A big dilemma

starbird

Well, three questions make me wonder, and perhaps other people also need your reasons before giving any suggestion.

1. Why you applied for these two schools, and only these two?

As far as I see, you've got all you wanted, the offers and scholarship. It's some work after all.

2. What was your career goal at that time?

3. What changed now?

I think the most important thing is what you want to get from MBA and what you want to be after MBA. Both the suggestions from the people who encourage you to go to Hawaii and from the guy from Top 10 are reasonable, because their views of "opportunity" are different.

starbird

So, I see your dilemma,,,

Personally, I wouldn't take either alternative if I were you.

For one, it sounds to me that Hawaii has never had any appeal to you from the very beginning. So consult its average graduated students' job and salary, if that does not meet your expectation, then there is no reason to consider it.

For the other, since you just want something to help you shift your career, maybe Top 10 MBA is a little too hard to get to serve this purpose. First, if you can work in other fields now, then it'll be another issue; if you choose to work for something you dislike several years and again another several years for applying and reading MBA finally just for a career shift, I don't know, but it seems to be a really long shot. Second, you know Top 10 encourages applicants with achieving working experience. So suppose you have little accomplishment after a few years' work, you'll be faced with a more tough dilemma; or you really achieve something as a journalist or editor, I wonder you still want to apply for MBA at that time.

So, it occurs to me that since you can afford to hunt a job for half a year, how about to apply for other projects to read at the same time. I suppose that you have just taken a GMAT, and there is little interference between applying for a job and applying for a academic degree. A master degree may not be so tempting, but it will make your career route more smoothly, and it is more suitable for you to apply now, so it seems worth the time, just make sure to choose the field you are really interested in this time. And it will be fine if you still want to aplly for MBA later. Or if you finally find some terrific job, then just take it.

Just some personal opinion. Better wait for more suggestions from others here later. And good luck~~~