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...when they try to land a position after business school, young MBA students like Kafie have little trouble competing with their veteran peers—who average four-and-a-half years of work experience...
Ninety-six percent of the HBS Class of 2006 had job offers at graduation, according to the Director of MBA Career Services, Jana Kierstead. The figure was 94 percent for the handful of graduates who entered business school within three years of finishing college—who make up about a fifth of the HBS student body, school officials...
...renewed its push for younger applicants in 2001 amid faculty concerns that the rising age and experience levels of MBA students was creating a student body with a narrower range of perspectives. The school’s managing director of MBA admissions and financial aid, Deirdre C. Leopold, says that the lack of diversity was not conducive to HBS’s classroom model, in which students analyze and debate individual case studies...
...some recruiters are growing dissatisfied with the decline in MBA students’ work experience, as The Wall Street Journal reported in September...
...Director of MBA Financial Aid Susan S. Gilbert wrote in an e-mail yesterday, “Since the private loan program we have with Citibank is a no-fee, sub-prime loan, we’ve seen very little interest in borrowing private loans from other lenders.” The same sentiment was echoed by HLS Assistant Director of Financial Aid Denise Ryan, who maintains that “we list Citibank because they have very favorable Stafford terms...