UVA OOS vs full-ride?

[Anonymous]

DD was accepted with a full-ride scholarship to our state flagship on the West Coast (think CUBoulder, UOregon, etc) and OOS for UVA. Planning on going into consulting/finance and/or getting an MBA, and eventually living on the East Coast.

Definitely big difference in price: $0 vs $200k for four years. We can pay either, but with UVA she'll have no money left over for business school.

Thoughts on which she should choose? Really appreciate any advice!

[Anonymous]

If an MBA is the plan, take the scholarship for undergrad.

[Anonymous]

Can you just say which school?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:If an MBA is the plan, take the scholarship for undergrad.

Yeah, I think there's only one answer to this question. At least, only one reasonable answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:If an MBA is the plan, take the scholarship for undergrad.

Yeah, I think there's only one answer to this question. At least, only one reasonable answer.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:DD was accepted with a full-ride scholarship to our state flagship on the West Coast (think CUBoulder, UOregon, etc) and OOS for UVA. Planning on going into consulting/finance and/or getting an MBA, and eventually living on the East Coast.

Definitely big difference in price: $0 vs $200k for four years. We can pay either, but with UVA she'll have no money left over for business school.

Thoughts on which she should choose? Really appreciate any advice!

Why not just get the company to pay for MBA?

[Anonymous]

UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

[Anonymous]

Full ride, do well, study for GMAT, and go to top 10 B-school. Only a handful of schools are worth this difference and UVA isn't one of them.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

I went to UVA undergrad and got a job in NYC after graduating ... you have no idea what you’re talking about.

[Anonymous]

I think UVA career fairs and internship connections might be more helpful with landing and east coast job upon graduation (but that is speculation).

How likely is it that your kid's first employer would underwrite their MBA?

Congrats on having desirable options.

[Anonymous]

The cultures of UVA and most West Coast schools will likely to be very different.

Does your kid have a sense of better fit at one or the other?

[Anonymous]

Take the full ride.

[Anonymous]

A full ride scholarship, even at a mediocre or mediocre-plus flagship, is the right move here. A no-brainer. No one will begrudge a kid for taking a full ride. If you’re that loked onto UVA, go to grad school there.

[Anonymous]

Full Ride. UVA not worth it. If you told me ivy, I would say take it. This one is not hard at all.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:UVA will not feel "East Coast". It will not particularly open up "East Coast" job opportunities. It's reputation might help a little, it's location will not help much. It's too isolated.

I went to UVA undergrad and got a job in NYC after graduating ... you have no idea what you’re talking about.

Yeah, I don’t know where that is coming from. I graduated from McIntire and almost everyone I know went to major east coast markets. A handful to Charlotte and Atlanta. But the vast majority to NY, DC, or Boston. On campus recruiting is extensive.