<p>I currently got admissions from NYU and Tufts.
And I want to major in Economics, later MBA or Law school.</p>
<p>Which would be better choice for me to be prepared, after 4 years of studies, to get into Harvard Business school or other prestigious MBAs. Which would be a better choice for me to get good grades and be helpful academically? (forget about student life and etc.)</p>
<p>I love the metropolitan ambience of NY city, and numerous job opports.,
but I think Boston also has, to some extent, urban feelings and chances to experience my field ahead of graduation. I heard 98% of Tuftonians, successfully move on to other graduate schools, unlike students at NYU.</p>
<p>Expenses are similar(I am sure about this, looked up thoroughly).</p>
<p>Which would be better, to transfer (during undergrade) to Ivys, or to move on to brilliant MBAs? or Laws schools?</p>
<p>Just to clarify - were you accepted to NYU's arts and sciences, or the Stern School of Business? If A&S, but you have an interest in business, you could try matriculating at NYU and transferring to Stern. Tufts doesn't have a business program, for the record.</p>
<p>And also, as has been discussed to death on another thread recently, Tufts is not in Boston. If you are a fan of the "metropolitan ambience," you won't find it on the Tufts campus, it's like a 20-minute trip away.</p>
<p>As far as grad school statistics, I could be wrong about this, but it's possible that since NYU is so much bigger than Tufts and attracts different kinds of students, not all of them even want to go to grad school. I would think that an NYU student that has demonstrated good academics and an interest in graduate school should have no problem getting into a graduate program. But I don't know which one is "better" for MBAs - I know that lots of Tufts students go on to receive MBAs, and as I said, we don't have a business program.</p>
<p>I don't know about NYU's Econ department, but Tufts has a decent Econ program. I'm and Econ major and there are lots of things I like about it and a few I don't like.</p>
<p>I hope this has helped a little, and that others can maybe weigh in too.</p>
<p>I was accepted to NYU CAS, not Stern.
But I don;t have plans to study business during undergrate.</p>
<p>I want to study politics, IR or Econ, or Interdisciplinary studies, and then move on to MBA or Law schools during graduate.</p>
<p>I dont care much about the "metropolit..", I was just curious.
I believe there are tons of things to enjoy even on Tufts campus too.</p>
<p>So~ would it be a better choice for me to enroll for Tufts~?and go to big MBA, Laws?, But wouldn't it be a little bit more challenging for me to get good grades, compared to academics at NYU?></p>
<p>How about the Financial aids? For int. students? Im from Asia</p>
<p>I was in your situation when I came to Tufts.. I am a Junior, majoring in Economics.. the department is very good, but ultimately it is what you make of it.. I didnt want to be in NYC for college, but I do want to work there..</p>
<p>Tufts is the better school.. no matter where you go to, you cannot get into a top MBA without work experience, so you have to work a few years after grad... you could go to a top law school after graduating though.. and it would be more challenging to get good grades at Tufts, but it is the more reputable school..</p>
<p>I dont know about transfer rates for Ivies, but I am sure it is very hard.. you must have an excellent reason in order to transfer, otherwise it would be very difficult to transfer from a top school such as Tufts..</p>
<p>If you want to go to law school, I would recommend not coming to Tufts. </p>
<p>I'm currently a freshman majoring in economics and planning to go to law school, and am pretty unhappy with Tufts.</p>
<p>I was in the same situation as you last year, trying to decide between NYU and Tufts. I decided on Tufts because I received significantly more financial aid than I did for NYU, but now I'm regretting it very much. Although I am pretty biased because NYU was my first choice school. </p>
<p>The pre-law resources at Tufts are pretty non-existent. The pre-law adviser doesn't even help students (or at least me) and will refer you instead to career services if you try to meet with her. The pre-law society is also pretty non existent, and very few law schools come to Tufts to recruit. There were only two this year - Columbia and UConn. In general, prelaw students at Tufts have ridiculously few resources. </p>
<p>Economics at Tufts is just alright. There's nothing special about it. </p>
<p>Basically what it comes down to is what kind of environment do you excel in?
A fast paced competitive school like NYU or a slow and steady one like Tufts.</p>
<p>I'm sorry to hear about your experiences with law at Tufts. I haven't had as bad a time - I just met with one of the pre-law deans on Friday and she gave me some really good advice on whether graduating in December or doing an internship in the fall and graduating in the spring would be better for law school apps. She gave me a little handbook that had some practice LSAT stuff, and advice on the personal statement. And I've gone to info sessions about finding law-related internships, and law school panels for Georgetown, UMich and UVA in addition to the Columbia ones. They weren't really recruiting, they were just answering questions about the application process. Law Day on the Hill was really cool, a bunch of Tufts law students and law admissions and financial aid came to do panels and answer questions, and afterwards I got to chat with a bunch of Tufts lawyer alumni and got good advice on my summer job search.</p>
<p>But of course, I can't really talk until I'm holding an acceptance letter to Columbia or NYU law. But I've had pretty good experiences with Tufts' law-related resources.</p>
<p>Oh and by the way, my post is not to suggest that kinly's experience is an anomaly. It's possible that many other students are similarly dissatisfied with law resources here, but I was just showing that there are at least two possible opinions on the subject.</p>
<p>As most lawyers will tell you ( I'm a retired lawyer) and law schools will confirm, there is no "pre law". Consequently, don't feel slighted at lack of "pre law counseling" or "pre law curriculum". Law schools don't care what courses you take so long as you do well in GPA and on the LSAT and will not turn up their nose at either NYU or Tufts.</p>