Jocelyn Cortez This is Me

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1. 1. Herald.com | 10/24/2005 | Weekend scholars swell ranks of MBA programs

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   Published on: 10/24/2005   Last Visited: 10/24/2005

   Come January, Jocelyn Cortez will begin studies for an executive MBA from Northwestern University, and she has no intention of leaving her South Beach digs or enduring the chill winds off Lake Michigan to do it.
   
   Instead, the 30-year-old Miamian will keep her downtown job as an investment counselor at Citibank and join the first class of the Kellogg School of Management's new executive MBA program in Miami.
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   "It just kind of rounds out your profile," said Cortez, the Citibank investment counselor. She signed up for Kellogg because she is interested in management positions at her company.
   
   Cortez, who has eight years of business experience, said she is "looking to have exposure to people who have sort of been through the same thing." The New York University graduate said when she began searching for an EMBA program, she wanted one that ranked with Wharton. But she preferred to stay in South Florida.
   
   "The distance was a factor," she said.