<p>Yo guys.</p>
<p>Which one would be better for internship opportunities, and for better finance & accounting education in general?</p>
<p>Should I go to Cornell just for the Ivy 'prestige' factor, or should I attend Berkeley and go for Haas?</p>
<p>And also, Would you go to NYU Stern, or Berkeley Haas? And why would you go to the one you picked?</p>
<p>Help me out here! Thanks a lot.</p>
<p>Same Decision. Could give an answer, but I would rather you get pure hearsay from others than me.</p>
<p>Where do you want to live when you graduate college?
If you want to have the best opportunties/resources to work in the East Coast after college graduation, make the decision between Cornell and NYU.
If you want to have the best opportunities/resources to work in the West Coast after college graduation, pick Berkeley.</p>
<p>I would choose Stern out of these three schools.</p>
<p>What do you have to pay for these three? If you are a California resident, and Cornell and Stern haven’t given you enough grant and scholarship aid to bring the cost down to that of Berkeley, then it is absolutely a no-brainer. Save your money for grad school.</p>
<p>Money is not a problem - I have racked up enough grants from here and there… and my parents have saved up quite a bit of money for me (although the EFC isn’t that high) - I think I can afford to pay for out of state colleges…</p>
<p>That being said… I need to ask a few more questions!</p>
<p>@sentimentGX4: Give me some reasoning on why I should go to Stern :P</p>
<p>@Happymomof1: I did receive a Cal-Grant A (and B) along with various other scholarships and grants from many sources… so going to Berkeley is virtually free for me… What I’m worried about is the extreme grading and grade deflation that occurs at Berkeley… I don’t think I can afford to get low Bs on my transcript for grad school at Berkeley…</p>
<p>I heard Cornell’s mathematics & economics department is definitely not up to par with Berkeley, but I also think Berkeley will be detrimental to my grades…</p>
<p>NYU… I don’t know. It’s a good school, but do you think it’ll be easier for me to get internships (3rd/4th year summer) that will lead me into jobs towards the end of undergrad? </p>
<p>I’m not really thinking of grad school… If I was to pursue grad school, I would definitely go to Berkeley to save costs and try my hardest and then try to go to Penn or Harvard for grad school…</p>
<p>GAH! The choices are too hard. In terms of prestige, they are all near same… </p>
<p>Help 
What are your opinions on my dilemma? :(</p>
<p>Oh - and I also got into USC Marshall. But I heard most USC graduates end up staying in SoCal… I don’t want that happening. ><;</p>
<p>Bump - this is such a dilemma… :(</p>
<p>Stern vs Berkeley vs Cornell vs USC vs CMU! Grahhhhhhhhhhh!</p>
<p>thefreak, is your ultimate goal to end up on Wall Street or just in the finance/accounting area in general, like a financial analyst at a big corporation?</p>
<p>“I think I can afford to pay” is different from “We can afford to pay”. Run your numbers through this calculator and see what they look like: [FinAid</a> | Calculators | Award Letter Comparison Tool](<a href=“Your Guide for College Financial Aid - Finaid”>Award Letter Requirements - Finaid)</p>
<p>It is OK for you to pick up the phone and call the career centers at these different universities and ask them about internship and job placement for students in your major field. They will be happy to let you know where their graduates end up.</p>
<p>And Berkeley’s career center even has a [career</a> survey](<a href=“https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm]career”>https://career.berkeley.edu/Major/Major.stm) that you can read.</p>