Dillema: Stern's Grading Curve!

Sogui
Mon, 10 Apr 2006 01:14:48 +0000

While getting a job can depend alot on regional prestige, there is no questioning the fact that Wall Street i-banks do do recruiting at UT’s BHP and most BHP grads can get a great i-bank job just as easily at a Stern grad might.

As for grad schools, regional prestige has very little to do with it, NYU may be prestigious in the Northeast, but Harvard could care less, they want to see high GPA and high LSAT’s (once again talking about law here) and unless your attending an Ivy or other top school, prestige isn’t even a factor.

Even then its not technically “prestige,” but simply the grad schools recognizing that other ivies have an academically stronger student body that much compete more for higher GPA’s… but they don’t extend that favor far beyond those elite few top schools, I’d say that top grad schools wouldn’t evaluate UT and NYU that far apart… and certainly wont give NYU anything more than a marginal (.1) GPA compensation at most.

Don’t get me wrong, I love NYU and if $$$ wasn’t a factor I’d probably attend, I’m just justifying why UT is still well worth the money saved.