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April 20, 2025 9:41am ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: Boston College / Carroll $

$50000

, Emory / Goizueta , Rochester / Simon $

$86000

, Other $

$90000

Applied: Boston College / Carroll, Emory / Goizueta, Georgetown / McDonough, MIT Sloan, NYU Stern, Rochester / Simon, USC / Marshall, Other

Entering Year: 2025

Post MBA Career: , , , , , ,

GRE: 312

GPA: 3.62

Location: Europe

Juno Member: Not yet

Notes:

waiting for scholarship appeal from Fordham
Simon:
pros: stronger career report, supportive Admission team;
cons: location, weather
Fordham:
pros: location, got internships at microsoft or BoA, or AMEX, big dating pool
cons: low rank, no clear career report

nether is target school, but NYC allows balancing networking and dating at the same time

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alexbr4 Verified User. Likes Earned: 1883 So assuming you’re no longer considering Boston College? Curious about your remark regarding internships at Microsoft, etc? Simon would be in the higher tier, I’d assume has more focus and resources for its full-time program. (0)

anon10646 Likes Earned: 885 Assuming the internship remark was you naming off companies Fordham names as recent placements and match your goals, in absence of a full career report. I'd be asking or investigating if someone with your profile (Intl - requires sponsorship) gets your desired jobs from each program. IB from Fordham? Probably not. Some kind of financial svs job? Better chance. This is a far more important consideration than dating options in MBA choice. If you're going to factor dating, yes NYC is a bigger dating pool, but if you're a guy (assuming) consider your prospects when you'll be on a student budget while others are $100k+ in an expensive city. (1)

jenny_1818 Likes Earned: 10 yeah Boston college...I did not feel they have supportive culture to internationals. yeah one guy from Chile got internship from Microsoft. but yes I do agree Simon is one tier higher (0)

jenny_1818 Likes Earned: 10 yeah they only showed the career report during admitted student session, but it is weird that they did not publish it online...IB at Jefferies for an indian girl for the internship yep. btw I am a girl (1)

jenny_1818 Likes Earned: 10 however bad news just came, Fordham denied my scholarship appeal, so it would be 90k--72% in total, now it does not make sense for me to choose Fordham just for the location, what do you think (0)

anon10646 Likes Earned: 885 Jefferies sponsors and she was a double diversity, so makes sense she had an internship, but may be a more isolated case. Maybe they do not release it because it's not formatted in way they are required to in order to publicly publish. As a woman dating in NYC will be much easier, but still standard dating frustrations. I cannot comment on Fordham tech placements and Simon's report suggest they do decently in tech. For IB, Simon places well above its rank and if it were me, I'd suck up a subpar dating scene in Rochester and go there and then date when I graduate to an IB job in NYC two years later. (2)

eliot Verified User. Likes Earned: 2093 Congrats on your acceptances to Simon ($86k), Fordham ($90k), Boston College ($50k) and Emory Goizueta. Simon with a $86k scholarship sounds like the best all-around choice given its brand, career placement and scholarship. In addition, Simon would provide you with good access to a NYC job search. Question - given your interest in NYC, did you consider applying to Stern? (0)

jenny_1818 Likes Earned: 10 Hi all, thank you so much for the comments. Simon decides to offer me 80% scholarship + 3000/year stipend in the end, that adds up to almost 100k (if tuition increased is not considered), I will be going there! (2)