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SMTV
Joined: 27 Aug 2019
Last visit: 13 Mar 2024
Posts: 34
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Location: India
Schools: CBS '25 (D) Fuqua '25 (A) Yale '25 (A$) Tuck '25 (A) Darden '25 (WD) Kellogg '25 (A) LBS '25 (A) Ross '25 (A$$)
GMAT 1: 750 Q49 V42
GPA: 3.7
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Schools: CBS '25 (D) Fuqua '25 (A) Yale '25 (A$) Tuck '25 (A) Darden '25 (WD) Kellogg '25 (A) LBS '25 (A) Ross '25 (A$$)
GMAT 1: 750 Q49 V42
Posts: 34
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10 Dec 2022, 03:30
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Hi everyone,
I am fortunate to have received bunch of admits but now I am having difficult time deciding. As the title suggests I have Tuck, Yale, Ross, Fuqua, LBS admit, and Kellogg awaited with 0 to $80k scholarship.
Background: Indian engineer with 5 years of experience in MBB backend office (think Mckinsey Knowledge Center/Bain Capability Center) specializing in commercial excellence space.
Post-MBA goals: MBB generalist consulting (no office preference) and Tech strategy and ops as backup.
All of these are peer schools and I am having hard time differentiating. I believe all can lead me to MBB.
Based on this Ross seems obvious choice (lowest cost of living, and highest scholarship)
But Yale's brand name back in India is hard to ignore (I don't have immediate plans of returning to India but maybe in next 5-7 years)
I also feel I might be better fit at Tuck, I sense Ross would be little too outgoing for me
Questions: I would love forum's inputs on:
Any suggestions how I should approach this choice?
Would Yale/Tuck be willing to negotiate? How should I approach the negotiation discussion?
I am fortunate to have received bunch of admits but now I am having difficult time deciding. As the title suggests I have Tuck, Yale, Ross, Fuqua, LBS admit, and Kellogg awaited with 0 to $80k scholarship.
Background: Indian engineer with 5 years of experience in MBB backend office (think Mckinsey Knowledge Center/Bain Capability Center) specializing in commercial excellence space.
Post-MBA goals: MBB generalist consulting (no office preference) and Tech strategy and ops as backup.
All of these are peer schools and I am having hard time differentiating. I believe all can lead me to MBB.
Based on this Ross seems obvious choice (lowest cost of living, and highest scholarship)
But Yale's brand name back in India is hard to ignore (I don't have immediate plans of returning to India but maybe in next 5-7 years)
I also feel I might be better fit at Tuck, I sense Ross would be little too outgoing for me
Questions: I would love forum's inputs on:
Any suggestions how I should approach this choice?
Would Yale/Tuck be willing to negotiate? How should I approach the negotiation discussion?
TheWrongGrammer
Joined: 28 Aug 2022
Last visit: 27 May 2023
Posts: 47
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Location: India
Schools: ESADE '23 (A)
GMAT 1: 640 Q47 V31
GPA: 3.38
10 Dec 2022, 04:36
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SMTV
My 2 cents as an Indian who moved abroad for MS- the best thing you can do in life is not have debt. Debt free life will give you freedom to make choices and put less pressure on finding a job
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10 Dec 2022, 16:49
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Congrats!
Fantastic job on your admits and scholarships. I’m impressed you got more money from Yale than Fuqua!
Yale and Fuqua and Ross appear schools and very often recruit together and focus on the same audience.
The thing about prestige is really about your first job. Imagine you went to any business school and then you got a job and if you companies and then you go back to India, for example, do you think they’ll be looking more at your business school reputation, and strengths, or on the performance of the Last three years working for various companies. Consider scenario one, you go to Ross and you work at BCG. Or you go to Yale when you work at BCG. Do you really think your Indian employer will be a lot more likely to hire you because you went to Yale? I don’t know.
There’s always value in being able to tell your grandma and your boyfriend/girlfriend from the ninth grade who dumped you and tell them that you’re going to Yale as a post to Ross which is much less recognizable name in India I’m guessing…. What is it really worth 40 grand?
I voted for Ross personally 😇
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Fantastic job on your admits and scholarships. I’m impressed you got more money from Yale than Fuqua!
Yale and Fuqua and Ross appear schools and very often recruit together and focus on the same audience.
The thing about prestige is really about your first job. Imagine you went to any business school and then you got a job and if you companies and then you go back to India, for example, do you think they’ll be looking more at your business school reputation, and strengths, or on the performance of the Last three years working for various companies. Consider scenario one, you go to Ross and you work at BCG. Or you go to Yale when you work at BCG. Do you really think your Indian employer will be a lot more likely to hire you because you went to Yale? I don’t know.
There’s always value in being able to tell your grandma and your boyfriend/girlfriend from the ninth grade who dumped you and tell them that you’re going to Yale as a post to Ross which is much less recognizable name in India I’m guessing…. What is it really worth 40 grand?
I voted for Ross personally 😇
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