Two words: Information Sessions

You know that uneasy feeling you get in your stomach when you feel you're up against some steep competition? Well that is exactly what you want to feel at an information session for an executive MBA.

After taking the GMAT, I was really excite to move on to the next daunting challenge of applying to schools.

The first information session I attended was for the IEMBA program at Georgetown. It was held in one of the lecture rooms at the Car Barn and attendees sat in the student seating. After a brief intro by Dean Gordon Schwartz, we were asked to introduce ourselves and state our current role and employer. In my row was a former attorney from the Enron defense team, an investment fund manager, and the director of global outsourcing for IBM. Oh yeah, and then there was me.

I knew right then this was the place to be.

In all, I attended three sessions, Georgetown, GMU, and GWU. The information session I attended for GWU was at the Ritz Carlton in Tysons, VA. You know it's not the school for you if some twenty-something snot states his reason for pursuing an MBA is, "To make a lot of money." That kind of brat is the last person you want on a team project, believe me. That's not to say I didn't have good chats with professors and administrator at the information sessions I attended, I did, however only at Georgetown did I feel a bit intinidated about the accomplishments and strengths of my would-be fellow classmates, that was, assuming I even got in.