There has been a lot of talk lately with a number of experts in the press predicting more intense competition to get into the top business schools due to the number of people being made redundant / thinking of b school etc increasing because of the credit crunch....
However, I'm utterly confused. Lately, having attended 5-6 top school presentations, absolutely all of them have emphasised DIVERSITY as key to their success. This not only meant diversity in gender / race / backgrounds but also occupation and industry. Although I understand that there would be differences between schools, I got the impression that schools had rough 'quotas' each year for admitting people from consulting, finance, industry, charity etc etc...the percentages are pretty consistent each year.
SO, I wanted to hear from the experts on this forum: is competition likely to increase mainly in the finance pool or will the credit crunch effect spill over into people with non-finance backgrounds as well?
However, I'm utterly confused. Lately, having attended 5-6 top school presentations, absolutely all of them have emphasised DIVERSITY as key to their success. This not only meant diversity in gender / race / backgrounds but also occupation and industry. Although I understand that there would be differences between schools, I got the impression that schools had rough 'quotas' each year for admitting people from consulting, finance, industry, charity etc etc...the percentages are pretty consistent each year.
SO, I wanted to hear from the experts on this forum: is competition likely to increase mainly in the finance pool or will the credit crunch effect spill over into people with non-finance backgrounds as well?
Beat it, just beat it.
