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Well, I would bump the thread then, Omoteeh, could you please modify your post, I am trying to reduce the internet paper trail that i am leaving around. Gdluck applying to Booth, just please modify ur thread.

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Goodluck

Well I really actually want to leave, because of personal reasons, but I think, before application season starts, I would give more advise, but thats all, I would do. I actually know a lot about the graduate admission process (no I am not trying to show off- this is an online forum) from interacting with other people, include africans who applied to graduate school, And one thing I found out is that you never know what would happen.

For one, I thought US universities don't accept people from Nigeria straight out of university for PhD programs (They are usually expected to do a masters first) graduate because of the standard of nigeria's tertiary education, It being below that of other academically rigorous countries, For example, Like India (IITs) and China (Tsinghua and Peking University) schools which are not facilities/Research wise equivalent to MIT, but are at par academically have students flooding the PhD programs of top schools after there bachelors. However this is not the case especially if you attend premier universities like UI, University of Lagos and OAU, and have a high GPA because then these top schools would assume you are one of the best in Nigeria, and they would try there best to take you.

So basically, what i am trying to say is if you have results which reflect top 1-2% in nigeria, and you dont have a masters, apply straight for a Phd, that is where the money is at (scholarship wise).

Also pertaining to schools, there are so many engineering schools in the US that it is ridiculous, the school you do your engineering rarely has nay bearing on your job, Only MIT/Stanford/Berkeley/Caltech and Georgia Tech/Austin are up there. After that, all of them are the same, look for cheapest, and one that would make you debt free.

thnxs

Me in political history class,

Professor: Why does Ayi Kwei Armah use the title "The beautyful ones are not yet born."

Me: Because Ugliness is genetic, and so makes sense, Ugly begets ugly.

lalala

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Well after checking other countries its not that bad

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^ loyal subject of mama charlie just ignore these diaspora  posters thats how they act. Never seeing anything good in nigeria. They have no right or reason to criticize such a great country. The right is reserved to only the true nigerians, those who never left.

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Now back to your statement, after reading Consultant's testimony that her hubby attended an un-ranked all-black school for his MBA, and still ended up with a top oil company, I 'm forced to wonder why you are still trying to draw the dichotomy between top-level and mid-level schools on the one hand, and you and 'many' other Nigerians in the U.S. on the other hand. Do you have anything to prove? If so, let your career progression show it, and stop talking down on many others who are quietly pursuing their goals, and could end up been your boss(es) in future.

So why are some of us advocating top schools regardless of the cost? Maybe we believe that we could change our country by making them aware that we are behind in the world and that we have to catch up fast. davidif started this post out of selflessness, to make people aware of business schools. He didn't do this to show how knowledgeable he was about business school or to talk about his significant business experience like some people.

Or maybe those of us who attend prestigious universities are tired of being the only black faces in multitudes of whites/indians and chinese and would want our country to develop. We are also aware that entrepreneurship cannot start from nowhere, you need the experience to start a viable business option. You need exposure and sadly that exposure is absent in Nigeria. Maybe we have become aware that the only way to join the global order is to learn as much as we can about that global order. Maybe we sit in our classes where they talk about emerging economies and no African country pops up. May be its the fact that we are only known for 419 and it would be nice if we are known for something else like building businesses.

I am happy someone is finally getting to the real point of the thread, best business schools and how to get to them, not why you should attend them

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which other business school should compete with Harvard Business School?l

Do you mean as a peer school? or in quality? In quality, probably Stanford/Mit/Wharton and as a peer school only Wharton could stand with it. For European schools probably only London Business School and Insead in France.

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Their are classifications of schools; Ivy league, mid league and low schools. I would imagine that if one have successful admission into Harvard law to study a JD/MBA program, get into debt of quarter a million dollars, one would agree with me that taking such financial risk is well worth it, actually not in the short term but definitely in the long run if they are aspiring a top U.S. political figure or attorney or something.

you hit the point on the head. Long term Plans you take a top degree. At this point I am going to also point out that it seems people dont know what the ivy league is since people are using it carelessly. Its an undergrad conference consisting of certain northeast schools so Stanford, MIT and even cornell engineering are not ivy league. In addition, I still feel it is erroneous using the term for graduate school which includes MBA, so the term top US MBA would be better.

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