How hard is it really to get into a top b-school after 2 or 3 years of investment banking experience not from a bulge bracket or elite boutique firm?
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VERY tough. Gotta have all your ducks in a row.
Hard.
GPA and GMATs should be strong, with top recs from bosses and coworkers. This is just to put you in the running.
wow. depressing...
Is this because they only take a certain % of IB people for their class. And of those numbers you are competing against the Goldmans, Morgans, and JPs of the world? What if you are at a top 15 shop in terms of league tables? So many dawg on questions...
Regardless of where you come from it's difficult, not just where you worked for 2-3 years.
pretty sure there is a positive correlation between academic performance/gmat and top banking jobs anyway; so chances are the problem is not just being from a smaller bank. if this isn't true, then you definitely have a solid shot with good rec's from top people at your bank.
well if top elite means top15 its not so hard. top 5 is harder
alright, another question -- I know having legacy is sometimes huge for UG -- how big of a role does it play for graduate school?
Little to none unless they've donated something large.
sooo if a family relative has a building named after them... you're saying there's chance?
I would rather lick the steps of a new york city subway station for 30 minutes than have to do another b-school application. Yes--getting into a top b-school, especially top-7, is really hard for the normal people. If you are a whiz kid with a 3.5+ GPA, 750+ GMAT, and a great professional history with shining recommendations, then getting into a top-7 is pretty easy (though HBS and Stanford are still not a lock).
From the due-diligence I've managed to do thus far, the "M7" are essentially the "Ivy League" / "Bulge Bracket" of Business Schools. They consist of:
Tier 1: Harvard, Stanford Tier 1a: Wharton Tier 2: Chicago Booth, Columbia, MIT, Kellogg
Tier 1 and 1a are widely recognized - however, the relative merits of those in tier 2 are a lot more difficult to discern. Among those though, it seems to be the consensus that if the focus is finance, Chicago is really the place to be.
H/S really takes a lot of luck in addition to great credentials to get in. Also it helps if you've done something "different". Wharton is for those aces who've done Ivy strong GPA + strong GMAT + BB experience --- basically the creme of the crop that might not have the wow factor H/S sometimes look for. For a strong candidate without the wow factor (i.e. some mind-blowing EC's), getting into a M7 should be pretty 'easy'. Getting into H/S is another story.
How would Top Ivy, 3.9, 780 GMAT, 1 year McKinsey + 2 year Bain Capital, followed up a year as head of corp dev of a Bain Cap porfolio company (think 200 million+ revenue) look for business schools?
lol
Not that good--should probably apply to a few safety schools like Devry's Keller School of Business
or University of Phoenix Online
Double post
buddy of mine from a small ib that not many of heard of is interviewing both at s/h
Probably not that hard to get into Wharton. Saw a guy with a 3.8 GPA from an Ivy, with 2 years at Top BB and 2 years at megafund who got in
Probably not that hard to get into Wharton. Saw a guy with a 3.8 GPA from an Ivy, with 2 years at Top BB and 2 years at megafund who got in
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