Raise your hand if you think I can get into a Master's program with no recommendations (not required, but "recommended"), no GRE scores (same as letters) and an application turned in on the last possible day.
What I've got going for me:
1. a killer personal statement
2. a great professional resume
3. a repectable undergraduate transcript
What I've got going for me:
1. a killer personal statement
2. a great professional resume
3. a repectable undergraduate transcript
posted by isaacjosephson at 8:12 AM
4 Comments:
Um, this is a Master's program with no standards? I disagree with Micah -- recommendations are how you get from one place to the next; GREs tend to be meaningless. Perhaps an answer to the question would be assisted by knowing what -type- of program this is...
-cp
... and I'll add that an MA in pretty much anything will bring you not much more than excessive debt you don't need. It won't make you any more employable, especially not at this stage of professional life. [Even an MBA can be considered fairly useless these days if it doesn't come from one of, say, two schools.] This is why god invented adult school.
As for trading in a chunk of life? I've signed that contract in blood and I'm not sure I recommend it.
On the other hand, if you find that the bottom line economics of the business world are not as intellectually fulfilling as you would like, a part time master's is a good option....
I respectfully submit that the scholarly and intellectual rewards themselves are worth pursuing. And if some of those things can make one better at what one does, too, then one is more employable. It's not the fact that one has the M.A. but what the M.A. gives to one that matters.
You will also start to use "one" as a pronoun--excessively. But that's a small tradeoff.
TM
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