Undecided - 05-14-2025 | Clear Admit DecisionWire

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May 14, 2025 10:24am ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Harvard Business School , Michigan / Ross $

$60000

, Northwestern / Kellogg $

$170000

, Yale SOM $

$140000

Applied: U. Chicago Booth, Harvard Business School, Michigan / Ross, Northwestern / Kellogg, Yale SOM

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: Venture Capital, Private Equity, Asset Management, inc. Hedge Funds Companies: Accell Partners, Andressen Horowitz, Battery Ventures, Charles River, Draper Fisher, First Round Capital, Kleiner Perkins, NEA, Sequoia Capital, Venrock, Bain Capital, Blackstone, Carlyle Group, Goldman Sachs Principal Investment Group, TPG, KKR, Blackrock, Fidelity, Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Asset Management, State Street, Vanguard

GMAT: 715

Location: India

Notes:

Accepted to HBS off the R2 waitlist; very torn about whether to accept their offer over the full-ride offered by Kellogg...

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1830 Very well done! Do you know how much financial aid you might get from HBS? I’d think, for your goals, HBS would be ahead. (0)

anon43376 Likes Earned: 2 Thank you! Unfortunately, I would not qualify for any aid from HBS. (0)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1830 Will Kellogg provide you access to your more aspirational goals? How risk tolerant are you in terms of financing HBS? A couple of key factors to consider. (1)

anon10646 Likes Earned: 857 What's your pre-MBA WE? HBS would obviously provide much better PE/VC access but need to evaluate how obtainable sponsorship will be in VC/PE/AM during next cycle or two. (3)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1830 More details on this decision, in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2025/05/mba-wire-taps-427/

Note, this episode was recorded before the Trump administration’s decision to stop Harvard from enrolling foreign students, and Harvard’s counter suite.

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