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Re: Is a Top 20 in the hand worth a Top 10 in the bush?
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26 Apr 2011, 15:59
I'm in a similar position I have a place at a top uk ( roughly the equivalent of Cornell or Haas) school but I really want Tuck.
I asked for an extension at the uk school and now I don't have to tell them until after the Tuck notification date.
To be honest I don't think that top ten and top twenty are really good categories, I think that you have to look at super elite vs elite, and there are maybe 4 or 5 super elite and the rest of the top twenty can be considered elite. I base the super elite on their ability to put people into high power jobs over the course of their careers not just initial salary, More than three times as many CEO's come from harvard than any other school. I see super elites as: hbs, Wharton, Stanford, Booth, and Columbia.
Unless your friend is waiting for one of those then I wouldn't worry about it too much.
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