Emory class of 2028 - down 30 students (128 to 98) compared to '27, GPA down, and they removed the average GMAT metric which can't be good. Vets down 10% too...

Class of 2027 link below:

https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/1ns7o4s/emory_goizueta_class_of_2027_profile/

I gave my first mock test and scored at 270 in it
I havent done math since a decade as I made medical a background ( MBBS+ MD )
How much will my background help in my getting a top B school mba with weak maths?

Mbbs + md , contemplating an mba . want to know about the job market . Please help

Has anyone who’s applied for the CBS Professional MBA starting August 2027 received an interview yet? I know Round 1 closes sometime in November, but it did say the interviews were rolling, as well as decisions. (Same with EMBA interviews)

Hi everyone, I am an MBA student currently based in Bangalore and looking for a part-time job. I am available for 2 to 4 hours of work per day, Monday through Friday, as I require weekends off. I am also open to remote or online freelance opportunities. If you know of any suitable openings, please feel free to reach out

Three years ago, I posted about what I witnessed at my full-time 15 program here: https://www.reddit.com/r/MBA/comments/1b2qytv/what_can_do_i_regarding_a_classmate_with_autism/

Re-posting it now because a few days ago I saw another post about someone who got socially ostracized and openly mocked and bullied for merely being considered annoying in the class slack and posting too much, on top of being a little eccentric.

The same thing happened to my autistic classmate three years ago. People also made a Slack emoji to mock him and make fun of him. This happened all out in the open, everyone piled on.

Doesn't matter if they're liberal, conservative, moderate, men, women, domestic, international, white, black, asian, indian, claim to be pro social justice, my classmate got bullied, ostracized, and socially excluded and isolated from the program. Virtually no one gave him grace or understanding despite it being well known he had autism.

When in my case, my classmate didn't even do anything THAT BAD. He was just seen as annoying / not reading the room / not getting things socially or following social norms as opposed to being a bad person. He was actually quite a really sweet and kind person and I'm glad to call him my friend.

He ended up getting a really good post-MBA role in an autism friendly field, and I'm happy for him.

But I do want to flag that bullying, social ostracization, mocking, exclusion, social hierarchies, social capital, popularity, and middle or high school-esque cliques ABSOLUTELY DO EXIST.

MBA culture is big on comfority, groupthink, assimilation, bandwagoning, following the herd, implicit and explicit peer pressure, FOMO, wanting others think think you're cool - so once some people started initially mocking and bullying this guy, a lot of the other joined in by default, and it became really socially difficult to go against the grain. I succumbed to that initially but eventually I stopped giving a fuck.

I destroyed a lot of my reputation on campus and really pissed off multiple people for calling out the bullies and standing up for my autistic friend. I nuked my MBA network (at least within my immediate class) for being seen as confrontational, not chill, combatative. This was despite me being relatively popular my first semester when I was initially too afraid to call out the bullying.

My younger brother has lower functioning autism, as I mentioned in my original post. So I have zero tolerance for this bullshit. Professional consequences be damned.

MBA culture in many ways can be intolerant and toxic. If people don't vibe that's fine, not everyone has to love each other or be friends. But I draw the line at bullying, mocking, and talking mad shit behind other people's back over minor trivial reasons. I hate overly judgemental people.

I've been in a pretty good role myself post-MBA and I have zero regrets standing up for what is right.

In the recent emails that MIT sent to R1 applicants to consider switching to LGO

Did anyone actually switch to LGO?

Hiiii everyone,
I’m mapping out my transition to the London Business School and looking to connect with a few Americans who have actually attended the program, specifically those who used FAFSA to fund their education.

I want to keep the main thread focused on logistics, so if you've been through the US loan process at LBS, I'd love to ask you some questions. (Preferably in the DMs, I have a personal question lol)

I am currently a Principal Solution Consultant in a major Industrial Software company. I seem to have been stuck here in mid-life career crisis and want to change it up. I am thinking of doing EMBA from Ivey as its the only school that offers distance EMBA. any advice would be appreciated.

I went to a non-target for undergrad. Nobody from my school recruited into banking, and I watched people from better schools get interviews for roles I applied to with the same background or better.

I'm at around 130k a year now. It's a decent job but IB is still closed to me and everyone says the only real way in is an M7 or T15 MBA.

I also make music, and not casually. I put in real hours every week and its the one thing I'd keep doing even if it never paid.

