MBA Quant Experience

Before going any further with this blog, let me address the potential conflict of interest about my live and online courses.  I don't see any conflict in the live math camp at Tuck.  Tuck's admissions and program office staff decide who attends the course and I teach the students who walk in the door to the best of my ability.   The real potential issue is the fact that I created and run an online MBA quantitative prep course at www.mbamath.com. 

My efforts here on this blog could be motivated by spreading anxiety and then selling a solution in the form of subscriptions to the course.  Whether this would be a bad or good thing for prospective students depends on the nature of the anxiety (false would be bad) and the quality of the solution (poor would be bad). 

I want prospective students to have sufficient information about their own proficiency and the quantitative demands of the first-year MBA curriculum in general, and of their MBA program in particular, so that they can make good choices about how much pre-MBA quantitative preparation is appropriate.  I'll invite input from other faculty, administrators, and students to broaden the coverage.

If students make a choice to use the MBA Math online course as part of their preparation then good for them and good for me.  I have committed myself to making the course the best learning resource I can, incorporating my best understanding of what skills students need and how they can best attain them.

Ultimately, bright prospective MBAs will be very effective BS detectors.  Keep the potential conflict in mind, contribute to the debate, and make the best choices for your situation.