To what lengths would you go to boost your MBA admission chances? (i.e. pretend to be gay)
Yes, this is technically unethical. Yes, this is bizarre and desperate. But I'm wondering how effective the following strategy could be:
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Start getting actively involved in a gay professionals organization; try to assume a leadership role.
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Write a compelling essay about coming out of the closet last year and having to tell your conservative christian parents about it and learning to become comfortable with one's identity.
Given how obsessed top b-schools are with "diversity" and filling the various "niche" groups in their incoming class, I'm wondering if this strategy can have any merit. Obviously it's unethical, and I feel bad even having to resort to this, but given how badly I want to get in and my next app is my last chance, seems like it could be worth a shot.
Awesome.
DIABOLICAL!
This question comes up from time to time, so I'm going to follow the debate this time.
As fucked up as it is that schools have applied affirmative action to gays...I'd say do it, technically speaking you shouldnt even feel bad about it. If you have two identical candidates but one happens to be gay. If the gay kid gets chosen to uphold some sort of school motive then thats fucked up.
I prefer merit to be the judge.
LOL
Brady, you don't really have to pretend.
By the way, I'm sure they get about ~100 applications with a "gay" response. Most likely 75 of those applications are falsified. Doubt you're the first to think of it, doubt you'd be the first one to fake it.
I think this is the difference between living within the confines of a system of rules, and living to a higher set of standards. As a person who endorses morals, I can't endorse lying. However, there is something to be said about showing people the unintended consequences of silly policies.
This. Once you get in and are in class point out the idiocy of the policy and how you gamed the system. If you get kicked out you'll be all over the news and able to write a book about your experience. It'll definitely shine a spotlight on the hippie liberal f*cking d-bags who subsist in academics.
You should adopt a child, get a disability and claim native american roots as well...
I'm mixed white/asian and could pass for hispanic, easily. I'm thinking about something like this
kill your parents, make it look accidental, then write about overcoming that significant loss in the essays.
anything for harvard right?
Just stick to the second option...it really is the lesser of the two evils.
If you try to go for the first option, just know the LGBT community tends to be small and tight-knit much like the finance community, and if the truth came to light, it could pose some problems for your application process.
Or are they looking for people that are all about their gayness? Not all gays are flamboyent.
This is actually a serious question: Is the same bias shown towards those who are bisexual?
That's actually a good question. Bis get it from both sides (no pun intended): straights may think of bisexuality as a sad detour to Gaytown, and gays may see bisexuality as an annoying complication in their quest for recognition of same-sex marriage and other goals in the gay rights movement.
Just because the letters LGBT appear together doesn't mean they all understand or like each other.
Simply put, if he says he's bi, the adcom may simply not care or think "whatever" unless he has a compelling story to back his claim.
Know a kid that did this for undergrad. Wrote his whole essay on how he was bullied in high school etc
this needs to go on dealbreaker
I heard that if you do this they make you blow a guy in the interview....
PS Brady, we are NOT transforming our group into young gay professionals of finance haha
It shows initiative to get what you want. Albeit, in a completely unethical way, but i agree with all those above who said the system set it up that way. If you're a deadpan, normal white guy you are at a competitive disadvantage with all these programs for every other category of person, so to speak.
Go for it!
Just for shits and giggles tell them you are an autistic, jewish, black, gay women who is physically disabled. THAT should stir the pot of diversity a bit!
@OP I guess you need (to like) balls to pull this off
I know an Egyptian (born in Egypt) fellow who puts "African America" on his applications.
Sorry, this is a little stale, but could you please get our your map and tell me what country Egypt is in...? And then please explain how this is wrong...? Let me save you a little time, EGYPT IS IN AFRICA
Calling Egypt born and raised African American is like calling a guy who got drunk with a frat bro and sucked a dick gay. Is it true, sure, but you don't claim it.
