<p>Hey Sternies,</p>
<p>As an NYU student myself (CAS),
I'm curious as to why you Sternies would want to leave.
With Wall Street only a couple subway stops away, you guys get ample internship opportunities in financare related areas, and NYU as a school really pushes you guys.
Besides, you guys are often considered the "stars" at our campus.
So, what are your reasons for wanting to leave?</p>
<p>I’m not a Sternie, but I guess they leave for the same reason other NYU transfers leave - they’ve discovered NYU isn’t a good fit for them (academically or socially) and want a different environment. It’s not uncommon for someone to leave a good college - people transfer out of top 50 schools all the time. It doesn’t matter how high the program is ranked if you don’t like it. Plus Stern is pretty competitive, surprising because Business is usually considered an easier major at most colleges (I’ve heard Stern is very hard). </p>
<p>I have a family friend who went from NYU Stern to Cornell AEM. Cornell’s program is ranked higher, but it doesn’t offer all the NY opportunities. Still, he seems happy at his new college.</p>
<p>A lot of people I know at Stern love it there. Other people I know think it’s okay, and they deal, but they really don’t want to be sucked up into the corporate world, learn business exclusively, and go after money, finance, iBanking, etc. Which sums up a lot of business schools. Some of them tell me they wish they could pursue a more well-rounded, liberal arts education and have some more free electives to take random classes that spark their interest. Others just wish they had a campus with more than, say, five trees.</p>
<p>Then again, I don’t know much about Stern. They only gave me 2.5K a year, so I didn’t even bother to go to the open house session!</p>
<p>As good as Stern is, there’s better schools that are even more favored on Wall Street, i.e. HYPSW, MIT, and maybe Penn or Columbia.</p>
<p>Stern is second rate compared to Ivy League schools such as HYP, Wharton, Dartmouth etc in terms of how many students get front office jobs at the top bulge bracket investment banks. Stern gets nowhere near the number of students HYPW get into FO roles in banks like GS, MS etc and some of the top hedge funds and prop shops don’t even recruit at NYU.</p>
<p>Miley…what are you talking about?</p>
<p>He speaks the truth. On wall st. the only thing that matters is prestige. What makes stern even worse off is that 75% of its students are looking to go into finance. Because each BB has an unofficial school quota (to diversify their employee composition) the probability of getting accepted is a lot lower for sternies. However, the close proximity stern is from wall st. and close alumni network mitigates the fierce intra-school competition; but it does not outweigh the vast array of benefits that is received from graduating from a more prestigious school. Also it’s probably a lot easier to get through interviews coming from a non b-school so they won’t drill you on finance stuff (which they have been doing for a living for the past twenty or so years). Instead they’ll probably ask you questions about your major (math, art history, anthropology etc…), which they know little about. The inherent benefits of going to a prestigious school are innumerable and are often unquantifiable so ill stop here.</p>
<p>Oh, and Miley, you forgot Dartmouth =)</p>
<p>“Maybe Penn?” is what I was referring to.</p>
<p>Are you saying Penn is inferior to stern or equivalent to HYPSW</p>