It’s time once again for Trivia Tuesday, our weekly foray into the unusual, uncommon, or just plain interesting programs at the leading business schools. This week we’ll take a look at Chicago Booth’s Random Walk program.
Prior to the school’s mandatory pre-term program, Chicago Booth second-year students organize an optional program called Random Walk. Similar to Kellogg’s KWEST program, Booth’s Random Walks offer incoming students a choice of over a dozen group trips to domestic and international destinations. The purpose of the trips is to “party, play and bond with” a group of first-year students prior to the start of the school year. The trips typically include 8-12 first-year students and 2-4 second-year group leaders. The Class of 2010 chose from over 20 Random Walk trips, with destinations as diverse as the glaciers of Alaska, the beaches of Costa Rica, the temples of Thailand and the mountains of Peru.
Random Walk participants report that the trips were remarkable experiences, and several say that the friends they made through Random Walk remained their closest friends throughout business school. In fact, although Random Walk is a student club and not an official Chicago GSB program, former Dean Ted Snyder said in a 2007 online chat that going on a Random Walk trip is one of the three things he recommends all incoming students do to prepare for success at Chicago Booth.
For more information on the Random Walk program, be sure to check out the Clear Admit School Guide to Chicago Booth!
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