Tuck (full tuition scholarship) vs. Sloan (no $)

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If you’re playing to be an entrepreneur and start something up, going to one of the most expensive business schools in the world is hardly a helpful thing. You’ll be spending about $250,000 without opportunity cost. That’s the tough part of starting some thing up and graduating from business school.

Add the same time, if you were thinking of going the route of Vici or PE or let’s call it semi entrepreneurship, and those employers actually do hire at Sloan, I could potentially see doing that.

Now, nobody could ever fault you for choosing Sloan or Tuck. I don’t think anyone in the world would have a right to put a finger at you and say look at this mistake…. there’s no doubt going to Sloan would have a number of benefits, but if you remove hypothetical and emotional elements, you can’t beat the deal that Tuck has given you without anything at Sloan.

PS. Out of hypothetical benefits that you would get at Sloan, there’s definitely some incubators and bigger student body means more people to potentially partner up with, broader net work, being in Boston you’re much closer to innovation hubs and biotech. There’s a lot of good ingredients that she would get being at MIT but they don’t guarantee success, they just ingredients and if you have done some research and you feel like those should be very valuable for what you were thinking about it’s worth considering that at the same time a difference of 250,000 is tricky to justify. I mean, you could totally start some thing like Facebook or Microsoft and have people throw money at you and as long as you do all of your experimentation during business school, you could just find a job after MIT and be totally good in a corporate job and pay off the loans in case your own thing doesn’t work out.…. But if you need some extra time and leeway after you graduate, having an additional $2,500 a month payment is not helpful.

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