<p>Hey guys I know you are a bunch of smart motherfookas I would appreciate some help with this decision.</p>
<p>I've narrowed down my ED schools to Northwestern and NYU Stern. After reviewing past acceptances from my school and discussing with my counselors I have around a 75% chance for NU and 40% (maybe a bit less) chance for Stern. I most likely won't be receiving financial aid from either school. I plan on going into finance.</p>
<p>If I don't get accepted into Stern I will probably end up attending UMich/UVa or the like and transfer after freshman year. </p>
<p>Would you take the risk with Stern or play it safe with Northwestern? Also does anyone know what NU's ocr for finance is like?</p>
<p>Maybe a lot of students apply to Stern from my school. Anyway I decided to just do Stern and not waste any more mental energy over this. If I get rejected I can still become a rapper.</p>
<p>NU has a Kellogg certificate for undergrads but you want to do it only if you are pretty good at math and don’t mind some intensity (all are grad-level courses).</p>
<p>First, I’d like to add the disclaimer that if a student is having such a hard time choosing between two schools, then they probably shouldn’t be applying ED. ED is supposed to be for students who have a <em>clear</em> top choice school; if there’s a question or a decision to be made, then you don’t really have a clear top choice. But after hearing from our admissions office that 40% of the Columbia freshman class comes from ED admits, I understand the drive to do so.</p>
<p>Personally, I would ED Northwestern if I had to make a choice, and save Stern for grad school. I say personally because I’d want a more traditional college experience that Northwestern could offer; I think NYC is better to be a graduate student in than an undergrad (I’m studying here now as a grad student). If you are borderline to Northwestern you are also more likely to get tipped in by ED than if you are far below NYU’s standards for undergrads. Also, on the off chance that you decide to change your major, Northwestern will make it easier to do so than NYU, where you’ll have to transfer schools.</p>
<p>But Stern is closer to finance internships that you can do during term-time (instead of competing with the flocks of summer interns that come to NYC).</p>
<p>I would say Stern is more ideal than NU for NYC finance jobs at the undergraduate level but whoever thinks that Stern is better than Kellogg has no idea what he’s thinking. Kellogg used to be a top 3 business school but is still considered a top 7.</p>
<p>Northwestern is much better school overall and in terms of college experience you have Chicago, Evanston, Big 10 sports, Lake Michigan right on campus.</p>