<p>So, I know it is my decision to make in the end, but I was wondering if you could help me out a bit. So, I'm posting in the Yale thread because I think Yale will be my choice, but I just want to ascertain it.</p>
<p>A couple of things that I hope you could clarify for me:</p>
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<li><p>Do EA admissions really increase your chances of getting into the school? At the MIT info session, I heard "no," but what about the others?</p></li>
<li><p>Which of these schools would be better for an career on Wall Street? Program-wise too. In other words, what looks more impressive and what is an overall more exciting program. Economics or EPE at Yale? Economics or MS&E at Stanford? Sloan at MIT?</p></li>
<li><p>How is recruitment at all of these?</p></li>
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<li><p>no, not really.</p></li>
<li><p>Both Econ and MS&E are awesome awesome awesome departments at Stanford and nationally competes with Sloan. Couldn’t go wrong either or, I guess. But if you get into all three, it’s going to come down to student-body, campus vibe, financial aid and location.</p></li>
<li><p>Wall street recruiters notoriously plague Stanford and MIT. Not so sure about Yale though. (it is an Ivy so I wouldn’t be surprised)</p></li>
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<li><p>The answer is no at all three. Don’t apply early unless you feel very comfortable with your application. Yale and MIT tend to defer a large amount, but Stanford only defers a few.</p></li>
<li><p>The major isn’t as relevant. You just have to have good quantitative ability and great networking. They hire people from all sorts of majors.</p></li>
<li><p>Excellent at all, although I think MIT gets more recruiters than Yale. Stanford gets a good amount, but I don’t think as much as the east coast schools.</p></li>
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<p>I think that, given your field of study, you might do better weighing Stanford and MIT more heavily than Yale. But, given that it’s EA, you can’t really go wrong.</p>
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<li>I think that EA at Stanford has higher yield rates (I was an EA admit), but only by a few percentage points.</li>
<li>I would say that MIT or Yale would be best, based on proximity and the fact that you really cant go wrong with any of these schools, assuming you get in.</li>
<li>I agree with YeloPen, but again, all of these schools get pretty decent recruiting for Wall Street (and for your RD admissions, check out Harvard, especially for what you want to do;))</li>
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