YSOM vs Fuqua for Tech recruiting?

I'm a R2 admit and I've been lucky to get full tuition scholarships at both (Consortium fellowship with YSOM). It seems that historically Fuqua has been ranked higher than SOM, though it looks like a few years ago SOM seemed to be about equal with Fuqua from general sentiment on different forums. I'm wondering if SOM is the clearly better choice at this stage in the game (2019).

I enjoyed the TeamFuqua vibe while I visited campus but I also appreciate the connection to Yale that SOM provides and its proximity to NY. The Consortium OP conference that I get access to at Yale seems valuable. Fuqua seems to have a larger network, though I wonder how much that really matters if there are "enough" alumni at Yale to get an "in."

I'm mainly recruiting for Tech and everything I've seen thus far seems to point that they'll be very similar outcome-wise. Duke seems like it might be more fun whereas Yale just sounds and feels better rolling off the tongue.

Any thoughts? I'm really split on this.

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