[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #5778

To: eladho

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כל האוניברסיטאות המובילות מקבלות אחוז מסוים של בוגרים שנשלחו ע|"י המעסיקים שלהם, קולומביה לא יוצאת דופן. מקינזי וביין הן חברות שנוהגות לעשות כן

As for summer internship, Columbia has a January entering class, which takes terms consecutively without a summer internship (called "J termers")- if you feel an internship is not needed you can opt for the program and grad within 18 months. (with the regulars- actually the only difference in the programs is that the J termers study in the summer while their friends do an internship, recruiting and all other activities are the same) It is very very hard to find a job without knowing very well about it (eg Investment banking for a lawyer who did not do an internship).

NYU is a great school, the best in accounting and a leading financial powerhouse, maybe not as great in other areas but altogether one of the finest you can find, the NY label (finance) is all over NYU and CBS- if you look for other areas of careers (not consulting and IB), you should do your due dilligence to see if the companies and like come to the schools (tip go to career services in the website-corporates that hired 2 or more grads and/or came to campus)

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #5747

To: niry

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You can contact me at [email protected]

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #5384

To: niry

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Feel free to ask anything

Amir

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #4035

To: Vincent Vega

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Don't worry about the AWA too much- get a good Toefl, mine was about the same and I was admitted to both CBS and Wharton (in 2000), I also worked in the Hermes Club at CBS, this was never a consideration for adcom there.

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #3994

To: ofek

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I don't know enough to give you a good answer (I am a Columbia Business School alumnus), I think that the brand name is extraordinary, it is a young program with not too many alums, the Israeli ones have done quite well (Ron Lubash for ex), the school has a great location, great campus, great dean and great resources, definitly up and coming one.

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #3988

To: porata

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To Assaf,

I am inclined to say yes, in the US for sure, in Europe you may need a brand name (NYU, Cornell, Duke (?), Yale(excellent young school)!), Tuck and Darden are not as famous in Europe (Hey Insead isn't a huge brand in the US), but these are superb programs if you can survive the intensity (Darden).

If you go to ANY top 7 program I guarantee financing is available either through grants or through loans avail to Int. students. (Wharton, HBS, CBS, GSB and Kellog have them-think MIT too).I don't know of israelis with financila shortage who decided not to pursue MBA (and not all the people I know are that rich)

Again I can't stress enough the importance of internship placement success record as a parameter for your decision and for ensuring NPV >=0.

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #3976

To: porata

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This question rightfully bothers you! you want a positive NPV for this huge investment!

When I did recruiting in 2001/02 there were places like Goldman and Salomon brothers who did not bother going to the great schools you mentioned below (I am not being sarcastic), so a priortiy is given to the select 7-8.

Going a step back you should be really focused at what you want to do after grad because all the schools can land you a good job, where and in which industry this is a different question. If you want to go international try to get an international brand name (Yale, NYU work very well).

My best advice would be: think what you want to do, (which firm) 5 years from now and look if the grads of your destination achieved this, Ex: Venture Capital- one of the ways is going through consulting/ Investment Banking- look at team members section in a VC website and find matches.

Another very important factor is success rate at summer placement- if you get a job in the summer this increases your chances for FT job tenfold.

Sorry if I can't write more…work…GOOD LUCK

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #3972

To: porata

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I do not think that the decision will backfire on the schools: for a starter lots of stats are collected without the school's help, as to admission stats which will not be supplies- the rankers can survey sample population and get pretty accurate. HBS did not supply GMAT/GPA anyway and they were doing pretty good. So bottom the schools will still appear in the rankings but will not laundh PR capmaigns.

This is rightfully done IMHO, look at CBS in WSJ #20 in 2002 #10 in 2003, #8 in 2004 what happened in 2 years? the school has reinvented itself? and WSJ was supposed to survey recruiters! sure you go to MidwestHugeCo and they don't have a CBS grad, and may bash along the way (since the last one they have seen was the character of Henry Kravis in Barbarians at the gate). There are other examples: Stanford in BW ranked below top 10 etc- this is not serious- you can't compete with the resources (alumni netwok, endowment, prof, facilities) of the top schools.

So the schools leave it to you, if you are intelligent enough you'll find your way to the right place and won't be lured by fashion statements.

[djyacobi]

בתגובה ל: ארכיון 2: ???Any Israeli Applicants #3966

To: boazcn

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I Like your postings, I am not sure you got the feeling for CBS (I am an alum grad 2001), I would say that there are 8 top choices (H/S/W +4) all the B schools that decided to cease participating in the rankings (CBS, HBS, MIT, W, Kellogg, GSB, Stanford). All the rest are great choices too but not as renowned. (Tuck, Mich, NYU, Duke, Yale etc)

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