<p>Thank you for asking, he applied to Carleton ED2 and was accepted. I am very pleased with the outcome, and believe my son will be in a supportive community at Carleton, rather than the confidence-eroding environment he would have found on the campus of his ED1 choice. </p>
<p>My reason for posting this thread was triggered by the excellent Inside Carleton article about Carleton trustee Alan Bauer, Class of 1974, who later went to the University of Chicago Business School and became president of Progressive Insurance’s direct-to-consumer business. I want to know whether Mr. Bauer is one of the few Carleton grads who ever pursued an MBA degree, or are there perhaps 2-3 percent of each graduating class who do it.</p>
<p>There is a great quote in the article. Mr. Bauer said, “Business school taught me the language, the conventions and the methods of business, but it didn’t particularly try to teach me creativity or imagination, and it offered little reward for personal contrariness. Carleton exposed me to so many different things, and the cumulative effect of those experiences gave me preparation for almost any situation.”</p>
<p>I am just wondering whether some of today’s Carleton grads go the MBA route as Mr. Bauer did three decades ago.</p>