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Stephanie
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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 at 02:37 \| IP Logged

Yes, I agree with all of you. Either go to the top 25 MBA school or forget it.

Even if you are looking for complete career change, try your best to get into the top 25 or else you won't be able to get the step-up you are looking for.

For a related career change, I think it works better if you can transfer to another department within the same firm.

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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 at 07:43 \| IP Logged

clips2007 wrote:

from a practical standpoint, all degrees are overrated. the only commodity in academic education is the name behind the degree or the reputation of the institution from which you graduated. Almost all your skills in a particular trade will be learned from the first to tenth grade (basic math and english) and on the job training.

That's not true. What about science, or engineering?

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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 at 08:03 \| IP Logged

Zeratul wrote:

That's not true. What about science, or engineering?

And Accounting!, Haha, you can't learn auditing/Intermediate in high school can you? But I think he is just being general

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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 at 09:04 \| IP Logged

No education is ever over rated. What you do with it determines whether or not it was worth the buck. I have seen people with no name school MBA's excel to be corporate executive level just coz they had MBA's which made them more competitive. It gives you an edge over say someone with just a bachelors degree. A very small number of people go to top 25 MBA's as compared to no name schools, and they excel with what they have if they know how to market themselves. Just like I have come across MBA's from ivy league school who are struggling because they are timid and don't know how to use it to their advantage or are too full of themselves to survive in any company.

I would take an MBA any day over no MBA.

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Posted: 26 Jan 2010 at 09:17 \| IP Logged

danion8 wrote:

Yeah, I was thinking about Drexel/Penn State/Villanova, maybe one of those but they are not top 25, so I was just curious. GMATs for those schools are only in the 600's, not like the top schools that ask for 700's in scores. I'm probably going to get a score between 600-650

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