<p>Hey guys, I'm an international transfer.</p>
<p>I got accpeted to Tulane and Wake Forest, I want to study finance, I know that Tulane has a superb finance program, and what's more important, Tulane gives me a renewable $10,000 scholarship, while WFU is also reputable for its finance and accounting programs, it accepted me with no aids/loans, so which school should I choose? Being an international, I virtually don't have the chance to visit either of the schools, so your advices are important to me, THANK YOU in advance!!</p>
<p>In the meantime, I got wait listed to Duke and NYU-Stern, good luck to myself!!</p>
<p>Tulane and Wake have very, VERY different campus/city environments. I think either would provide an outstanding education for you, so academics aren’t the issue. At this point, I’d be focusing on the “fit” from a cultural perspective. Very different cities, very different campus environments.</p>
<p>It would be worth your time to explore in depth the information on this board and elsewhere about the 2 and their differences. Then see if you can determine which might be the best place for you from a standpoint beyond academics. One of them will surely seem like the right fit more than the other.</p>
<p>curiouser: Thank you very much for your input!!</p>
<p>I’m just off the wait list to NYU-Stern, since I’m a Finance major, so I’ll very much likely have no other choice but to turn down Wake Forest and Tulane. But I really wish I could visit these two schools one day as I’ve done a lot of search on them.</p>
<p>Wake Forest’s Business program was ranked the #1 academic quality by Business Week this year. The CPA Pass rate for Accountant’s is always in the top few if not #1. Tulane is a good school too, but I’m not that familiar for it.<br>
[The</a> Top Undergraduate Business Programs](<a href=“http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool_2009/]The”>http://bwnt.businessweek.com/interactive_reports/undergrad_bschool_2009/)</p>
<p>Just FYI. Wake is a lot cheaper too to live in (NYC is expensive) and Charlotte is a huge financial center.</p>
<p>I would love to know how they come up with these undergrad program rankings by department. This is in no way to defend Tulane or disparage Wake. Far from it. I just cannot for the life of me know how anyone could measure something like that in any meaningful way. Having said that, there is so much more to undergrad life than one’s major and its department, that it would not be a good reason to pick a school anyway. Sure it is good to know that the major you intend most likely doesn’t suck there, but so what if the school is ranked #1 in that area, but the campus is totally urban and you want rural or vice-versa? Or it is at a huge state school and you hate that? Not picking on you at all, willmingtonwave. Just one of my general rants at a pet peeve. I am far more picking on Business Week, USNWR, and all the others that do this nonsense. Obviously, though, Wake students and alums love it, and why not?</p>
<p>Well, it is based on empirical data. Certainly things, I will give you are complete and utter ********. However, Wake Forest is hurt by a lot of these such as the student survey rank. Academic quality, salaries, SATs, ratios, etc. can not really be argued. Business Week does a better job of evaluating undergraduate business schools than USNWR does anyway. It isn’t used to be an end-all for choosing a school, it is more of a guideline and used for researching schools, that is all. Certain things like the CPA pass rate is legit. The national pass rate is 9%, Wake Forest’s is 83%. You are taking these rankings too literally.</p>
<p>willmington - I don’t take them literally at all, I think they are by and large trash when it comes to helping undergrads. The issue is that a huge number of parents that are not very tuned into the whole picture and also quite a few students think the rankings are meaningful and Godlike. I have no problem with posting the hard stats you mention and using those as part of the decision, but the rankings don’t use just those factors.</p>
<p>It is nice that BW and the others state that their rankings should only be “guidelines” and “one factor of many” that should be used in choosing a school. The problem is that they do in fact take on far more importance than they should. It will always be so. Like I said, Wake is a great school and I have no issue with it in particular at all. Just my general rant about something I really have an issue with.</p>
<p>I do agree that people are way too rankings obsessed. People should choose more upon fit. However, the academic rigor of an institution can certainly be reinforced by these rankings, because many of us want to go to the most competitive school possible, however that should be secondary to fit.</p>