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Tbh I’d be delighted to go to any of them. If I had to choose my least favorite of an amazing bunch, probably Kellogg or Columbia. Kellogg for being from Northwestern, which is relatively unknown as a university brand name compared to its peers. Columbia because their facilities are legitimately subpar and in need of serious renovation. Both are great for career advancement though so at the end of the day it doesn’t matter as much.
Sloan for sure. Minimal desire to go to Boston unless its for HBS (unlikely).
Its funny though, columbia and kellogg have been the two best groups of alumni and students I've connected with other the last few months. Super excited to apply to both of them.
Main reason is that I wouldn't be able to just stay there post-MBA. I'd strongly prefer to not bounce around, 2 years of MBA then move elsewhere. This is also preferred by my SO, but we agreed in advance that we could do it if I somehow (read: miracle) get into HBS.
Boston just doesn't have what I'm looking for career wise, that's the main thing really. I don't care about how expensive it is. I did have 2-3 interactions with Sloan students very early on in my research, which were hit or miss, but pretty similar to Booth so I wouldn't ding them on that.
Colombia is the Cornell of M7 programs
Columbia*
I am currently at booth. Chose it over Wharton.
Stanford - have no desire to live in California. And if I ever have to it will be SoCal
Columbia - don’t like nyc. Class is too big. Not fan of culture / lack of community
What didn’t you like about Wharton that inspired you to pick Booth?
Why so much hate towards Wharton? Lol am I missing something ?
There are dues for consulting clubs at most M7. Not sure why paying second years for putting their time in has been construed as a negative
Stanford solely because my personality doesn’t mesh there
I’m originally from Midwest and have done some client engagements in the Bay Area and for multiple reasons we don’t mesh.
Not gonna lie...I didn’t realize Colombia is M7. So I guess there’s your answer 😂
🤦♀️ whoops, shows how familiar I am with *Columbia
I personally did not apply to Columbia or Kellogg. I don’t have great reasons - just that Columbia consistently lags behind the others in terms of rankings and Kellogg was in Evanston.
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Columbia:
1) Accepts everyone
2) Very weak alumni culture
3) Most expensive MBA program
4) If I want finance (otherwise why go to CBS) - there is Wharton, Booth, MIT (I guess) which are simply better
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A2, what’s that certain date you reference in your first point
Mentor
Wharton for me. Columbia is a close second
Mentor
Kellogg or Booth - great schools but more of a coastal person and prioritizing for industries with heavy exposure in NYC or SF
Subject Expert
Seconded. No Midwest desire at all
My PM was a Wharton mba grad. They were the most condescending person I’ve ever met and just an all around asshole in general. F Wharton!
Lol
Columbia - too intense and focused on finance.
Wharton - some of the least friendly people I’ve met have gone here, and tend to compare themselves to H/S
Booth - similar to above
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Do you mean intense as in the coursework is intense?
Pretty much everyone I work with is a Columbia MBA, and they’re all generally great. Although overall think they’re the least likely place I’d go from interacting with current students
Who tf decides what gets pinned here??
Nothing except announcements
I stopped recruiting at Columbia after 1 event where the recruiter told us they couldn’t figure out why anyone would ever take HBS over Columbia, since Columbia was better or as good at everything but also in New York.
Then someone asked about their startup accelerator and the recruiter couldn’t answer any questions.
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That’s so awkward. I had the opposite experience (some other school recruiters did that) and ended up choosing CBS!
Subject Expert
I didn’t apply to Columbia
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Wharton
Bowl Leader
As a prospective applicant, I really want to apply to CBS. But after talking to fellow PwC colleagues who went there, I am leaning not to apply. First: they did not give me any information that was useful. Second, their culture seems very autonomous - driven mostly by students and very traditional in terms of coursework. I may be wrong but this is just based off my interactions with a few.
@pwc1 I personally didn’t like cbs, and am going to a diff m7, but for what it’s worth most school activities/initiatives are student driven at all the top schools.
Some of them do better at creating a forum for students to come together but it’s still students doing it
Stanford and Columbia without a doubt.
NYC and Bay Area will cost you Atleast double the rent in Chicago or Philadelphia. Hence strong preference towards Kellogg, Wharton or Booth.
Not sure about sloan and hbs because how racist Boston is