<p>Hey guys, I was wondering if you guys could give me some feedback on the above mentioned colleges. I'm not sure where to go! I plan on majoring in some kind of business degree. And I will be visiting colleges pretty soon but I still want to hear some opinions. Thanks for the help!</p>
<p>Hey man.</p>
<p>I go to Duke and got into many colleges, including Duke and Cornell (didn’t apply to NYU). </p>
<p>I visited both campuses, and have friends who go to both, and for me Duke seemed more appealing. </p>
<p>This was due to many reasons: My friends told me that Cornell in November, December, January, February, and March is not a good place to be because of the cold. Usually the cold wouldn’t be noticed much, but because Cornell is in a rural area the cold will limit you from doing outdoor activities. </p>
<p>Duke had more opportunities for what I wanted to go into (it was ranked higher too, but I honestly don’t care about rankings, and make sure you don’t base your decision on that!).</p>
<p>Duke seemed like a generally more fun place. It especially disturbed me about the suicides. Some people say the suicides are played up, but 6 people committed suicide at Cornell just this semester, and 3 of them did so on the same weekend 2 or so weeks ago.</p>
<p>So that is my opinion, and obviously it is biased because I already had the same choice you did and chose Duke. I can tell you honestly that Duke has been the best experience of my life so far.</p>
<p>As for business/economics, both schools are good for it. Know that for Duke, at least, the intro. class to econ. will teach you a lot but will also drain you a ton. It is intensely hard. One cool thing I know of is the marketing club, in which people manipulate stocks by gathering data.</p>
<p>Duke is known for a lot of business oriented people, so if you want a more thorough opinion you should probably call someone with info. or find an undergrad. who is majoring in economics.</p>
<p>Good luck! Can’t go wrong either way.</p>
<p>P.S.: Although NYU might not be as “prestigious,” New York City would be an awesome place to go to college in, I think. The Raleigh-Durham area would be a distant second, with Duke, and at least for me Upstate New York/Ithaca would be an even more distant third.</p>
<p>Good luck!</p>
<p>Duke is at about the same level as Stern for getting into top investment banks/consulting firms (in terms of the amount of on-campus recruiting). Many, many people at Duke end up following this route (not initially, but by senior year, you see as many (if not more) than you do premeds).</p>
<p>Duke has a new Finance Minor that you should consider if you’re planning on i-banking. Before that, most people interested in i-banking would just do Econ (and some would do the “Markets and Management” Certificate–basically just a bundle of classes oriented towards business).</p>
<p>I think Duke and Stern are better for on-campus recruiting than Cornell. Check out the “Investment Banking” forum within collegeconfidential.</p>
<p>" Duke is at about the same level as Stern for getting into top investment banks/consulting firms (in terms of the amount of on-campus recruiting)."…false. If you look up what schools interns and analysts go to at ibanks, it usually goes Harvard, Wharton, Princeton, MIT/Stanford, Dartmouth, Duke, Yale, Columbia, Penn CAS, Cornell, and other schools with Stern around 15th,16th,17th. Plus, remember that almost everyone at Stern wants to go to i-banking. So it actually doesnt do that well at all. If you don’t believe me, you can look up this information easily on the investment banking forum or at wallstreetoasis.</p>
<p>Lightzout’s probably right. But DCK7, if you’re interested in business, go to those 2 sites that he mentioned–wallstreetoasis (separate website) and CC’s investment banking forum. They have plenty of user rankings of on-campus recruiting. The key thing is that on-campus recruiting is VITAL for breaking into i-banking/consulting.</p>
<p>DUKE > than all of them!</p>
<p>Thanks for all the help guys! I’m going to do some research myself on the sites you guys gave me. But at this point, I’m leaning towards becoming a blue devil :)</p>