To Those At HSW, Are the MBA ASO's Who Pick IB Frowned Upon?
Obviously, IB is incredibly competitive. But if you get into HBS or Stanford, you are expected to change the world and become the next CEO of a megacompany. Interested in how students who choose to do IB are looked at.
I guess this focuses more on H/S than W, since IB is more common there.
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Frowned upon by who? Not everyone at HBS will go on to found the next constipation drug or app that helps you find discounted chewing gum.
CEOs need to start somewhere.
If you are an international, the US government doesn't give a shit if you are from HSW or T-100. A visa is a visa. You gotta do what you gotta do to stay in the country lol
But also no one's expecting HSW people to change the world.
I expect a person from HSW to be just as likely to really change the world as any other M7 (aka the odds being really fucking low, this narrative of HSW people expected to be significantly more successful than other schools’ is getting tiresome) Someone who will change the world won’t give two shits about what other people think about them haha. If IB is the first step to really achieving that goal, then do it.
I'm at a bb, we make fun of harvard people that join. "Why did you go into vanking?"
At least at Stanford, IB is very uncommon (maybe 2-3 people a year at most). If you look at the last employment report, they couldn't even report the salary stats for anonymity sake (they had too few people enter IB so they just wrote NA for all the income categories so people couldn't be identified).
This is largely because there are better options available to them.
Also to clarify, IB is not very competitive at the MBA level. Much of the recruiting happens for lower tier schools like Cornell, Michigan Ross, Duke Fuqua, etc.
Not entirely true. There will be people at every school without IB offers. Recruiting still feels competitive because of the huge landscape of banks each with only a few spots to hire from your school.
Are the better options basically PE and VC? I saw many go to MBB and tech but those are common at all of the M7.
If you accept an IB associate offer at H/S, you get locked up in the stocks for an hour a day and your classmates and even undergrads can throw things at you with impunity.
Imo the self selection has more to do there being only a certain portion of the class that is the “finance people” due to the way admissions tries to “round out the class.” W and Columbia i think are still the biggest feeders into post MBA IB so it’s only H/S where it’s not popular and the vaaaast majority of “finance people” in those classes did IB as an analyst and are just in PE/HF already
correct. it’s selection bias. more people at H/S (even vs W which itself has a strong contingent coming from this background) have done the whole banking / consulting thing already. at lower ranked schools this isn’t the case as much.
A lot of ex-military as the recruiting networks of Vets is strong and it's one of the few mainstream career paths that have such an extensive vet network. Consulting is hands down much more desired (up to ~50% of HBS will interview at an MBB). It comes down to how interesting the work is, perceived exit opportunities, and lifestyle (people in their late 20s/early 30s have very different considerations than someone in their early 20s).
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