In my class of 400 or so at a top 20ish school, I think two dropped out. B school was two of the best years of my life, and I learned a ton. I traveled to 5 or

In my class of 400 or so at a top 20ish school, I think two dropped out. B school was two of the best years of my life, and I learned a ton. I traveled to 5 or 6 countries, met tons of great people (and a heck of a lot of assholes - they're even more fun), drank myself silly quite frequently, and played Rugby with schools from around the world, sometimes while drinking. No matter what they say on hacker news, a good MBA is a solid education at a very rapid pace if you want it to be. The catch is that it was way cheaper when I went, which wasn't that long ago ('05 grad). Paying the $40-60k/year that the top schools charge today is on the border of being reckless. You had better have it worked out financially, and I don't mean "I'll get a cushy MBA job that pays $150k/year and pay it off in 9 months", because that is a fantasy for most people. You never wind up making what you expect to, and there's always some lifestyle creep that keeps you from paying it off as fast as you wanted to. But yeah, it's worth it. Even though I don't (and probably never will) have one of those big company middle management jobs it prepared me for.