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What have you been told about applying to business school? With the advent of chat rooms, blogs, and forums, armchair \u201cexperts\u201d often unintentionally propagate MBA admissions myths, which can linger and undermine an applicant\u2019s confidence. Some applicants are led to believe that schools want a specific \u201ctype\u201d of candidate and expect certain GRE scores and GPAs, for example. Others are led to believe that they need to know alumni from their target schools and\/or get a letter of reference from the CEO of their firm in order to get in. In this series, mbaMission<\/a><\/i><\/b>\u00a0debunks these and other myths and strives to take the anxiety out of the admissions process.<\/i><\/b><\/p>\n <\/i><\/b>Human nature dictates that amid a competitive MBA program application process\u2014exaggerated by the pervasiveness of rankings and the chatter surrounding them\u2014some MBA students will perceive that they are ahead of others because they were accepted at a top school, while others will perceive that they are behind their peers because they gained acceptance from a lower-ranked school. What is often lost amid all of this worrying is that <\/span>you<\/span><\/i>, not your business school, are the independent variable. <\/span>You<\/span><\/i>, not your school, will determine your success.<\/span><\/p>\n Many regard such prestigious institutions as <\/span>Harvard Business School<\/span><\/a> and the <\/span>Stanford Graduate School of Business<\/span><\/a> as a holy grail of sorts. Their reasoning is along the lines of, \u201cAll you have to do is get in and you are set for life!\u201d This is undoubtedly wrong. Although tremendous opportunities exist for those who graduate from a Harvard or Stanford MBA program, no graduate is simply given a free pass. When MBAs find summer or full-time positions at prestigious firms, they are still competing with others from many schools once they enter their workplaces, where (surprise!) their individual performance\u2014not their pedigree\u2014then determines their success.<\/span><\/p>\n An mbaMission consultant recalls her MBA summer internship at J.P. Morgan, wherein the firm recruited students from 17 top MBA programs. At the end of the summer, students from Wharton, <\/span>Michigan Ross<\/span><\/a>, UVA Darden, Texas McCombs, and <\/span>NYU Stern<\/span><\/a> were offered full-time positions, while students from many other schools were left out. This simple anecdote features a very small sampling from one firm and one summer, but it can be an eye-opener for an MBA program applicant who assumes that a top-ten school is the \u201cticket.\u201d<\/span><\/p>\n Further, a myriad of studies suggest that lower-ranked schools offer a greater return on investment than top-ranked schools. In one study sponsored by GMAC (the collective of MBA programs that administers the GMAT), data suggests that lower-ranked schools offer lower costs and higher returns over a ten-year period (185% vs. 118%). We are not suggesting that you start applying exclusively to lower-ranked schools or that you shun Stanford or Harvard\u2014both have excellent programs. Our point is simply that some applicants can too closely identify with their target schools and neglect to recognize that their internal motors have gotten them to a place where they can compete for acceptances. These internal motors will not be shut off during or after business school, but will continue to drive the applicants in the future. ?<\/span><\/p>\n \u00a0<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" What have you been told about applying to business school? With the advent of chat rooms, blogs, and forums, armchair \u201cexperts\u201d often unintentionally propagate MBA admissions myths, which can linger and undermine an applicant\u2019s confidence. 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