HELP: Now I'm in, Cornell or NYU-Stern?

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<p>Hey guys,</p>

<p>I'm an international student transferring from a foreign school.</p>

<p>I have been accepted to several schools, but Cornell and NYU are on the top of the list, and I'm making a hard decision as to which school to attend for Fall 2009.</p>

<p>I'm a Finance major, accepted to Cornell-AEM program and NYU-Stern School of Business. I have visited both schools, I love both of the campus.</p>

<p>Both of the Finance programs are competitive and challenging.</p>

<p>So, I don't know which one to choose now, I understand that 'a fit' is the most important factor on choosing a school, so I need some suggestions from you guys on what these two schools really are despite all the rankings and money issues. maybe you will have many valuable new insights for me!!</p>

<p>Thank you in advance!!</p>

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<p>definitely Cornell</p>

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<p>If you are going into Finance, and want to be an investment banker like many students in the business majors, then NYU Stern is your best option. I mean, it is really a battle between Ithaca and NYC, and honestly, there really is no competition as NYC is one the world’s best cities in terms of the number of opportunities. Honestly, being an international, I would feel as though you would feel much more comfortable being in a city. For finance, hands down NYU Stern tops the charts. I don’t even think AEM is very prestigious. Half of Cornell is a SUNY anyway.</p>

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<p>Cornell is a campus-based experience, in a college town.</p>

<p>NYU has essentially no campus, dorms are not all near the campus, you are essentially just living in NYC like the zillions of other people. On the one hand, NYC is a great place (if you have lots of $$ and a phony ID), on the other hand, you will not necessarily have the same connection with your school or your fellow students.</p>

<p>I personally feel that Cornell is a better place to attend college for one’s undergrad years. It has a better sense of community, IMO.</p>

<p>FWIW, I have degrees from both these schools.</p>

<p>However I don’t know what the undergrad business programs at each are like, or offer one.</p>

<p>BTW, there are plenty of internationals at Cornell.</p>

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<p>Oh good job NuclearPakistan, you have no idea what the hell you are talking about, congratulations!</p>

<p>Don’t listen to that bulls**t, they are both great programs. AEM accepts 12% of applicants and is the #8 business program in the nation as ranked by Businessweek (it was 3 or 4 last year). So yeah, I guess it isn’t prestigious. And what are you talking about NukePakistan, Cornell has one of the highest ranked finance departments in the nation!? Location doesn’t matter, not every school can be located in NYC and Cornell is a better overall school anyway. That said, NYU Stern is also a great program, I’d say there are about on the same level (maybe a slight edge to AEM). Don’t listen to inane comments.</p>

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<p>The other thing is, as an alumnus of NYU you will have not only your college hitting you up for money every year, but also the NYU library will be hitting you up for money, separately. It’s the most peculiar thing, and it’s really annoying.</p>

<p>And Cornell has much superior, and more frequent alumni functions, NYU has virtually nothing. There have been Cornell alumni groups everyplace I’ve lived, NYU again nothing. You’d think NYC at least, but I never hear of/from it even here.</p>

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<p>CORNELL isn’t half suny!!! I don’t know why people keep saying that, its ignorant.</p>

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<p>Yeah, I keep on getting these emails about events for Cornell alumni. I would go to them but I’m busy most of the time.</p>

<p>I wouldn’t worry about getting a job from Cornell. At least when I was there, a lot of recruiters came to Cornell to interview students. Plus, it’s close enough (about 4-5 hours one way) that you could go down to NYC like once a month. If you take the Shortline, it’s about 40 bucks one way.</p>

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<p>NuclearPakistan1, you have no idea what the heck you are talking about! I am sorry, but your posting provides inaccurate information. AEM and the Stern school of business are both extremely competitive and according to recent BusinessWeek rankings, AEM is 8th in the nation while Stern is ranked 15th–<a href=“Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg”>Bloomberg Businessweek - Bloomberg;

<p>I am not a major fan of rankings; however, it is important to document certain claims and especially point out those that may seem false.</p>

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<p>i feel like at cornell you have more options. but NYC might be more convenient in terms of flights back home and access to wall street. </p>

<p>i feel like the people at cornell who go on to work in Ibanking already have NYC/long island connections…</p>

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<p>It ultimately comes down to how much you enjoy NYC. I personally despise big cities, but that’s just me.</p>

