Duke vs Cornell vs Notre Dame

prof2dad
Tue, 25 Apr 2017 22:56:54 +0000

All three will give you good chance. Foremost, choose the one that you like the most. If there is no particular preference, I would say Duke > Cornell > ND for wall street finance.

ND is a great school, but its location is less ideal for on-campus recruiting; it takes longer time to travel from Manhattan to ND. I know there are big banks recruiting it there, but the lineup is shorter (but still long given the quality of ND) than the other two.

Duke and Cornell would have a similar lineup of big banks; after all, both are very high quality schools and well represented on wall street. But I will give Duke a bit of edge because the size of undergraduate population at Cornell is much larger than most of its peers. The competition within Cornell is higher, and big banks like to have some diversification across schools as well. This puts Cornell at a tiny disadvantage. But if you want to work at an international location, being a member of Ivy League, Cornell will give you a stronger recognition though.

Congratulations! You have 3 good choices. So long as you do well at the school that you choose and work on networking diligently, you will make it.