And I was like USC? Let me Google that. Itâs all a game
Good luck man. LMK how it goes. Iâm flying out to Charlotte tomorrow to help a friend drive her stuff to Colorado, back this weekend, we should catch up.
You could also probably make 10x if you bought PLTR with that $300k instead over the next 18 years.
Will do man! Look forward to catching up IRL. Cheers. The exam almost certainly will be difficult but I feel prepared, insofar as I ever feel âpreparedâ for these exams lol. Hoping for calm wisdom on game day 
Why do you need MBA? Feels like it is worthless, unless you do career change, or donât have advanced degree
Iâm playing it by ear. I want do tech or real estate or something entrepreneurial. I donât mind doing the same thing though tbh! No advanced degree unless charter counts.
MBA not technical enough for the good jobs in tech, will only take you further from being an entrepreneur by throwing away your capital and arguably the same with RE.
Lol allright then Iâm doing it for the prestige and network. Bros what donât you understand my parents will hate me if I donât. Itâd be the second time I rejected usc too. And I recall I said this time I pinky promise I wouldnât in my essay. Lastly the whole point of the exercise is to use student loans to invest and pay it off. So itâd be self funding! All jokes aside, bottom line I am humbled honored and grateful for the opportunity.
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Networking at a strong MBA program can get you pretty much anywhere. Go to a top one and you can reinvent yourself. There are few things as powerful as the recruiting platform of a top school. Have plenty of friends who reinvented themselves went from banking to fintech or real estate. You have endless companies coming to recruiting week hunting for students to hire, to put it vulgarly. Plus you have startup incubators where you can meet tech startups with legit funding options etc. Good luck buddy! USC is a good program. Youâll have Cali options for sure. And the CFA surely will help differentiate you when firms come to campus. Make sure to ask the school if they give out GPAs to firms unilaterally. Many schools donât do that because it makes it harder for students outside the top 10% to get on campus interviews at top companies. Wharton doesnât do it for example. But I think Cornellâs Johnson School maybe did. As a result - the Wharton kids at the bottom of the class always had the edge over the smarter(?) kids at Cornell just outside the top decile. You will want to know that policy itâs important to you as the student paying for the recruiting. You donât want to be pre-screened out of the best opportunities because your school gives prospective hiring companies lists of students by ranking and doesnât just force an open recruiting schedule where no grades are given out and therefore nobody is screened out beforehand. Like suddenly ranking CFAs by top 10% of test takers versus all CFAs. The best programs understand this isnât in their studentsâ interests. But some programs still do it because firms put pressure for lists so they can limit their interview schedules in cities. Few students ask this critical question though because it isnât intuitive from the start.
Regardless of my long windedness here (sorry itâs test week for me) - youâve got a fine West Coast school in USC, youâll have a lot of options - congrats and cheers.
is USC better than UCLA? my relative did an MBA at anderson now he killing it at GOOGL
Seems unlikely unless heâs not an engineer or maybe had a strong STEM undergrad. Not sure how many non-engineers are killing it at google.
People still care about mba gpa? I heard from others that nobody cares about that anymore. I usually get pretty good grades in the top 10 percentile. My avg gpa was 3.6 econ. So Iâm not too worried. My main focus is to network and meet rich people. Thatâs one thing that usc has over ucla. Lastly whatâs this obsession with engineers. Do people really care about an undergrad major when ur an mba. Lol
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Some but not all business schools have a policy not to disclose grades for this reason. If they disclose, some firms will ask and they will screen. Not all but definitely some will. Because they want to differentiate. If the school takes this power away from them, itâs to your benefit.
Note that business school grades are generally going to be more generous than your undergrad experience. Because business school is all about creating a marketing package for you so you can get a great job and make the school look good, add to their average graduating salary numbers, become a rich donor etc. So the same level of effort to get a 3.6 in undergrad should get you at least a 3.8 in business school. They arenât trying to give out no B minuses lol. They want everyone to look super to prospective firms. I am sure youâll be great.
To answer your final question, people generally donât care about your undergrad once youâre in the MBA programâs recruiting machine. They only care if itâs in a STEM topic for specific jobs. For the other 99 percent of situations, a top MBA is the âmagic wandâ where you can reinvent yourself regardless of your undergrad school or degree. Your CFA will be a differentiator in finance though. To be clear there is a major difference between top and mid tier MBA recruiting prospects. But since USC is a top 20 school it should be fine especially on West Coast where their footprint is very strong.
Engineer is a job function at Google. Itâs what front office is to investment management, itâs where the talent lies. If you want a technical role at a tech firm then clearly undergrad would matter if grad was MBA. Theyâre hiring scientists and programmers with hard skill sets, not bullshit artists that canât code for â â â â . Obviously you can go get an MBA from ____________ and go work in human resources or client engagement at a tech company but thatâs no more tech or likely to get you paid than doing the same function in any other industry.
Lol my first job out of college was literally as a data analyst. I know how to code. It was just boring af. Anyways why would you prefer engineers over say computer programmers. I thought that was the elite major. I always saw engineering as second rate. Like they couldnât cut it in programming so they did that. Kind of like if you couldnât be a doctor you went into business major. Lol
Engineer is the job title for their âprogrammersâ. You clearly have no idea what youâre talking about, but you did code that one time, so good luck.
Lol Iâll be honest with you. I know nothing. All I know is that is my stated goal. Iâll figure it out. Iâm a quick study.
Quick studies arenât spending $150k and multi-year chunks of unpaid time in their 30âs for a generalist degree to ??? and make friends.
Youâll be fine. I am on the Penn and Cornell entrepreneurship listservs and itâs literally all day long tech people looking for business school students to partner with etc. USC is the same surely. You will have plenty of options. The school will take care of you. It wonât make you a programmer. You wonât be competing for programmer jobs. But to say you canât get a great job within the tech industry from a good business school, it means you havenât been to a top business school. Because itâs not only possible itâs a sector where many grads gravitate to now for obvious reasons. The school machine takes care of its people. The CFA is a harder exam set by far, than a top MBA program. But the recruiting power at a top MBA dwarfs the CFA recruiting power itâs not even in the same universe. So the comments are correct, Google may or may not be a possibility. But a great job in the tech sector? For sure itâs possible and they will offer classes to help prepare you for that. Because thatâs what schools do.
Lol ok what do you want first responder. What do you want me to be? Anyhow Iâve beaten myself up over the cost and very likely low roi. But I think I figured out how to solve it. As for the making friends part, youâd be surprised what rich friends can do. If ya donât know ya donât know.
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