How do people actually afford to live well in MBA? I’ll be applying next fall, but I anticipate still having student debt and essentially no substantial savings.

Even if I got sponsorship from Deloitte or a scholarship, it would still be tough.

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Don’t forget to travel to the Carribean and Europe

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Get married and live off your partner’s money.

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Lots of things you can do:
1) delay/save some more money
2) do a non-full-time program
3) do a one-year program
4) live frugally during MBA and work part time

Also- Many people are NOT in a financial position to do a full time MBA.

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It’s tough - rent in my college town is just as expensive as my pre MBA apartment in DC. I also go out and try to keep up with friends (bar tabs and weekend travel), but you have to budget and make sacrifices for sure. I saved up a lot before I left D, got a TA job at school for “beer money”, and use points whenever I can for trips (aka burning through the last of en now in my second year). I will definitely graduate with pennies in my bank account and anxiously await my first paycheck!!

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