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Derrick Bolton started the presentation by saying that organizational
leadership is a noble pursuit. He said that after families, managed
organizations are the most important entities in our society and they
play an enormous role in our lives. Because of that, Stanford MBA
program aims to teach students to someday successfully lead managed
organizations whether they be in business, government or non-profit
sectors. Then
Derrick made a PowerPoint presentation about the Stanford MBA program
and here are the things he said that I remember from his presentation:
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Recruitment:
The class of 2003 had a better placement numbers than the class of
2002. It looks like the class of 2004 will have even better choices,
since the number of jobs that are currently posted for Stanford MBAs
is much bigger (40-60%) than it was last year at this time. |
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Housing: Most
of the single students will live in Schwab Residential Center.
Married couples who have children will get the best deals and
Derrick jokingly told couples who don't have children to "get busy"
so that they would have better housing opportunities. |
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Peer
recommendations: By "peer" Stanford means peer in spirit i.e. those
whom you treat as peers and who don't report to you and you don't
report to them. Roommates, brothers, sisters, friends are not good
choices for peer recommendation providers. |
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Essay A: You
can write about one thing or you can write about many things,
whatever you want. Some applicants write that balance is what
matters most to them and then describe a laundry list of things
under "balance". Stanford AdCom, while reading such essays, often
writes on the essay "Couldn't decide what matters most to him/her". |
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Essay B: It's
important to describe why do you need/want an MBA degree and the
answer to that part should be clearly separated from the "why do you
need a Stanford MBA" part. |
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Rounds: There
are no differences between R1 and R2, but it gets harder in R3. |
Those are the important things that I remember from Derrick Bolton's
very articulate presentation. After the presentation, Derrick asked 3
alums to come and share their perspectives and answer some questions.
One of the alums was a COO of a company, the other worked in investment
management and the third was doing her Ph.D. and wanted to teach in a
business school later in her career (I hope I remember this info
correctly). They answered the questions that we asked and they were
really straightforward with their answers and directly told whatever
they thought. From their answers, I learned that there is actually a
class at Stanford that all students refer as the "touchy-feely" class.
But I can't remember the official name of that class.
I guess those are the important
things that I remember from Stanford's info session.
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