Is an MBA a status symbol to middle class (and lower UMC) parents?

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:Only M7 degrees are a status symbol.

The M7 schools are Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Penn Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT Sloan. The global elite in the world of business.

The US economy is much broader than Wall Street banks and consulting scam artists. Our niece is 29 years old and was a state school sorority girl —> even lower tier commuter university MBA right after college —> makes over $500,000 a year in some executive role in the Midwest. Nobody cares where the MBA is from, just that you have it. Added bonus if you’re attractive and have a personality.

Lol ok cool I don't think anyone will ever consider your sorority girl niece "elite". And I'm suuuuure she makes $500k as a 29 year old. Sure, sure.

kinda funny that pp doesn't even know for sure what she does " in some executive role" in the Midwest.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only M7 degrees are a status symbol.

The M7 schools are Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Penn Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT Sloan. The global elite in the world of business.

The US economy is much broader than Wall Street banks and consulting scam artists. Our niece is 29 years old and was a state school sorority girl —> even lower tier commuter university MBA right after college —> makes over $500,000 a year in some executive role in the Midwest. Nobody cares where the MBA is from, just that you have it. Added bonus if you’re attractive and have a personality.

Ah, yes, all those struggling Wharton MBAs out here angling to make a buck while Larla with an MBA from Punxsutawney Community College is netting in half a mil in her MLM executive role, right out of b-school!

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only M7 degrees are a status symbol.

The M7 schools are Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Penn Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT Sloan. The global elite in the world of business.

The US economy is much broader than Wall Street banks and consulting scam artists. Our niece is 29 years old and was a state school sorority girl —> even lower tier commuter university MBA right after college —> makes over $500,000 a year in some executive role in the Midwest. Nobody cares where the MBA is from, just that you have it. Added bonus if you’re attractive and have a personality.

Lol ok cool I don't think anyone will ever consider your sorority girl niece "elite". And I'm suuuuure she makes $500k as a 29 year old. Sure, sure.

kinda funny that pp doesn't even know for sure what she does " in some executive role" in the Midwest.

It's not genuine because unemployed nuts and gs feds on DCUM didn't get enough breadcrumbs to track down and dox the niece on LinkedIn. $500K at 29 with seven years of professional experience is hardly that uncommon, especially if bonuses and stock options were involved. The last 10 years were the biggest economic boom... ever? Those in disbelief are just outing themselves as clueless SAHMs and public sector schmucks.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Only M7 degrees are a status symbol.

The M7 schools are Harvard, Stanford, Chicago Booth, Penn Wharton, Northwestern Kellogg, Columbia, and MIT Sloan. The global elite in the world of business.

The US economy is much broader than Wall Street banks and consulting scam artists. Our niece is 29 years old and was a state school sorority girl —> even lower tier commuter university MBA right after college —> makes over $500,000 a year in some executive role in the Midwest. Nobody cares where the MBA is from, just that you have it. Added bonus if you’re attractive and have a personality.

Lol ok cool I don't think anyone will ever consider your sorority girl niece "elite". And I'm suuuuure she makes $500k as a 29 year old. Sure, sure.

kinda funny that pp doesn't even know for sure what she does " in some executive role" in the Midwest.

It's not genuine because unemployed nuts and gs feds on DCUM didn't get enough breadcrumbs to track down and dox the niece on LinkedIn. $500K at 29 with seven years of professional experience is hardly that uncommon, especially if bonuses and stock options were involved. The last 10 years were the biggest economic boom... ever? Those in disbelief are just outing themselves as clueless SAHMs and public sector schmucks.

$500k at 29 can barely even be considered "common" in Silicon Valley tech, let alone for a 29 year old who supposedly graduated from a low tier commuter college and is working in the Midwest. Please at least make your lies believable.

[Anonymous]

A regional commuter university is not a community college. Wasn't George Mason considered a commuter university in recent memory? The niece could have a bachelor's from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an MBA from University of Illinois Chicago.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:A regional commuter university is not a community college. Wasn't George Mason considered a commuter university in recent memory? The niece could have a bachelor's from Indiana University Kelley School of Business and an MBA from University of Illinois Chicago.

In any case, not a status symbol.

[Anonymous]

Corporate lawyers make $500K at age 29 or 30.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporate lawyers make $500K at age 29 or 30.

Not ones who graduated from regional commuter colleges lmao

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:Corporate lawyers make $500K at age 29 or 30.

The PP said MBA, not law degree.

That said, PP may be telling the truth about the niece, but just doesn't understand why his/her niece is making $500k in the executive role. It is not likely due to a non-elite MBA. There were likely other factors involved - knowing the right people or maybe even just working hard in her field and performing well.

The niece could also be lying about her income.

[Anonymous]

Outside of a handful of very niche jobs, recruiters looking at your LinkedIn don’t care about its caliber and have no way of knowing whether you were in a weekend, part-time or online MBA program. An MBA is an MBA. It checks a box.

[Anonymous]

After the first job post-MBA, it doesn’t matter she&& whether the MBA is from M7, M3, or even M1. What matters is how the individual performs in the job. The school and the professors don’t do the job, but the individual does. If you don’t have skills, then you don’t have regardless of where you got your MBA from.

[Anonymous]

"M7" is an internet striver message board obsession. Nobody cares. Most "M7s" work with "lowly" state school grads at places like PwC for $125,000 a year.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:After the first job post-MBA, it doesn’t matter she&& whether the MBA is from M7, M3, or even M1. What matters is how the individual performs in the job. The school and the professors don’t do the job, but the individual does. If you don’t have skills, then you don’t have regardless of where you got your MBA from.

No such thing as an M3 or an M1

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:"M7" is an internet striver message board obsession. Nobody cares. Most "M7s" work with "lowly" state school grads at places like PwC for $125,000 a year.

M7 is an actual association of the top b-schools and their respective admins. Nothing to do with “message board obsession.”