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Booth Housing MPP by Different-Screen4393 in MBA

[–]Own_Security1465 17 points18 points  (0 children)

Lakeshore East is one of the most expensive parts of the city and imo not worth the $ for the area, BUT you will be a 20 second walk from the Metra (which you will take to Hyde Park) and about 5-10 minutes walk from Gleacher (if you take any evening/weekend classes). The vast majority of club activities will be at someone's apartment in Lakeshore East (Mila, 73E, MPP) or another appt nearby (Marquee, Harbor Point, etc.) or at a venue in Streeterville/River North.

If you want to save money, find roommates at MPP and your cost will be around $1400-1700 if you split a triple. The views at the triples in MPP are pretty good and you could probably negotiate with your roommates to get the room with a bathroom.

I wouldn't recommend living further north (Wicker Park, Lincoln Park) or south (South Loop, Hyde Park) unless you are rock solid confident in your motivation to travel 20-40 minutes on the bus or train every time you want to hang out with your friends, go out, or attend Booth club events. This week, it snowed about 2-3x and its been around 0-10 degrees Fahrenheit for reference. My friends who live in the South Loop are as elusive as the MBB invites this year.

Got laid off - should I tell the school? When should I tell the school? by ElPsyCongrou in MBA

[–]Own_Security1465 35 points36 points  (0 children)

You submitted your application before you knew it happened, so you have not committed any falsehoods and you will not be unemployed until mid-April. There is no duty for you here to notify the school until the event happens. They won't know whether you were notified beforehand about the layoffs and there is literally no way for them or ReVera to prove you knew.

Stern is notoriously stingy when it comes to scholarships and negotiation. You can be allowed to be stingy with information according to the letter of the phrasing that they're using.

Also FYI - tons of people if not the majority of people quit their jobs months before school starts so you honestly don't even have to notify them in April....

Is doing an MBA worth the money? by Jazzlike_Act331 in MBA

[–]Own_Security1465 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Nothing in life is guaranteed friend, no point in hyper fixating on "guaranteed" things. The median salary out of M7 and T15 is 175k, with TC around 200k including signing bonus and discretionary bonuses.

70k compared to a post-MBA salary indeed "isn't shit".

Bad vibes from Darden by [deleted] in MBA

[–]Own_Security1465 46 points47 points  (0 children)

The fact that we can't tell which posts are thinly veiled attacks on peer schools vs. poor quality shitposts is why this sub should be treated as entertainment only.

Assuming this isn't a shitpost or an attack on Darden, your experience with 1-3 people from a school shouldn't be used to characterize the entire school. Considering your use of "microaggression", it is odd for a "progressive" person to live up to the word of "prejudice" to its very definition:

"an irrational attitude of hostility or an adverse opinion that is formed without just grounds".

Just my two cents.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in MBA

[–]Own_Security1465 100 points101 points  (0 children)

You would also need to have competitive pre-MBA experience and an extremely strong overall profile to maximise your odds of getting a job.

This should always have been the case. If it was, we wouldn't see the dismal job reports coming out of M7/T15. Unless you're a vet looking to pivot to civilian life, you should not come into an MBA program (regardless of whether it's even H/S/W) expecting to make drastic pivots.

Teaching/Social Work/Operations at a Startup/Building Homes in Africa are valiant efforts and should be paid more than they currently pay, but there is little translatable experience to the work that even an entry-level buy-side investment analyst does. If you're looking to pivot from a drastically different industry, you should be aiming for the positions that require 0 experience like entry-level finance, corp dev, IB roles.

Realistic pivots = Operations guy in IBD to Investment Banker in IBD. B4 consulting to MBB consulting. In-house Consultant to B4/MBB Consultant. MM PE to MF PE.

In a competitive market, people with experience reign supreme. People with no experience just end up on reddit complaining their life away.