Washington U Olin School vs. Cornell AEM?

hermanns
Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:47:16 +0000

“Who cares about grad school now? We’re talking about undergrad. And Cornell’s freshman classes are usually at least twice as big as WashU’s.”

And as I stated already, large public schools have 30,000 plus undergrads, Cornell does not even have half that. How is that comparable? In my opinion, the larger class size is an advantage. I do not like small schools and would never even consider a LAC (yes I know WashU is not a LAC).

“Really? How did you know? And I assume that for business recruiting, Cornell is ahead of Penn, MIT, NYU, Harvard, Babson,…etc? I know that the northeast is the best area to work in business area…but Cornell students have to compete with so many “Better” schools, which may be a disadvantage for many Cornellians.”

Did you seriously just call BABSON (and NYU for that matter…no it IS NOT better than cornell for business) better than cornell for ANYTHING? You CLEARLY do not know jack about recruiting at cornell (or babson obviously!).

And what do you mean how do I know? I have contacts in Ibanking and have seen the list of schools recruited at by goldman sachs, and after digging it up again, northwestern, u chicago, and michigan are all on it (and cornell of course), so I guess maybe an argument can be given for WashU vs. Notre Dame since neither are on it, but the fact is, neither of them are good for aspiring Ibankers. Cornell is a target for BB Ibanks, and WashU is not, I am sorry, but this is fact. I don’t care about accounting jobs or whatever, but for Ibanking or management consulting cornell is better than WashU.

“Like I said before, Cornell is a fine institution…but it’s still considered as the doormat of the ivy league. Also, it’s competing against a lot of schools which are better in overall. Around 10 out of top 15 schools in the nation are located in Northeast. And for business…it is competing against Wharton, Sloan, and Stern…those are just a few top business schools in that area…there are many more.”

Considered doormat by who? USnews has cornell ranked above brown. I don’t care about rankings personally, but lets just say Cornell is the doormat of the ivy league (which I do not believe!), that is still more than WashU has going for it. You do realize Cornell is one of those 10 Northeast schools that is a part of the top 15 in the nation, do you not? How is that an advantage? You are calling schools ranked MUCH lower and way less prestigious better for recruiting, which is just outrageous. Cornell AEM is one of those top business programs in the Northeast (and the nation for that matter), why are you attacking it, but defending BABSON, georgetown, and JHU (again, you never explained how the hell you could even mention JHU in a discussion of business recruiting)?? The fact you mention JHU as better than cornell in business recruiting is alone enough to show that you have no idea what you are talking about. A good friend of mine who goes to JHU for pysch would even tell you this.