Chicago Booth Encourages Candidates to Visit Campus

Kelley Curtin, Chicago Booth assistant director of admissions is encouraging candidates to visit the school and take advantage of the daily campus visit program, which provides opportunities to engage with current students, sit in on a morning or afternoon class, meet with members of the admissions team and explore the Charles M. Harper Center. 

Visiting prospective applicants will be greeted by Dean’s Student Admissions Committee (DSAC) volunteers, who also help lead a morning admissions information session, conduct tours of campus and arrange informal lunches with current students. 

 

Students should plan on visiting a class; classes are held  Monday through Friday, and class visits can be scheduled either in the morning from 8:30 to 10:15 a.m. or in the afternoon from 1:30 to 3 p.m. 

 

The Daily Campus Visit Program page also includes information about scheduling an informal lunch with student representatives from a range of student groups, including the Entrepreneurship & Venture Capital Group (EVC), Marketing Group, African American MBA Association (AAMBAA), Hispanic American Business Students Association (HABSA), Armed Forces Group,Chicago Women in Business (CWiB), and OUTreach (LGBTQ students and allies). Registration for the date of your preference is strongly recommended. Lunches take place from 12:30 to 1:15 p.m., and lunch is provided.

Source: Chicago Booth

Why an MBA Is Not Always the Right Choice

Businessweek has featured a guest post from Rose Martinelli, former admissions director at the University of Chicago’s Booth School of Business, where she wrote a popular admissions blog, The Rose Report.

 Martinelli believes if candidates do not  undergraduate business degree, the MBA may be a good option because of its focus on the fundamentals of business and experiential opportunities, as well as the breadth of career support available. "Even students who have pursued economics majors or who have done consulting can benefit from the MBA degree if one of the driving reasons for pursuing education is the chance to explore and experiment," she says.

But: "If you have an undergraduate business degree and want additional depth in a particular area, a subject-oriented masters degree may be ideal, however," she says.

To read more, please go to the Businessweek article.

Booth Boosts Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital

The Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital (EVC) at Group at University of Chicago Booth School of Business is pushing forward with entrepreneurship and venture capital opportunities through promoting conferences, guest speakers, recruiting sessions and experiential learning.

The group, one of the largest full-time student groups at Chicago Booth, seeks to educate student members about relevant career paths and connect them with professors and professionals in the EVC space. The student group also partners with Booth’s Michael P. Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship  to develop EVC-related programming, events and classes.

In the fall, the EVC Group hosts the University of Chicago Booth School of Business Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Conference, or SeedCon, a two-day event featuring a fast-pitch competition as well as panels and keynotes by entrepreneurs and venture capitalists from Chicago and beyond. Each winter quarter the group helps put on the Venture Capital Investment Competition (VCIC) – to give students a chance to think and act like venture capitalists while identifying top students to represent Chicago Booth at regional and national intercollegiate competitions – and the Bay Area Entrepreneurship and Venture Capital Trek – a networking opportunity with the Silicon Valley Venture Capital community.

Next month, the group will host the finals of the annual National Venture Competition (NVC), one of the nation’s top business competitions. Organized by the Polsky Center for Entrepreneurship with support from the EVC Group, the NVC is a year-long process featuring two initial phases and a May finals event. Now it its 16th year, the NVC features traditional, global and social tracks and has awarded $750,000 and helped launch more than 65 companies.

Source: Chicago Booth EVC Website