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  1. sb29
    For marketing, every year job market candidates are invited to join a 'secret' facebook group where people discuss openings, rumors etc and also update their job search details on an excel sheet. If I am not mistaken, Management has something similar. Ejmr carries a marketing thread every year. I would invite you to read through any year's thread to know how toxic the environment is. People show their worst side under anonymity.
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    In addition, the top psych/social psych journals are well respected as well with much shorter (but equally tough) review cycles.
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    Most well known CB profs have an availability bias because they see many CB PhD students in top schools having prior research experience. But every year many students enter good PhD program (though not top tier ones) without any research experience. I am not sure what college senior means? Wikipedia says its 4th yr. If that's so, are you about to complete 4 yrs or you have started your 4th yr? If you are about to complete 4 yrs, I would not spend money on doing a masters in US. Try to get an RAship under a psych/CB professor and start working on projects. The best master programs that prepares you for a PhD are actually in the Netherlands. If you are willing to move outside the US for 2 yrs, this will be a great step forward. If you are starting off your final year, take the GMAT and apply for PhD programs. See how you fare. I think you should be able to get into a decent program. Edit: Just to clarify, I wrote my response under the assumption that you want to do CB.
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    If you look carefully, you can find some good departments in Europe. For example, if you are interested in behavioral research, Warwick would be good place to be. Leeds has productive researchers in the international business/international marketing area. There is good work happening in the marketing/OB area in Belgium. The point is, when looking at non-US non-brand name schools, one should focus on other factors such as productivity of researchers in specific areas.
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    Many people on this forum evaluate schools based on subjective perceptions. Sometimes these are correct, at other times these are wrong. Many a times, the subjective perceptions are exaggerated, and maybe plain wrong. At other times, the stats don't tell the full story of what's going on in the department. The OP should talk to other PhD students/faculty in the CB area and decide.
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    A bit biased here. I know people who did PhD in Iowa and I think the program is good.
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    In the UK, people become asst profs in other schools only after doing couple of post docs. Further, although there is a salary grade (e.g., X to Y pounds) in each school for asst profs, business school profs with publications generally start at the top of the range.
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    I would suggest you go with Baruch. I don't know the culture in New York but from my experience, whenever there are other good schools in the neighborhood (Columbia, NYU), you get to meet up and interact with faculty and students from these schools and that helps in many ways. I know this is true in Singapore, Hong Kong, Paris, and London. But I would speak to few PhD students at Baruch and get a sense of the program before accepting.
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    It's a good school. What are your other options?
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    I believe there is a GRE to GMAT converter on ETS website. For GMAT, generally schools look at 90th percentile which should be around 700-710. However, if you have/about to have great research experience, then the score matters less
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    It's more to do with schools' perception of the kind of training you have receive. Few years back, the perception was that only LBS and INSEAD provide the same level of doctoral training as a good US school. But that perception is slowly changing and at least nowadays, PhDs from asian schools (with publications) get AMA interviews and sometimes flyouts from north american schools. Who knows, maybe few years down the line, PhDs from these schools will be competitive in the US market.
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    I am in marketing. I know past HK graduates with top tier publications who faced issues breaking into the US market. At least those students got US flyouts. I got AMA interview from 1 US school but no flyouts. But I did reasonably well in getting non-US AMA interviews and flyouts and I know other Asian grads who had similar experience. If you are doing CB, HK is a very good place to be as some of the most influential researchers of our field are based in HK and from what i know, the students attend classes and work with profs from other HK schools as well.
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    No one can predict the market 5 years from now. But I graduated from a Singapore school and got a job in a good European school (I had 1 top psych journal and 1 top management journal r&r). Although I did face issues in the job market and US schools were not really ready to look at me.
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    Your profile should be good enough for many of the schools listed here but not all (e.g. INSEAD will be competitive). How did you choose the European schools? Imperial (in most cases) and Rotterdam needs a research based masters which MBA is not. I would drop the other European schools unless you have some really compelling reason of going there. Try to look for schools which follow the US style of PhD i.e. 5 yrs of PhD with the first 2 years dedicated to coursework. Working as RA at ISB will immensely improve your chances as long as you get to work with professors who are publishing in top (e.g. FT50) journals. It will also give you clarity on what kind of research you would want to do.
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    Your chances will be higher in non-US schools such as the top schools in Singapore/HK. The quality of training that you will receive in these schools will be at par with the best. Do look at them.
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    With your experience, you don't need a psych masters. Just apply for PhD directly. You should be very competitive in top schools.
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    A lot of UK universities have research masters programs. If you are interested in decision making, look at University of Leed's MA research in their Centre for Decision Research. It is a pure thesis based masters without any compulsory coursework. Warwick has good behavioural researchers. Also look at Imperial College London. Outside of the UK, you may actively consider Hong Kong, not only for an M.Phil. but also for a PhD. You will get training which is at par with the best at places like HKUST. The Dutch universities also have research masters programs which you may check out.
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    Second this ^. Do an RA stint at ISB.
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    For marketing, if you see the WWW survey, most people go on the market at the end of 4 years and graduate in 5 yrs. Schools generally want to place their students well and they find some sort of funding for you. I was funded by a research center and had to work for them for 7 hrs/week.
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    You should be competitive everywhere. I don't know what else you can do :)
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    I would recommend doing RA at one of these places and doing PhD somewhere else. If at all you want to stay back in India, ISB is a good option if you want to do a quant-focused marketing PhD.
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    From what I have heard, it creates an impression that the department couldn't place its PhD students.
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    Overall profile is good provided you get a good test score. Working as RA under any IIFT prof will yield nothing as they don't publish in the top marketing journals. The only place you should be RA-ing for CB would be ISB. Else, see if you can find RAship under profs who regularly publish in top psychology journals such as those in IIM Bangalore OB department or someone like Varun Dutt in IIT Mandi. If you can't get RAship in these places, you are better off working in the industry.
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    Try contacting research active CB professors in other schools. Maybe some of them will be willing to look at your case. If at all you want to pursue a master's, pursue a research based master's. The dutch schools have good consumer behavior and social psych profs. Similarly, some of the UK schools have good experimental researchers, both in business and in psych. The Netherlands and the UK have research master's programs where your dissertation will be the primary component of evaluation. You can apply for a North American PhD once you complete these programs. I know few people who have taken this route.
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    You don't need a second masters. If you are not applying this year, do spend time doing RA work with professors who publish in behavioral journals such as JMR (CB papers), JCR, JCP and OBHDP. Even a good conference paper will go a long way in getting you an admit from a good program.
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