What is NYU Stern really like?

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I am applying ED to Stern and keep hearing things about the competitiveness of Stern. Can anyone tell me their opinion of the school? I like a challenge, but I also am concerned about being miserable if the school is full of snakes. Thanks!

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Hey! I read that about Stern too but I have an acquaintance who just graduated from Stern and started working and she has all great things to say about Stern.

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Thanks for sharing your experience. I did read about this and hence I asked this acquaintance of mine about it but she was all praises about Stern. This confuses me so much. Anyway, doesn’t everyone get recruited anyway? Why the cutthroat competition?

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I think I would fit in at Stern; I am very competitive and my dream is to be an IB. However, I’m not rich and I don’t have any connections. Do you think someone like me who just works their ass off will be at a disadvantage? I’m worried about not even having a fighting chance if everyone there bought their way in and has a ton of connections already. That being said, do you think there are any business schools you would have preferred attending?

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Junior at Stern here - you don’t have to be rich and have connections. Stern’s name and extensive alumni network is enough for you to meet people and form your own connections to use doing recruiting. I came from a normal family, absolutely know no one in finance, and I’m interning in IB next summer.

Something I want to warn though: Just because Stern is known for having a lot of people in IB, it doesn’t mean that everyone gets in - plenty of people don’t make it in, much less into the big banks that everyone dreams of getting into.

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Thanks for the insight! If only 100 out of the 400 people get into IB, where do the rest of them end up? Just curious…

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I think that 100/400 number is even a bit optimistic in terms of the number of people that get into IB every year.

You can do a LinkedIn search and see where people end up. A lot of people work in finance but just not in IB, so maybe S&T, wealth management, some general business analyst/financial planning roles, corporate finance/corporate banking, etc. Then another large batch of people go into consulting, another batch into B4 for accounting/auditing, then some in tech. Obviously these are the biggest areas so other students also go into more niche fields as well, like maybe entrepreneurship, fashion, real estate, etc.

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S&T = sales and trading

B4 = Big Four accounting firms (KPMG, Deloitte, PwC, & EY)