Egypt is a country....Africa is a continent. That would be like a Canadian calling themselves American because Canada is part of North America.
every top mba program in admissions has every admitted applicant LGBT forwarded to teh LGBT student grp. If it later comes out during the year you lied and you're str8, i meanhow hard is it to keep playing a wierd lie like that are you planning to make out with guys during mba to prove your queerness? Anyway, if it comes out you lied you're expelled from the program immediately..I was on the student admissions board at Kellogg. It's been tried before.
BTW most schools have lGBT targets, and they are very small. mebbe 5/6 spots, and there are plenty of gay applicants, real and fake. So you'll be competing for a small # of spots with other gay dudes..your relatie % of admit may not be as advantageous as you suspect.
Plenty of times, even at work, the unwritten, unspoken understanding is that certain 'people' aren't to be included....it's wrong, but it happens. A lot.
So how much cock do the HBS guys compared to say the Sloan guys? I heard that the Boston College boys really dig HBS guys in limos.
or you just hit the one guy on the adcom who hates homosexuals and that's a fast trip to the reject pile. think of all that time wasted getting your 780 GMAT, collecting good recs, spending all that time at gay pride parades, etc.
Not a bad idea. They have it made. The "diversity manager" in our office has no formal responsibilities as far as I can tell, aside from doing speeches / conferences / etc. and he is on the same level as the managing partner. Im sure he isn't paid as much, but I imagine he is paid very well for what he does.
You guys will probably think this is funny.
I thought this was an interesting thread, so I tweeted it out a couple hours ago. Since then, I've had no less than a dozen heavy hitters in the gay community follow me on Twitter. I've got gay resorts in Thailand following me now.
Fuck my life.
Pissed or think its quasi-funny/sad
More funny than anything else. Twitter is a strange beast sometimes.
This is what happens to people who have twitters. Fuck adcoms, see if you can work an angle for free accommodations at those resorts.
yeah just say youre a very straight seeming bisexual male and you just enjoy the random large cock now and then after a coke-binge night.
I'd say to do it if you're down to being a lie for 2 years... It's a stupid rule... it may be "unethical", but who are you hurting? You're just putting yourself on the same level as a gay guy with the same exact stats as you.
It's rules like these that make me wish I was a gay black dude... of course a gay black dude born into money, cause they don't really look at how poor you are during admissions
k I'm gonna have to stop before I start bitching about affirmative action...
http://racerelations.about.com/b/2011/05/02/protesting-affirmative-acti…
You guys should read that.
hmm
Oh, a black girl wrote that? hmmm... of course we know that the minority applicants also need to be exceptional to get into those schools, it doesn't make it right.
It's kinda weird how people think that just because you're a minority, you don't get the same opportunities as whites and asians (kind of a passive racist way of thinking)... If you really wanted to make admissions an even playing field, you could look at how poor applicants are... I'm sure there are tons of minorities who have had waaaay more resources to help them in high school because of money than me... yet they still get the edge.
Jesus Christ, just start a non-profit.
ahaha this seems like it makes just as much sense
...for gays!
Regards
I was just gonna do my usual no homo and drop out but being that this discussion has evolved (sorta) let me tell you tikes a lil troof tale.
About ten years ago I knew this nerd from Long Island. Dude rolled into The City every Friday and Saturday. Spent dough. Kicked game. Got no ass. This went on for a few years. He was old money. It didn't help.
One day a bunch of us joked that he ought to pretend that he was gay and maybe it would help. He was very skinny and kind of awkward in his mannerisms.
Fast forward a few months of him wearing tight ass leopard shirts and bell bottoms. The kid was swimming in pussy and I don't just mean hot broads. Threesomes. Coke parties. Everything.
Last I saw him, he had a serious drug problem and he was following Eddie Braverman on Twitter.
Moral of the story: do what you gotta do, but unless you are ready to drive a stick shift to your B-school interview, while shifting with your colon...better to be yourself than to suffer unintended consequences.
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Get your brakes checked.
Faggot.
Get ally training and find a safe zones at a campus near you, that shows leadership and adds a diversity element to your app.
