Thoughts on Undergrad F50 LDP

Hi, curious to hear others opinions about LDPs out of UG from a BSchool admissions and overall career perspective  

I’m particularly in interested in one of the deferred enrollment programs such as 2+2, GSB deferred, and Booth Scholars.

My background is in Electrical Engineering and will be starting final 1.5 year of undergrad in a month. 

I am at a crossroad between two options I have. (1) trying for full time entry level engineer position at my previous internship at a Very prestigious company or (2) operations LDP at a F50 blue chip company such as Boeing Business Rotational Program, JnJ Global Operations Leadership Development Program, GE Operations Management Leadership Program, GE Edison Program, etc. 

My thoughts are that at the former option I go in as an engineer and after two-three years still unsure about my future and possibly am pigeonholed in engineering. But I’d come out a very talented engineer. On the other hand the LDP offers a more structured progression at a potentially less “sexy” company. But I develop skills and best practices in a very structured company.

My gut says go with the LDP because I think I’d like it more and the progression is more structured but opportunities are more open ended as I haven’t specialiszed over the course of the 2-3 years.

If anyone has any idea on how either of my two options would look on an application for the deferred enrollment MBA programs I’d appreciate your thoughts. FWIW, I go to a flyover state school that scratched the top 100 rankings in engineering and business schools. So definitely not a target school by any stretch of the imagination. 

thank you! 

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