Many Choices, Help Me Choose?

College Search & Selection
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<p>Hello,</p>

<p>I applied to a large number of schools, and now have a handful to choose from. If you would like to help me with that decision with reasoning behind suggestions, or would like to provide things for me to consider, I would certainly appreciate it.</p>

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<p>College -- if in parenthesis, this is their business school and I was accepted to it.</p>

<p>I'm not really sure what I want to do with my life. I think business, probably entrepreneurialship. I may want to study Economics, haven't decided which is better.</p>

<p>I guess I'm leaning toward a public U and a more practical degree like business, but really I am interested in the possibility of Econ. or possibly something else entirely, and am not sure which would be better overall, a more national u vs LAC, biz vs. liberal arts. This is another thing which I would like some advice on.</p>

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<p>Cornell (AEM)
University of Michigan (Not accepted to BBA as freshman)
U. Wash-St. Louis (Olin)
USC (Marshall)
U. of Virginia
NYU (Stern)
Emory (Gozieta)
UCLA
Brandeis
Babson
UCSD</p>

<p>LACs:
Colby
Colgate
Occidental</p>

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<p>Thank you</p>

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<p>Well where do you want to work. If you want to do i-Banking go with Cornell or NYU Stern. </p>

<p>Virginia, WashU, USC, NYU and Cornell all have great business program you can't go worng with either one.</p>

<p>Remove Brandeis, Babson and UCSD from your list.</p>

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<p>Impressive. Nice choices. Are there any financial considerations?</p>

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<p>For the purposes of this discussion, no financial considerations.</p>

<p>Note: U Wash= Wash U. St. Louis</p>

<p>I don't know where I want to work yet, haven't put too much thought into it. I don't know a whole lot about i-banking or if it's for me.</p>

<p>Considering I don't have any specific goals in mind, these are my overall aims:</p>

<ol>
<li>Have a good time in college.</li>
<li>Keep open the eventual oppurtunity for a great grad school.</li>
<li>Learn things that are interesting, that I didn't know.</li>
<li>Open up options for making a lot of money.</li>
<li>Learn business skills for myself for entrepreneurial aims.</li>
<li>Meet interesting and thinking people.</li>
<li>Earn a degree that is well respected for gettign a secure job.</li>
</ol>

<p>Babson is still on my list because they have such good entrepreneurial programs, #1 in the nation(not a lot of competition). But they are a pretty mediocre overall school in comparison so it will probably be off my list.</p>

<p>Brandeis same but I can take Babson classes there at a better overall U, so I am still considering it a little.</p>

<p>UCSD is pretty much off the list.</p>

<p>I think my decision may come down to Umich VS Cornell. Cornell is better overall but Umich has a much better Biz program, it's ranked 3rd I believe, wheras CU is 14th. I think I would value a better overall education though.</p>

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<p>Goto to UM. Some Recruiters dont goto Cornell because its so out of the way.</p>

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<p>I'm not assured into UM business, so that's one thing to consider. If I do go to UM I will work very hard to get into it, and should be able to.</p>

<p>I don't know much about Wash U, some people say it's overrated, can someone compare it to the other schools? I know it is tied with Cornell in biz but slightly higher on overall rankings.</p>

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<p>As far as national and international respect, how is Wash U? Are Cornell and U Mich the only real contenders in this department?</p>

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<p>NYU Stern sounds like the best choice because it has an awesome business school. There is also the possibilty of transferring to another department if you decide business is not your thing. The location is hard to beat for internships. For the same reasons, USC would also be a good choice.</p>

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<p>Id choose Cornell or NYU</p>

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<p>Thanks Pediatric, reasoning behind why would help a lot if you could provide it.</p>

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<p>No UMich for I banking? Also, what's so great about I banking.</p>

<p>Note: I was just accepted to BBA for 2007.</p>

<p>Where do you all think I will get the best overall education and have the most career options open to me?</p>

<p>Thanks</p>

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<p>To update for financial concerns, all of the schools are within about $10k a year differeance, except for babson which is a bit cheaper by about $4k a year than any other.</p>

<p>Is this enough to change anything?</p>

<p>Also I think if people could focus a bit on:</p>

<p>Cornell
Cornell Tradtition + AEM</p>

<p>Versus</p>

<p>University of Michigan + BBA preferred admit + Residential College/Honors</p>

<p>Thanks for your help, I'm stuck a bit</p>

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<p>Cornell or UVA</p>

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<p>Cornell's got an awesome rep for it's program, and of course Stern is Stern...</p>

<p>You have a lot of good options to choose from, figure out where you'd want to be most too.</p>

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<p>I'd go Michigan all the way, Ross is one of the best b-schools, and Ann Arbor is, hands down, the best college town.</p>

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<p>bobbobob,
I hadn't considered UVA, how is it superior than Cornell/UMich? Why does Cornell beat UM in your eyes?</p>

<p>~Money they want me to pay(some are unknown now, or have been eliminated):
Cornell-?
UM-14k
Wash-6k
NYU-27k
UCLA-9k
UVA-6k
Colgate-4k
Colby-4k
Babson-1k</p>

<p>I'll personally be paying the debts probably.</p>

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<p>Hmm...if I had a choice, I would pick NYU Stern over Cornell. Although by going to Cornell, you can put "Ivy League" on your resume.</p>

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<p>Would someone actually put that on their resume?</p>

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<p>Frankie:
Cornell's AEM recruiting is top notch. </p>

<p>IllGo2College:
I'm not telling you to chose Cornell, you have many wonderful choices. I do want to point out a few things about Cornell. Since you are interested in entreneurship, they have a fantastic program. It's called the Cornell Entrepreneur Network (CEN) and it offers courses, workshops and networking opportunities through all seven colleges. Many of the courses are offered in AEM, but you could study in any of the colleges and take advantage of CEN. It's very interesting: <a href="http://epe.cornell.edu/%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://epe.cornell.edu/&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

<p>Also, regarding AEM's ranking in US News - AEM recently became accredited (about 2 years now), although the program has been around in one way or another since the founding of the university. It has only been reviewed twice by US News, and the alumni and the university are quite pleased that it came in so high as a "newbie" in the rankings.</p>

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<p>I would go with WUSTL, UCLA, or UVA. If I were in your own very shoes, the rest would be thrown out. I would chooce UCLA because of the awesome combination of academics/athletics/social life/weather+location/prestige, but that's just me.</p>

<ol>
<li>UVA</li>
<li>WUSTL</li>
</ol>

<p>I neglected to include Cornell since it depends on the aid they give you.</p>