Help! MIT Sloan ($5k) vs Tuck ($25k) vs Yale ($30k)

Accepted at Sloan ($5k scholarship), Tuck ($25k scholarship) and Yale ($30k scholarship) ... Scholarships are per year so $10/50/60k total

Interested in innovation consulting, strategy/entrepreneurship, and social enterprises. Not totally sure what I want to do post-MBA but considering consulting -- not MBB, but more niche firms (Parthenon, innovation consulting, etc.)

Really don't like the fratty culture of Tuck. Worried Sloan may be too engineering-y. Yale feels like the best personal fit, but biggest risk in terms or professional goals.

Any help??? Need to decide end of this week.

Congrats! We may have spoken before, but I want to offer myself up. I'm going into innovation consulting after SOM, and am a leader of the Design & Innovation Club amongst other things. It's a burgeoning sector at SOM, and three D&I firms have made us a core school over the last 3 years. We all know IDEO is a tough nut to crack, but we've gotten a couple of people over there over the last few years, plus plenty at Innosight, SY/Partners, ?WhatIf!, and a firm called Ideas42, which was founded by an SOM alum and blends behavioral economics w/ design thinking. Happy to chat further.

Hello,

I definitely have to preface this wit my bias since I'll be enrolling at Yale SOM in the Fall. But if social sector consulting is truly what you seek, I think Yale SOM would be a perfect fit for you. I actually spoke to a Yale SOM alum from the Class of 2013 and he's a Principal at The Parthenon Group (Yes, Principal at a respected consulting firm and he recently graduated). So you already know that you will have easy access to that firm. If you do decide to pursue MBB consulting, he also assured me that Yale SOM does place well at MBB firms and other areas as well. When evaluating SOM's placement in comparison to its peers, you have to remember that 1) people who matriculate into SOM aspire to do non-conventional MBA careers and 2) Yale's class size is significantly smaller than its peer schools. That's why their numbers don't match up as nicely as a MIT Sloan. I actually do have some hard numbers from speaking with alum and current second years. Last year, SOM placed 8 ppl at McKinsey, 8 ppl at Bain, and 4 at BCG. They also had strong place at Deloitte, Accenture, etc. So in total, thats 20+ ppl out of class of 200 people. So over 10% in top consulting at a school where traditional management consulting is not a leading interest. Hope this helps.