Quote:
Originally posted by AXiD670
In general, I think that's how guys see MBAs and graduate school, etc. Most girls don't CARE about networking and they don't CARE to call up someone they don't know and kiss their butt for 20 minutes to get something from them, just because they went to their school a few years before they did.
It doesn't matter where you go to school. And just because you go to a top 10 school doesn't mean you're smart either. Generally, people attend a school based on what's best for them, not because Joe Blow went there or because it's ranked #1 in the country or whatever. Besides, comparing MBA programs (or any program, for that matter) nationally is like trying to compare GLOs nationally. It's not easily done, and the results are going to either be incorrect, or they'll change again in a year or two.
|
That is total horsecrap. An MBA is a bull degree. There is no substance to it. I took every difficult class (finance, accounting, statistics, and empirical modelling classes are the only really difficult ones available) an MBA student could take at Chicago as well as some classes at Columbia and Tuck while an undergrad. Most of them there are using it as a vacation. You work hard for 2-3 years and then come in and use that as a vacation. People make claims you learn something but study after study has shown otherwise. That is why a top 10 program is what counts. It's because you use it to name drop and to brag. You use it to get nifty little business cards from the school with your name on it for when recruiters come. You don't kiss up to anyone...that name on your resume opens up doors and from there you do the work.
And yes schools can be compared and most pale in comparison to the top schools. The rankings for MBAs don't change too rapidly and while undergrad rankings change it's pretty much set which schools are top 10 (Ivy+). While it isn't a definite that you're smarter if you go to a better school, it's definitely a higher probability that you are. And for MBAs while overall rankings don't change much, programs change even less - Kellogg is great for marketing, Stanford and HBS great for entrepreneurial type programs, and Chicago and Wharton great for finance type programs.
What is it that makes some podunk mba better than harvard business school?? Nothing. You learn little enough at HBS so at some podunk school you learn even less than that and are exposed to less talented people. Recruiters don't come to your school really and you end up with a worthless and expensive degree for nothing.
What do you disagree with here? Oh and just so you know there are girls in top MBA programs too so it isn't a sex isolated phenomenon.
-Rudey