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April 4, 2021 8:16pm ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Harvard Business School , NYU Stern $

$100000

Applied: Harvard Business School, NYU Stern

Entering Year: 2021

Post MBA Career: Technology Companies: Facebook, Google

GMAT: 710

Notes:

Spouse will be attending Stern. Am I crazy to turn down HBS for Stern?

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anon11857 Likes Earned: 222 Boston and NYC are only about 3 hours apart...if you can make it work, I'd go for HBS (4)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1576 It is a tough decision, for partners to consider attending different MBA programs. You won’t be the only ones making it. Consider the impact on your professional goals, and also the impact on you both, personally. (1)

anon30141 Likes Earned: 87 I would go for HBS, but understand you and your spouse will be flying back and forth regularly. If you do opt for Stern, be sure to bring your HBS admit to them and try to get them to up their offer. (4)

anon17670 Likes Earned: 318 Congratulations on your admissions to HBS and Stern. Like Alex and 30141 mentioned your personal preference has a lot more to do with your goals and if you can convey + Align with your partner. It should not be a challenge. (2)

eliot Verified User. Likes Earned: 1857 Congratulations on your acceptances! Well done. OK, I an going to take the contrarian view. While a lot of people would select HBS over NYU, I think that the $100k scholarship at Stern is a great option for you 1) Stern is a great program with deep ties to the NYC tech scene - you can get a solid education and land a great tech job. 2) You and your spouse can fully immerse yourself into the Stern experience together 3) A lot of business school is networking - you are likely to miss out on some of this experience if you are away on weekends visiting your spouse. Best of luck. (2)

anon10646 Likes Earned: 763 Yup your relationship is a factor we cannot opine on. I've been researching MBA/Bschools not Psych/Relationships. You may have the type of relationship where this is merely a traffic bump or could be building the Great Wall between you. Would not say it's crazy as 100k at NYU, which seems to have been ascending, is not exactly falling off a cliff from HBS. What @eliot mentions is important as unless you each cannot build spousal visits into some form of professional reasoning you each could be losing out of the value of your MBAs. (2)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1576 More details on this decision in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2021/04/episode-157-wire-taps/ (2)