Any MBA grad 🐠 willing to help me with my “Why MBA” story? I’d love to chat and learn about your experiences.

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As in you know you want to do it and are looking for inspiration for essays / interviews, or you need actual convincing?

I’m leaning towards that I want to do it but I think more for superficial reasons (prestige/brand name, resetting my undergrad experience) rather than for the practical reasons (networking, campus recruiting to pivot). Because of this, I feel like my essays/interviews will not be “strong enough”.

Say you want to learn to lead others, solve business problems following academic principles, etc. Its not that hard.

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