<p>It depends on what you want from a university really. Columbia has the best location, Princeton is the most undergraduate focused, and Harvard is the most prestigious and probably has the best networking. Now, I want to put one thing through your head, these universities are essentially all peers. We’re talking about universities whose rating are essentially between 9.8, 9.9, and 10. The differences in academic excellence among them is highly negligible, so you should choose for other factors.</p>
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<p>That might be a nice advantage. You could spend the time that you might be doing work study at the other universities doing something more productive, like perhaps an internship.</p>
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<p>Very narrow-minded people have noted that Harvard, Yale, and Princeton are essentially the big three universities you want to apply to if you want to get into Wall St. That being said, I have a very difficult time believing that graduates of those three schools are held in a significantly higher light than Columbia grads. The latter’s graduates are likely found in high proportions in Wall St. as well.</p>
<p>All in all, choose for fit. You have three excellent choices and I don’t think you can make a bad decision.</p>