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Admited to top mba but... |
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This should be obvious |
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03/02/2006 |
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Hi, I post this in Bain section because my goal is to join bain,and because I guess that many bainees are plenty of experience with mba...thanks you for your kind suggestiones.
I was admited first round to a top school in US and I signed the honor code that required that if admited I would withdraw all my other applications. Unfortunately, the school I was admited was my second best choice, and I am still running for the first choice (HBS), but I worry that, even if admited at HBS, it might look very bad that I failed to mantein a commitment with another school (assuming that HBS gets to know that...meaning that schools exchange information...or that the school I will not enroll in, might comunicate this to HBS...). I really did not think about this problem when I submited my application 1st round. It my throw me out of both schools! Any suggestion? Help? Past experience?
Thanks
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In practice, it depends on whether the schools you reference are Magic 7 schools (which includes Columbia, where I think you applied, and HBS). The M7 admissions offices share a lot of information. I don't know if they share ED info since Columbia is the only school that runs ED, but there is a big risk that they do and you lose both your HBS *and* Columbia admissions. HBS has yanked admissions offers for far less ethical transgressions in the past.
But there's also an ethical issue, which is more important. A typical ED honor statement says that you're committing to that school as your first choice. If you signed that statement knowing that the school wasn't your first choice, it seems you've got some ethical problems, and they probably don't want you at either that school or HBS. For that matter, you'd be a poor fit at Bain. When you make a promise--to a colleague, a client, or a school--you're expected to keep it. One of the rules of thumb at Bain is whether you'd want your actions reported on the front page of the WSJ. That standard makes it pretty clear that going to HBS would be ethically wrong. You'd better straighten out your ethical issues if you want a job at Bain.
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