Hi friends,

As a lot of you old-timers know, I recently returned from a long absence due to filling out business school applications. I am happy to report that I have an update.

I was accepted at UCLA's Anderson School of Management for the MBA class of 2007! Anderson was one of my top two choices, and probably my #1. They are ranked #12 in the country, plus it's in a location with awesome weather and beautiful girls everywhere. I got an e-mail on Monday night congratulating me on my acceptance.

I'm still waiting on Stanford, Michigan, and USC. Right now it doesn't matter as much, since I already got an acceptance from a school that I would be thrilled to go to. Of course, I'd like to have choices, so I'll keep my fingers crossed for those other schools as well.

I'll update this thread as I hear more good (or bad) news. Thanks for all of the encouragement you've all offered over the past several months!

Congrats, congrats, congrats!!!

That's wonderful DC! Congratulations! Sounds like your preference is UCLA Anderson. Should by chance you should decide on Michigan....consider the winter weather. It could be a real shock to your system.


TIS

Congrats DC!

Congrats Don Corpuzzi! I have been thinking A LOT about getting an MBA myself and at first I wanted to, then I didn't, but now I think I'm going to do it. My current school (University of Mary Hardin-Baylor) is going to begin offering an MBA in my major (Sports Management) starting next fall. This works for me in so many ways b/c I LOVE the school & I'm not ready to leave yet, so now I can stay there at least another year. Plus I get to not only get my master's there, but be 1 of the first to get an MBA in Sports Management since this will be a new program. But enough about me, again congrats!

PS-Geoff, great picture

Congrats to my old friend Don Corpuzzi!

Very impressive list of graduate programs, and you've been accepted to one of them. That's HUGE Don Corpuzzi. Congratulations!

While I'm impressed with Michigan's academic credentials, TIS is right about the midwest winter weather. I wouldn't let that factor alone keep you from choosing Michigan, but your west coast choices all offer a great academic program in a temperate climate all year long!

tony b.

Great News. Now you will be as shhhmat as Fredo. I hope you won't get a big fat business head. Stay in touch with the Gangster BB, we'll keep your feet on the ground.

Then we'll knock you off your feet with all our little blue drinks.

DC,

Let us know where you decide?


Beth did you say Blue Drinks??? :p I'm buying!!!


Hey Beth, nice avator. I Love L&O SVU (actually, I like all of them)

TIS

TIS is buying? When's the next convention?

I love SVU. It's my new addiction. But mainly the older ones with A.D.A Grace and Ice T. I don't like the early ones with Cassidy and that other woman.

I love the promo...hence, my sig..."that's the doink doink."

Man, DC, you're getting into good physical shape, and now you'll be going to a great business school. You're gonna be too respectable to hang out with us soon. :p

Good Luck and Congratulations!

Congrats, DC!! UCLA is an awesome school... and I hear great things about Anderson.

I'm doing Poli Sci there now (undergrad). And you're right, the location is great, and Westwood Village is awesome. Lots to do there. Besides the traffic on Wilshire and surrounding streets, there's pretty much nothing to complain about. Will you be living close to it?

Thanks everyone for the kind words.

I'm still really excited about this opportunity. I was imagining the job recruiters tripping over each other just to be first in line to offer me a job. I passed up on UCLA when I chose my undergrad institution, but it's going to be tough to say no to them a second time.

I'm not sure where I'm going to live. My best friend from college (who is a grad from UCLA law) works in Century City and has expressed interest in getting a place with me. Plus I have another friend applying to Anderson and one more applying to their Ph.D. program in cinema studies, so I guess I'll have to check with those guys to see what's up.

Any suggestionson where I should live, Letizia? As far as I know, parking is a real b!tch out there.

SC, I'll never be TOO respectable to hang out with you all on this board. GangsterBB for life!

From one Don C to Another....Congratulations and good luck!


Don Cardi

( Beth E, you have to be careful when you mention those little blue drinks! Do you see how excited you made TIS when you mentioned them? )

Especially the Episode "Angel" right TIS?



Don Cardi

What is wrong with women getting excited?

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You better hang out with us. :p What do ya think? Nice college boy eh????. You think you gonna be too good for us and one day bada bing, our brains are all over your nice Ivy League suit? You'll sleep with Luca Brasi before that happens. Besides, we need as many people from California on the BB as possible. My posse! ha ha!! :p


TIS

West side!!!!

Congratulations!! As a man who was accepted to UCSD, I commend you on your acceptance to UCLA and the UC system in general. That is no easy task by any means, and you deserve all the glory. UCLA is an outstanding institution of learning, and would not be a bad choice even when considering the other choices. You're absolutely right about the weather and girls though, so why not go for it!!

Have a cold one on the house. You've clearly earned it.

Hi y'all. Got another update. I got waitlisted at Michigan , but I would still have chosen UCLA over Michigan had I been accepted. I sent their admissions office an email and told them to remove me from the waitlist.

I have an interview at USC on Tuesday. Wish me luck!

Congrats DC!

Good luck!!

Good luck DC. And congrats. I know you will do good.

I just saw this... I don't know if you're still unsure, it's been 3 weeks since that post.

Anyway, I'd say Century City or Culver City are the best choices, West Hollywood is awesome and close, but expensive. Westwood is obviously the best choice, but is getting expensive as well... although if you are not living alone, that helps a lot. I'm in Santa Monica, and it's not far, but it's not as close as you could be. I mean if you're moving closer FOR school, might as well really be close. Good luck!

Sorry to ask this question b/c I think you already addressed this, but you had to take the GMAT entrance exam, correct? How did you prepare for it? I think I'm going to buy a study guide (something like GMAT for Dummies) and read through that, and then take the test this summer.

Yeah, you have to take the GMAT to get into an MBA program just like you would take the SAT or ACT to get into college. I studied from a book and took a lot of practice test. Don't buy anything like GMAT for Dummies. I would recommend all of the GMAT books that Kaplan puts out (I think there are 4 of them) as well as The Official Guide to the GMAT, which is produced by ETS, which administers the test. The OG uses actual old test questions, so it'll be pretty accurate in terms of difficulty level. The Kaplan tests are really hard and your real scores will be much higher than you will score on any Kaplan practice test. Keep in mind that the GMAT is a Computer Adaptive Test (CAT), which means that the test adjusts depending on if you got the last question wrong or right. The more you get right, the harder the test becomes. Make sure you take several full-length timed tests on the computer, because doing it on paper just won't simulate the real thing.

Feel free to e-mail me if you want any advice about the GMAT. Keep in mind that the test results are only good for 5 years, so if you aren't planning on applying to b-school in the next 5 years, I'd wait until later to take it.

Hi everyone,

Here's another update...I had an interview at USC yesterday. It went okay, but not as well as my UCLA interview went. I think that was due to the fact that I am most likely going to UCLA, so I didn't really care that much about this interview and wasn't as well-prepared as I could have been. But I love the campus there and there are so many hot girls on campus (mostly undergrads). Plus there is so much school spirit (I guess winning two national championships in a row plus a Heisman Trophy doesn't hurt school spirit much).

Got my rejection letter from Stanford the other day :p

Gimme the name of the interviewer.... I'll pay him a visit.