<p>I was recently accepted to both NYU's Stern and Cornell's AEM and I don't know which school to pick.
Cornell is an ivy but its grade deflation may hurt me in the long run.
Stern is #12 ranked and Cornell is #5 for business.
Can someone help me make a decision?</p>
<p>I would choose NYU.</p>
<p>NYU actually has a better business program. Business Week rankings have a lot of flaws. US News rankings are much better because they more accurately reflect where the best faculty want to teach and where the recruiters go to fill their best jobs. This is their overall ranking: [Best</a> Undergraduate Business Programs - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-business]Best”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-business)
and the most popular major at the top programs, finance, is NYU’s specialty: [Undergraduate</a> business specialties: Finance - Best Colleges - Education - US News and World Report](<a href=“http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-finance]Undergraduate”>http://colleges.usnews.rankingsandreviews.com/best-colleges/spec-finance)</p>
<p>I think NYU wouls offer the best interships and opportunities for your major. Cornell seems to grade harder which may hurt you in the long run.</p>
<p>I completely agree with you guys. I just feel a bit silly giving up an ivy. Do you think that really matters?</p>
<p>Definitely Stern. Its not even close IMO. If it was Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Columbia, Wharton and maybe Dartmouth, then I’d go with the ivy, but definitely not in this case.</p>
<p>As it allows student surveys to account for a large portion of its rankings, Businessweek is flawed; NYU Stern just dominates AEM…</p>
<p>A lot of people at top business programs have turned down lower ivies like Cornell. Don’t get hung up on the fact that it’s an ivy. That’s just dumb and you’ll turn into Andy from The Office ;)</p>
<p>what pros does cornell aem have? aside from the ivy name? how is grading in cornell aem?</p>
<p>I really wouldn’t worry too much about Cornell being too hard. I’ve heard the worst competition is mainly just for pre-meds who all want a 4.0 and will do anything to get it, but there is that same group at any university with a good science department. I think the pros to Cornell are obviously the ivy name and maybe the campus if you want it. People often criticize NYU for not having a traditional campus, but Cornell is kind of in the middle of nowhere, so you’re dealing with extremes. Sports and school spirit would be bigger at Cornell as well.</p>
<p>I just want to say I love this site because people are generally very friendly and truly willing to lend a helping hand. Thanks for the help.</p>
<p>Ivy league is really overrated. There are three top schools, 2 great ones, and 3 good ones. Schools like MIT, Stanford, Caltech, Duke, Uchicago are better than Brown, Cornell, and Dartmouth in my opinion.</p>
<p>Not Dartmouth. Better than UPenn (non-Wharton)</p>
<p>If you want Ibanking, you would most likely be better off at Cornell. Although Stern places many into banking in sheer numbers, it is extremely competitive considering 4/5 kids want it. Besides, you will have no problem getting in to banking at cornell if you want it.</p>
<p>Are their any Cornell Aem majors on this thread? If so, can you describe the difficulty of the courses and average gpa.</p>
<p>I agree with post # 13…very good point. EVERYONE at stern is a finance major and wants banking. Very competitive. Some would even call it cut-throat.</p>
<p>I think Stern is the better school but AEM may be better for my career. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>Thanks again :-)</p>
<p>“…its grade deflation may hurt me in the long run.”
“Cornell seems to grade harder which may hurt you in the long run.”</p>
<p>What grade deflation? What is the basis underlying this comment? How do you know it grades harder? Are you guys just saying stuff? Or is there an actual comparison link someplace I can look at.</p>
<p>IIRC Cornell grades are posted someplace, people who’ve looked say that the grades overall are about average. Don’t know about AEM. But you should be able to find that link someplace and look for yourself. Check Cornell subforum.</p>
<p>And what about Stern grades? any links?</p>
<p>Go to Stern. I don’t think anyone from my family HASN’T gone to Stern. They all had investment banking stints as well. Even my cousin who was a pre-med Biology major in CAS lol </p>
<p>The regional loyalty to NYU around New York City is phenomenal.</p>
<p>AEM? I don’t think I have ever even heard of AEM? <em>sarcasm</em> <em>sarcasm</em></p>
<p>“The regional loyalty to NYU around New York City is phenomenal.”</p>
<p>What on earth are you talking about??
There is no “regional loyalty to NYU” whatsoever, that I’ve ever experienced, anyway.</p>
<p>I am an alumnus of both these universities, and I routinely get notice of 6 zillion more alumni activies around NYC from Cornell than from NYU. That’s just NYC, not even mentioning the rest of the country. I’ve been part of active Cornell alumni clubs in two other cities I lived in, but NYU had nothing in either of them.</p>
<p>NYU is too big and fractured, with too little campus-centered identity, to have much school spirit or “regional loyalty”. Such loyalty comes from shared experiences, common bond, initmate, close relationships. All of which are absent there. Because it is too big, and people live all over the place & go all over the place, diluted into a city of millions.</p>
<p>Mostly what I get from NYU is requests to donate to their library, separate and apart from requests to donate to Stern. Just recently I’ve been getting some events, mostly very boring Stern stuff, it palls in relation to what Cornell offers NYC area alumni, not even close.</p>
<p>There certanly was no Stern “regional loyalty” for recruiting at my firm, frankly we didn’t hire there out of undergrad, at the time.</p>
<p>You want to talk about NYC area regional loyalty, Cornell has played BU in hockey at Madison Square Garden twice in the last few years, and both times they sold out the Garden, the only college hockey events that have ever done so. Each time the crowd was 2/3 Cornell fans.</p>
<p>For those of you who aruge that Stern is far better than AEM, why would you say so.
Also, for those of you who said Cornell is better, why?</p>
<p>I literally a few days to decide and would love some extra help.</p>
<p>Thanks</p>
<p>I suggest that, in the event that the analysis you are trying to make will ultimately be inconclusive, and in any event:
you should give substantial consideration to where you would rather be for the next four years.</p>
<p>You can be in the heart of a great city, which has everything imaginable but it is the epitome of “the concrete jungle” and is optimized for working adults with (lots of) money.With a student experience severely comromised by lack of a campus and dilution of students into the city.</p>
<p>Or you can be in a campus-centered situation in a college town, in a small city that is not New York by any reckoning, but what there is, is for and by college students. Surrounded by natural beauty in the environment, but with more exposure to same, for better (Fall Spring, Summer) or for worse (winter).</p>
<p>These are two starkly different collegiate environments, think about where you are likely to be happier, given who you are.</p>
<p>Cornell has the new Dyson School of Applied Economics and Management. Does this make Cornell a better option?</p>