<p>i was faced with a similar decision years back. I chose NU, despite having the choice to go to cornell and wustl (well, WUSTL wasn’t nearly as good back then, but w.e.). Are your from NY? If you are and you are doing the AEM program, then perhaps you should go there and save your parents some nice chunk of cash. If your main goal is wall street/investment banking, right away, I would get rid of washington. That is my personal opinion. I did a year of consulting work for a major firm (ranked consistently in top 5 by vault). Northwestern and Cornell were both feeders. Wash U was not even on schools visited. Good luck though.</p>