Columbia Class 2009 Chinese答疑专贴

suncola

1. You don't have to choose management as the concentration. Management consulting has stable recruiting stream with gate wide open to MBA students at Top 20.  

2. High performance leadership, Top management process, and Napoleon's glance are among the most popular classes. Negotiation is taken by most students.

Best luck!

chamcham

以下是引用suncola在2007-12-22 12:41:00的发言：
1. You don't have to choose management as the concentration. Management consulting has stable recruiting stream with gate wide open to MBA students at Top 20.  

2. High performance leadership, Top management process, and Napoleon's glance are among the most popular classes. Negotiation is taken by most students.

Best luck!

Wow, thank you so much for your quick reply, suncola, I indeed appreciate the great information!

Hope you dont mind I ask three more follow-up questions:

1. For most CBS graduates hired by Mckinsey or Bain, do they have Decision, Risk, and Operations major or Management Major? Somehow the first one also has a lot of good management classes, such as Information technology and operations strategy and Technology management, which confused me somewhat. Or maybe this major is more for operational consulting rather than strategic consulting?

2. Just want to quickly confirm, Negotiation is the class "B8412 Managerial negotiations", right? This class seems taught by multiple professors in recent year. Which one is more popular?

Prof. Casey Ichniowski

prof. Michael W. Morris

Prof. Daniel R. Ames

Prof. Tory Higgins

prof. Elke Weber

or

prof. Jeremy Burrus

3. How about core course "Strategy formulation"? Is this half case-study, half lecture method?

Thanks in advance,

suncola

You are more than welcome to ask questions. Here are the answers

1. Don't think anyone did the statistics by concentration and career choice. Don't think it makes much sense to care the concentration too much as a stepstone to your next goal, either. Classes you take indicate career interests, not necessarily the concentration you finally have.  Fact is, you select electives, and what classes you passed decide what concentration you get. Not the opposite way. Concentrations usually require certain numbers of classes taken in certain fields but seldom name the exact subjects. So someone may graduate without concentration but it never happens that one with no concentration loses edges in job hunting. 

2. I personally did not take the negotiation class as I went through a lot of negotiation in my previous job. Don't know much about prof. But prof change frequently in this class and every year new ones come.  

3. Strategy formulation was 100% case study in my class. So were in other classes of my batch. But the teaching style does change along with the prof.'s ideas.  

Seems like you'd mention a lot of details in your essays. Just my 2 cents - things change every year. The correct info would impress adcom by your research efforts but the wrong ones may lead you to the opposite way. So pls be careful in using these info. Best luck!

chamcham

以下是引用suncola在2007-12-22 14:36:00的发言：
You are more than welcome to ask questions. Here are the answers

1. Don't think anyone did the statistics by concentration and career choice. Don't think it makes much sense to care the concentration too much as a stepstone to your next goal, either. Classes you take indicate career interests, not necessarily the concentration you finally have.  Fact is, you select electives, and what classes you passed decide what concentration you get. Not the opposite way. Concentrations usually require certain numbers of classes taken in certain fields but seldom name the exact subjects. So someone may graduate without concentration but it never happens that one with no concentration loses edges in job hunting. 

2. I personally did not take the negotiation class as I went through a lot of negotiation in my previous job. Don't know much about prof. But prof change frequently in this class and every year new ones come.  

3. Strategy formulation was 100% case study in my class. So were in other classes of my batch. But the teaching style does change along with the prof.'s ideas.  

Seems like you'd mention a lot of details in your essays. Just my 2 cents - things change every year. The correct info would impress adcom by your research efforts but the wrong ones may lead you to the opposite way. So pls be careful in using these info. Best luck!

Hey, since when you updated your signature?! I am honored to be the first one to eye-witness it (at least I hope so)

jackiexieqia

does columbis accept mail recommendation letters, not online one?

My recommender is too busy to complete all on-line questions.

thanks a lot

suncola

Pls check the admission website. It must be stated somewhere according to my memory. My impression is that even if you submit in mail, you will have to complete all the questions. Same efforts for your recommender.

Just a kind reminder- don't ask Adcom about this with the reason that your reference is too busy. The fact that he/she is too busy may lead to the conclusion that your reference doesn't consider you a good candidate so that he/she doesn't want to spend much time on the work.

Best luck!

suncola

To Chamcham

Just change it today. Not sure if you are the first one who noticed it but you are absolutely the first one who commented.

chamcham

Anyway, I have at least one honor then

thinkaaron

以下是引用jessicaf在2007-12-6 19:15:00的发言：

这里答疑帖子大家还是说大实话来的好。我可以告诉大家，这里回答问题的校友和学生，对申请人能不能进去没有任何决定因素和影响力，我们只提供一些过来人的建议和看法，申请人问问题不要有什么顾虑。

我平时也比较忙，最近正好有个空能够经常上来，希望能够给大家一些实际的帮助。我一直相信，人心是肉长的，这里的正常心态申请人，都能够通过现象看本质。

     赞！

chamcham

Dear Friends, Espcially Those Dedicated MBAs Volunteering Ansering Questions Here,

 

May the season bring you Merry Christmas

and

Happy New Year!

 

Best Wish,

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