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Friday, 13 April 2007 19:15
This is a really good link for applicants on what Columbia is looking for. Average age 25!!! Glad I"m already in.

http://www.businessworld.in/content/view/40/80

I think its pretty accurate. We are a finance school but the Core is good General Management.

Our training seems to be listening, sensing, organizational analysis rather than top-down strategy. You learn a lot from the clubs, group projects, Silfen speakers and the extra-curricular.. often more than some of the formal courses on soft skills.
Even recruiting while based in New York is good networking training (something I used to be very bad at and am improving on). Strangely enough, the soft style is a leadership style I never mastered prior to b-school.

Definitely very global and entrepreneurial, although some schools could edge us a little bit on the pure entrepreneurial stuff. Those schools aren"t in a position to do recruitng the way we do it though and don"t have the support for Finance...only Stern has a location advantage in the same league.

Happier with my choice than ever. Just got to get that full time offer from the Summer.
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