Post-MBA after buyside - do you enter as VP or Sr.Associate?

For those that did 2 year of IB > 2 years as a PE assoc then left for B-school, do you come back to PE as a Sr.Associate or do some let you join as a VP? Trying to determine if an MBA is worth it for me if I want to stay in PE

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