This post was originally published in 2014. Some things have changed a bit at some schools (particularly MIT) but the trends are still largely the same. Certain schools have a better ability to offer larger, and more numerous, offers of free money to the applicants they want. Other schools don't have that luxury.
We’ve expressed our opinion before, that you can’t expect someone to pay you to get an MBA. Yes it’s expensive, but the MBA has tremendous ROI. Some schools are incredibly generous in offering scholarships and fellowships to admitted applicants. Other schools, you should know, are not. As an example: About 30% of Wharton students receive…