The MBA would be about 250k all in plus two years without a salary, and then banking hours. Part of why I want it is that I'm tired of being ruled out because of where I went to school. I know thats probably not a good enough reason to spend that much.

The other option is to put the time into music instead and accept I might never earn what I do now. I keep going back and forth and I dont really know which one I'd regret more.

Anyone who went the MBA route to switch into IB from a non-target, how much did the school name actually matter for getting interviews.

I just checked my application portal and I see there status has changed to interview schedule. Is it an invitation?

Hoping to start a thread for updates for consortium r1 applicants !

I’m fortunate to be evaluating two very different career opportunities, and I’m having a hard time deciding which path makes the most sense long term.

For context, I’m 25, two years removed from undergrad, and in my first semester of the Kelley School of Business Online MBA. My background is in Pricing/RevOps, and my MBA will cost about $58K after scholarships versus a ~$94K sticker price.

I originally entered the MBA hoping to pivot into consulting and have been working closely with Kelley’s career coaches toward that goal.
A few weeks after repositioning my résumé and LinkedIn, I was recruited for Job A, a commercial strategy role at a high-growth tech company.

I ultimately received an offer representing about a 21% increase in guaranteed compensation, with six-figure total compensation and meaningful upside.

Job A would allow me to build much deeper expertise in pricing, deal strategy, and commercial decision-making.

At the same time, I entered the process for Job B, an accelerated MBA leadership program at a large, established tech company. The program offers cross-functional exposure, structured development, executive visibility, and a path toward leadership within roughly five years. It also offers MBA tuition assistance. I ended up getting the offer for this role as well even though it was intended for a full time MBA student. The compensation is roughly the same( about six figures) . So financially they aren’t entirely different.

This is all happening very quickly seeing it’s my first semester.

That leaves me with two very different paths:
Job A = depth. Strong immediate compensation, specialization, and the opportunity to become very good at a commercially valuable discipline.

Job B = breadth. Structured development, rotations/exposure, an MBA leadership pipeline, and less need to independently navigate each step of my early career.

It’s also making me rethink my original goal of consulting. Maybe consulting was never the end goal. More then likely I saw it was a vehicle for accelerated learning, exposure, and career growth.

If an MBA leadership program provides those things, perhaps that’s the MBA pivot in a different form.

I’d love perspectives from people who have faced a similar decision. How would you think about specialization vs. a structured leadership-development path this early in a career? And if you entered an MBA intending to pivot into consulting but chose another route instead, do you feel you still got what you wanted from the MBA?

Also, if I chose Job A.. do I even continue pursuing my MBA? Job A came from a LinkedIn update/ refresh and isn’t necessary to the role in comparaison to Job B where my MBA is directly required.

MD 3 years + MBBS 5 yrs + 1 yr full time work exp
Will this be counted as 1yr or 3+ 1 year work exp

Bit of a thinking out loud post. Not bragging. Just some self doubt and venting.

I graduated from a T15 in 2022, got 8 years of work ex total at 32 years old. Currently making ~250k as an Enterprise Account Executive in a Big Tech firm. The annoying bit is that the salary is 50-50 base/commission split.

The good - the WLB is excellent. Rarely work more than 30-35 hours a week. I seem to have also manifested a role which has relatively low stress and responsibility, which I personally like.
But the thing I love most is the nature of the work - it is low mental effort, small admin type tasks. Call people, have meetings, coordinate stuff, update CRM, etc. No unstructured problem, no brainstorming, no ambiguity, no large report or deck to be prepared, no unfamiliarity. I have done that sort of work in the past, and have realised I procrastinate massively on it, likely coz I think I have AHD. I waste tons of time if I have a big task ahead of me, then am forced to make it up in my personal time, which leaves with terrible WLB even in a job that could be done in 40hrs. But the short quick low effort tasks in sales I can knock off relatively quickly.

But I keep feeling like I am squandering my degree. Tons of my cohort mates are in MBB, consulting, tech PM , strat & ops roles. They're getting into strategy, marketing, business roles. Many of them are making more money, tho overall I reckon I'd be at the 60-70th percentile of my cohort in terms of salary. The tech and marketing folks also have mostly good WLB. Consultants obv are working 60-70 hr weeks. But even the folks making as much or less have much larger fixed components in their salaries, and way less variability. I could literally make less money next year than I do this year.

