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January 9, 2023 6:31am ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Berkeley / Haas $

$80000

, Duke / Fuqua $

$60000

, UNC Kenan-Flagler $

$60000

Applied: Berkeley / Haas, Dartmouth / Tuck, Duke / Fuqua, NYU Stern, UNC Kenan-Flagler

Entering Year: 2023

Post MBA Career: Investment Banking Companies: Bank of America, Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley

GRE: 322

Notes:

I'm undecided between the three schools. I'm an international candidate and intend to recruit for IB post MBA.

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eliot Verified User. Likes Earned: 1855 Congrats on your acceptances and scholarship to Haas ($80k), Fuqua ($60k) and Kenan Flagler ($60k). All three are great MBA programs. If landing a finance job is a key criterion for you, based on the 2022 employment reports, Kenan Flagler (23%) had the highest % accepting finance jobs compared to 16% at Fuqua and 14% at Haas. Having said this, both Kenan Flagler (11%) and Fuqua (10%) sent similar percentages into IB jobs. (Haas doesn't break out the IB job acceptances). In terms of IB placement by firm, Fuqua's report states that 10 Class of 2022 grads accepted IB jobs at Bank of America and 3 accepted IB jobs at Morgan Stanley. in summary, Fuqua could be a good choice given your IB career goals and their scholarship. Of course, be sure to do your due diligence to confirm your personal fit with these programs. Best of luck. (2)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1572 Fuqua does make sense, are you wanting to be in NYC? (1)

t15orbust Likes Earned: 5 Fuqua is a great IB feeder. Haas is more geared towards Tech IB in SF (1)

anon10646 Likes Earned: 760 Between Fuqua and KF, while KF sends a bigger finance and similar IB % as Fuqua, the placements seem to be a bit better from Fuqua, so between those two I'd lean Fuqua. Haas has the higher $, but cost will equal it out to Fuqua. Not a big IB focus at Haas, but those which do seem to place similarly to profile which a Fuqua would (rough compare since SF v NYC as main office placement and group dependent). Would come down to if you prefer one program over the other and if you primarily want to recruit SF for office placement (with secondary of LA, some NYC) or NYC (with secondary potential of Charlotte). (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1572 More details on this decision in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2023/01/mba-wire-taps-271/ (0)