Kellogg - Info Session

I attended one of the Kellogg’s part time informational sessions sometime back, and it was one hell of an experience. I must recommend that anyone who is interested to pursue the MBA or as a matter of fact any program should pay the visit to the school of his or her interest.

The informational session took place at the E Superior Street campus near the lake shore drive in downtown Chicago. I reached just in time and the class ( I choose to pick the word ‘class’ as by no means it looks like an informational session, the surroundings and the environment looks like more of a lecture session) was full. There was a very short and simple speech from Kellogg’s adcom and before we were able to adjust our self to this environment we were divided into teams. 10 minutes into the session and we all are experiencing how the business class looks like. One of the very strong points about getting an MBA from Kellogg is their hardcore team work and this session is not different. My team was having 5 members (I don’t recall their background but they all look sharp). All the teams were given this task to come up with an ad for the animal shelter and we were asked to support this ad with the slogan that will act as our marketing punch line. Soon everybody was busy working on their ad and we were given around 10 minutes to complete this task. I suggested the slogan for my team which got the approval from the other team members. All of us we were chatting and discussing as we all know each other for a long time. I can now see the team work in action in the business class and how the idea gets amalgamated. This activity was fun and after 10 minutes the spokesperson from each of the team presented their ad. After this we have this presentation about the school, (I would call this a marketing slide) which was full of lots of information. All that information can be gathered from the Kellogg’s web site as well.

There was a QA session followed by the presentation, where 4 current students from the PT program answered the questions. I was quick enough to ask my question as due to time constraints some of the attendees were told to meet the adcom in person for all their queries.
I asked this question during the QA session: “Is there anything the students would like to change about Kellogg?” I don’t recall on top of my head but I guess they gave me some diplomatic answer for that.

Out an out it was a fantastic experience. The members of the adcom looks friendly, the presentation was good and the event was worth spending the Friday evening.
I am happy about the slogan which just clicked with the team and it goes like this:
“We all understand the language of Love and the animals are not different “

We say good bye to each other and came out with the hope of returning to Kellogg (not as information gatherers but as information seekers).