I graduated Penn in 1997 with BA, BSEcon and MBA. I was undergrad class of 1996 in the M&T program (Systems Engineering, and in Wharton I dualed with Finance a

I graduated Penn in 1997 with BA, BSEcon and MBA. I was undergrad class of 1996 in the M&T program (Systems Engineering, and in Wharton I dualed with Finance and Operations & Information Management). I was granted permission to submatric into Wharton to get my MBA. I interned at MSFT summer of 94 and 95, and Morgan Stanley in 96. With all that as a preamble, staying the one extra year cost me nothing, and has opened many, many doors. That one year, in terms of your earning power, is pretty small in the grand scheme of things. Further, the extra degree has materially boosted my earning power a decade on. However, I stayed to get my MBA because I thought I wanted to be a VC. Turns out I am an entrepreneur at heart. If you think you want to create startups for a career, staying in school doesn't help you with that goal unless you use that year to basically have a subsidized year of starting a company. You don't learn startups from school. You learn the from doing. I am more than happy to discuss offline - my contact email is in my profile.