I have a PhD in Business Administration from the University of California at Berkeley. I applied to nine top schools -- and here is what I did.
1. I sent in filled out application forms with a check.
2. I had three letters of recommendation sent to each school.
3. I took the GRE examination (note -- all nine schools would have accepted the GMAT).
4. I included a cover letter explaining why I wanted a PhD, why I was interested in that school. It also addressed a couple of issues (like why I had dropped out of a PhD program 20 years earlier).
5. I had my transcripts sent from every university I had attended.
That is the minimum that must be done.
As for the route -- everyone is different. The top business schools are extremely selective. For example, the year I applied to Berkeley there were over 250 applications for a PhD in the finance area. Only nine were accepted (and six came -- though the school only wanted four to come). The next year, applications were up, but only four were accepted. Nearly everyone who gets into a top PhD program in a business field already has a graduate degree and many have business experience.
I mentioned that nine were accepted into my finance program. Here are their backgrounds:
1. I had an MBA from a tp school, graduate work in mathematics and philosophy and 16 years work experience -- including ten years on Wall Street doing research.
2. One student had a PhD in Mathematics from Wisconsin
3. One student had a PhD in physics from an Ivy League school
4. One student had an MS in economics, was at the dissertation stage for a PhD in statistics from the University of Paris, had several publications and had taught finance at the MBA level for several years.
5. One student had a MS in mathematical finance from Chicago
6. One student had an MS from Carnegie Mellon, and was at the dissertation stage for a PhD in operations research at USC.
7. One of the people who went elsewhere had a masters degree in Physics.
8. One of the people who went elsewhere had a master's degre from the Kennedy School at harvard.
9. Finally, one of the students who went elsewhere graduated first in his class fromthe best university in Canada.
The bottom line is that it is extremely difficult to get into a PhD program at a top school. You have to prove that you can do graduate work by actually having done graduate work elsewhere.
2006-11-29 01:24:33
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2016-10-16 11:02:08
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