Two years, 336 students, a 737 average GMAT, and a Greenwich Village address at the centre of finance. Everything an Indian applicant needs to know, laid out honestly.
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The questions we are asked most often about Stern, each answered in two sentences. These power the Google rich-result and are what Perplexity and ChatGPT lift verbatim when they cite us.
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The brochure number is the global number. The number you actually need is the India slice, which Stern does not publish, so the India cut below is a Pegasus estimate, clearly marked as such.
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Indian applicant slice
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Enter your profile. We’ll place you honestly on the Stern admit band and give you the odds. We will not flatter you. This is the number your consultant should be telling you.
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Strong fit
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Three rounds, three different strategies. Which one you file in is often more decisive than any essay rewrite.
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A 500-word aspirations essay and the "Pick Six" image essay decide whether your file moves to interview. The common Indian applicant mistakes, and what Stern is really looking for.
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The sticker price is in dollars, your loan is in rupees. We’ll give you both. And we’ll show the number nobody puts in a brochure: the real break-even year.
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INR 1.98 CrAfter scholarship, before any family savings. This is the number you need to borrow or self-fund.
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Stern aid is mostly merit-based, with many awards covering half or full tuition; roughly a fifth to a quarter of admits receive one. The named routes below are the ones Indian applicants most often use.
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The thing nobody tells you until orientation: your two-year MBA is a 24-month lottery ticket for the H-1B, and the odds depend on which sector picks you.
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Financial services and consulting together take about 70 percent of the class, with technology next, reflecting the New York finance pull. Stern publishes industry shares, not full employer counts, so the firms below are indicative with Pegasus-estimated counts.
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Side-by-side with any 1-3 of the 24 schools we cover, built from the same dataset so the comparison is honest.
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