UNC opportunity: meet Admission Director in China!
I promise you that she is a very nice lady. Don't feel shy. Go and talk with her. She will post you very valuable information, not just political address. This will be your good opportunity to learn more of the MBA applications, rather better than sitting in your room for hours by thinking of the cliche words with yourself.
There will be ADMISSION WORKSHOPS too.
Beijing: Sept 22nd (6-7pm Admission Workshop; 7-9:30pm MBA fair) @ China World Trade Center Shanghai: Sept 24th (6-7pm Admission Workshop; 7-9:30pm MBA fair) @ Ritz Calton Portman
Do prepare for a good 30 second pitch and practice before you go. This may leave her a very good impression. Also, you need a 10 minutes pitch to raise her attractions more. This preparation is not cheating. We are trained in MBA programs for such skills.
Finally, welcome to post UNC related information by replying this thread. I will visit this website often to try to give you some personal ideas.
* Settle down. Our apt rent is only $529/month for a 2 bedroom/ 2 bathroom. Share with a roommate. * Driving around. It's always exciting to drive fast in the highway. * Classes can be very demanding! First classes begin at 8am, and may last till 12:20, and resume at 2pm till 4:50. 12 classes a week (80 minutes for one class) * Talk with English and Culture Advisor, a Professor focused on helping International Students only. Now, English is still a problem, but much less trouble-making than 3 weeks ago. * Prepare resume and talked with my Resume Peer Counselor, received pages of comments from him. * Attended the student career clubs' events and workshops, including Consulting Club, Finance Club and Marketing Club. * Attended several business school events to meet more 2nd year students. Talked with four 2nd year students to learn more of career planning. * Attended the Career Day and Securities Day to meet alumni and representatives from tens of leading companies, for the summer intern hunting. * I cannot remember all......
Give you a schedule for a specific day:
1:00 (yesterday) sleep 6:00 get up 6:45 go out to take the bus 7:05 arrive school and work on a homework and prepare for questions for a noon meeting 8:00 - 12:20 classes (with only 2*10 minutes breaks) 12:20 - 12:40 lunch and a brief talk (by appointment) with a 2nd year student on his summer internship experience. 12:40 - 14:00 consulting club meeting and presentation 14:00 - 15:00 go to the Career Service library to check the Resume Book of previous years students, and searched some company profiles. 15:00 - 17:00 study group discussion on the homework 17:00 - 18:30 Career Service Office meeting: how to win in the company presentations 18:30 - 19:00 go back home by bus 19:00 - 20:20 prepare supper and the lunch for tomorrow, eat supper 20:20 go to school again 20:30 - 21:00 check and reply emails 21:00 - 23:00: 2 homeworks 23:00 - 0:00 revise my resume 0:00 go back home 0:30 hope I can sleep
But I can tell you that life can be not as tedious as above. I travelled to D.C. in a weekend, and to beach in another weekend. Also, the Chinese students here are preparing for the Moon's Day celebration and party.
I just hope you know more of business school, and more of UNC. If you like it, go to talk more with the UNC Admission Director, Ms. Sherry , when she visits your city in late Sept.
wow, great job. yale brother. with 5 hours sleep, hope you can take care of yourself. And thank you very much for contributing the interesting and useful information when you have so much to do.
If you have time, could you share with us the backgrounds of your classmates?
As to marketing: big brands have biases to international students. I have rich experience in marketing before MBA, but it's still hard for me to work for big brands in marketing here. One reason may be the working permit, while the companies can hardly persuaded the relevant parties on offering a marketing positions to a foreigner. Another reason is still the language and culture shocks. But marketing position is still possible to foreigners. One chance is when they want to develop a niche market, such as the Chinese American market. Another chance may be some marketing strategy analysis works, not directly related to branding. As always, everything is possible. So if you do love marketing, it's still worthwhile to try it.
UNC is strong in marketing. It's definitely true! Nearly a quarter graduates last year work for 'product and consumer development', which is actually marketing. But don't think marketing as just branding works. Marketing can be very strategic, including business modelling and strategy works. MBA graduates are always plighted in very strategic positions, even working for marketing. I do have many classmates interested in marketing, very rare in top MBA programs.
As to profiles of my classmates. You don't have to see it as a reference. Actually, most US students are not from big name companies. They invest in MBA just for a return to get into the companies. But many international students are coming from big name companies. I don't mean to say that big name companies worth more. Actually, each company has different values. What I can say is that: many of my classmates are very very smart, far beyond my expectation before.
Recently, the Wall Street Journal ranked UNC as #10 in MBA programs in US. I don't think this anything important. But what interesting is a comment from the recruiters (Wall Street Journal ranks programs according to the recruiters' comments only). The recruiter said that 'they are happy and cheerful, very hard to find in business schools'. I'm very proud of such comments. It means, you don't have to pretend to be a CEO here, while actually you are not! You can just be yourself, live as what you used to live before business school, and enjoy study as well as life. When you graduate, if you find a good job, congratulations! If you do not find a job that can bring you over $100k income a year (maybe it's just $80k a year), you don't have to feel a lot of pressure. I believe that this is a right attitude to the MBA programs and the careers to follow. I know some students feel a lot of pressure when graduating. They may want to take an offer, but they did not finally. They have the concern that their classmates are all going to the investment banks and top consulting firms, while they have to go to industries. To be honest, as a Chinese student, you should not count too much on those firms, especially in this tough job market. If you cannot go to the firms, but instead you go to an industry, you should know that it is just another chance for you to excel in the new organization. If you can be the CEO or CFO of the company finally, or you can lead the company's businesses in a region, you are still excellent, and even better than working as a partner in a consulting firm or working as a director in an investment bank. That's why the recruiters commented the UNC graduates to be 'happy'. I hope this can help you to make sensible decisions for school screening.
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