<p>I am trying to decide between University Of Michigan-Ross School of Business, New York University-Stern School of Business, University of Southern California-Marshall School of Business, and Boston College-Carroll School of Management. I am accepted into all of these undergraduate business programs. For a specific major, I am undecided. I am from outside of Los angeles, so USC is the convenient choice for the high school transition, but lacks the undergrad b-school prestige of the other 3 schools, although it is more prestigious as an entire university. The cost is not an issue because it is about the same at every school. Please give me help on where to choose, taking into account business school opportunities, quality of life, recruitment, grad school admissions, etc. AS well as overall university experience.</p>
<p>Well, I first have to say – those other places are COLD! You do have to ask yourself if you’d be able to handle the extreme weather being from Southern California. (It’s a real thing to consider and became a huge reason why I turned down all the East Coast schools that accepted me.)</p>
<p>I was under the impression that Marshall was prestigious???</p>
<p>Grad school admissions would be pretty much the same if you went to any of these schools; grad school has more to do with your GPA, GRE and recs than it does your school ranking. (Except, of course, if you went to a college that wasn’t well known or highly regarded…moot for all of these schools, obviously.)</p>
<p>As far as quality of life…I’ve been to NYU and BC when I was a HS senior and had friends who attended the schools. Can’t provide first hand knowledge of UMich – but you should consider the sizes of the schools and the programs, as well as their settings.</p>
<p>UMich is a very large public school. Contrast that to BC, which is a very small Catholic college. </p>
<p>NYU is also quite large, probably the same student body size as UMich, but lacks a centralized “campus” and doesn’t quite give you that “college experience.” It does take a certain kind of student to go to NYU; you have to be really independent and “cut out” for life in NYC. Your classes will be spread throughout the city, in some cases.</p>
<p>USC is larger than BC, but smaller than UMich and NYU. It has a centralized, closed-off campus and does allow you to have the “college experience,” just like UMich and BC. </p>
<p>Going off the cities of each school, you’d have the best internship/job opportunities at USC, NYU or BC, given that they are in very large, urban areas.</p>
<p>That’s all the advice I can give. You really have to ask yourself what you want out of your time in college and what sort of environment you want to be in. Visit the campuses if you haven’t already. If you want to go off school rankings, I’d say go to USC – but you really just need to ask yourself where you would be happiest and where you woulf get the most out of your education.</p>