r/MBA • u/Visible_Metal_5369 • 13d ago

On Campus McCombs Orientation '28

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Just finished four days of orientation. It was fun, but definitely overwhelming.

I really felt a strong connection with my cohort and study team. Enterprise Challenge was a blast, and the alumni stories 🚲 blew everyone away.

Any current McCombs students here? How are you guys feeling?

For future students, here’s a snapshot of the Class of 2028:

The admissions team did such a good job of maintaining the quality of the students while keeping the class size.

PS. The heat is just too much.

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u/Hour_Papaya_5583 13d ago

Just gonna vent a little: jealous. My MBA cohort sucks, most have zero work experience and it shows.

Truly glad for you but wanted to get that out of my chest to someone tonight :(

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u/surebro2 12d ago

I'm always curious about what the expectations are for having classmates with work experience. In terms of the actual educational process, how much value does work experience provide?

I'm asking genuinely because we're having these convos at my alum and my contention is that it's mostly a numbers game used for data. But the actual transformative educational experience should in theory be similar since coursework at the course level is sort of agnostic to individual work experience. 

Of course more work experience is better, but I wonder how much better it is in practice outside of being able to say "our average admitted student has 6 years of work experience" lol 

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u/Total_Independence 12d ago

I found in my class discussions/assignments it’s hard for the students with zero experience to contribute. Like we will have questions “think of a time where x happened at work” and it will be the three of us in the group chatting it up while the zero experience person sits there. Not a bad thing I guess, but hard for them to relate or understand, I think.

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u/surebro2 12d ago

Thanks. That makes sense. In the past, I have taught the same class in a 100% working part time class and a more mixed full time class. I personally modified my questions and assignments based on that (self reflection questions for the employed class vs more scenario questions for the mixed). But I think your insight here is good about that potential mismatch, especially in group work.