USC vs. Northwestern vs. UChicago

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of Southern California
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<p>I got into these schools:
NYU (stern)
UW (honors business)
USC (marshall)
Northwestern
UChicago</p>

<p>However, UW and NYU are out, since I don't want to go to either. So that leaves USC (which I have this unshakeable fondness for), Northwestern and UChicago. I want to major in either finance or economics.</p>

<p>Now if it were down to just internships, it would probably be UChicago hands down. But, I also want a good quality of life, meaning I want to go to school with people who are really friendly and fun-loving. People who may not want to talk about physics and ancient norweigan all the time.</p>

<p>Anyway, it's sunny in LA, and the people there match this description. So my question is:</p>

<p>will the differential between job offerings through marshall and those through nw'ern/uc be so large, that it overrides concern for quality of life? To put it another way, can I still get into I-banking (goldman sachs, lazard, etc.) with Marshall?</p>

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<p>in the usc guidebook I recall they mentioned a lot of people getting into i-banking thru marshall.. but I don't really know myself :o)</p>

<p>oh and-
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164639%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164639&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>Oh wow.. Im was in the same boat NYU-Stern and Chicago (econ), Carnegie-Tepper. I chose USC because of the BEST alumni helping rate, SC is HUGE in California. The campus is HUGE and Marshall is known for its practical business lessons (not all is theory taught by 100 year old professors :)).</p>

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<p>I opted out of Northwestern because they do not offer academic scholarships within the University. USC offers quite a few.</p>

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<p>comparanza,</p>

<p>You may want to check out <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164436%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=164436&lt;/a> to learn more about bussinss/econ related offerings at NU. Even NU doesn't have an undergrad biz program, you can probably still take finance/marketing/management related courses in various places (e.g. organizational management through LOC, financial engineering through management science dept and marketing through Medill).</p>

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<p>I also had to decide USC vs. UChicago. My factors in choosing USC were: 1) weather, 2) academic rigor (USC is hard, but Chicago is insane!), 3) social life, and 4) well, Chicago doesn't have engineering, but that probably doesn't apply to you.</p>

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<p>"I opted out of Northwestern because they do not offer academic scholarships within the University. USC offers quite a few.?</p>

<p>That's wierd. My NU finaid package says that I got a 4k academic scholarship...</p>

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<p>i would go for northwestern...nice campus env, good reputation, top notch education.</p>

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<p>yeah, that is weird, because my uncle used to be the financial aid guy @ NU and he was the one that told me that, in addition to the current financial aid guy...</p>

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<p>I opted out of Northwestern because they do not offer academic scholarships within the University. USC offers quite a few.</p>

<p>Hmmm.. Someone at my school just got a great academic scholarship from NU. Its an awesome school too, ranked much higher than USC except when it comes to the weather.</p>

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<p>maybe they changed their financial aid program. I did write them a long, detailed letter about this when I sent in my decline to enroll thingy.</p>

<p>If you get a good scholarship, by all means consider NU.</p>

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<p>sometimes you can negotiate financial packages...that's what some of the schools allow if you feel yours was inadequate.</p>

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<p>yeah, I tried that but I guess my family was too rich.</p>

<p>Oh well, it's their loss. USC's won me over! =)</p>