Re:Stanford University data glitch exposes truth about schol...
by baybal2 on Sunday December 03, 2017 @05:03AM
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Not only American, but not common either. The best analogy to American business schools will be party (communist party) schools in Soviet Union and China.
I can't pick words to express just how similar are these two systems.
And in all of those countries, you have huge masses of clueless parents seeing these institutes as something that magically, effortlessly make their children "big men" of higher socioeconomic standing overnight once they graduate.
As for me, my own experience was that it takes a lot to convince parents that Western "big name business school" is a gigantic waste of money if you go there for actual skills and knowledge. And the argument "you go to business school to make connection with kids of other rich people" does not hold water either. All of such students are well connected people to begin with, and are very class conscious themselves. If they see no use of socialising with you, what will make them want doing so?
I wrote another post below explaining how it was for me.
I can't pick words to express just how similar are these two systems.
And in all of those countries, you have huge masses of clueless parents seeing these institutes as something that magically, effortlessly make their children "big men" of higher socioeconomic standing overnight once they graduate.
As for me, my own experience was that it takes a lot to convince parents that Western "big name business school" is a gigantic waste of money if you go there for actual skills and knowledge. And the argument "you go to business school to make connection with kids of other rich people" does not hold water either. All of such students are well connected people to begin with, and are very class conscious themselves. If they see no use of socialising with you, what will make them want doing so?
I wrote another post below explaining how it was for me.