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&lt;p&gt;Generation Y career expert Penelope Trunk, aka the Brazen Careerist, talks to &lt;em&gt;Poets &amp;amp; Quants&lt;/em&gt; about a variety of MBA-related topics. As always, she displays the gritty candor and rapid-fire delivery that achieves a kind of ballistic effect on the reader or listener. Always enjoyable.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;img style=&quot;border: 1px solid black; display: block; margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto;&quot; src=&quot;http://www.vault.com/VCM/blogs/2984263541_1ce61387f7.jpg&quot; alt=&quot;&quot; width=&quot;460&quot; height=&quot;307&quot;&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;Here&amp;rsquo;s a smattering of things she says in the interview.&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On who shouldn&amp;rsquo;t get an MBA&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;For anyone not climbing the Fortune 500, [the MBA is] an albatross.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;If you can&amp;rsquo;t get into the Top 10, don&amp;rsquo;t go. If you didn&amp;rsquo;t get a 700 GMAT, don&amp;rsquo;t go. If you haven&amp;rsquo;t done anything amazing between the ages of 20 &amp;ndash; 25, forget it. There are so many people splitting hairs and unsure. It doesn&amp;rsquo;t matter. You don&amp;rsquo;t have a chance to get in. The world is hard. Getting a job is hard. Should I get an MBA? That&amp;rsquo;s like asking if you should date a model or Nobel Prize winner. Forget it. It&amp;rsquo;ll never happen. It&amp;rsquo;s all a pretend conversation.&amp;ldquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On who should get an MBA&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;B-school is for people with no ideas.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On getting good grades &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;If you get in, tell her to work on the side. No one cares about your grades.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On career centers&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Market the career center&amp;hellip;Forget your curriculum&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;There&amp;rsquo;s this crazy snootiness at MBA programs where professors are more important than the career center&amp;hellip; the career center is where non-Top 10 B-schools can differentiate themselves.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;strong&gt;On women in b-school&lt;br&gt;&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;nbsp;&amp;ldquo;If you go in at 26 and you&amp;rsquo;re a woman, you don&amp;rsquo;t have time to leverage the degree and have kids.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;It is imperative for single women in MBA programs to date someone who is marriage material.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&amp;ldquo;Competition for women to land spouses in New York is crazy. It&amp;rsquo;s like seven women for every three men. B-School decreases the competition.&amp;rdquo;&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[Poets &amp;amp; Quants]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;[&lt;em&gt;Photo Credit: Flickr/Ed Schipul&lt;/em&gt;]&lt;/p&gt;&lt;p&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Related:&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Harvard MBA: Don&amp;rsquo;t Get an MBA if Mid-to-Late Twenties and Decent Job&lt;/strong&gt;&lt;br&gt;&lt;strong&gt;Why an MBA Doesn&#39;t Make a Better CEO &lt;/strong&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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