[KwlAznKid]

Originally Posted by MattMD

Final bump. Going to Georgetown!

congrats! I almost went there for my MBA this upcoming fall but decided to venture elsewhere


to contribute to the original thread
undergrad: UC San Diego
grad: after much debate between Georgetown/Carnegie Mellon and USC I chose USC, I start my MBA program at the Marshall School of Business next month!

[Whostheboss]

Central Connecticut University - 2007 - Engineering.

[MBM6F]

Originally Posted by NemesisX

Yeah I think it's great that most of the ivy league schools offer significant financial assistance to families with lower class to middle class incomes (minimum wage - $180k/year). That's how it should be.

I think Harvard especially gets a bad reputation for being sort of a snobby, upper class school but this couldn't be further from the truth. They do more to accommodate deserving children from the lower classes than anyone. Children have no say in what family they are born into. Some lucky few are born into wealth and win the "genetic lottery" so to speak. In principle, children should never be held hostage to any sort of disadvantage in educational attainment that comes with being born lower class or middle class.

Then again, we have to be careful about the kinds of criteria we use to "normalize" the playing field. I'm not opposed to looking at socioeconomic status as a criterion for admission when you're comparing child A with a 2000 SAT score who came from a family making $25k/year versus child B with a 2300 SAT score who came from a family making $1M/year.

But race? I get a little queasy on the subject of race-based criteria in affirmative action.

Well put.

[MBM6F]

Originally Posted by Bretster

I'm a freshman at villanova university

How did you swing an M3 as a freshman in college? Keep up the good work!

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by John 070

Off the top of my head, if your household income is $60k or less, these schools are free:

Columbia
Brown
Harvard
Yale
Penn

There is a sliding scale up to $180k. In which case Harvard is $18k.

We need to stop perpetuating the myth that elite schools are expensive, they are not. They are cheaper.

I did NOT know this!! I was just shopping around for school with "inexpensive" tuition instate. If I knew this, i would've went there.

Do they have the same program for any graduate schools?

[X2 Monstah]

Northern Virginia Community College after spending 20 years in the U.S. Air Force. Don't need a degree; already well-established in my federal government career, but wanted a challenge...and the benefit of the GI Bill.

[bretster]

Originally Posted by MBM6F

How did you swing an M3 as a freshman in college? Keep up the good work!

I own (yes on my own with a business partner my age, not my parents) a used car dealership run out of randolph nj selling low mileage e36 and e46 m3's, as well as an aerial cinematography company using high tech drones to take crystal clear aerial footage with dslr's and film spec cameras such as red epics among others. Also do high end car detailing on the side to pay for the mods

I travel home from school every weekend from thursday-sunday (i scheduled my classes for no class on friday) to operate business back home

[BayMoWe335]

Undergrad, Wharton.

MBA, U. Of Chicago, Booth.

[MBM6F]

Originally Posted by Bretster

I own (yes on my own with a business partner my age, not my parents) a used car dealership run out of randolph nj selling low mileage e36 and e46 m3's, as well as an aerial cinematography company using high tech drones to take crystal clear aerial footage with dslr's and film spec cameras such as red epics among others. Also do high end car detailing on the side to pay for the mods

I travel home from school every weekend from thursday-sunday (i scheduled my classes for no class on friday) to operate business back home

Awesome! I figured you were self made because most spoiled kids don't appreciate these cars like true enthusiasts. I'd love to get in touch with you about an E36 at some point.

[quiksi]

Undergrad: U. Houston (Bauer)
MBA: Texas (McCombs)

I keep it local

[Porschefile]

B.S. in Finance, University of Tennessee
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law

[pkimM3r]

school will get you a good job at a good company but whatever school you go to, learn how to THINK ON YOUR FEET. i work with mbas from harvard, ucla, usc and mba interns from top 10 schools and im sas to say most are complete idiots when at work. im amazed.

[bloppitybloop]

B.S. in Accounting from University of Illinois at Chicago. Tuition was a little over $6k per year which wasn't bad considering it was downtown Chicago.

[NEFARIOUS]

I started out at Mt. San Antonio College for Computer Information Systems; great school, but I only lasted 2 semesters since my grandma was starting to get frail and moved in with her... It's so good a school I don't mind going back at all and in fact have for a semester in 2006 but my job at the time got more demanding.

But went to Los Angeles Valley College to continue CIS but 2 things: 1. The school was an absolute joke; the only thing worthwhile was the newly-remodeled cafeteria and lounge with 60" TV, pool/air hockey tables and brand new computers. Otherwise, the school is horribly antiquated (including our computer lab still running Windows 95 in 2004... REALLY??) and the professors are less than qualified; the math teacher had a thick Armenian accent and barely spoke English, and Spanish was taught by an Argentinian lady, which is, from the perspective of most Spanish speakers, the least intelligible variety which the inflection closely resembles Italian and certain words are vastly different (e.g. "you" is "vos" instead of "tú"). With that, you couldn't get me to come back if you paid me. 2. It was right around the time of the .com bubble collapsing and my dad got paranoid and pulled me out and forced me to change majors.

