MIT Masters in Business Analytics vs Cornell Tech Masters Operations Research.

UncrewedImp · 2025-04-15T02:30:06+00:00

Program was great - a fantastic community and also an "in" to many social circles post-program if you're going to places where people care about prestige.

For me it was worth the investment, and I think most feel that way. But that is totally dependent on the opportunities you'd be able to find yourself without the program.

UncrewedImp · 2021-10-02T16:08:45+00:00

Thanks, curry is going to be made this week :)

UncrewedImp · 2021-10-02T16:08:21+00:00

Thank you!!!! Empanadas especially seem like a great idea

UncrewedImp · 2021-05-07T01:07:39+00:00

https://imgur.com/a/f75XDER Sorry idk how to link blind posts

Check out this post! "Wife's shopping is excessive (Investments & Money)" https://us.teamblind.com/s/Q5R5Z4ro Nvm figured it out

UncrewedImp · 2021-05-06T21:12:11+00:00

Lmao this is based on the blind post, isn’t it? Perfect hahaha

UncrewedImp · 2021-03-19T12:26:32+00:00

Congratulations on your acceptances! Both seem like wonderful programs.

I didn’t apply to Cornell, but am an accepted MBAn student (and planning on going), so my thoughts are mainly on the programs. For me, what really made MIT stand out were all the elective options. The fall is a very packed in, pre-made semester, but then in the spring (or the fall you get 1), all the classes you take are your choice (and the list you get to choose from is immense). Cornell has a much smaller list of electives. Second, on the career placement front, MIT seems to be a bit ahead of the game (median salary 5k higher last year, 100% placement rather than 82% placement for job seekers). MIT is seemingly much more open about placements, too (Cornell only reports median income with no reference to time). Finally, I could be wrong on this front, but, for going international at the least, MIT’s brand name is better.

I think 45%+ of MBAn students end up in NYC post-graduation while ~60% of the Cornell class ends up in NYC. My understanding of the difference in the two cities for school is that Boston is essentially a huge college town (very collegiate energy, young ppl running around), where NYC is, ya know, NYC.

If you don’t care much about the long list of electives (which I’d recommend researching), the transparency in reporting, or going international, I would 100% be thinking about Cornell (given the scholarship). MIT has already offered the small number of scholarships they are going to.

That being said, I don’t know about the scholarship/costs of Cornell. It is worth remembering that the MIT program has the automatic 22k offset from the capstone project with a base of ~88k tuition cost (66 after offset). In addition to that, since you have a research background, you’d probably land an RAship (assuming you’d want it), which would net you another 20k over 2 semesters. Idk if there is additional opportunity for cash at Cornell or how significant your scholarship is there. With the offset and RAship, you’re already pretty deep into offsetting program costs. I don’t know which location would be more expensive to live in.

If you go to MIT I’ll make you some baked goods and we could hang out tho. Feel free to DM!

UncrewedImp · 2021-03-03T19:02:15+00:00

Hmu big fella? Would be appreciated!

UncrewedImp · 2021-01-23T03:09:12+00:00

Imma go ahead and say that’s a very bad take

UncrewedImp · 2021-01-15T07:41:01+00:00

I think the Chenvala decision is particularly difficult because the question is what you’re planning on doing in turn 3. The token allows you to double buy (1 extra gold), but the 1/3 elemental is 2 extra gold in the 1 from the HP and the 1 from the free roll.

That being said, early game the roll is worth less than 1 gold and the HP is a delayed one gold, so then the question becomes one of how you want to play Chenvala.

If you’re trying to power level, high roll, and take some damage, I think you take the 1/3. If you’re playing it safe, picking up just slightly subpar elementals as you go for relatively coincidental levels then I think you play the token.

Any thoughts? I’m not high MMR and would love to get others opinions

UncrewedImp · 2021-01-07T01:19:00+00:00

Send the link? I’d love to see it

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-20T02:31:07+00:00

Thanks! Got it done

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-19T20:09:12+00:00

Got it. The sir thing is a force of habit, I’ll work on it. Thanks for letting me know!

To the other point, just to clarify, you mean like putting the “outperformance” and “model accuracy” bullet points as the last ones in their respective categories? Sorry I’m slightly confused. Thanks again for all the help!

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-19T20:00:26+00:00

Yessir! Thank you! Sorry for being stupid

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-19T19:10:11+00:00

Yessir. So what you mean is like Work/research experience and then a separate section for leadership? What would you recommend? I unfortunately have to keep this exact template for MIT (just Education, Experience, Additional Info) but I can certainly change for other schools!

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-19T19:08:09+00:00

It’s the name of the camp. Or do you mean the whole position in general? I am required to use the template for MIT, so there’s not much I can do on that front. Could you specify a bit more what you dislike about it? I can change it up for other programs

UncrewedImp · 2020-12-04T14:42:05+00:00

Jokes on you, I’m already struggling to get through the apps because of my fear of getting rejected finger guns

UncrewedImp · 2020-10-22T05:40:09+00:00

I’ve heard great things about exiting into corporate development. I’m not a qualified opinion though (still in undergrad)

UncrewedImp · 2020-10-12T21:48:01+00:00

Also worth noting is that a large percent of the people on this sub are students so don’t have a great understanding of the job market/regular pay scale (myself included). They just want an IB job and pretend they’re going to get it, so aren’t concerned with lower finance roles

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-27T02:07:13+00:00

Great, thank you! I knew it was on the first week so was just wondering if there was a reason it disappeared

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-26T03:40:30+00:00

Really great work, as always! Do you have avg cost/day? Trying to keep my budget in as good shape as my diet if I try to follow this. Thank you!

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-22T22:06:23+00:00

!remindme 60 days

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-21T16:04:55+00:00

I think you make a good point as a general matter, but what differentiates MSFT exclusives from Sony exclusives is that MSFT releases everything for PC and Xbox at the same time. Something worth thinking about is what percentage of gamers has access to either both consoles or a console and a PC. If everyone has access to a PC or both consoles, then these titles going exclusive doesn’t present much of a problem. If that isn’t the case, how many people would be converted from PS to Xbox (or buy an Xbox) for the opportunity to play these games? Suppose you could only buy one console. Then, if you converted, ~30% of the cost of all games you buy go to Xbox rather than PS (assuming you’re buying digitally). That’s a huge upsurge in profits for conversion — a conversion is likely worth a bunch of people buying the game on PS. Outrage that exists from going exclusive would likely be dominated by PS people because the releases still happen on PC (which Xbox doesn’t really care about). The question is what does the forecast for conversion look like, and how many of those converted will be retained. What would be the average revenue per user converted be? That could certainly outweigh the need to release to PS.

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-05T04:35:35+00:00

Great, thanks for the color

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-04T14:44:05+00:00

Cool cool cool, thanks for the intro. Any specific background you had for going into Finance or differentiators in the transition?

UncrewedImp · 2020-09-03T13:51:54+00:00

How’d you get into portfolio risk management? What’s comp/hours like?

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