Columbia vs. NYU

12Artleye
Fri, 31 Jul 2009 19:45:46 +0000

I’m a sophomore in high school and its time to start looking into colleges and hiring a college counselor and stuff. I know i want to go to a prestigious school (and yes, i’m qualified for these) and i want to go to a large school in a large city. I love the city and hate the rural environment i live in now. I want to get a business or economics major with a minor in political science cause i love politics. (My ultimate goal is to be an entrepreneur and have my own investment firm on wall street…haha i dream BIG)… Anyway that’s enough about me… Onto my questions

I love NYC and travel there a lot. I know the 2 best colleges there are NYU and Columbia. I LOVE them both but don’t what to do.


NYU has the BPE Program that spends 3 semesters abroad and covers my 3 interest areas in 1 major allowing me take some electives like entrepreneurship classes and financial classes. (See my question pertaining specifically to the BPE Program i posted in the New York University section)
Columbia is Ivy League which makes a pretty powerful resume. But it doesn’t have a business school and i don’t know if there is a way to take like a business concentration or something with the economics degree. That also means that i’ll have to use my elective credits to get the minor in political science instead of using them to take extra finance classes and other things that interest me like business law and entrepreneurship.


SO…Tell me what you think about these two colleges. Tell me what you think i should do. Compare and contrasts these colleges so i can get multiple opinions about these school. Even add other schools that compare to these that i should be interested. And anything else you wanna add. You can just say hi for all I care. I just wanna here from you guys.

(P.S. My backups for these 2 colleges are wharton, georgetown, and stanford so add anything about these school or just add more school.)