So, I went from the frying pan and into the fire with North-West College and became a Pharmacy Tech student against my will. Before they switched over to a new campus 2 months before I graduated, it was alternating between a tiny building (4000 sq ft) and 2-3 rooms rented across the street with a bad air conditioner, and parking was next to impossible; the main campus only had a parking lot with 8 slots (but parked 2-3 more in the aisles), the plaza across had most spots reserved, and the rest was on the streets in a residential district, keeping street sweeping days in mind or else get a ticket. The principal was so horrible, people quit 2 months in; our 9 month class went through 5 professors, including my last teacher that had a horribly thick Filipino accent that was teaching the most important class... My dad thought I was making excuses when I had bad grades and yelled at me for 2 months, went to go intervene and he met the teacher himself... Needless to say he apologized and I was eating porterhouse steak for a week But then again, since I missed out on the most important part, I was surprised I managed to pass the test, but I had to cycle through 8 jobs in a year since I kept messing up orders.

[MrPrena]

Did you live in Walnut CA?

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

I started out at Mt. San Antonio College for Computer Information Systems; great school, but I only lasted 2 semesters since my grandma was starting to get frail and moved in with her... It's so good a school I don't mind going back at all and in fact have for a semester in 2006 but my job at the time got more demanding.

But went to Los Angeles Valley College to continue CIS but 2 things: 1. The school was an absolute joke; the only thing worthwhile was the newly-remodeled cafeteria and lounge with 60" TV, pool/air hockey tables and brand new computers. Otherwise, the school is horribly antiquated (including our computer lab still running Windows 95 in 2004... REALLY??) and the professors are less than qualified; the math teacher had a thick Armenian accent and barely spoke English, and Spanish was taught by an Argentinian lady, which is, from the perspective of most Spanish speakers, the least intelligible variety which the inflection closely resembles Italian and certain words are vastly different (e.g. "you" is "vos" instead of "tú"). With that, you couldn't get me to come back if you paid me. 2. It was right around the time of the .com bubble collapsing and my dad got paranoid and pulled me out and forced me to change majors.

So, I went from the frying pan and into the fire with North-West College and became a Pharmacy Tech student against my will. Before they switched over to a new campus 2 months before I graduated, it was alternating between a tiny building (4000 sq ft) and 2-3 rooms rented across the street with a bad air conditioner, and parking was next to impossible; the main campus only had a parking lot with 8 slots (but parked 2-3 more in the aisles), the plaza across had most spots reserved, and the rest was on the streets in a residential district, keeping street sweeping days in mind or else get a ticket. The principal was so horrible, people quit 2 months in; our 9 month class went through 5 professors, including my last teacher that had a horribly thick Filipino accent that was teaching the most important class... My dad thought I was making excuses when I had bad grades and yelled at me for 2 months, went to go intervene and he met the teacher himself... Needless to say he apologized and I was eating porterhouse steak for a week But then again, since I missed out on the most important part, I was surprised I managed to pass the test, but I had to cycle through 8 jobs in a year since I kept messing up orders.

[NEFARIOUS]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

Did you live in Walnut CA?

I lived in Rowland Heights when I attended the first time, and I was in Pomona when I went back.

[MrPrena]

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

I lived in Rowland Heights when I attended the first time, and I was in Pomona when I went back.

Lived in Walnut long time ago, and I do remember then name Mt Sac.

[NEFARIOUS]

Well, same thing, but I thought I'd elaborate since we have people posting from all over the place, not to mention to the uninitiated it kinda sounds like "Mount [my] Sac"

[MrPrena]

Mt Sac must offer better edu than U of CA. Most of unsuccessful Highschool kids in Walnut went there, and they are more successful than Ivy grads.

They must have some kinda connection...... oh wait......

Walnut parents= Extraordinary cash infusion to their kids.

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

Well, same thing, but I thought I'd elaborate since we have people posting from all over the place, not to mention to the uninitiated it kinda sounds like "Mount [my] Sac"

[NEFARIOUS]

Originally Posted by MrPrena

Mt Sac must offer better edu than U of CA. Most of unsuccessful Highschool kids in Walnut went there, and they are more successful than Ivy grads.

They must have some kinda connection...... oh wait......

Walnut parents= Extraordinary cash infusion to their kids.

I'll admit that it does seem that way... But then again I had no such luck; I was on a Pell Grant, I slept in a partition in the living room of my parent's 1-bedroom apartment and I only went there since it was close by, and even then it still took transferring between 3 buses to get home ... or finding friends that didn't mind giving me a ride.

[MrPrena]

I don't know my school life was that bad, but I had numerous times which I didn't even have a $ for lunch.



Going back to the topic.

Originally Posted by NEFARIOUS

I'll admit that it does seem that way... But then again I had no such luck; I was on a Pell Grant, I slept in a partition in the living room of my parent's 1-bedroom apartment and I only went there since it was close by, and even then it still took transferring between 3 buses to get home ... or finding friends that didn't mind giving me a ride.

[B8bydesign]

B.S. in Civil Engineering, University of Tennessee

Originally Posted by Porschefile

B.S. in Finance, University of Tennessee
J.D., University of Tennessee College of Law