- do you know costs and stats required for UWisconsin and Carlson at UMN?
- The 15k out quoted are your parents l contribution per years right? Are you expected to contributed 5k from your annual income? How much have you saved or can you use? What’s your actual budget, the 15k you quoted or something else? How do you know you’d graduate debt free from UWisconsin?
- LSE is going to be very expensive due to cost of living in London (halls for freshers run from $8,000 to $18,000 a year just for housing - transportation and food is additional.) In addition, will you have the minimum requirement of BC Calc with a 5 ? Equally recruited in the UK if you want to work in the City, you have Warwick, which should be cheaper. However, Brexit is throwing a huge wrench in proceedings and many companies are heading to Frankfurt, Paris, plus obviously Dublin and the Netherlands.
- Wisconsin is a very good flagship, strong in many, many, many fields. If you have doubts about its business school, you have tuition reciprocity with Carlson. Apply now, apply to honors, and once that’s done, focus on other possibilities, one of which should be IUKelley.
- a cost benefit analysis should clearly show you that the debt you’ve talked about isn’t a good choice compared to Wisconsin/UMN. Your odds of pulling off what you want to do are actually greater from either university than from one of the universities you listed before. Being debt free and with a highly respected degree in finance is better than being in debt with a highly respected degree that’s only very marginally better in terms of recruiting than the former degree.
- PHD in anything is not the path to making money or stability. (You could end up working for $12,000 a year as a adjunct.) It CAN be a worthwhile pursuit but if your main motivation is a misguided estimation that UWisconsin is better at Chemistry than at Business, you’re probably in the wrong track.
- what about Babson or Bentley?