Washington U Olin School vs. Cornell AEM?

hermanns
Sun, 19 Jul 2009 18:40:44 +0000

BearCub, cornell is not really comparable in size to a public school, not a large one at least. The public school from my hometown (UF) has about 3x as many undergrads, and in total student population cornell is smaller than harvard and columbia (way less grad students). Being “one of the kings of the midwest” means nothing for washu. For business recruiting WashU would be behind every other midwest school your mentioned, and the northeast is where the most important business is conducted anyways. WashU just does not place well in business compared to Cornell, period. If this were biology I would say go to whichever one you prefer, but for business this is no contest. The midwest is probably the ONLY area of the country WashU may have an advantage in job placements. Cornell will make it much easier to find a great business job on either coast (including my region in the southeast).

Are you seriously putting NYU, Johns Hopkins, and Georgetown ahead of Cornell? Johns Hopkins for business?!? Cornell is also probably better in IB placement than Brown. Being one of the top 15 schools is the nation and a member of the Ivy League (and I am sorry, but WashU is overall very overrated because they are outstanding in a few areas, but not enough) how is Cornell one of the smaller fish?? it is a target school for every major investment bank, while WashU is for none of them.

Tall Saint, why should he be embarrassed? WashU has pitiful IB placement and I imagine he has never met anyone from there in all his years at goldman. WashU does not place well at all on Wall St., and that is a fact. If the OP only wants to do accounting though, a school like WashU would be fine I imagine because it is nowhere near as competitive or lucrative.

balancedhelium, not having a company recruit on campus makes it exponentially harder to get hired by them, so while yes, it is possible, being able to do on campus interviews for some of the top companies in the world is a major advantage.