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April 10, 2007
Graduate School Decisions - We're Headed to Boston!
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This fall Jeff will be attending the MIT Sloan School of Management, and Rebecca will be attending the Harvard Graduate School of Education, School Leadership program.
It feels like so much of the last eight months has been preparring for this moment; hobbies have been put on hold, family vacations skipped, weekends spent visiting schools. It's just good to know our fate and be able to start planning for the next two years of life as students.
There is a fair amount of dissapointment I feel about being declined from Stanford. It's an exercise in mental self-discipline to face up to rejection, to consider correctly how much control I had over my candidacy, to stop myself from the ugly practice of brainstorming excuses but at the same time not be too hard on myself. I told everyone to be realistic about my chances at a school that will admit 8 or 9% this year, and about the self-filtering mechanisms built into an applicant pool that willingly faces those odds. Where this blog is a personal diary, I want to remember my disappointment in a personal goal not realized that I held for years. Where this blog is a way of communicating with friends and family, I want people to know that I'm very proud of the candidacy I put forth (it represented an incredible study-of-self experience), and I'm very excited about MIT.
Why I'm excited about MIT: Consistent top 10 program. Always fourth or fifth most selective business school. Known for entrepreneurial specialties and the business plan competition. Lots of prominent faculty. Only b-school where Jack Welch teaches a course. Benefits from proximity to world's #1 engineering, economics, and finance programs. Tied for highest median salary after graduation. HBS and MIT Sloan courses are cross-listed, meaning I could take some HBS courses. Notable alumns include Kofi Annan, Mitch Kapor, and Carly Fiorina. I was also admitted to the Entrepreneurship and Innovation program, a program to develop entrepreneurs for emerging technology startups. The program includes a special dinner seminar, specific courses, and a trip to Silicon Valley.
Rebecca's School Leadership program is an intense one year program which will provide her with principal licensure that is reciprocal to most states. Harvard is consistently ranked in the top 3 graduate programs in education, as well as for school administration and education policy which are her main interests. Harvard has a notable strength in nontraditional school development such as charter schools.
We're looking forward to moving (once a year for six years now) and being totally broke again. :)
Posted by Jeff at April 10, 2007 03:03 PM
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Congrats Jeff! You should be very proud of how well you have done...
and you've even met a minor celebrity!
and have the number for divine goodness!
-Jay [intern from the distant past]
Posted by: Jay at May 5, 2007 08:10 PM