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1) Picture yourself raising money. The guys who may be financing your real estate ventures may not know much about advanced degrees, real estate programs, "the fact that Stanford is harder to get into than HBS" etc. But I'll tell ya what they DO know: "Harvard Business School." "Wharton." "MBA." A well-renowned MBA amounts to instant respect. And in the fund raising world, sometimes that is the most valuable currency around.
2) You dont actually know what you wanna do. I know you are certain that you will be doing real estate when you grow up. But what if someone comes along, and offers you something else that you cant refuse? What if, say, you wanna launch part deux? WHO KNOWS what youre gonna be doing in your life in 20 years. But Ill promise you one thing--no matter what it is, you will get mileage out of your MBA as you do it.
3) Real estate is actually easy. You dont need to go to school to learn it. You will learn everything you need to on the job anyway. You should go back to school for the OPPOSITE reason--not to learn more about real estate, which you will learn about for the rest of your life after school--but to learn about the OTHER stuff. How will I market my new company. How will I raise funds when I launch my new development company. How can I lead a team, once I have my own venture. THAT is the stuff you actually need to go to school to learn. Not "how do I calculate an IRR on a real estate investment..."
4) Meet OTHER people--outside real estate. This is key, both for personal and for professional reasons.  art of why business school is so great, is that you will meet amazing people. An entrepreneur from Argentina. A McKinsey consultant from Mumbai. A record executive from LA. You want to meet these people--to expand your horizons, both as friends (how cool is it to get to know amazing, creative people) and as possible partners (youre the real estate guy--these dudes become your finance guys. Contacts.) EXPAND your horizons, people--thats the best and most valuable part about business school
5) Getting jobs is easier. Can you imagine being in a program with 150 people, all in Boston, looking for the exact same job? Maybe some folks would prefer finance to development, or Boston to Providence or NYC. But...still. It is VERY hard to get jobs, when you are surrounded by people with your exact background. Now, imagine that youre at Stanford GSB. Even Cornell. How many real estate folks will be there in your class, do you think? Ten? Twenty? Spread across the country, when job season comes along--you will get a job. Much, much, much less competition. And that is pretty important, wouldnt you say? |
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