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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]My son’s best friend went to West Point - he’s  extremely bright and driven, wanted to have a sense of mission and challenge himself to the utmost

He liked his time at the USMA. However he has found the last 5 years of his life extremely stultifying, working in a ponderous bureaucracy with people who aren’t particularly bright, driven or mission-focused

He gets out in August and is rolling straight into a top MBA program, and is a bit depressed that he’ll be almost 30 before beginning his real career and regrets what he viewed as a lot of wasted time as an Army officer [/quote]

You can't get into a top MBA program without 4-5 years of work, anyway, and graduating from West Point and being in the Army likely helped him get into the top MBA program because they like diversity of backgrounds.  We had a few in my class at the Stanford GSB and they were a huge plus to the quality of conversation in the classroom, as he likely has more leadership experience than most, if not all, of his classmates. If it is truly a top MBA program and he does well, then he will be competitive for any career after finishing.  I guess he can wish that he'd "wasted" his last 5 years at an investment bank or consulting firm working 80 hour weeks, but then he would have had a lot more competition to get into that top MBA program.  [/quote]
Yes, as an officer, you should be able to show management experience and ideally some relevant experience in the field you want to go into.[/quote]

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