If you’re on the fence... Just do it. Just finishing up my first year and it was the best choice of my life.

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Highlights:
- made 100+ new, interesting friends
- have had a social event/party 5x a week for an entire year - my life was not this exciting before
- TC was 85K pre-mba, looking at 260-280 after
- gotten laid more in the last year than the previous 3 combined
- met people in my program I would have otherwise never met (Olympic athletes, professional musicians, etc)
- women here are thirsty, it let me find a girl out of my league

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I'm really trying to figure out if I know who you are... good chance I do hahaha

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Lmao this is turning me off an MBA more than anything. Zero interest in dropping half a mil with opportunity cost to be a degenerate for two years.

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Yea what was your experience C4?

One of my reasons for getting a MBA is to start my social life because it's non-existent at the moment. However, I have no shot at getting into top 10 schools so it's kind of turning me away.

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Agreed! Mostly for the friends, social experience and travel opportunities with 100+ people that you know - would highly recommend. Just finished first year at Tuck

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Which school did you go to OP because I am not sure most other students have such an experience?

Speak more to cbs stern comment please

I'm on the fence since it's a huge commitment but thank you for sharing your experience!

OP what industry were you in, and what are you likely exiting to with the mentioned TC?

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