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http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/05/geographic.htm Go to "MidWest" section

MBA is a luxury commodity and they charge for it that way!!! If you get a decent job, I dont think you will be paying off until 65. One of my friends told me that it will take him 5-7 years to pay off his debt (he did MBA from MIT). So even if you extend it by couple of years its not that bad.

I would say retake TOEFL. Blue club --> IBM, GE etc. (one of those S&P 500 components)

Buy this book and you will have a pretty good handle on what to do http://www.nextag.com/How-to-Get-into-57113877/prices-html A relatively old but good book http://www.powells.com/cgi-bin/biblio?inkey=17-0971482217-1

Generally, I have read people mentioning that 80+%ile in both is good for W, so it should be good for Tuck/Duke/Ross too...

There is already this group for 2007 http://finance.groups.yahoo.com/group/sept2007intake/ Other older groups are with wealth of info. 1. sept2003intake 2. sept2004intake 3. sept2005intake 4. sept2006intake Good Luck!!!!

I know two people who did online, one from Jones International and other I dont recall.... 2 years on, both could not extract any value out of it. Since their online degrees were not accredited by EQUIS/AASCB/AMBA. I am not sure if any of the online MBAs are accredited at all... I will not recommend them.

34V 50Q should take you over 700.

When I checked last year Utah campus of BYU had only 1 int'l some chinese guy that too I believe must be from LDS/mormon. I think why BYU doesn't have int'l becoz you need to show that your goals align with that of church's and also mostly its a mormon community college with some of the very well connected alumni Jet-blue CEO, Harvard president etc etc... Also I think there is some requirement to "donate" 2 years of your life for missionary activity in Brazil and elsewhere, getting reco from your pastor etc...

I think it does. Unless you plan to retire in that company, you should try to get the best brand tag you can. Harvard brand name goes beyond your first job. My 2 cents.

You have time on your side and if you get 750 in GMAT, I would say go full time in top 5 schools. Also if you take GMAT in October you are already late for this year's cycle. Hence do your homework in the meantime, go full throttle next year and apply as you will be one year older too. After GMAT start reading BW forums, you will do fine. Good luck!!!!

http://www.columbia.edu/cu/business/career/employmentreport/ In general its harder to get H1 after MBA than after say MS in CompSc. but surely not impossible otherwise there wouldn't be Int'l students in Columbia. I don't think you should worry about it.

Yes, you can convert to F1 anytime you want but then that will render your H1 invalid and hence your employment based green card app too. No, unless you stay outside US for 1 year following your graduation. Outside may be Canada though. Practically speaking it is very tough to get H1 again from outside US for MBA jobs. No. Application and immigration status are totally separate. Also about your employer agreeing to hold H1 while you study is all illegal. H1 is a work visa not a study visa. Schools won't buy that. Only way to join school in your situation is F1 EAD Green card CitizenGood Luck!!!

There are some conerns about Babson's placement and career placement office. BU is considered stronger in that area. However, babson has higher overall rank in BW 2004.

Generally schools ask for double spaced essays to enable readers comment on them right at the spot in a print-out. Its nothing to do with hard to read. I would go with signle/double space based on information I have to put-in and also depending upon other essay's formatting. I would not make one essay single spaced and others double. Just be consistent. My 2 cents.