schools I'm targeting. . . but my undergrad GPA stinks. I figure a 700+ will help me out in terms of getting my application looked at by admissions.

I really want to change professions, so I thinkan MBA is necessary (B.S. in Biology and Environmental Science doesn't help all that much in the business world). Getting away from operations consulting and moving to strategy is tough without the degree. Anyway, thanks again for the GMAT advice, guys.

Ulrich, I'll PM you in a little while. I definitely have some questions about life at Duke, recruiting opportunites, workload, etc. Once I get my thoughts together I'll let you know.

 

If you have the chance do it young. I have 2 more classes left until I get my MBA and I'm 22. Went straight from getting my bachelors to grad school. I've been going full time since I want to get it ASAP. So tired of school.....Just spent a little over 25-30 hours studying for a Manegerial Finance midterm. I'm glad its over now, I feel pretty confident. Now its time to spend most of my time devolping my business plan and elements for my entreprenuership class. Then it will be back to finance again...The madness never stops. Again do it young, but right now my social life has been in the drain due to work and school. So remember there is a cost to all this but should be worth it. The average person in my program is like 32-37 but instead of partying and freinds they lose time with their family.

 

[QUOTE]Originally posted by SilverKnight
If you have the chance do it young. I have 2 more classes left until I get my MBA and I'm 22. Went straight from getting my bachelors to grad school. I've been going full time since I want to get it ASAP. So tired of school.....Just spent a little over 25-30 hours studying for a Manegerial Finance midterm. I'm glad its over now, I feel pretty confident. Now its time to spend most of my time devolping my business plan and elements for my entreprenuership class. Then it will be back to finance again...The madness never stops. Again do it young, but right now my social life has been in the drain due to work and school. So remember there is a cost to all this

 

I've heard from many people, including my Dad, that doing an MBA after some work experience is much better than going straight to grad school after undergrad. My Dad said he was able to apply stuff from the class with his job during the day. Somebody who has never had a fulltime job could never know what it's like and wouldn't get as full of an education as someone who has. There's a reason most of the top business schools require several years of work experience.

 

I really need to check back here more often.

My work experience is in the Film Industry. I did lighting for independent films. Not exactly the usual, however I did learn a lot about people and how to work with many different kinds of them since it was different almost everytime. I also learned the importance in networking. It can help you no matter what industry you are in.

I took the manhattangmat.com prep class. I found it to be a good experience. They do teach classes in various locations in Southern California and a few other locals besides Los Angeles. It was under $1k and all their instructors scored over 750 on the gmat. I'm not sure all the instructors at princeton review even took the gmat. Princeton seems like the McDonald's of the test prep world.

Was it worth it? I don't know. I really wanted to do well on this test. My GPA from College was a 2.9x. That plus my unstable work as my work experience. I'm not sure I have a strong case so I know I have to do well where I can, GMAT. letter's on intent/essays/letters of rec.

I dunno what's with you asians getting low math percentiles. You guys wanna work together on a gmat? i got 77% math and 54% verbal. I got thinking like happs22. Hit that 700 and that can cover up a college gpa.

I will apply to those schools and see what happend. BTW, this stuff is expensive. $225 for the gmat, and then all the application fees. Geez!

 

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