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April 14, 2022 8:35pm ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Berkeley / Haas $

$175000

, Harvard Business School $ , UCLA Anderson $

$100000

, UPenn / Wharton $

$70000

Applied: Berkeley / Haas, Harvard Business School, MIT Sloan, Stanford GSB, UCLA Anderson, UPenn / Wharton

Entering Year: 2022

Post MBA Career: Entrepreneurship

GRE: 328

GPA: 3.4

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1572 Very well done. Can you share your considerations? Do you have a geographic preference, post MBA. For entrepreneurship, HBS will be hard to pass up. (0)

brelven Likes Earned: 15 We are certain we will settle on the west coast post MBA. I’m also certain I want to focus on tech entrepreneurship. (1)

anon93434 Likes Earned: 10 For west coast tech goals, seems like Haas could be the move. Wharton also has an SF campus and semester in SF which could achieve your goals as well. Have you tried negotiating scholarship with Wharton using HBS admit? (2)

brelven Likes Earned: 15 I hadn't strongly considered negotiating since I heard they don't typically negotiate. I just sent adcomms a very polite email making my case; we'll see what they come back with. I think you're right that it could really increase the appeal, and the SF semester would lighten the strain on my family. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1572 Not forgetting that HBS does send a sizeable number of grads to the west coast each year, so they’ll have a strong network there, (0)

eliot Verified User. Likes Earned: 1855 Congrats on your acceptances and scholarships! You have several great options here. It really comes down to what is most important to you. Since you are seeking to pursue a tech entrepreneurship path on the west coast, a full ride at Haas is quite appealing. Having said this, HBS and Wharton also have strong networks in tech entrepreneurship and these networks could be quite useful if you are seeking to finance your venture. I strongly recommend that you do your due diligence by talking with current students and alums, particularly those that are following a similar path. (1)

alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1572 More details on this decision in this episode of Wire Taps: https://www.clearadmit.com/2022/04/wire-taps-230/ (0)

anon27138 Likes Earned: 0 Can you share background, pre-MBA, job major, demographics etc (0)