Cornell offers MBA application waiver for laid off workers

[ThatBankDude]

Cool that they're waiving the application fee, but Cornell's tuition and fees aren't exactly cheap. If you can't afford the application fee, then you can't afford their tuition. Less than a third of applicants are accepted which isn't really surprising.

https://fortune.com/education/business/c...4140%2C000.

Also the second year of the program is in NYC. This waiver is for people who've been laid off. Highly doubtful that they will uproot their lives, move to Ithaca for a year, then move to NYC for a year.

Now if you need a reallllllllllly good laugh today, read the annual cost. Tuition alone is over $76,000. Yeah someone laid off has $200K+ just laying around but can't afford the application fee.

https://www.johnson.cornell.edu/programs...-expenses/

This is just ridiculous.

Have you reviewed their employment reports? When the average base salary of the MBA graduate at Cornell Johnson is $156,000 annually with an average signing bonus of $38,000 then the tuition is not near as big of a deal for many. How do I know? I am a Duke student and have had many conversations around this with alumni of other similar schools.