Did Johnson know that you had a $50k offer from Tepper when you requested a scholarship review? As far as which is stronger, the answer is the opposite for each of your two potential paths. For tech, Tepper is obviously stronger. Tepper has probably the 3rd best tech/business branding (behind MIT and Berkley) whereas Johnson is actually known as being a bit weak on Tech and not having as much Tech recruitment as other T15 schools. The exception might be if you look at 1 year tech mba programs, since Johnson actually has put a lot into their Tech MBA in New York. On the other hand, Johnson has the upper hand in consulting. For example McKinsey considers Johnson a target school, they do not consider Tepper a target school. This list changes year-to-year, and some MBB firms consider Johnson more of a "half target" (where they still send recruiters, but not as many). But there are consulting firms that will recruit from Johnson that won’t recruit at Tepper, I don’t believe there are any where the reverse is true. Additionally, Tepper had 15 people go to MBB firms last year, Johnson had 23. That might seem like a small difference, but it’s almost a 50% increase.
https://poetsandquants.com/2021/04/07/t ... -recruits/
https://www.businessbecause.com/news/mb ... ulting-mba
So I did tell Cornell about Tepper scholarship. Just one point regarding MBB. Tepper has a batch size of 200 and Cornell has 300. So 15 out of 200 and 23 out of 300 is pretty much the same ratio overall.
