+69 People who turn down HBS 48 11y
+69 Columbia GS vs UCLA bizecon 46 14y
+68 Any point in cold-emailing if you haven't started university? 53 3y
+68 Wharton shitting the bed 21 5y
+68 LSE Worth it? 36 6y
+68 Is Harvard a target school? 26 4y
+68 UChicago is now Number 3 on USNWR 37 5y
+68 Things you wish you knew during GMAT prep and B-School application 22 10y
+68 Getting a job at BB with M7 degree and only 2 years experience before MBA? 49 11y
+68 Best Midwest MBA for Value 56 6y
+68 Wharton-Lauder vs MIT Sloan vs Yale SOM vs Duke 36 6y
+68 Investment banking preparation during High school 81 5y
+68 Petraeus joins KKR 61 13y
+68 To what lengths would you go to boost your MBA admission chances? (i.e. pretend to be gay) 75 9y
+67 Official Target Boarding Schools 50 5mo
+67 Best feeder middle schools 14 4y
+67 Southern Methodist Uni (SMU) 42 3y
+67 Q&A: PwC Audit --> Advisory --> Top 15 MBA 23 5y
+67 Career switch from journalism to finance...how to go about? 16 5mo
+67 Timing MBA with Military service 18 6y
+67 Impact Investing 101: Trainings I wish I had known about in Business School 7 6y
+67 MBA Prep 77 11y
+67 90% conversion rate for front office IB BB (and elite MM) jobs at M7 Business Schools 46 11y
+67 Best GMAT Prep Books for Self-Study - Recommendations 80 8y
+67 Is 740 the new 700? 38 13y
+67 Default: The Movie 45 14y
+66 IU Kelley v. Purdue Daniels 37 5mo
+66 Modern Alternatives to MBA 18 2y
+66 Poland - Masters and job prospects? (Consulting/IB) 26 1w
+66 Wharton vs. Georgetown 25 3y
+66 Why does the Wharton MBA get no love on here? 27 3y
+66 Msc offers: help me deciding - Cass vs UCL 54 5y
+66 Deciding on quantitive majors/career path? 21 6y
+66 B School is a means to an end not a goal in and of itself 15 10y
+66 UVA vs WUSTL vs Texas for Masters of Finance 44 6y
+66 Lesser known MBA career options? Looking for advice on what to do post-HBS. 37 10y
+66 Q&A - Quant / Actuary turned future MBA student 37 5y
+66 Canadian Undergrad: Queen's vs UBC 60 6y
+66 GMAT improvement? 47 12y
+66 New HBS Application: One Essay, Sept 16 Deadline 36 6y
+66 MIT MFin Q&A 45 13y
+66 Has HBS gotten THIS tough to get into? How can one stand out? 85 8y
+66 LSE vs. HEC Paris 49 3y
+65 Less Selective Target Schools 65 1y
+65 NYU vs BC 37 2y
+65 Yale Law and Harvard MBA at the same time 33 3y
+65 Columbia B-School NEW Masters program- Opinions? Is it worth it? 46 6y
+65 What happens to people who don't get offers? 27 10y
+65 Creative Strategies to Break into HBS or Stanford GSB - Please Help 44 5y
+65 How important is the 'prestige' of your job matter for admissions into top MBA programs? 57 7y
+65 MBA? MSF? MAE? 59 6y
+65 Recent HBS College Reject, Retake 740 GMAT? 47 14y
+65 Going to business school after hyper success 37 6y
+65 My real response to the MBA essay 24 6y
+65 Taking hard classes and doing OK vs. taking easy classes and doing great. 69 9y
+64 Is Wharton MBA Worthwhile? 24 3y
+64 How MBA Is Not a Magic Bullet to Public Equity Investing 17 3y
+64 Johns Hopkins - Breaking into IB 40 1y
+64 Deleted 51 3y
+64 What was it like to go to prep school? 39 5y
+64 McGill Desautels vs. Queen's Commerce 27 5y
+64 Target schools outside of the US? 50 6y
+64 LBS MiM / LSE Global MiM / HEC-Yale M2M 32 6y
+64 CHARTS ON WHICH SCHOOLS FEED THE MOST TO TOP IB/MC POSITIONS 2017 44 6y
+64 Vanderbilt (full-tuition) vs UChicago ($15,000 scholarship) vs MIT (full-pay) 35 9y
+64 Confused About the Future - Should I pursue graduate school? Already broke 6 figures. 14 9y
+64 Three things I’ve learned from three months in business school 13 6y
+64 Why did you do your MBA or why are you considering an MBA? 46 10y
+64 Stuck between top 5 MBA 45 6y
+64 UCLA or NYU Stern (UG) 70 3mo
+64 UT v. SMU Honors 69 6y
+64 IQ in the 98,6th percentile is my GMAT fixed to 720? 51 4y
+64 HAAS 104 9y
+63 WashU is underrated in prestige on WSO 27 1y
+63 Realistic Undergrad Schools 57 3y
+63 Is it worth it to take a loan to study at LSE? 44 1y
+63 Master in Finance: HEC Paris vs Bocconi vs St. Gallen 23 6y
+63 College vs the real world experience (your opinions) 35 9y
+63 Why is Stern disliked so much, but Wharton praised? 33 10y
+63 How useful is an undergrad Econ degree? 72 11y
+63 How much can a fresh graduate expect to save a year? 50 6y
+63 HBS & Hedge Fund Experience 50 10y
+63 Possible to break into top MBA programs right after I graduate from college? 100 4y
+63 Midlevel- MBA 49 14y
+63 Defer Acceptance to B-School? 82 9y
+63 Best Master of Finance (MSF/MFin) Programs? 54 6y
+62 Washu or Rice-literally just got off the waitlist 19 1y
+62 College Decisions! Do I go with the bird in the hand or the two in the bush? 22 3y
+62 Booth or CBS (MBA) 26 2y
+62 New rankings for Target and Semi-Target Uni's in the UK 57 1w
+62 Canadian universities - Is waterloo that good? 50 2y
+62 PE: Is it worth going to business school? 35 5y
+62 UK Target Admissions? 62 5y
+62 UNC or Williams College 23 4y
+62 Female Veteran, Cybersecurity, MBA aspirations 11 6y
+62 Ohio State MSF vs Villanova MSF 32 6y
+62 Recent engineering graduate in Philadelphia - MBA or MSF chances? 27 8y
+62 MBA - Change of heart, timing critical 21 6y
+62 Applying to Bocconi, HSG, where else? 60 6y
+62 Haas MBA for finance? 56 9y

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