Average Age: 28
So, as I reserach the class profiles at various B-Schools, it seems that almost every school has average age of 28 with 5 years working experience.
A majority also show international students anywhere from 20-30 percent.
My question about average age is how concetrated around 28 the average age really is for a "tradational" candiate like myself (white male, 4 yrs college -- > job).
I ask because I can see how these numbers might be jaded as a result of say the international students being a little older.
I know that schools look at age with regards to a canidates application, so I am curious if there are different preferred ages for say someone like me vs. an international student vs. say someone who took a non-traditional path (charity work, etc)
Any thoughts??
email said schools and ask for the standard deviation. if they have the data to give you the average, they certainly have the data to give you stdev, although they may not distribute it.
At Booth, if I had to throw out some numbers based on my purely visual inspection, I'd say about 80% of the class is distributed across the age range 25-30. I'd reserve 5% for 25, 10% for 30-35, and 5% for 35+. Obv take these with a grain of salt.
This might not be an answer to your question, but here's my input. There was this Wharton Grad (don't know where he went undergrad) PM at the buy-side I interned for a summer, and he recommended to take as long as you feel/want working before going to grad school. Reason being, he went grad school only after 2 years of working and he felt like he didn't know jackshit against his peers. Also commented that only after knowing for sure that grad school is what you want for the next step and what you want out of grad school should you consider going to the grad school.
TL;DR: i understand that you might be concerned that taking too long to work before grad school might work negatively towards your application in terms of age, you should still not rush into it. 28 doesn't sound old at all in my opinion.
In terms of getting in it's generally accepted that Harvard and Stanford prefer younger candidates with 2-5 years experience, whereas Wharton and Kellogg have a reputation for liking more experience, perhaps 4-8 years. I don't have data to back this up, but I hear it from person after person so I'm guessing there is truth to it. Also, if you look at Wharton resume books you see a lot more people in the 29-34 range than you do looking at most resume books.
Honestly, you could probably break down admissions stats by every silo. GMAT scores will higher because foreign applicants bring up the average, and will also be lower because (allegedly) women and minorities bring down the average (I don't think this is true but you will see this being thrown around a lot).
Thus, a preferred age might be in addition to a certain career path and educational background and gmat score and essay. You have no way of knowing.
Currently in one of those B-Schools with an average age of 28. I would say the average age is just that - an average. Most students fall in the 25-30 level with quite a few outliers over 30 which pulls the average age and working years up.
Yes, it is just an average, I realize that. Thanks. My question was how that average applied to certain groups i.e. (international students, minorities, woman, white males, etc.)
What I was really trying to get at is whether or not international students tend to be older, thus pulling the average up (seeing as how they make up ~ 15-20% of each class)
I been thinking about b school since i was 24 and was on the young side.. now 28 I finally feel like I could actually add to a classroom.
Hopefully I won't be too old when I re-apply next year at age 31-32.
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