A visit to the Durham Bulls

Tonight a bunch of Kenan-Flagler students went to a Durham Bulls game, the event was sponsored by the MBA Student Affairs office. Professor Morgan Jones' daughter sang the national anthem.

During the game I had the chance to talk to the student sitting behind me. He told me where he is from and I recognized him as someone who's been posting on BW B-Schools about Kenan-Flagler. We had corresponded a while back. He said he applied to Maryland (Smith), Georgetown (McDonough), Kenan-Flagler, William & Mary and Duke (Fuqua). He is on the wait list at Duke but got into every other program, even got a full ride offer at William & Mary. He used to work for a non-profit and I asked him for his impression of Yale SOM. He was very tactful in his response but pretty much confirmed my suspicions about Yale SOM being a school that is heavily slanted toward the non-profits. He attended the same recruiting event that I went to back in October. I mentioned Darden, without mentioning that I had applied, he feels the workload is too intense and takes away from opportunities to network and look for jobs.

It's funny how much similar this game was to Foxfields at UVA. Foxfields is a horse race they have in Charlottesville every April and October. No one ever goes to see the horses, it's just an opportunity to get dressed up to get drunk and socialize. We left the game at the middle of the eighth inning, the Durham Bulls were ahead 5-1.