I feel like this is something George Costanza would think up..
hysterical and true
id do this just to show those dumb leftwing hippie admission dbags that their policy are fkin retarded
They'd never kick anyone out for that because if they did they'd have their overall policy hammered in a national debate and the guy being kicked out would be better off than before with tv appearances, job offers, book deals, etc.
Yeah... I'm not sure how you could prove or disprove somebody being gay
In all seriousness, there are actual brains scans that show reaction patterns. It's a little scary, but it's very real. I do think that subjecting someone to such tests would DEFINITELY be a violation that WOULD touch off a national debate, so for all practical purposes it's not possible to discriminate.
affirmative action works so well for URMs and women this is a white boy's best chance!
Related: Out of curiosity, how do they determine who is a minority and who isn't? For instances, what keeps me from putting African American as my race and then simply using the fact that somewhere, way back when, an AA is a great great grandmother/father or something along those lines? Is there a set bar say you have to be 1/16th? Seems like you could much more easily use some sort of obscure minority play here, Brady.
There is a bar for Native Americans, but for other minority groups I'm not exactly sure.
seriously, Brady?
you're already gay for HBS
And on a side note, why do I have so many fucking WSO credits?
What do you do when you get admitted? Do you keep up the act?
I think the ultimate issue would be that you would have no clue whether you got admitted because you were gay. It's an interesting concept because it isn't something anyone can prove or disprove and what few, inconclusive ways there are to prove, one way or the other, nobody or institution in their right mind would pursue (i.e. the brain scans mentioned before, because frankly that just isn't 100% verifiable evidence or setting up secret cameras to video tape your sex life or doing some single scope background check on you interviewing your neighbors and friends from the past.).
Now, the consequence that some have pointed out is that it is unethical and that may be grounds for dismissal from the school. Whether or not that particular school would even take on that potential legal liability remains to be seen. If they were, you would have to basically admit that you lied on your application, however, if you simply state that you thought you were but realized you aren't then it goes back to the ability to prove that you aren't or weren't and that just isn't likely to happen.
It's not something I would do, but if you have nothing to lose maybe you give it a shot. As another poster pointed out, you could always get press from the fall out, right a book and make some money that way.
Regards
well we can assume anyone who would pull this scam wouldn't stay up nights pondering over the ethics and the what-ifs. he'd be too happy with his HBS precious to care. as for getting caught: all he has to do is check in with marcus bachmann's de-gayification institute and voila, he is an instant poster boy for right wing homo-deprogramming. "i was a gayboy at HBS who saw the light." imagine the speakers' fees. it's a super-win.
Begrudgingly he would still have to admit his love for anal, but at least he can say it's a chicks ass now and not some dude who just portrays himself as a chick, lol.
Regards
well... hopefully it goes over better than the time i showed up to my MBA interview in blacface and an afro wig.
Yes indeed!
if you are gonna go to the extremes of lying and making shit up to get a better chance at a grad school program pretending to be gay is not gonna help. There's plenty of real gay guys/gals that will have actual experiences that will be more believable and relatable to the people on the selection board that are gay or bi or tranny.
Now the real extreme would be to play the victims card. Go claim that you were sexually abused by your uncle and somehow cause you to become a fucking druggy and by the grace of god you found yourself and battled your way to where you are. You might as well throw in some more crazy shit like witnessing your best friend take their own life and you had severe survivor guilt.
if you are risking it all, you either go to the very extremes or don't do it at all.
Guaranteed admission.........doing what the OP says as a veteran!
lol
Dude, If you can't get into business school without telling the truth, then you don't deserve to go.
wank off motion
I would argue that if you can't get into business school without using the fact that you're gay to your advantage, you don't deserve to go... he'd just be putting himself on the same level as a gay guy who has the same profile.
If the op would have asked for advice on changing grades on his transcript, he would have monkey shit all over him. But it's okay for him to lie about being gay. One user even suggested that the op should claim he is part black. This thread is a disgrace.
Fuck all the noise. The real question is, "If you could get admission into the school of your choice, would you blow a dude?"
Regards
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