by Marquis | May 18, 2004 | career, Leaving job for Bschool, transition
Yesterday, I got an email from the Admissions Office at Stanford saying that they had hired a company to do background checks of all its admitted students for the Class of 2006 to verify the information that they had put in their applications, including information...
by Marquis | May 10, 2004 | career, Leaving job for Bschool, transition
I just got out of a meeting with my personnel manager and now I’m feel all kinds of guilty. Since I transitioned to my current role in January, he has gone a long way toward giving me a lot of opportunities to learn things through new tasking and he’s been...
by Marquis | May 4, 2004 | Financing the MBA
I just got an email from Stanford telling me that I wasn’t moved to the semifinal round for the General Motors felowship in their Partnership for Diversity (P4D) Fellowship program. This diss along with the earlier diss from Goldman Sachs means that my...
by Marquis | Apr 28, 2004 | Financing the MBA
I just received an email from Goldman Sachs saying that they decided not to make me a finalist for their summer MBA fellowship program. I knew that they had a lot of applicants for the ~10 spots they had available, but I was hoping to at least get an interview at...
by Marquis | Apr 17, 2004 | Bschool experience, Stanford GSB
I just got home after a brunch with some of my future classmates and some Stanford GSB alums organized by the Admissions Office…with a surprise appearance by Derrick Bolton, Stanford’s Director of Admissions. We gathered at Old Ebbitt Grill in DC, which is...
by Marquis | Apr 7, 2004 | Financing the MBA
OK, I’ve become settled with the fact that I’m going to be living like a pauper from now until May 2006, but I’m still looking for financial assistance. I just mailed off my application for the Goldman Sachs MBA Fellows program on Friday and...
