ranking from a NYC Perspective

Colleges and Universities A-Z Cornell University
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<p>It's 2018.
You're a 27 year old in a fast-growing, midsized NYC company. You're hiring someone fresh out of college. BA in something. Liberal Arts. A dozen or so resumes come down to you from HR. What schools impress you most and least? Let's keep it simple. You really don't need more details than this.</p>

<p>Rank 'em based on being an East Coaster who isn't looking for engineering, medicine. etc. This is different than US New Rankings</p>

<p>Midd
Vassar
Cornell
Brandeis
Colgate
Ham
Bard
NYU
Oberlin
Kenyon
Skidmore
Rochester
Bucknell
Sarah Lawrence
Delaware Honors
McCauley Honors</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>Okay… without knowing anything else about the resumes, here is who I would hire:</p>

<p>Cornell
Rochester
Middlebury
NYU
Brandeis
Colgate
Vassar
Delaware Honors
Skidmore
Oberlin
Bard
McCauley Honors
Kenyon
Bucknell
Ham
Sarah Lawrence</p>

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<p>Cornell is far above the rest with colgate and NYU coming in second. I haven’t even heard of the other schools…</p>

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<p>I may be missing something obvious here, but where is Columbia?</p>

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<p>Middlebury’s pretty decent too.</p>

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<p>In the Morningside Heights section of Manhattan, where it’s always been :p</p>

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<p>Middlebury
Cornell
NYU
Colgate
Hamilton
Vassar
Rochester
Oberlin
Kenyon
Brandeis
Bucknell
Delaware Honors
Skidmore
Sarah Lawrence
Bard
McCauley Honors</p>

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<p>well middlebury is on CC’s top LAC list, so i’m assuming its pretty good</p>

<p>i guess most of us haven’t heard of many of these because they’re all tiny LACs.</p>

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<p>depends on what job. </p>

<p>chances are the Cornell student is the most well rounded (no bias :P)</p>

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<p>Cornell
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Colgate
Midd
NYU
Vassar
Rochester
Oberlin
Bucknell
Ham
Bard
Kenyon
Brandeis
Sarah Lawrence
Skidmore
Delaware Honors
McCauley Honors</p>

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<p>Cornell first. I would say Colgate, Middlebury, NYU (unless its Stern, which I would put just behind Cornell), Macaulay Honors (Only Hunter and Baruch – pretty hard to get into…harder than NYU in general actually. And from personal experience, some/many are definitely Ivy caliber) would all be second. The others are pretty much on the same level, next to NYU or just slightly below. In my opinion, NYU is a bit overrated and Macaulay Honors (baruch/hunter) is quite underrated.</p>

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<p>Yeah, if it’s Stern at NYU go ahead and put that right up there with Cornell (Stern > AEM, Cornell’s business program).</p>

<p>EDIT: BTW, what is “Ham”? Is that Hamilton? If so, that’s probably just below Colgate and Middlebury as far as LACs go.</p>

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<p>If they ranked this on Gossip Girl, it’d be…</p>

<p>Cornell
NYU
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Everything else
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Sarah Lawrence.</p>

<p>Oh Blair.</p>

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<p>In this order:</p>

<p>Cornell or NYU (Stern) - shall definitely look at both first
Vassar
Colgate
NYU (other than Stern)
Sarah Lawrence
Oberlin
Bucknell</p>

<p>then the rest (in no particular order)</p>

<p>Midd
Brandeis
Ham
Bard
Kenyon
Skidmore
Rochester
Delaware Honors
McCauley Honors</p>

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<p>You put Sarah Lawrence, Bucknell (remember, this isn’t engineering!), and Oberlin above Middlebury? Geez!</p>

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<p>Most people posting on this thread don’t know anything about the top LACs.</p>

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<p>Anyone who graduates from any of the schools on this list with good grades, recommendations, extrac’s, and robust coursework and also interviews well and seems to be a good fit would be a good hiring decision for your company.</p>

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<p>Arcadia is Midd grad. Hardly an unbiased opinion ;)</p>

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<p>That’s not true. Many students that apply to Cornell, Brown, Dartmouth, etc. are also very familiar with and apply to top LAC’s</p>

<p>LACs are filled with kids with rejection letters in hand from the Ivies.</p>

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<p>As is Cornell from the other seven.</p>