<p>I've been accepted to both and want to go into i-banking. I realize both are phenomenal schools but which positions me best career-wise? Also, if someone could go down the Pros and Cons of each, that would be helpful.</p>
<p>Cornell University</p>
<p>Cornell AEM hands down for jobs!</p>
<p>Why is Cornell hands down for jobs: because it’s more practical/useful rather than the more theoretical/academic route of UChicago?</p>
<p>Any other opinions? I will be visiting both universities in April. What types of questions should I ask with specificity to this?</p>
<p>Cornell just has a stronger recruiting pipeline for investment banking than Chicago does and AEM is the premier hunting ground at Cornell. If you work hard at Chicago though, you should be fine so consider fit unless you like both equally and only care about where you"ll have the most opportunities.</p>
<p>Employers don’t care about the graduate rankings of economics programs; all they care about is recruiting where the smartest kids go and pleasing their current employees by recruiting at their alma maters.</p>
<p>Cornell’s alumni base on Wall Street is one of the best.</p>
<p>I appreciate your input goldenboy!</p>
<p>From what I can garner, you’re saying it’d be easier for me to get into the i-banking system via Cornell, whereas I could still do it from Chicago, but it’d be significantly harder, correct?</p>
<p>Also, you mention that AEM is “the premier hunting ground at Cornell” but what about relative to the other Ivies + top schools; how does recruiting at Cornell’s AEM compare to the competition?</p>
<p>Here’s how I would rank the Ivies and the top universities in terms of investment banking and management consulting recruitment calipe:</p>
<p>Tier 1
Harvard and Wharton</p>
<p>Tier 1.5
Yale, Princeton, and Stanford</p>
<p>Tier 2
Columbia, Cornell AEM, Dartmouth, Duke, Penn CAS, MIT (Sloan), and Williams</p>
<p>Tier 2.5
Northwestern, Amherst, Middlebury, UCB Haas, and NYU Stern</p>
<p>Tier 3
Georgetown McDonough, Michigan Ross, Claremont Consortium University of Chicago and UVA McIntire</p>
<p>Tier 3.5
UT-Austin McCombs, Emory Goizueta, UCLA, USC Marshall, and Vanderbilt</p>
<p>Any school not listed here will give you a minuscule or nonexistent chance at breaking into IBD and Management Consulting. This includes JHU and Rice unfortunately.</p>
<p>You have been very helpful goldenboy. I love both UChicago and Cornell and feel that I could “fit” into the culture of either, but as of now I’m leaning Cornell - considerably. </p>
<p>Once again, thanks!</p>