<p>I have been fortunate enough to be admitted to these schools:</p>
<p>Carnegie Mellon Tepper Business
NYU Stern (BPE program)
Dartmouth
Duke (Econ w/ concentration in Finance)</p>
<p>I am interested in pursuing management/financial consulting or something around those lines. I plan on getting an MBA. </p>
<p>Which school seems like the best option and why?</p>
<p>Thanks for the input!</p>
<p>Financial aid/COA for each school? And what state do you currently live in?</p>
<p>Have you visited the schools? What are your thoughts?</p>
<p>Currently living in CA. No financial aid offered by any school except I got a $1,000 scholarship for Stern.</p>
<p>I wouldn’t mind going to any school. The only thing I’m considering at this point is which one would prepare me best for a consulting career and what major I should be doing (ex. Econ w/ statistics double major, etc)</p>
<p>I would pick Dartmouth and then Duke would be my next choice</p>
<p>I think Dartmouth would be the best choice followed by Duke.</p>
<p>Dartmouth > Duke > Stern > Tepper</p>
<p>I would choose the BPE program because you can travel the world and its more selective than either Duke or Dartmouth alone. Also, you will be stuck with studying just ECO at Duke or Dartmouth.</p>
<p>Duke > Dartmouth unless one likes freezing cold weather of Hanover NH.</p>
<p>For purely management consulting recruiting, I would choose Duke followed very closely by Dartmouth. The fact that Duke is considered the strongest school in a region of the country makes it heavily recruited since firms like to recruit the best talent locally.</p>
<p>For the elite of the elite consulting, MBB, dartmouth is the obvious choice here…</p>
<p>Could anyone describe more specifically why Dartmouth is the best choice? Is there a specific program or “thing” about Dartmouth that makes it the best option for MBB recruiting? Thanks!</p>
<p>Which school is stronger for econ?</p>
<p>entodad, don’t listen to high school seniors who have no idea what they are talking about. Go to LinkedIn and do an advanced search on “Associate” at BCG, “Associate Consultant” at Bain, and “Business Analyst” at McKinsey for both “Duke” and “Dartmouth”. You will find that Duke has more recent grads in these positions than Dartmouth grads and is recruited on a national level. Dartmouth is a bit smaller so maybe it all evens out, which is why I still recommend that you choose based on fit.</p>
<p>There are no undergraduate rankings of fields of study but Duke has a top 20 Graduate Economics program while Dartmouth’s isn’t ranked. I can’t comment on what the implications are for students from these schools applying to doctoral programs in Economics however. I imagine academically-oriented Dartmouth grads do just fine in graduate school admissions.</p>
<p>Duke is a much stronger “research university” so I imagine it would be easier to work with a top notch Econometrician or Labor Economist doing cutting edge research than at Dartmouth. Contrary to popular belief, class sizes aren’t smaller at Dartmouth compared to Duke. However, Dartmouth has a much smaller graduate population so faculty may have more time to devote to undergraduates.</p>
<p>I’d definitely go to Duke followed by Dartmouth.</p>
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<p>According to the schedules for spring 2013:</p>
<p><a href=“http://oracle-www.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/timetable.display_courses[/url]”>http://oracle-www.dartmouth.edu/dart/groucho/timetable.display_courses</a>
<a href=“http://soc.siss.duke.edu/psp/CSSOC01/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/DU_SELFSERVICE.DU_SRCH_SUBJ_STAFF.GBL[/url]”>http://soc.siss.duke.edu/psp/CSSOC01/EMPLOYEE/HRMS/c/DU_SELFSERVICE.DU_SRCH_SUBJ_STAFF.GBL</a></p>
<p>Here are the actual enrollments and capacities for various courses:</p>
<p>Introductory economics:
Dartmouth ECON 001: 43/45, 43/45, 13/45, 19/45
Dartmouth ECON 002: 43/45
Duke ECON 101: 139/400</p>
<p>Intermediate microeconomics:
Dartmouth ECON 021: 36/35, 34/35, 26/35, 33/35
Duke ECON 201D: 121/260 with discussions of capacity 20
Duke ECON 205D: 139/152 with discussions of capacity 19</p>
<p>Intermediate macroeconomics:
Dartmouth ECON 022: 27/35, 35/35, 30/35, 33/35
Duke ECON 210D: 81/150 with discussions of capacity 20</p>
<p>Econometrics:
Dartmouth ECON 020: 26/35, 35/35
Duke ECON 208D: 110/140 with discussions of capacity 20</p>
<p>Of course, this does not necessarily mean that Dartmouth is better than Duke for the OP. But if there is concern about class size, it appears that Dartmouth is more like a LAC in this respect, while Duke is more like a typical research university that it is.</p>
<p>I would agree that class sizes are larger in the Economics, Political Science, and Biology departments. Beyond that, most of Duke’s liberal arts majors have like 20-30 graduates a year, seemingly similar to those of Dartmouth.</p>
<p>However, popular courses like economics and general chemistry are more reflective of what students actually experience, since more students take those courses. Besides, the OP wanted to go into banking, so s/he would likely take some economics courses for that purpose.</p>
<p>“Could anyone describe more specifically why Dartmouth is the best choice? Is there a specific program or “thing” about Dartmouth that makes it the best option for MBB recruiting? Thanks!”</p>
<p>Alumni network. Dartmouth has the strongest alumni network in finance (measured holistically by size, strength, and close-nit-ness) of all those schools.</p>
<p>D plan actually works to your advantage for internships while in college. Further, there is the mystique that Dartmouth creates great managers. Exactly why? Something to do with the culture.</p>