One of the best things one can do to get valuable knowledge about a school is contacting alumni or current students. This is an advice I got from blogger friends and I totally agree. Nowadays, I have sent some mails to former or current students in order to know their insight about my main concerns about my application process age (or work experience, if you want) and previous local MBA. By the way, I still don't have any reply from INSEAD, but I already got the one from NYU:
- NYU: Students who have earned an MBA outside the U.S. are eligible for admission. We do not have a minimum age requirement for the program. In order to be eligible to apply for the MBA program, you must hold a bachelor's degree from an accredited college (or its international equivalent). You are not eligible to apply if you already hold an MBA from a US institution. The admissions committee looks at academic potential, career history and goals and personal characteristics.
Not so bad, they talk about minimum age requirement, not maximum. Anyway, I sent them another email in order to clarify that point. I'll contact alumni or students directly to ask about my getting-a-job-after-the-MBA-and-near-the-40s concern.
At this point, I've started emailing to either current or former students from my selected schools. I hope I finish my initial contacts next week. Their help will be crucial for me because I don't know any alumni from my country (except one from HBS who is a friend of a friend) and even though I can talk about my MBA intentions with some of my friends or relatives, they don't know much about these top MBAs world. Besides, only a few people in my country speak English, so I will really need the help of my starting "top MBA alumni and students network" not only to get advice and insight from inside but also to help me reading and validating my essays. I hope they're not going to feel overwhelmed doing these favors to me.
At this point, I've started emailing to either current or former students from my selected schools. I hope I finish my initial contacts next week. Their help will be crucial for me because I don't know any alumni from my country (except one from HBS who is a friend of a friend) and even though I can talk about my MBA intentions with some of my friends or relatives, they don't know much about these top MBAs world. Besides, only a few people in my country speak English, so I will really need the help of my starting "top MBA alumni and students network" not only to get advice and insight from inside but also to help me reading and validating my essays. I hope they're not going to feel overwhelmed doing these favors to me.
By the way, I found very supportive students at RSM Erasmus and Columbia (the schools whose students I contacted so far).
I also registered to these forums:
- Wharton student2student: http://s2s.wharton.upenn.edu/wh-wharton
- Chicago students forum: http://www.chicagogsb.edu/fulltime/forums/
Moreover, I think any top B-School should have a kind of ambassador student in any country; that would be really useful in order to talk face-to-face with someone who has lived the experience at this or that school, specially for international students like me and many other applicants.
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