You've made me feel like Barack Obama, in that it seems that you are demanding my birth certificate! Would that and a JP paystub/pay advice please you?



Best,

Hill

That is not what I was suggesting Nabwire. All I was saying is that there are many ways of achieving what you want.

What I am against is incurring huge debts in the process. See link below http://www.nic-bank.com/...te/About-NIC/Management - the finance director is 32 yrs old. Look at his profile and what he has done to get where he is. In my estimation, this guy does not need to go to Goldman Sachs or JP Morgan as he is on his way to becoming the MD of a leading bank way before his 40th birthday.

I have known the guy since 1998. His resolve to go to Harvard was obvious and he never showed any outward signs of struggling to get financing.

I have no doubt that if you have the innate qualities to succeed in your preferred career choices, you will find it very easy to get the funding to attend whichever school you desire to attend. From the look of responses on this forum, you are researching in the wrong place. I would suggest that you get a very high GPA, get internship in GS, JPM, Citibank or any other top financial services company. Impress during the internship and while there apply to get into the top 5 business schools. A good undergrad research project coupled with internship at some of the bigger companies could go some way into getting you an MBA place in the top schools. Option 2. Score at least 750 in the GMAT and apply for a place in your preferred school. If you come back here with questions on how to get financing, I will start thinking that you are not cut for the kind of challenge you are pursuing. And btw Nabwire, I am supremely qualified to dispense this kind of advice having experienced the corporate world in both sides of the globe.

I graduated in 2000. He graduated in 2001 and immediately joined PWC. I could be off my max 1 year which would make him 33. His career profile is typical of someone who is in a hurry (Tom Mboya was the other Kenyan described as a man in a hurry. Note his 3 job changes in Barclays. About the masters degrees, it would seem that he did 2 in 3 years.

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Gentlemen please lets put egos aside, no one has to prove anything. This post is about what choices to make
a) go back to Kenya without a degree
b) get a degree by paying through the nose
Please note that I am not interested in going to a State, I have worked way to hard to end up being mediocre, I know im biased but thats how I feel. No matter how many articles are written, its a fact that an Ivy league takes you further in life, period!! Please show me a Warren Buffet, a Bill Gates, a Barack Obama who went to State and made it big? Do you think Obama would have made it to Presidency if he didnt have Harvard and Columbia under his belt? Do you think the people who make the world go round would have looked at him twice with a State? Lets get past Ivy league is not important, because it is!!!
And there are holes in the 2nd link that Hill posted, showing that an Ivy really is important

From an undergraduate perspective, the primary advantage of Harvard or Yale is the connections that college creates between the students and their peers," Eberman explains. "Those connections can be quite valuable over time when it comes to jobs and salaries."

Please note that most Ivy Leaguers are more interested in starting their own businesses, yes you also want to be employed but it will not be a lifelong endeavour. Thats why the Alumni network is important. And plus, all the top people at GS, JP, Citi etc etc I can bet are Ivy, I am willing to bet my left kidney for that. So the salary comparisons are maybe at a Junior level, but at the senior level there is no comparison, I stand corrected.