Thanks!
What are your stats? GPA and test scores?
@OnTheBubble Im just curious what the tier 1 undergraduate business schools are 
Wharton, Notre Dame, NYU, Boston College, Washington University, Carnegie Mellon, Wake Forest, Villanova, Bucknell, Emory, Lehigh, Babson, Northeastern, Cornell, UVA, Michigan, BYU,Richmond, Georgetown, among others.
Admission to the business school will require stats above to well above the average of each school. If you apply to a top one that is a state school but you are out of state you have to be a superstar.
@OnTheBubble Thx! I got into NYU Stern and Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business. Which one do you think is better :)?
To be honest I would go to CMU.
@onthebubble Alright cool, that is what I’m leaning towards also. I forgot to say I also got into UT Austin BHP and UCLA, do you think CMU is better :)?
CMU has an overall sterling reputation as a school and you will like Pittsburgh.
@onthebubble alright thx! CMU class of 2020 :D!
In terms of getting the best jobs I would characterize the following the follow tiers:
Tier 1:UPenn Wharton, NYU Stern, UMich Ross, Berkeley Haas, & Cornell AEM
Tier 1.5: Notre Dame Mendoza, GTown McDonough, UVA McIntire, MIT Sloan
Tier 2: BC Carroll, Indiana Kelley, CMU Tepper, Wash U Olin, UT Austin, USC Marshall
Stern is 5th (undergraduate, business) in the country according to USNWR. Tepper is 7th, tied with McCombs.
@merc81 I’m having a slight dilemma. I know Stern is higher ranked and has better job prospects, but I’m scared the environment will be too stressful for me.
@yoyohi: There’s nothing wrong with laying back a little elsewhere. Those rankings highlight similarity more than difference in any event. However, the last I read, NYC is the safest big city in the country. That probably should be noted.
@merc81 do you think it would be a bad decision to choose Carnegie over NYU?
@yoyohi: As long as you have looked closely at both schools, not all.
The difference in ranking from 5 to 7 is minor; either would have great job prospects.
Sure both schools will provide great opportunities. The reason Stern is such a great school is not necessarily it’s ranking; it’s the combination of everything combined with its location in NYC.
When you are in the city you are trying to find a job in for 4 years doing internships and constantly meeting people in your field, it helps immensely.
The business school landscape and hiring patterns have changed dramatically. NYU is not the school it was in 1986 and jobs in finance have moved all over the country now. Traditional investment banking is a dying business. In 1986 the Securities Industry Association directory had thousands of brokers and investment banks listed. They are all gone. Over the next few years all the foreign banks will shut down their investment banking units.
Post #9 is just fiction. There is no such thing as a best jobs.
Business Week polls not only univ, students but also employers so considered a well balanced survey.
Carnegie Mellon Tepper School of Business
awesome school
in an awesome city