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<p>Actually one can enjoy NYC a great deal, yet dlslike the experience of being a student there, among the amorphous, anonymous masses, vs. making the student journey in the company of a defined cohort of fellow students at an actual campus. In fact I know someone who loves NYC yet has come to just such conclusion.</p>

<p>Years later, when you are working in NYC or the like, it’s nice to be able to look back fondly on your student days as a separate, unique experience. As opposed to more of the same as what you are doing now, just another day at work in NYC, with all of it blurring together.</p>

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<p>OP: “I love both of the campus[es]”</p>

<p>LOL, as if NYU has a campus.</p>

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<p>^LOL. I was thinking the same thing.</p>

<p>Plus, OP needs to realize that AEM hasn’t been accredited for that long, like 3 years or so? The fact that it’s still highly ranked really says something. </p>

<p>Plus, Cornell is NOT half SUNY. I don’t know where people keep getting that…</p>

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<p>Ignorant people can be thrown off by Cornell’s unique agreement with the state of New York: its contract colleges.</p>

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<p>When I say campuses, I was just referring to the place where the schools are. Then I realized when I saw Epaminondas’s post that NYU really doens’t have a campus. lol. But I’m kind of feeling bored staying in a remote college town with less connections, like my current univ. so I was thinking about a change.</p>

<p>And no doubt, AEM and Stern are all great programs, absolutely!!!But it’s just a matter of undergrad experience and future potential.</p>

<p>The major concern for me is that being somewhat away from big cities, do AEMers have many hands-ons? Which I think is of essential to business studies…</p>

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<p>I don’t think you get hands-ons at NYU either during the semester, when you’ll probably busy studying.</p>

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<p>People usually do their internships in the summer. There are a lot of projects going on in Cornell during the school year, but obviously not as much as NYC.</p>

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<p>cornell is a great school</p>

<p>However if u want to do decide purely based on which school has a better business program and its links then its gotta be Stern</p>

<p>I might be a little biased here…u can get a great job through both schools</p>

<p>But really…shed aside the fact that cornell is an ‘ivy league’ (w/e that means , MIT & stanford are not ivy leagues but they own any ivy league in terms of engineering) and then ask urself. Since ur international like me ur prolly thinking in ur head “if i got to cornell i can tell ppl im in the ivy league!” which is great and all but practically that doesnt really mean much if u get what im saying.</p>

<p>U mentioned ur a finance major. U prolly DO know then stern has arguably or unarguably the best dept. and location for finance in the country. Though Im sure cornell AEM has a good dept. too, its not stern and its not nyc.</p>

<p>Having said that will u like a campus? or will u not? I always thought id love a campus and i spent a year in one and i loved it. But lilving in the city is fun too. It really depends on the person YOU are. Im the kind of person who will adjust in most places someway so it wasnt much of a big factor for me. Plus I LOVE exploring and roaming around so the city will be a good place to do that for me. </p>

<p>“Plus, OP needs to realize that AEM hasn’t been accredited for that long, like 3 years or so? The fact that it’s still highly ranked really says something.”</p>

<p>Highly rated by who? Business week? the same publication who says recruiters have a higher regard for BYU bschool students than MIT sloan students??? Pffff…</p>

<p>“That said, NYU Stern is also a great program, I’d say there are about on the same level (maybe a slight edge to AEM).”</p>

<p>Slight edge to AEM coz? Its a newer program? its not accredited yet? </p>

<p>Yea my whole post is biased towards stern lol coz for some reason i could only go to 1 school as my transfer school (as anyone else) and i chose stern and those were MY reasons for not choosing cornell</p>

<p>I hope somebody will come up and state his reasons for not going to stern in place of cornell OTHER THAN cornell being an ivy league (also known as a ‘lower ivy’)</p>

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<p>I’m an AEM transfer and know 4 students who transferred from Stern to AEM last year. They all seem to be enjoying AEM classes more because they are not as cut throat and much more group oriented. They also said how Cornell is a much better community and they really like the student body and social life more. </p>

<p>In terms of finance jobs, Cornell has Cornell Days at all of the financial firms in NYC and they recruit at Cornell, and students have a lot of opportunities to get internships. but NYU seems to get a lot of students in internships because of the location and that everyone at stern wants a Wall Street job while AEM students are much more diverse (many students are interested in Agribusiness, marketing, etc .)</p>