<p>Hey Guys,</p>
<p>I am a transfer student from UIUC Business and I am accepted at both programs.</p>
<p>I am interested in either Investment Banking or Management Consulting. Currently, I am interning at an IB.</p>
<p>Which school is better in terms of academics and career opportunities?</p>
<p>"I am interested in either Investment Banking or Management Consulting."</p>
<p>-You and everybody else... :rolleyes:</p>
<p>more of the top consulting firms recruit at northwestern
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=235587&highlight=consulting+core%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=235587&highlight=consulting+core</a></p>
<p>pretty useless in the long run though, more important is which you like more/will get better grades/get more involved at</p>
<p>i would say Cornell Econ = Northwestern Econ</p>
<p>Northwestern Econ >>> Cornell AEM</p>
<p>AEM could be the biggest joke major at Cornell, everyone there in that program flies through it. idk...</p>
<p>bumpppppppppppppppppppppppp</p>
<p>what were your stats just by curiosity?</p>
<p>Columbiahopeful!, has no idea what he is talking about.</p>
<p>I say go with Cornell AEM. Even if it is an "alleged" easy program recruiters dont give a sh&t they take plenty of AEM grads every year. Northwestern is a great school for Consulting and places plenty of grads at top consulting firms...Ibanking? not so much. I go to NYU Stern and I have done internships at a HF and MS and never met a Northwestern grad on Wall Street. Not saying they dont get recruited but not as much as a Northwestern grad seeking a career in ibanking would like. On the other hand all the top consulting firms recruit at Cornell and you can expect to see all the BB's. </p>
<p>Cornell AEM is a safer bet if you are torn between both professions.</p>
<p>^This is an old thread! He's now a Wildcat. By the way, the OP just got a summer internship offer from GS, IBD at NYC as a northwestern student. So much for coming to NU board telling people they don't get much recruited...</p>
<p>Columbiahopeful didn't say AEM wasn't heavily recruited either. But what he said is probably true, considering bunch of their classes do have A- or even A as the median grade.</p>
<p>One more thing: we don't know how well the first graduating class of Kellogg cert will do yet. It will be interesting to see. The huge difference in prereqs suggest Kellogg cert is a much more rigorous program (AEM requires only one semester of calculus).</p>
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I go to NYU Stern and I have done internships at a HF and MS and never met a Northwestern grad on Wall Street. Not saying they dont get recruited but not as much as a Northwestern grad seeking a career in ibanking would like.
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<p>maybe that's because not all ibanking jobs are in new york... of course cornell is going to have more grads in new york. guess what? i've never seen a cornell grad in chicago...</p>
<p>"ve never seen a cornell grad in chicago..."</p>
<p>Your thread history suggests that you have never worked in banking..So idk what you are talking about.</p>
<p>"This is an old thread! He's now a Wildcat. By the way, the OP just got a summer internship offer from GS, IBD at NYC as a northwestern student. So much for coming to NU board telling people they don't get much recruited..."</p>
<p>Well he went through SEO...</p>
<p><a href="http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/students/Internship_Directory.pdf%5B/url%5D">http://www.mmss.northwestern.edu/students/Internship_Directory.pdf</a> shows five MMSS students got summer internship at GS in the past 3 years. Keep in mind MMSS has only 40 students each year and usually half go to grad school.</p>
<p>Just to point out that not all people post in the MMSS directory, so that's only a limited sample.</p>
<p>to be honest though, NU doesn't do as well in i-banking as some of its east-coast peers do. It does a lot better (comparatively speaking) with consulting. And btw, Stern does absolutely amazing in i-banking placement. I have a few friends that have attended and they had great opportunities. I think that NU's low placement in i-banking has more to do with NU's student body than anything else. I get the feeling that many of the students that attend would either rather do management consulting or would rather stay in the chicago area and work for an investment banking....</p>
<p>yeah most people i know who have taken finance jobs have taken them in chicago, no one really goes to new york</p>
<p>.....lol.....</p>