Booth or Columbia this year or apply to H/S/W next year?

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Booth!

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Honestly defer or reapply if you can. It’s just not going to be same experience

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You only get to do an MBA once

What’s going to change in a year though? You certainly don’t need to take GMAT again if you already got in Booth/CBS. More ECs?

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Same boat. What’s ur post mba goal OP

Tech product management

Booth, unless you can defer

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Booth

H/S -> MFPE

What’s MFPE

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