BYU (Brigham Young University) MBA 答疑

laiecarol

Hi, I am LDS and have been since I was a little kid. There is an association for international students in the MBA program that provides all kinds of fun activities for all international students. When I go to those activities, I never think to just socialize with LDS only. Also, even in school with other classmates, you can't tell who is or who is not LDS, there is no name tags or special badges that identify who goes to the LDS church or not. There are numerous congregations, so everyone goes to a different congregation every Sunday and you rarely see your classmates in the same congregation so you really can't tell who is and who is not.

The religion part wouldn't be my biggest concern. You will be surprised to find very nice people to work with and make friends with. This is just my personal opinion. I can find some other non-LDS classmates to provide you with their feedback.

Whether it is easy to switch to corporate finance or not have a lot to do with how diligent the student is and what exactly the companies are looking for. Many f500 companies come to BYU to recruit and recruiters assume if you can get in BYU, you have the aptitude to do well. But some companies look more for technical skills and prior experiences. For example, I have no corporate finance background and got two corporate finance offers.

yipiaoshui

There are about 150 to 200 Chinese students in BYU. Most of them are non-LDS. In general, Chinese students are easy-going, friendly, and helpful. You could get many friends here in a short time if you want to.We have a CSSA (Chinese students & Scholars Association). CSSA will organize several activities each year. The two biggest activities are Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese new year. It is also easy to make friends with natives. The local church community will invite you attend the church activities, usually with free food. If you want to make more native friends, just go and have fun. They will not push you for the religion.
The social activities for non-LDS students include parties, games, basketball group... It might be hard to find good night-life if you come from a big city and like bar style. For MBA, the night time is usually contributed to the homework and job searching because of the the tense study.
In the holiday or a small break, there are too many choices for fun, such as skiing (if you like, Utah has the best snow in the world according to ads and the skiing place is located only 30 min or less driving), national parks (Utah might have the most national parks in US), Great Canyon (4 hours driving), Las Vegas (5 hours driving), South California (9 hours driving, I just went there in this Christmas), Yellowstone (9 hours driving), San Francisco (10 hours driving)... I used five years for these places and still left some of them.
My background is on technology. My current track is finance. In my opinion, finance does not have any differences with other career change. The math is not hard. As long as you put reasonable time for the class, there will be not any problems.
Hope it is helpful a little bit.



Hey,

Are you non-LDS as well? How is the community of non-LDS international students there at BYU? Do they have much to do? Are they isolated from the majority? Can you please advise about the social life for an non-LDS international student?

Also, without a background in finance, is it easy to switch and start a career in corporate finance (f500)? I can tell CF and HR are two of the areas that BYU apparently shines in.

-- by 会员 OxSead (2012/1/5 11:15:30)

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OxSead

There are about 150 to 200 Chinese students in BYU. Most of them are non-LDS. In general, Chinese students are easy-going, friendly, and helpful. You could get many friends here in a short time if you want to.We have a CSSA (Chinese students & Scholars Association). CSSA will organize several activities each year. The two biggest activities are Mid-Autumn Festival and Chinese new year. It is also easy to make friends with natives. The local church community will invite you attend the church activities, usually with free food. If you want to make more native friends, just go and have fun. They will not push you for the religion.
The social activities for non-LDS students include parties, games, basketball group... It might be hard to find good night-life if you come from a big city and like bar style. For MBA, the night time is usually contributed to the homework and job searching because of the the tense study.
In the holiday or a small break, there are too many choices for fun, such as skiing (if you like, Utah has the best snow in the world according to ads and the skiing place is located only 30 min or less driving), national parks (Utah might have the most national parks in US), Great Canyon (4 hours driving), Las Vegas (5 hours driving), South California (9 hours driving, I just went there in this Christmas), Yellowstone (9 hours driving), San Francisco (10 hours driving)... I used five years for these places and still left some of them.
My background is on technology. My current track is finance. In my opinion, finance does not have any differences with other career change. The math is not hard. As long as you put reasonable time for the class, there will be not any problems.
Hope it is helpful a little bit.



Hey,

Are you non-LDS as well? How is the community of non-LDS international students there at BYU? Do they have much to do? Are they isolated from the majority? Can you please advise about the social life for an non-LDS international student?

Also, without a background in finance, is it easy to switch and start a career in corporate finance (f500)? I can tell CF and HR are two of the areas that BYU apparently shines in.

-- by 会员 OxSead (2012/1/5 11:15:30)

-- by 会员 yipiaoshui (2012/1/5 13:40:18)

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Thanks a lot. I think Marriott can provide everything I need. I will certainly apply.

tansiran

关于那个endorsement interview，我是无宗教信仰的，这时就不用寄那张表了。然后联系学校那个international admission，好像是那个，然后那边就给了个牧师的邮箱给我，叫我联系他，让他安排面试。

至于面试内容，我记得有个宗教贴里说过，问题差不多，再多问个：你今后打算，想在中国还是美国工作。感觉我这个说的不是很好。

mumuceiber

楼主好，我正在审BYU，感觉很难，不过还是想争取下
我G720，T98，GPA 3.7
500强不到一年的工作经验
想申MSIS，不知希望大不大
如果能找到ＢＹＵ校友的推荐，帮助大吗

ElisaWang

mumuceiber： 不好意思，我们现在开学了。大家都比较忙。

如果有校友推荐应该有帮助的。你的分数都挺好的。我唯一担心的是你的工作时间。BYU的平均工作时间是4年，一般最低要求2年fulltime工作经验。他们要确保招进来的学生毕业要找到理想工作。工作时间短，会让你找工作比其他人更有挑战。我建议你把简历做漂亮，然后在申请论文里，突出你的工作成就，然后解释你为什么现在想读MBA。

Gracespa

请问下那个BYU的official transcripts认证需要多长时间啊？貌似看网上的需要1-2个月噢，这样就过了deadline了吧，想确定下；另外admit后需要自己完成两门课程，好过吗，虽然以前也都学过这两门....谢谢！

ElisaWang

认证一般需要两个月。你可以看看加急服务是不是来的及。deadline是3／1. 如果你担心来不及，可以问问admission office能不能先提供你本科学校的官方transcript。等认证结果出来以后再提供给BYU认证报告。
admit之后的两门课不难的。就是自己看harvard online course。看完自己考试。每门有三次考试机会。考到及格了就发邮件通知学校就OK了。

Gracespa

谢谢，Elisa

dainuoxinren

我在申请BYU的master of accounting，想问问关于那个endorsement interview的过程，interview是要主动和学校联系吗？是email interview还是phone interview？我无宗教信仰