Is the Ivy League too cold for you?

Is the Ivy League too cold for you? Listen to why one MBA applicant told me, "I don't care what my mother says, I'm not going to that Harvard Business School." (Transcript below.)

I’m at the Cornell Club in New York and it is cold. It is frigid in New York. It’s minus something and I’ll tell you, minus anything in Fahrenheit—it’s just no. So I’ll tell you something about the Ivy League. The Ivy schools are in a cold part of the United States.

I remember one year, one of my MBA candidates had an interview at Harvard Business School.

Hwe borrowed boots from our math tutor in Cambridge. I don’t know what he was expecting, but he walked across the bridge from Cambridge to Allston. In case you don’t know, the business school is not at the old Harvard Yard; it’s across the river. He called me up and he said, “I don’t care what my mother says: I’m not going to that Harvard Business School. I hope I get accepted at Stanford, because this is just out of the question.”

Spoiler alert: he went to Stanford GSB.

Note: the weather did not stop me from packing my bags for New England. It’s up to you, but please—buy boots.