<p>What would be your choice over or after Wharton? Why?</p>
<p>Wisconsin. Beautiful setting and laid back party atmosphere. I love to mingle</p>
<p>harvard, yale, princeton, MIT</p>
<p>If we are talking strictly UG b-schools, Ross was my second choice after Wharton. Other common seconds: Sloan/Stern/Haas</p>
<p>I would choose HYP over Wharton, but Wharton over the rest.</p>
<p>I'd go
Harvard
Princeton
Wharton
MIT
Stanford (and I really don't like stanford.)</p>
<p>My daughter also does not like Stanford and she's a legacy! Darn!! What do you guys think of Stern?</p>
<p>University Of Phoenix!!!!!</p>
<p>Stern is very very very good. It has a great reputation and is well thought of. That said, it's no Wharton or Stanford.</p>
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<p>Stern is top notch for finance. Also, good location for internships and such.</p>
<p>It's nothing to laugh at, UofM Ross is better though.</p>
<p>Stern's not amazing and tends to be overrated.</p>
<p>You know what is ridiculous, people actually call Stern overrated, and michigan overrated, and so on...</p>
<p>What makes these schools overrated? They place many people in good jobs when they graduate, whats the difference when they are seperated by a percentage point or two? What makes kids at Stern better than Michigan and vice versa? </p>
<p>Find me ANY hiring manager at ANY company in this country, not based in Michigan or NYC (LA, Dallas or Seattle) and tell me why they would consider one kid smarter than the next if they have the same GPA and same major? They can't.</p>
<p>Do Michigan and Stern grads have the same job opportunities as Wharton grads?</p>
<p>Why wouldn't they?</p>
<p>Wharton grads definitely have more/better opportunities than Stern grads. It's more selective for a reason. We had one kid go to wharton this year, but about 20 for stern.</p>
<p>Ross School of Business is tops!</p>
<p>Depends where you are, like mel brooks said "Location, location, location."</p>
<p>If you are in NYC trying for an IBank at a buldge bracket firm, then only MAYBE, but if the wharton kid has a 3.2 and the stern kid has a 3.8 they will want the stern kid.</p>
<p>If you are trying for anything else, outside of NYC, people will always show more loyalty to their home state or surrounding states schools over a harvard or wharton kid.</p>
<p>Like the person said--it depends upon location, location, location.</p>
<p>Some like NYC--so Stern (NYU) or Fordham or Columbia
Some like Philadelphia--so Wharton (Penn) or Villanova
Some like the Bay Area--so Haas(UC Berkeley) or Stanford
Some like Boston--Harvard, MIT, Brandeis, Boston College, Boston University, Bentley, Vassar, and others
Some like LA--USC (Marshall) and UCLA (Anderson--yes I know its only for grad school)
Some like the Midwest--Michigan (Ross), Indiana (Kelley), Ohio State (Fisher), Minnesota (Carleton), Wisconsin, Illinois, Notre Dame
Some like Miami--Miami (Fla)
Some like Atlanta--Emory
Some like Washington, DC and Virginia area--Georgetown and Univ of Virginia
Some like Seattle--Univ of Washington
Some like Texas--Univ of Texas at Austin or Univ of Texas at Dallas or Rice
Some like the Rockies--Univ of Colorado (Boulder), Brigham Young
Some like the Carolinas--North Carolina, Duke, Wake Forest, NC State</p>
<p>Anyhow, you get the idea</p>
<p>"Do Michigan and Stern grads have the same job opportunities as Wharton grads?" </p>
<p>Having had conversations with friends at both of these there is definitely a marked difference in the job opportunites coming out of the 3 schools. </p>
<p>At Wharton, for example, over 50% of the class goes into ibanking (even kids with like 2.8 GPAs land these jobs - maybe not a BB but shops like Barclays, Jefferies, HLHZ, etc.), then usually the top 20-30 people in the class end up going straight into PE/VC/HF (places like Blackstone, Bain Capital, Kayne Anderson, Pegasus usually take at minimum 2-3 and up to 5-6 per year), then another good % of the class goes into consulting, then you have the rest that either go into top marketing jobs (P&G, Macy's, Bloomingdales, Y&R, etc.), the a small amount will take finance roles or join "finance leadership/rotation programs" at places like GE, Microsoft, Google, etc., Very rarely to people go to Big 4 accouting firms - the ones that do join Transaction Advisory/M&A.</p>
<p>Ross tends to send a lower % of its grads into banking (more back-office than front) and consulting in general. PE/VC/HF straight out is unheard of. More tend to take finance roles at big firms (auto industry, GE, General Mills, Johnson & Johnson, Microsoft, etc.), marketing roles, or big 4 in all areas including audit and tax. </p>
<p>NYU sends a decent % into banking due to its proximity to Wall St. but it's #s are not comparable to Wharton, who sends the most people into ibanking as compared with any other undergraduate school in the country (heard this at a speech by Goldman CEO). They also send a good amount to consulting again not at the level of Wharton. NYU grads tend to go into a lot of financial service jobs or join large firms based in NYC.</p>