GRADUATE STUDENTS OF NT

eyanks said:

I just finished my Master's program, 3.94 GPA. So happy to be done!

No student loan debt either

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Fontaine said:

congrats famb-uh-lee...

Give some details, man...

What did you study... Undergrad... Plans from here, etc.

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Suberzat1 said:

Which school?

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ThatMartianKid said:

Fontaine, are only blacks and hispanics consider as minority? I'm south asian, would this apply to me?

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eyanks said:

Thanks man.


I got my Master's in Physical Education. I'm already a phys ed teacher and have my Bachelor's in P.E., but I was required to get a Master's to maintain my teaching license. I'll be getting a nice pay bump out of it.

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WorldGoneMad said:

Did you not get a BA in education? In my state a masters is required to keep your teaching license or you can have two BA degrees which is what most people do.

ex. history teacher majors in both history and education.

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Fontaine said:

http://www.ml4t.org/

so, top tier programs (Harvard, Univ of Chicago, Stanford, MIT, etc) are trying to expand their diversity because it's normally just a bunch of white dudes.

MLT is an MBA prep program that puts minorities and women into the top tier programs by helping them with their application, pairing them with a mentor, etc...

I know a cat that made a 620 and got into Northwestern w/ 90k scholly...

But his story was so solid because the MLT people KNOW what to work on when it comes to the application process... Plus they have conferences where you get to meet with admissions people from different schools.

i HIGHLY recommend any person looking to get n MBA in 2017 to apply for it this summer...

the app was a *****... Took me weeks because it requires so much (essays, recommendations, transcripts)... but it's worth it, famb...

now that i'm in this program... Stanford, UC- Berkeley, Columbia, and Yale are DEFINITELY on my radar... Not too keen on gunning for Harvard or Booth...

UT-Austin and Rice are my safe schools.. Because I want to be in Texas, anyway...

Emory from atlanta looks good too.

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I went to B-School about 10 years ago. I remember the good times, the parties, the camaraderie. I also remember the long hours in the library, working on team projects with other keen classmates, and the sense of accomplishment at graduation.

However, 10 years later, Business School missed out on a lot in terms of teaching me the skills needed to succeed in my career and life.
Here are the ten biggest lies of B-School you should protect yourself against:


1. You will be rich. My experience (and from talking to others) is that it will take you 2 or 3 times as long as you think it will take to succeed after Business School. So take it easy running up your student loans and credit card debts expecting you’re going to be a rock star later.



2. You are smarter than people without an MBA. You were smart enough to get in to Business School. That doesn’t mean you are smarter than other people without an MBA. Stay humble.



3. There’s always a right answer. B-School students are usually very analytical and achievement-oriented. They like to think there’s always a “best” answer. There’s not. The perfect answer is always the enemy of the good enough one. You make decisions you can with the best information available. Life and business today doesn’t let you count how many angels can fit on the head of a pin.



4. If you’ve made it this far (to B-School), you’re destined to succeed. In my B-School, there were always amazingly talented executives coming in to give talks on business and life. They’d always compliment us on what a great school we attended and why we had our future by the tail. It made us all feel invincible — destined to succeed once we set out on our various career paths. It doesn’t work that way. I know B-School classmates who’ve failed miserably, under-achieved, gotten divorced, gotten severely depressed, etc. B-School is a great educational opportunity in life, but you still have to go out there and succeed. Nothing is given to you as a birthright.



5. You know how to “fix” the first few companies you join after school. You’ve probably worked at companies were people who’ve been there for 2 decades roll their eyes telling you about the new hotshot MBA who just started and is now telling everyone how to do their jobs. It’s so clear to him, yet others find it deeply offensive that he would think he knows how the company works when they’ve spent countless years there and are still trying to figure it out. All hotshot MBAs should wear tape over their mouths for the first 3 months on the job and not be allowed to “fix” anything.

6. Discounted Cash Flow (DCF) will always tell you what a company is worth. MBAs love DCF. They think the true answer to what a company is worth is always a DCF away. Just crank it out on a spreadsheet or whiteboard, show the boss, and move on to the next problem. Unless you’re going to be a sell-side analyst, you’ll never do a DCF after B-School. And even the sell-side analysts get their underlings to do them. And no one reading your reports will read them anyway.



7. The “soft” courses (leadership and people management) are least important. I remember talking to the professors from the Management Department at my school who had to teach the courses on leadership and people management. They used to lament that the MBAs never paid attention to them in class. Yet, the Executive MBAs (usually in their 40s or 50s) always told them that these courses were the most important of all the B-School classes they took. You learn after B-School that the perfect answer or strategy means nothing if you can’t get people around you to buy in to it and help you achieve it. To do that, you need to motivate them, listen to them, connect with them, and support them when they need it.



8. You are going to be more creative and entrepreneurial after Business School than before. In my experience, B-School makes you less creative, the longer you’re in it. They teach courses on entrepreneurship but it’s kind of an oxymoron the idea of the analysis paralysis B-School Students being entrepreneurial. You will learn a lot of tools and frameworks in B-School, but you won’t learn how to start a company. You just need to start a company.



9. Your peers will give you lots of tips and insights that will help you succeed in your career. In my experience, the majority of B-School students are lemmings. They don’t know what they want to do afterwards, so they just do what their peers say they should do (maybe that’s why they applied to B-School in the first place). Ten years ago, everyone at my school wanted to be a dot com entrepreneur. That didn’t work out so well and most students later went back to being investment bankers or management consultants. Your peers don’t know what you want to do with your career. You need to start listening to that voice inside your head.



10. The Ivy League MBAs will be even more successful. An Ivy League credential will be a big plus for you on your resume – no question. However, you have to realize that if you’re getting an Ivy League MBA, you’re probably 10x more susceptible to the previous 9 lies than other MBAs. Don’t let yourself be the next Jeff Skilling, the smart Harvard MBA, who worked at McKinsey and then went to Enron and drove the company off a cliff. He had a golden resume – and where did it get him?


If you treat B-School like an amazing educational experience, chances are you’ll get a lot out of it. Just keep your attitude and sense of entitlement in check.


As Casey Kasam used to say, “Keep your feet on the ground, and keep reaching for the stars.”

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friscostylez said:

sup ricky bro, i was planning on starting my MBA fall 2017. is that correct that i should be applying this summer?
i haven't taken my GMATs yet but i'm studying for it now and plan on taking it before the summer then during the summer and fall, I'd go back to a CC and work on my alternative transcript by taking 2-3 classes total. how's everything going on your end fam?

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mczoot said:

 
Whats up fellas. Just found this thread. Got my first acceptance letter to a PhD program last week, and waiting to interview for a few more in the coming months. Majored in Biochemistry, with a minor in chem, and I've been working an entry level research position for the past few years while I worked on applications, etc. Stoked to be going back to school this fall.

Anyone else working in research or medicine?

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nathanaguilar said:

 
Congrats on your acceptance! What school did you get into and what program did you get accepted to? I was doing alcohol abuse research last year but do not plan to go that route when I apply to PhD programs. What were your thoughts on the interview process? And did you have any articles under your belt before you applied?

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Fontaine said:

Any one know or have some experience with JD/MBAs?

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friscostylez said:

Ricky bro why was I just looking into the same thing last night in bed

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