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December 13, 2024 5:17am ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper $

$162000

, Columbia , Duke / Fuqua $

$120000

, Harvard Business School , NYU Stern $

$180000

, UPenn / Wharton $

$5000

, Vanderbilt / Owen $

$140000

Applied: Carnegie Mellon / Tepper, Columbia, Duke / Fuqua, Harvard Business School, NYU Stern, UPenn / Wharton, Vanderbilt / Owen

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Pharmaceutical

GMAT: 720

GPA: 3.76

Location: NYC

Notes:

Deciding between HBS (because of the alumni network, location in Boston near lots of biotech), Duke (due to HSM program and community fit/culture), and Stern (community fit/culture and just moved to NYC in May and not sure if I want to move away and loved my tour). Really torn because of great aspects of all schools and the scholarship amounts.

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eliot Verified User. Likes Earned: 1919 Congrats on your acceptances to seven top MBA programs. You really can't go wrong with these options. As you noted, it depends on what is most important to you. 1) NYU Stern Pros: full scholarship, you just moved to NYC and you love the community fit and culture. 2) Duke Fuqua Pros: large scholarship, HSM program, community/fit culture 3) HBS - top brand, alum network, access to biotechs in Boston. [Note: Wharton would be a great option for pharma/biotech as well]. To help you decide, I recommend that you visit the programs and talk with current students. I will say that most applicants would have a hard time turning down an offer from HBS. One way to think about your decision is to minimize regret. If you enrolled at HBS, would you regret walking away from the large scholarships? If you went to Stern or Fuqua, would you regret turning down HBS? (1)

ebuerger Likes Earned: 26 Thank you so much, Elliot! This is very helpful. I went to Penn undergrad, which is why Wharton isn’t too high on my list as I’d like to diversify my network a bit more. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1695 Don’t under estimate the importance of the two year experience and the quality of your classmates etc. No doubt this is high at Stern, but HBS will be a notch higher. (0)