Colleague with a “top 40” mba found out I’m applying this year and won’t stop giving unsolicited advice like “be sure you’re involved in things outside of work” 🙄 no shit...

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I had the same issues. Starting at a top 10 in August. Now have a few friends from part-time/unranked programs telling me how only entry-level sales jobs interview on campus, so OCR will be worthless. Also a lot of talk about importance of “getting to know all 30 people in your class"

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Somewhat unrelated to the op, but I started in a management training program out of undergrad. A friend from my cohort had an assistant with an 'mba' from a for profit online school, and said assistant was constantly bitter that they kept bringing in people younger than her with only undergrad degrees and she was still an admin. Comical for stories, but made an awful work environment for my friend as a 22 year old.

PwC1 - where are you starting this fall?

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