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breaking into VC |
| Message Name: |
not going? |
| Date Posted: |
05/01/2001 |
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but I do know this: whatever that Wall Street ranking said, all I've seen in VC (or high powered finance, for tht matter) are Ivy League MBA's. Sure, there are the occasional hard-workers who make it as well, but the most represented schools (as far as I've seen) are:
Harvard
Stanford
Yale
Princeton
Kellogg
Wharton
NYU
Columbia
Public schools:
UC Berkeley
That's my two cents. I'd almost give an appendage to go to any of those private schools. You're paying for the networking there. I had the opportunity to speak with a Managing Director at Sanford Bernstein who went to Harvard after many different business enterprises. He said, "If you don't go to one of the top ten business schools in the nation, it does no good to even go. And you're not getting into those schools without solid business experience, where you not only work, but excel where you work." As Walter Cronkite would say, "And that's... the way it is." |
| Message: |
Why is not worth going to b-school if it's not a top 10 b-school? Your salary after you graduate with an MBA will be higher, even if you consider the opportunity cost of missing 2 years of work and paying for school.
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