<p>oh yeh, I'm sure CC top Universities is just the usnews top 25 (including ties) minus the ivies.</p>
<p>sry CMU doesn't have 15,000 fans but the numbers and facts are there. Obviously its more prestigious. BTW: another book to check out is princeton review's "College campus" book. It puts NYU as selectivity 89 and CMU as selectivity 92. </p>
<p>Once again I implore you to check this out.</p>
<p>Go spend 30 min at barnes and noble like I did. You will see CMU is overall more prestigious and selective. My only wish is that Carnegie had as much fans as NYU as its hard to argue a point when its 15,000 vs 5000</p>
<p>ummm, i personally think of CMU as the betterschool even though NYU is definitly more well known to the average person onthe street (especially cuz the olsen twins go there)</p>
<p>^^ exactly what i'm talking about. Its hard at the student level to argue since there's way more nyu students and they ofcourse know more about nyu.</p>
<p>Wait till you get to the business world. People will be MUCH more impressed with a CMU degree than a NYU one. If stats and books and rankings dont' convince you, just wait till you graduate.</p>
<p>jwblue, you cannot base salaries off of one independent website such as studentreview.com.. CMU is more prestigious and usually ranks higher than NYU on the majority of polls conducted. Your "cold, hard facts" are not exactly valid, in my opinion.. since they're blatantly biased. Duke proved numerous times that CMU ranks higher than NYU .. his evidence is irrefutable; those statistics on NYU's website warrant no merit.</p>
<p>Accepted Carnegie Mellon University: Tepper School of Business</p>
<p>A lot of you might look at that and right off the bat, say I have a bias in this discussion. I applied EDII to CMU after being rejected from NYU-Stern EDI. Now you're probably thinking I have a tremendous amount of bias. </p>
<p>Not True. </p>
<p>First of all, let me say that looking at all these rankings that have been posted ALSO have some sort of bias. Whether it is US News, The Wall Street Journal, etc. NYU is one of the hottest schools this year. The Olsen Twins have contributed to their publicity and Stern continues to impress prospective students with its NYC locale and rigorous curriculum. The NYU Admissions Office reports an increase of almost 700 ED Applicants to the school this past winter. It has one of the top international business schools in the US and is well-respected in many other fields. For example, the Tisch School at NYU has one of the top ranked Jazz Programs. The School of Journalism at NYU is extremely competitive as well. NYU is also known to have a low Freshman Retention Rate. Translated, this means that the incoming Freshman class is less likely to stay at NYU through all four years of their education. NYU also has a higher crime/theft rate than most schools due to their metropolitan location. If you have been following the news, people have criticized NYU over it's inefficient Security Force. CMU on the other hand, has an excellent security system that only benefits from its location outside the city. However, CMU is no match for the immense opportunities that New York, one of the world's greatest cosmopolitan cities, has to offer. But is this the true workings of an excellent academic institution? Or is it simply because of location? Most of you will probably agree that it is both. If CMU were suddenly placed in NYC, I think you might find that it would take advantage of the same resources provided to NYU in New York City. CMU on the other hand, is located in the vicinity of the IBM Research Facilities. This close relationship has given CMU a technological advantage ranging from campus-wide Wi-Fi Access to eSuds, an electronic laundry system that notifies you of your laundry status through email/text message. Given these contrasts between both schools, it is fair to say that had they been placed in similar environments, each school would face rigorous competition from the other. However, the difference in environment defines these schools with different academic focuses. </p>
<p>I wanted to go to NYU, too. You might think that because I was rejected, I am going to bash it to no end. I'm not. NYU is a well-respected school and has the academic potential that a lot of us, as prospective students, seek. While numbers and rankings provide us with a good start in our school selection process, we must also consider academic focus. When I was applying to school, New York City seemed like it would be the ideal place for me to go to school. NYU-Stern is a top-ranked program, so is CMU. Now you have to keep in mind that a difference of 4-5 places isn't really going to make a difference at all. This is especially important when you consider all the different fields of business that each respective school excels in. Rankings change all the time. As long as there is no drastic change (ie from 4 to 35), what difference is 2 or 3 places really going to make? You really want bragging rights? Don't brag about how great your school is, brag about how well you excelled and how you were able to take advantage of your education in your school. If anything, that's the one thing everybody can seriously have bragging rights over. I chose Tepper for the resources that it has and the environment that it is in. I originally chose NYU-Stern for environment and academic challenge. They are BOTH well respected schools. I am sure we can all agree on that. How about we stop arguing about all of this right ...</p>
<p>here. </p>
<p>Good Luck to those of you applying to NYU. </p>
<p>and </p>
<p>Good Luck to those of you applying to CMU.</p>