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You’re in quarantine watching the unemployment rates and contemplating your life decisions, when you start to think about going back to school. You’ve never seriously considered pursuing an MBA, or maybe you have, and you have a lot of questions. Like that one C you got in your calculus class freshman year — would any top-tier MBA program even consider you if you didn’t graduate summa cum laude? Do you have enough money saved up to pursue higher education? And, after remembering some articles titled “The Death of the MBA”, you wonder: Is it even really worth pursuing? Is it really the "great equalizer" degree we think it is? We brought on Courtney Jacobson, a JD/MBA candidate, Penn Law & Wharton to answer these questions and more.
By Anjana, Epsa, and SydneyYou’re in quarantine watching the unemployment rates and contemplating your life decisions, when you start to think about going back to school. You’ve never seriously considered pursuing an MBA, or maybe you have, and you have a lot of questions. Like that one C you got in your calculus class freshman year — would any top-tier MBA program even consider you if you didn’t graduate summa cum laude? Do you have enough money saved up to pursue higher education? And, after remembering some articles titled “The Death of the MBA”, you wonder: Is it even really worth pursuing? Is it really the "great equalizer" degree we think it is? We brought on Courtney Jacobson, a JD/MBA candidate, Penn Law & Wharton to answer these questions and more.