UW Seattle VS. IUB Kelley

openedskittles
Mon, 05 Apr 2010 14:53:45 +0000

Please take barrons’ comments with a grain of salt. He/she is clearly from Seattle and is being extremely biased toward the city with complete disregard to choosing which program is actually better.

Your chances of being a part of a start up company are extremely irrelevant because the chances that you will stumble into the next Amazon are extremely small and the chances that you will have opportunities with good start ups may very well be higher at Kelley seeing as it’s simply a stronger program and there are startups popping up all over America, many of which are bound to have a lot more potential than the average startup in Seattle.

The comment about how people in the Northeast and Midwest are less accepting of Asians is completely unsubstantiated and it is very unlikely that you will run into any problems because you are Asian in either location. Seattle does have a large Asian population due to it’s Pacific coast location, but the population of Seattle is the same percentage Chinese as the population of Plano, Texas, so it makes this very irrelevant argument a weak one as well.

The bottom line is that Seattle is a nice city with some nice opportunities, but it really does not offer anything influential enough to rationalize choosing Foster over Kelley, because the same opportunities and even a whole lot more are available in other cities, especially to grads from stronger programs.

If you want to go to the stronger program that will be respected and recruited more by anyone outside of Seattle (and possibly even in Seattle for those who are familiar with business programs), Kelley is your school. If you want to treat that laughable comment about the pure luck of a single woman, or the flimsy argument about race as if they are legitimate arguments for going to Foster, then that’s your choice, but it wouldn’t be mine.