<p>a degree from either dartmouth or columbia will definitely give you good placing in the future for finance/etc. it’s all about which school you’re happier at.</p>
<p>and i agree when columbia is for HYP-rejects. For some reason when I visited I felt like the majority of the kids at columbia “had to” go to columbia because they didn’t get into a better school. A lot of people don’t remember that columbia wasn’t ranked #4 last year, so they believe that they must go there if admitted. Just look at the % yields for Columbia, then all the other top 10 schools and you’ll see why these students make mistakes.</p>
<p>and i got into columbia and other ivies and chose dartmouth. i think the columbia’s rankings misconstrue it’s actual quality of a school (but not the education part, obviously)</p>