Questrom w/ 100% scholarship vs. take a promotion, reapply in 2 years
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02 Jan 2018, 19:20
I recently applied to HBS, Sloan, and Questrom in round 1. I did get an interview at Sloan, but unfortunately got denied. Questrom admitted me with a full tuition scholarship. I am focused in the Boston area because my fiance has a 3 year contract at her workplace and we don't want to split up.
I'm 28, 740 gmat (49 Q, 42 V), but my undergrad GPA is only 2.6. The first two years of school I was on a sports team and was stretched too thin. After I quit the team, my GPA went up to 3.3 if you consider only the last couple years. I went to Cornell and got an engineering degree.
I have an opportunity to take a solid, but not spectacular, promotion at work that would give me an opportunity to manage a team. I could work for an additional 2 years, then reapply to more schools in the top 20.
My ultimate goal is to be an entrepreneur and I feel like Boston is a good location to pursue that. Right now I am leaning towards going to Questrom so I can get started. But I am worried that I am leaving something on the table and could be more successful with a T20 brand name to back me up.
Any thoughts? Thanks all.