<p>Too bad there arent target online schools with OCR</p>
<p>Without joking, I think bearcats should have gone to Wharton. Oh well, no use crying over spilled milk…he will still get a degree from an elite university and he will land a job with a good company.</p>
<p>^^ bearcats can always go to HYS + Wharton for graduate school (assuming he wants a MBA). Ditto on the job prospects based on his family connections.</p>
<p>Somehow, I think once Bearcats is settled into his career, he will look back on his undergrad experience more favorably than he sees it now. We don’t always appreciate the moment until it has passed.</p>
<p>To the OP, both schools are great and will open doors. At the end of the day, you need to think about traditional college experience vs. NYC.</p>
<p>Thanks for the interesting points guys!</p>
<p>I have visited both schools, but I didn’t get to have an official tour of NYU. My cousin currently goes there though so I had some idea already. I go to a large public school right now with a very football/sports centric environment - it’s not something I mind, but I don’t really care for it either. I think I like the independence of that NYU has to offer but I just dislike the fact that there is no true campus not so much the avid football/frat party scene that’s missing. </p>
<p>NYU is expensive no doubt, but I am out of state for UMich too and I haven’t recieved much aid. Right now, I am leaning toward Stern. I have to recieve my fin aid package…I am hoping for some merit scholarships but we’ll see I guess.</p>
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<p>Yes, I am well aware of the existence of and the logic behind alternate superdays, which is why I said they are “basically” only on Fridays (fyi, I did not only have final rounds on Fridays). The point is that, not surprisingly, you are illustrating the perspective of an outlier. Most people are “lucky” and don’t make it to over ten superdays. I’m not saying your comments aren’t worth acknowledging, but people must realize that such a scenario is not even close to the norm. Even if the rare Ross student had to endure missing several classes over the course of a few weeks, their professors will be much more understanding than engineering professors, as they know their kids are in Ross to get a job.</p>
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<p>Yes, this is absolutely where we differ. I really did not become very professionally-oriented until sophomore (last) year, but I’m still glad I chose Michigan over a few higher ranked schools. I wanted a good social scene, I wanted to be able to rage on football Saturdays, and I wanted a very diverse collection of people with which to make friends, while still receiving a pretty solid education/degrees. Having such a strong professional drive can be good, but it can cause you to miss out on a lot, as evidenced by you viewing yourself as having, apparently mistakenly in your eyes, “bought into” the “mythical idea” that college culture is important and that you don’t care how your life is during college. I’ll leave my grad school education to be entirely career-focused, because having a good college life is definitely important to me (and I’m still doing alright for myself thus far).</p>
<p>So you regret foregoing a business program? Shucks, and here I was thinking you were in the camp of people who believed one shouldn’t be receiving a professional degree (excluding engin) during his undergrad education.</p>
<p>By the way, if you don’t mind, how’d Jane Street go? (You can PM me.)</p>
<p>“So you regret foregoing a business program? Shucks, and here I was thinking you were in the camp of people who believed one shouldn’t be receiving a professional degree (excluding engin) during his undergrad education.”</p>
<p>Well Wharton is Wharton after all and maybe worth the exception. I do not believe Ross would give me any additional opportunity over engineering right now, and in that case, it’s not worth going to a “trade school”. However, Wharton would open more doors than basically everywhere else, so it might be worth it.</p>
<p>"By the way, if you don’t mind, how’d Jane Street go? "
It was longer than the typical first round -> superday process. I had 2 rounds before the superday. Made it to the final round where you had interviews and then basically you play a stupid poker game. Didnt get an offer. It was the hardest interview by far. The only comparable ones are DRW and SIG. I am still doing the SIG final round next week just for the heck of it because I am relatively free now now that general recruiting is over and I like to solve brainteasers.</p>
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<p>That’s valid.</p>
<p>I didn’t go for trading interviews (although I probably should have, definitely would have been easier to get those interviews than banking ones given my background, just don’t know what I want to do down the road and the only exit opp from trading is more trading), but Jane Street is definitely considered one of the hardest places at which to interview from my understanding. Props on making it to final rounds. I remember you saying you were going to renege on an offer for another firm? Did you end up doing that? Make sure whoever you’re currently signed with doesn’t find out you’re interviewing around for fun.</p>