I’ve been an auditor for about 1.5 years now and tell it’s not for also made an attempt at getting my CPA but didn’t pass a couples times. Kind of saw that coming as my standardize testing skills suck compared to college GPA which was pretty solid (3.7). I want to get my MBA but all I hear is M7 or a waste of money, but also im not really interested consulting or IB. Can I still find success getting my MBA from a non top 20 program or should I just grind out the gre and try into a top program?

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Depends on why you want an MBA. Are you looking for information and to learn or is it just a career enhancer? Also, where do you want to work? Some companies only hire from specific MBA programs.

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I did it to pivot into fp&a away from pure accounting. I hated it and was bad at it. Leap frogged me to senior financial analyst and then now manager and probably director in the next few months.

I did a professional program while I worked in industry. Stepping stone job at a big construction/real estate company, then pivoted into fp&a at a public company

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