Babson full tuition vs UNC vs Boston College vs UGA vs UMiami vs Emory vs IU ACE honors

HS senior interested in consulting but not sure exactly what I want to do. Anyone have an idea of how these might stack up for placement? Would have to go into some debt for anything above ~45k a year, but I’m also trying to to negotiate with UNC, BC, and Emory at the moment.

Babson - full tuition. $26k/year

UNC no merit, not direct KF. $70k/year

BC no merit, direct Carroll. $97k/year

UGA half ride + honors, direct Terry. $27k/year

UMiami full tuition thru a premier scholarship + honors, $32k/year

Emory no merit but got some need aid. $73k/year

Edit: Also got IU direct Kelley with ACE Honors and some scholarships. $51k/year

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Babson easily given the full ride. UNC/BC/Emory are semi targets (IU Kelley IBW tier) so it is definitely not worth paying sticker price for any of those schools.

 

californiakid2003:

Babson easily given the full ride. UNC/BC/Emory are semi targets (IU Kelley IBW tier) so it is definitely not worth paying sticker price for any of those schools.

Also forgot to mention I got into IU Kelley direct with the ACE honors program (100 kids per year), which would be ~$51k/year. Would that be more worth it?

 

I’d still pick Babson since it’s free and they do place kids still in IB. My girlfriend went to IU Kelley as an ACE Scholar as well (recently graduated) and it played 0 role helping her getting into IBW.

 

day__:

Damn were you at the Kelley ACE interview on 3/6-7?

Nah I couldn’t make it. I did a virtual interview the week after that. Were you there?

 

Aw thought I'd meet someone who was there that day haha. Yup I was there it was a p interesting experience and I liked Kelley tbh, I prefer the small cohort style of ACE so I'm feeling a tiny amount of fomo. The professors seem like they genuinely care about career success of students which I can't say the same for a lot of schools. But unlucky since Kelley is known more for finance placements than consulting. That was my issue with it as someone that wants to go into consulting asw.

 

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