| NorCalDad,
I enjoyed reading your post and agree with pretty much everything you said. Just one more thing about the Kellogg cert: my point of saying it's competitive to get in was to discourage the OP from having it as a major factor since it's such a long shot to get in. Like you said, it's unclear how the program is regarded since it's so new though it is supposed to have support from the Kellogg school in terms of getting summer internships. The 4-course program is very intense and probably everyone that's in the program has gone through either honors calculus or equivalent series. The first course is the same accelerated (combining two course into one) finance course offered to MBA students and taught by the same professor. It's definitely not for everyone. |