Which is better: Harvard Undergrad or HBS?
Harvard College has the lower acceptance rate, but HBS alumni are much more likely to be wealthy in their lifetimes.
Which do you consider the more prestigious Harvard affiliation, and why?
Business school will never have the same prestige as undergrad
I genuinely believe your average Imperial undergrad would run circles around your average HBS MBA candidate. GSB MBA candidates are another story but even then HSM and Oxbridge undergrads will run circles around them.
I think the tiering goes something like:
Harvard/Oxford > Yale Law/Harvard Medical > MIT/Cambridge/Stanford > GSB > Yale/Princeton > HBS > LBS > Rest
From a global laymen’s perspective there will be less distinction over the specific degree earned so the tiering goes like:
Harvard/Oxford > MIT/Cambridge/Stanford > Yale/Princeton > Rest
Harvard undergrad more prestigious than the medical school? Definitely not
I'd go so far as to say that there are multiple medical schools in the US more prestigious and selective than Harvard undergrad
I think they’re talking about lay prestige. I agree that HMS/YLS is the most prestigious academic institution in the world but laypeople only care about the parent university brand which is held by the undergraduates.
I think BA
Undergrad
There are many threads on this already, but Harvard UG > Harvard MBA and it's not even close. Most MBA students nowadays struck out of a PE/MBB promotion, wanted a 2-year break, or (are most often) people who started to shine later in their professional development (i.e. during a non-target UG or multiple promotions in FP&A).
The best JDs and MDs still need law/medical school. The same isn't true for business and finance.
What is even the point of this convo. Worry about getting into one first. I went to HBS but am not spending my days wondering if the undergrads across the river feel more prestigious
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