<p>Cornell CAS Econ
U Chicago Econ
Umich Ross Preferred Admit
Northwestern WCAS Econ</p>
<p>i am truly torn</p>
<p>Those are all great schools and at these schools it wont matter where you go. At any of these schools, you will have equal oppurtunities to become an ibanker. At these level of schools, it wont matter where you go but who you are.</p>
<p>Anyways I suggest you to go to school that "fits" you.</p>
<p>i'd go to Umich ross just because it will give you heads up on the practical business knowledge. Plus it's very well represented on wall st.</p>
<p>Honestly? Whichever is cheaper.</p>
<p>That's how well you got it.</p>
<p>U Chicago. Its in the best city in the world and is the best springboard for life after college.</p>
<p>Just to help you trim down your list, I'd take off Cornell Econ, since the other 3 schools have better programs for Econ. Unless you can somehow transfer into Cornell AEM, you probably do not want to go there.</p>
<p>Chicago has the best academic experience according to a variety of sources, i-bank placement aside.</p>
<p>^I want to see those sources, beefs. Tell me, in which scholarly journal does it state that "Chicago has the best academic experience"? Please. Since you made that statement with such resounding conviction, I want to see this verbatim.</p>
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I don't want to see the sources, I want to know what "academic experience" is supposed to mean. I tend to agree that they have the best graduate econ program--but it's very difficult to quantify programs, and what we have to basically take into account is the quality of the professors--and a great researcher != a great teacher and adviser--and the quality of the students they've produced over an arbitrary moderate term period (say two decades).</p>
<p>Chicago has the professors who have made the greatest mark on the field in the context of our economy and the Western world, but you've got to question how much of it is legend, as comparing current professors at Harvard, Stanford, MIT, Chicago, Princeton, Berkeley and Penn essentially results in a stalemate as far as I'm concerned. As for the quality of students they've produced, I don't see some great leaps and bounds difference with Chicago. Dusansky and Vernon (not necessarily a ranking I agree with, but still) have Chicago behind UCSD, BU, NYU, Yale and Northwestern. I've said Chicago is the best in a number of threads because I generally revere their history, and I still think they are the best for researchers, but even I wouldn't pretend that they're somehow miles ahead of everyone else.</p>
<p>Man, I really don't want to attack the school because I think it's good... But some of the hyperbole in this thread and a couple others is giving me no choice but to actively go after the downsides (which every college has). They burden students with an archaic core that will not be remembered by anyone who takes it as anything other than a waste of time and effort a decade into the future, several of the professors I have interacted with at the school appear to enjoy grade deflation and actively trying to teach more to students than they can learn over the course of a quarter, their undergraduate economics program is not some amazing thing because there's a barrier between the graduate and undergraduate program and the undergraduate program is heavily populated, the multitude of Chicago graduates and transfers I've met (3 I'm close to, probably 8-9 I've conversed with more than in passing, 2 I used to work with) recall their undergraduate experience iirc as (6) mediocre, (3) good, (2) very good, (3 or so) awful enough to make them transfer out while they were 3.5+ GPA students at Chicago (all of them complained about social life), their location isn't really as "prime" for recruitment as southern California or Northeastern counterparts are, the majority of their academic programs are academic to a fault (too much theory is a bad thing), and the administration is historically rigid.</p>
<p>I would love to see someone who believes that Chicago has the number one best "academic experience" explain what an academic experience is in their minds and what they know about Chicago. If we take Chicago graduates, people that revere Chicago because they think hard work = character and people who only know the Chicago brand-name out of the equation I'm sure we'd find some relatively sane people who recognize (a) it's impossible to pick just one school as having some arbitrary "best academic experience", (b) Chicago has a plethora of faults just like every other school.</p>