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Folks,
I would really appreciate some advice/thoughts from you. I have been fortunate enough to have an offer from Sloan and Booth and do not know which one to go with. I am from a country in Europe where MBA’s are not commonplace and therefore not many people have a major insight into the programs.
My long-term goal is to get into VC via management consulting. Reason I want to go the consulting route as opposed to going straight for VC is that I know it is a very difficult industry to get into and at least I will always have some consulting experience to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.
I do intend on returning to my home country in approx. 10 years or so and acknowledge that MIT is probably a bigger brand outside the US but I think it will be what I did post MBA that will be of most value to me on returning home as opposed to which B-school I went to.
I think I would prefer Chicago as a B-School, both in terms of the city and my experience between the two schools whilst attending my interview but on the other hand I appreciate that VC is much bigger in Boston that Chicago and as MIT is very start-up/tech orientated, perhaps I would be better-off going there. I also think I prefer the curriculum at MIT.
My heart says Booth but my head says MIT but then when I go to decide on MIT I think back to Booth’s reputation of probably being a better as a B-school in the US which again causes me to question my decision.
I know how lucky I am to have two offers and that there probably is no wrong decision but given that I have very little in terms of a resource bank in my country to question any of the above matters I am really stuck for help.
Given a possible 3 year career in consulting will dilute any VC connections I could potentially build in Boston I am wondering am I just better off to try and place myself on the West Coast post MBA for consulting and build me network from that.
Also is Booth really more highly regarded in the US than Sloan, many independent people I have had brief conversations with seemed to think so.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
I would really appreciate some advice/thoughts from you. I have been fortunate enough to have an offer from Sloan and Booth and do not know which one to go with. I am from a country in Europe where MBA’s are not commonplace and therefore not many people have a major insight into the programs.
My long-term goal is to get into VC via management consulting. Reason I want to go the consulting route as opposed to going straight for VC is that I know it is a very difficult industry to get into and at least I will always have some consulting experience to fall back on if it doesn’t work out.
I do intend on returning to my home country in approx. 10 years or so and acknowledge that MIT is probably a bigger brand outside the US but I think it will be what I did post MBA that will be of most value to me on returning home as opposed to which B-school I went to.
I think I would prefer Chicago as a B-School, both in terms of the city and my experience between the two schools whilst attending my interview but on the other hand I appreciate that VC is much bigger in Boston that Chicago and as MIT is very start-up/tech orientated, perhaps I would be better-off going there. I also think I prefer the curriculum at MIT.
My heart says Booth but my head says MIT but then when I go to decide on MIT I think back to Booth’s reputation of probably being a better as a B-school in the US which again causes me to question my decision.
I know how lucky I am to have two offers and that there probably is no wrong decision but given that I have very little in terms of a resource bank in my country to question any of the above matters I am really stuck for help.
Given a possible 3 year career in consulting will dilute any VC connections I could potentially build in Boston I am wondering am I just better off to try and place myself on the West Coast post MBA for consulting and build me network from that.
Also is Booth really more highly regarded in the US than Sloan, many independent people I have had brief conversations with seemed to think so.
Any thoughts would be greatly appreciated.
Thanks.
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04 Mar 2014, 15:12
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Moving this to the correct forum. You should get more responses there. Cheers
