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I've just started by part-time MBA--it's been slow-going and exhausting at night. I'll be done in 3.5 to 4 years. I'm taking a prerequisite Calculus course and a starter course on management. I also like the way how it's finally 'my turn' to have an MBA just as the industry it'd be useful for is melting down. 
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When did you guys pick your concentrations? My part-time MBA will take 3.5 to 4 years at Rutgers and there's some hints that the answer is 'the sooner the better' even in my first semester here. They're also changing the part-time curriculum and I can chose between the old and new ones. I would lose a class in waived undergrad credits if I chose the new one. Does anyone have any experience with that sort of thing?
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Oct 27, 2008 03:30
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Thanks for your help guys. I'm actually not doing that great in the program. Between work, the MBA, and my long commute I only get to see daylight on Saturdays and Sundays. My grades should improve as I move away from calculus and management courses and into the good stuff like international business and financial statement analysis (both of which I do for 50+ hours a week anyway). I don't think anybody goes into those general courses saying 'GODDAMN I LOVE CALCULUS' but it stills feels rough.
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Nov 8, 2008 03:28
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locdogg posted:For those interested, the latest Business Week rankings are out today: http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/rankings/ Yay...made it to the "U.S. Programs Also Considered For Ranking " list. Haha.
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Nov 15, 2008 03:19
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Regarding the pre-req calculus course...this is what I'm struggling with. The midterm encompassed 250 pages worth of material that was covered over 14 hours. Then we got into the actual calculus. Now we're in the mid-500's in the textbook, doing one example per section per chapter. I have no calc or pre-calc experience whatsoever. It is brutal.
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Nov 26, 2008 03:59
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propecia posted:Any first year MBAs here really glad to be done with the semester but also really concerned about internship interviewing season coming up? I'm happy that the first semester is coming to a close as a part-timer. Then my time spent between school, work, and driving between those places drops from 70 hours to 60 hours and I get to see my friends again and focus on not being part of my company's announced layoffs.
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Dec 8, 2008 01:54
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So how did everybody do this semester? I passed calculus--the professor gave me the lowest possible grade necessary to not have to retake the class.
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Dec 20, 2008 18:13
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How's everybody's semester going?
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Feb 20, 2009 03:54
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ultrafilter posted:If you'd finished with a 2.95, you would find that people do care. I wish I had a 2.95...
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Feb 26, 2009 04:26
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Don Wrigley posted:This is not true at all. Almost every person in my IT organization above my manager (my manager would be considered middle management, her manager would be considered upper management) is an MBA. I agree--there appears to be more engineers (and accountants) in my MBA program than finance people, such as myself.
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Feb 28, 2009 04:14
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@KJ&AR@ posted:How would any NYC goons rate CUNY Baruch's Zicklin School of Business MBA program? How about Pace? Their PT program stood out when I was looking around...
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Mar 24, 2009 02:11
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Started studying early June while taking the exam late July.
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Mar 29, 2009 19:48
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Thoguh posted:Woohoo, just got accepted into the part time program at the University of Iowa (not a top 10 school, I know, but it's solidely ranked and work is paying the whole bill other than textbooks). Any evening/weekend MBA students have any words of wisdom for the next few years of my life? Good job. Talk to other students to find out which professors to take, find out if you can get advanced standing, and keep in touch with your MBA student office to make sure you're generally taking the right classes in the right order. I'm in the part-time program at Rutgers and my company is basically doing the same, excluding courses that are "not directly related to my job," such as the calc prerequisite.
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Apr 16, 2009 03:19
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Thoguh posted:If you don't mind my asking, what's advanced standing and why do I want it? I received credit for taking certain similar classes as an undergrad at another AACSB accredited school. Basically, two MBA credits for each 3 credit undergrad course that fell under that category. Bud posted:Hey Modern Life Is War, I'm applying to Rutgers part time and I'd like to ask you a few questions if you wouldn't mind? No PMs so email mrejda at hotmail if you're up for it - I'll buy you some beers in NB Sure.
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Apr 17, 2009 03:10
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Welp, one year in the books. I get the results of tonight's final tomorrow, so we'll see how I did. The GPA is merely a 3.05 right now, up from a 2.67 opening semester. Last semester's hurdle was the Calc prereq and this semester's was a professor whose exams were completely from the text and lectures on whatever the hell he wanted to talk about that day. The midterm and final were mysteries.
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Apr 30, 2009 03:29
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LactoseO.D.'d posted:How accurate are the practice tests on the CD they send out? I just did a 620. The practice tests were slightly harder than the real thing.
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May 3, 2009 02:46
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Got a 3.2 this semester. Boom goes the dynamite.
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May 12, 2009 02:14
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I work in international business and no one I work with (here or overseas) has a degree in international business. My boss is a CPA/MBA.
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May 13, 2009 02:35
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Has anyone else registered for the Fall yet? My schedule looks brutal--Data Mining (statistics) and an MIS course. Throw that on top of 50 hours at work (including the 2010 budget due the day before Thanksgiving) and you get a tough Fall. Ow ow ow.
