Great friends & great jobs
Written: Jul 19 '00
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Pros: great recruiting, smaller size, great friends, very international
Cons: Boston can be cold, hectic 1st semester
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| Tokumbo's Full Review: Massachusetts Institute of Technology -- Sloan Sch... |
A had a great overall experience.
Got a solid quant. education and excellent quant. reputation, even though I was a political science major undergrad.
Got many on-campus interviews through recruiting program and landed a great summer job (Goldman Sachs fixed income trading) in a completely new field -- despite my lack of experience and previously non-quant background. Because I was at Sloan, my quant. ability was never even questioned. This is a big advantage relative to Harvard and Kellogg which (deservedly or not) don't have that reputation.
Also got a great permanent job with McKinsey. (I had fun and learned a lot at Goldman, but decided it wasn't for me.)
Made great friends -- some very, very fun people, who know how to have fun. The small size relative to most other top schools, and the large international population (about 40%!!!) make it a much friendlier place. Europeans and Latins know how to party. People still see each other regularly after graduation, despite the fact that many are scattered around the world --huge attendance @ 1st year reunion, and almost every trip I make (Spain, India, Amsterdam, NYC) I see Sloanie friends
Great trips: 1st year I went to Columbia and Venezuela on a Sloan spring break study trip, 2nd year I went on the Buenos Aires-Sao Paulo-Rio trip, and just before graduation about 100 of us (out of 350 total) rented sailboats for a trip in the British Virgin Islands. And I'm not including even counting the "personal" Spain and India trips that I did with Sloanie friends from those countries.
Caveat: Not a school for you if you're afraid of quant. work. You don't need to be a rocket scientist (I studied poly sci undergrad), but you also can't look like a deer in the headlights if someone mentions the word derivative. (You don't even need to do any, but you should at least be comfortable with the concept.) You also need to realize that you will have to work quite hard 1st semester--though after that you can set your own pace.
Recommended:
Yes
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