<p>Northwestern (used to, whether they still do or not I don’t know) guarantee to meet financial need with loans only to the student. In my mind you only apply to a school ED if you know you will attend if you get accepted and you can afford it. If receiving financial aid is a requirement for attending the school then I would not consider ED. If accepted you must withdraw your other applications. If you consider their financial aid award inadequate you may withdraw from your agreement, however, you may have eliminated all but rolling admissions schools from your college search. If after running their NPC (they use the CSS profile so there is a lot more information they will require and they will consider many more things to calculate your EFC than does the FAFSA) you feel you can meet the financial obligations then consider ED if the school is the only one you which to consider.</p>
<p>Run the NPC and present the results for both to your parents. Talk with them. Get hard numbers from them (not a vague promise they’ll “make it work” - those are the kids who learn in March that in the end the college isn’t affordable and they’re stuck.)
Then, choose based on that discussion.</p>
<p>@ivvcsf If i deny my early decision, i can still apply to schools regular decision.
@worth2try investment banking is different from corporate finance but thanks
Also can we get back on track, I appreciate the concerns, but as of now, i’m not going to worry about financial aid</p>
<p>superdub: some kids don’t worry about financial aid… until it’s too late. It should be your #1 concern. Run the Net Price Calculators and talk about the results with your parents. If they have hard numbers that show they can afford the schools out of pocket, you’re good to go. You don’t want to waste your one ED shot on a school your parents can’t/won’t pay for.
Both choices are good for employment purpose. You’d be lucky to get into one of these. If your stats place you above the average and near/above the top 25% you’re right to use your ED card for one of these two. But you can’t really decide based on employability since the difference really is negligible. It only matters if you’re interested in IB (Northwestern is a target, Wash U isn’t AFAIK.)</p>
<p>@MYOS1634 Thanks, I still have plenty of time to actually decide to ED anything. And Yeah, I’m interested in IB too
I did run NPC, cost is around 5k or less</p>
<p>Most of the top schools in the nation offer econ, not undergraduate business. Those students are heavily recruited for finance jobs. Students from some undergraduate business programs are also heavily recruited, especially regionally. So I wouldn’t worry about econ at Northwestern holding you back.</p>
<p>Either one is going to be fine, but if you want a business/finance/accounting degree and NU does’t offer that, then apply ED to WashU. It’s very unlikely that your ED decision is going to alter the course of your career tragectory, because in the end, your success will depend on you, not the name on your diploma… Worry more about how you’d like to spend the next 4 years.</p>
<p>@qialah The reason I asked this was because I was looking through some corporate finance internships, and a lot of them actually required a finance/accounting degree but did not ask for econ degree so I am a bit concerned because I feel like I can only go into investment banking with an econ degree, but that’s extremely hard to get into to.</p>
<p>Have you checked out Northwestern’s undergraduate certificate in Financial Economics. </p>
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<p>I’d go with Northwestern. NU is a very pre-professional school and I imagine their graduates do very well, especially in the MidWest. If you like, you could always supplement your econ. degree at NU with a certificate from their Kellogg School of Management (as our friend Sam Lee often likes to note.)</p>