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Jun 26, 2009 02:39
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Havoc904 posted:4) Really any other advice or opinion on my situation would also be greatly apperiated! The people at the top of my company's 'org chart' have both the CPA destination and an MBA. If possible, go for both.
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Jun 28, 2009 03:05
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Thoguh posted:Sorry if you've stated this earlier in the thread, but what kind of industry do you work in? I analyze the performance of a publishing company's foreign units (think of acronyms). I also help them with finance, accounting, and policy issues so they comply with US and UK GAAP. It's a combination of corporate finance and financial reporting. I just want to reiterate that my MBA program has more accountants and engineers in it than finance people. I'm also in a state school and doing it part-time, so that's the only angle I can provide (sorry, no Wharton or Columbia stories here).
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Jun 28, 2009 18:08
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KELLER! posted:Congratulations! Get ready for a busy couple of years. 16? I'm jealous. We have to complete 60 credits. 
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Aug 7, 2009 22:18
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sheri posted:I'm not going Ivy League/Big name school. Is it even worth it to obtain an MBA from a Non-Ivy/ Chicago/ etc school? I start this semester, so if it's not worth the cash I'd rather know now than at the end of the whole thing. I'm going to be attending Texas A & M. Yes. One often forgets the tiny #s of people who actually get into the top schools and the even smaller number of people who work on Wall Street.
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Aug 18, 2009 02:41
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Advice: don't take the mandatory stats and MIS/IT course in the same semester.
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Sep 9, 2009 04:09
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How's everyone's semester going? What are some ways that you guys are networking during the semester?
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Sep 27, 2009 01:20
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Last day of my third semester. Four more semesters to go.
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Dec 9, 2009 03:29
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Gatts posted:It has been stated before but, if you're going to get your MBA, get it from a top tier school and be sure you know where you're taking your career. Don't go right into your MBA after your undergrad and don't just go to any school even if it is accredited properly. Sigh, otherwise the ball will roll over you. Yes and no. Naturally, only a tiny percentage of people enrolled in any MBA program anywhere are in the top schools. Thus, the wide majority of people in MBA programs are there to advance their careers, switch fields, turn a pretty average undergrad experience into a better grad school one, et al. I don't see a problem with getting an MBA for any of those reasons. I do agree about not going directly into grad school from undergrad. Prove yourself in the real world first.
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Jan 2, 2010 05:31
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I used: GMAT Premier Program 2008 Edition by Kaplan Cracking the GMAT 2008 by The Princeton Review The Official Guide for GMAT Review, 11th Edition I also had Kaplan GMAT 800 2008-2009 Edition by Kaplan but ran out of time and didn't use it.
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Jan 5, 2010 02:44
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I've decided to speed up my part-time MBA at a state school. With three classes this summer, three in the fall, and two in the spring, I'll have 60 credits and will finish a lot quicker than originally planned. 14 months to go...
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Mar 7, 2010 18:59
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I think he meant earning millions from running his own business. I'm not going to recommend going for the MBA or not, but just to continue putting yourself in the best possible situation and seizing opportunities as they arise. If the MBA is part of that, so be it.
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Mar 20, 2010 17:28
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Anyone else doing summer courses? I started my part-time MBA right when this thread was born and I'll finish this time next year. 
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May 21, 2010 01:41
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CaptainEO posted:My actual score was very very close to my practice score. I just did a lot of practice tests for preparation. Make sure you are timing yourself - speed was an important factor for me on the math part. Same here. I forget the actual scores, but the +/- was something like 10 points. Carfax Report posted:Hard to believe that I first started posting in this thread when I got accepted, and now I've graduated. Time flies! Congrats man. I feel the same way: I was accepted in Sept 2008 and I'll finish in May 2011 (part-time at a state school though).
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Jun 14, 2010 00:29
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The tentative schedule for my last semester at Rutgers is out. Admittedly, it feels great. I need two more classes to complete my Management concentration (just finished the Finance concentration) and they're offering seven management classes in the Spring. Plus, they're offering two intense, two week trips to China and Dubai as 3 credit classes. If everything works out, the part-time program here took 3 years while working in international finance as an analyst during the day.
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Sep 26, 2010 18:07
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Just paid the tuition for my last semester for my part-time MBA at a state school. I'll be declaring for graduation in a few weeks too. It feels great.
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Dec 15, 2010 02:36
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Thanks guys. This thread and my MBA both started at the same time (I'm on page one), but talk seems to have focused on the top 20 schools and their full time programs for the past two and half years so I've been unable to really contribute much. My school is in the mid-50s. My last two courses are electives to gain concentrations in Finance and Management. The curriculum changed the semester after I entered and I had the choice to pick one or the other. The program is 60 credits and I took 8 classes this year (6pm - 9pm weeknights, no online courses at all) on top of my Analyst gig, trying to finish early. I got advanced standing because my undergrad and business school were both AACSB accredited. I worked through the whole thing and my company paid for most of it. Liked: All of the finance courses. Disliked: 1) Most group work. So you trade barrels of oil on NYMEX or help run an IT department at Goldman and can't produce your part of the report on time, eh?? 2) Courses that mention Michael Porter incessantly or cover the same stuff about innovation and strategic transformation over and over again.
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