I really don't think it's that big a deal with undergrad business degrees out west here, it's all about experience. I used my 2 directed field studies to get me an extra week of personal days when I started at my job
That was nice.
I sure didn't notice the clique thing in the business school, it was really quite a professionally run college as they were ramping up for this. I had instructors that had PhD's and MBA's from very prestigious institutions like Queens and Berkley. I don't think I missed anything by not going to Haskayne, to be honest. I'm sure some of you disagree, but I feel my education is equal, and I have the job right out of college that kinda proves it.
I chose MRC for a few reasons, the biggest being cost as my family is pretty dirt poor. Coming out of high school, I had a 97% average, was in the top 5 in a class of 500 and could have gone to any school in the country. I applied all over and only was rejected by one school in North America (my dad was choked on all the application fees, etc. hehe) I even took the SAT, SATII and ACT for some US places I applied - hoping for a sweet academic scholarship that never materialized down there, even with damn fine scores, if I do say so myself.
To be fair, if i had decided to go to a real university in Alberta, I would have gone up to the UofA as I feel their undergrad business program blows UofC out of the water. I don't have any stats to prove it, but I do have some nice family friends (local CEOs that I'm sure many of you know and local academics) who urged me not to go to UofC.
I don't count all of my early business success to the school - most of it is because I'm pretty damn good at anything I do
hehe BUT I was recruited because I had a business degree from there and NOT from UofC, which got in me in the door initally.