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After 2 years at B-school, my personal advice now to cross-admitted applicants from mainland China is to pick the school with great parent university. In this sense, I want to say a big congratulation to you as all three schools fall in this pool. Let alone they all have collaborative student bodies, which is one critical criterion for me to choose a school. Of course, if your aim is more about securing a consulting/banking job, then you can absolutely ignore what I am saying and look more or merely at the traditional matrix such as job placement data, major hiring firms, or ranking etc, though eventually it is YOU other than the school that gets you there.
If you want to do consulting, probably Duke has some slight edges because of its strengths in general management and marketing. If you want to do IM, then Johnson might stand out as it seems to have a stronger alum presence in Finance in US. However, all these are just based on the general impression as my interest is nor the above and know little about these.
As a Yale SOM alum, what Yale impressed me is its connecting power, maybe only second to Harvard, across all different sectors and a lifelong community that goes beyond SOM. I quite buy Vincent's points. People who went to Yale during my stay include John Kerry, Tony Blair, Paul Volcker, Aung San Suu Kyi, Kofi Annan, Bob Rubin, Jim Wolfensohn, Bob Zoellick, just to name a few, bunches of executives/CEOs of Chinese SOEs, banks, governors, ministers, as well as dozens of F500/Ibank CEOs that you can meet at other business schools. People I missed included Hank Paulson, John McCain and Dr. Kissinger. These experiences counted much to me as my major goals of MBA are experience, network and community. I am much appreciated to the perspectives and insights that I learned from these people. You might argue there's no difference from watching their speeches on YouTube. To some extent it is true, but when you have the opportunity to raise your own questions to these people, it's different. Imagine having lunch with Warren Buffet and asking him a question...
Actually I asked 6...
To land a full-time job mostly boils down to your own backgrounds and efforts. School alone would bring some differences, sometimes a lot, but I guess they are subtle in the event that they would go to all three schools to hire. In my graduating year, JP Morgan hired only one Chinese full-time employee and he is my classmate. Other major i-banks that gave full-time offer to SOMers originally from mainland China include CITI, HSBC and DB. This is fairly decent stat even as opposed to those strong financial schools like Wharton or Columbia. For IM, I would argue Booth and Wharton are the best. But SOM does have some unique resources to leverage. For example, the chief investment officers of HYPM are all SOM alums and they all, except for Harvard Management's Jane Mendill(she and her daughter are bothYalies), used to work under David Sweden.They would all go to his class and bring the real-word cases to discussion. I took that course, and when I graduated, one of my instructors, who was an director at Yale Investment Office, assumed CIO of UPenn. Of course, it's always hard to secure internship in the investment offices of these ivy schools, but you can definitely start there. They are LPs of almost all leading buyside firms, either PE/VC or HF. For IM consulting, prior to my year, for two successive years, Cambridge Associate hired two mainlanders. If I remembered correctly, Cambridge Associate's CEO is also an SOMer.
Hope my two cents help. But my opinion can be very biased and misleading as my goal from MBA differs from yours. What I would suggest is 1) define your goals( you've already done that) 2) prioritize the criterion of choosing schools 3) do your own research( for example, finding out which school is the core school of your target firms) 4) discuss with alums and people who have same goals as you do and have been through /and decide.
All in all, knowing what matters to you and doing your own research, or DD, are far more essential than making enquirers on CD, as YOU yourself own your future 2-year life experience and a life-long community.
Wish you the best of luck!
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