UChicago vs. NU vs. Ross

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<p>Read JHS and my posts on the first page. I believe JHS is a graduate of Yale and a senior partner at a law firm. There were many posts on that thread by business professors and people with MBA degrees.</p>

<p>This is from one of JHS posts:

On the other hand, this is what the head of an Arthur Andersen (RIP) office told my Intro To Financial Accounting class – a speech that literally changed my life: “I’m not here to recruit CPAs. CPAs are a dime a dozen. Anyone with decent study skills can learn the rules and pass a CPA exam, and anyone who does that and owns a calculator can be a competent accountant. What I need, what’s in short supply, is someone who can have an idea, and can develop it and express it clearly, and then go into a boardroom full of people who are 30 years older than he is and impress the heck out of them. If you’re that kind of person, I really want to hire you, and I don’t care how good your accounting skills are now. I know how to train accountants, but I need people worth training.” (Note: reconstructed from memory, but that was the clear idea.)

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<p>Students who are already in business school I would encourage to combine it with courses in liberal arts school - philosophy, psychology, math, econ or even art history. On the other hand, what my daughter had to do was to take finance courses at her university’s business school to demonstrate that she’s capable of understanding those topics. One course someone told her to take was psychology if she wanted to go into S&T.</p>