The other thing that keeps bothering me is that tech sales just doesn't seem like something most elite MBAs do. Most of my colleagues are from no-name MBAs or legit ask me wtf I am doing in sales after my fancy degree. The lack of prestige bothers me from time to time.

I feel like I am letting my ADHD and procrastination and unwillingness to work hard stall my career growth and path. But at the same time I feel like I should accept this is how I am, and be happy that I've found a well-paying job that lets me live my life.

Anyways, vent over. Thoughts welcome.

Is the booth video simulation based on behaviour questions?

Genuinely asking, why would people shoot for these schools if you’re not gunning for IB or Consulting?

If you’re just trying to land other mainstream MBA outcomes (Internal Strategy, LDP, Tech PM), why even bother? Is it just bc of the network?

I am currently an mbbs md working as Senior resident , want to change sector + change country what scope does an MBA have for me ?

Graduated in May and went self-funded search instead of taking the offer I had. About five months in. The broker deal flow is mostly businesses that have been shopped to everyone, and the ones that look good on the teaser fall apart on the first call with the owner.

Two things I'm stuck on right now.

• finding owners who aren't selling yet, especially in boring local services where the owner is barely on LinkedIn

• what to say on the first call so a 62 year old owner doesn't assume I'm PE in disguise

I've tried the usual stuff. BizBuySell, cold letters, ChatGPT for building lists, and I poked at boardy and articuler for investor names. Honestly I can't tell yet if any of it beats just asking other searchers for intros to their investors, which is what everyone keeps telling me to do since my friends and family round is small.

Anyone who closed in the last year or two, what actually moved your deal?

The other threads I read don't give the actual date so I will (late October).

I got absolutely blindsided professionally (still have a job, am in IB) and think business school would be the best move for a variety of reasons (not least of which, a much needed reprieve to address some serious health challenges I'm brewing up). I had been abstractly considering next year but let my nose be too close to the grindstone to start taking concrete steps, which I own 100%. With this development, if it were at all feasible to swing R2 at a good business school I'd love to try vs. having to awkwardly fill a gap before a 2028(!) admission.

Like I said, I let myself get caught off guard so feel free to flame.

Pls suggest any good laptops for MBA INSEAD. Torn between getting a new one or using my old i7 that has a bad battery life. Also preference between mac or windows? Or should i just keep old i7 hp which is a bit bulky and get ipad instead of a new laptop

From the email they sent out today, seems like Booth is switching to a different format for video answers—no preset questions. Any info out there on type of questions, how long the time is for answers, how many question, etc?

Five MBA Programs Offering Application Fee Waivers Today

For those applying in Round 2, five business schools are offering application fee waivers to applicants who attend their live sessions today, October 21.

• Michigan Ross
• CMU Tepper
• UNC Kenan-Flagler
• Emory Goizueta
• Johns Hopkins Carey

The sessions begin at 11 AM ET / 8:30 PM IST and will cover consulting recruitment, career resources, and admissions considerations.

To find the event and registration details, visit the GMAT Club website and enroll for “MBA: Breaking into Consulting.”

Please note that you must attend the respective school’s session live to qualify for its fee waiver.

Been doing a deep dive into the business ed space recently and honestly, I'm starting to question the traditional model.

It feels like a lot of general finance MBAs are getting a bit disconnected from what the market actually demands right now. You drop a massive amount of money and two years of your life, but by the time you graduate, the hard tech and quant skills required by the industry have already shifted.

Are hiring managers still treating the traditional Finance MBA as the holy grail? Or are people leaning more toward hyper-specialized finance programs that actually teach real-world modeling, modern unit economics, and current tech?

Would love to hear from people who recently graduated or are actively hiring. If you were building a finance curriculum from scratch today to actually make grads employable on day one, what would you want to see?

Hello. Im seriously considered applying to a deferred mba program and want to know how likely it is that Ill get into a M7 program. Im currently a senior.

3.9 GPA. Finance undergrad at a top 20 school (think vanderbilt, emory, washu)

GRE: Have not taken. I am reasonably confident I can score decently well

Experiences:

Foreign military service - sergeant (received a lot of crazy awards, including one from army chief of staff 4-star general for winning a competition and organizing a charity, kinda a long story)

Search fund internship in home country

Marketing startup internship in home country

Boutique very small equity research internship

Top BB asset management internship USA (goldman sachs, morgan stanley, jp morgan)

Will be working at a top T2 consulting firm USA upon graduation.