I’m currently making $165K base salary a year and find it hard to leave the money for 2 years of school even though I want to go make new friends and whatnot. Thoughts?

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Same boat, I’m leaning towards its worth it

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I’ll be your friend for only 20k?

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It’s worth it

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That’s a pretty high opportunity cost

Hard to tell without knowing the whole picture, but probably worth it only for M7

Don’t have a ton to go off, but based on salary and job title, OP could be giving up a lot of career and financial growth for the MBA. Depending on the firm and what kind of opportunities (whether internal or exit) are available, the school list will vary. Generally, someone already making the median post mba consulting salary needs a good justification to go to bschool and how that will help their longer term goals. If they go outside of M7, they probably just end up with the same salary, same job, etc but have 2 years of opportunity costs.

Again, we only know so much based on the post, so trying to make a generalization.

Why are you doing grad school?

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