Sorry for coming here late. I'm one of the Class 2009 students from main land China. Glad to help answer whatever questions you may have.
nickynicky: Just share some PERSONAL feeling about your question on quality. 1. University of Notre Dame: if you are looking for some 1st class experience of PRIVATE education. 2. Mendoza Business School: the rankings of its undergraduate business education (top 3) and MSA(Master of Science in Accountancy) (top 4) (source: Business Week ) could provide some fair reference of the overall EDUCATION quality of the school. 3. MBA program: if you are looking for some investment the value of which is currently underestimated and willing to become one who helps to make improvement and make things happen. 4. Life (part of all the issues above and beyond): if you are interested in exploring the genuine US, unsophisticated Midwest, and meanwhile want to keep the metropolitan life within reach.
jij711: 1. I applied in early April, which was definitely LATE. If you hate being put on the waitlist, waiting there for weeks, counting on those early birds leaving you some scholarship and on-campus dorm, and rushing to the visa interview two weeks before the beginning of the school (and without any chance for a 2nd round visa interview if you happened to screw it up), I would suggest to apply as EARLY as you are READY. 2. Proof of Financial Resources: I filled it before I got my bank certificate, based on my own estimation. You would only need to worry about that at the time you decide to accept the offer from the school, in the sense that you would have to send your formal bank certification at that point of time, yet it doesn’t have to be exactly the same as what you filled earlier in the form.
audreychenjj: 1. The definition of track is actually very flexible. We have many selective courses available from the 3rd module (the 2nd semester). You can check for more detailed course list from the schools’ website. (http://www.nd.edu/~mba/academics/twoYear/concentrationTracks.shtml) One of the required courses is actually teaching by a former partner of McKinsey & Company. Some thinking I would like to share is that, you are not really becoming a consultant by concentrating in any courses named like “consulting”. Instead, you are really good at some specific area, you are familiar with the case method and some other determinants. 2. There are all kinds of students following that track, including international students and job switchers. Yes. 3. For admission, GPA is not any determinant component but the overall package. Below 3.0 is ABSOLUTELY acceptable. |