Udel vs Umass-A vs Baruch. An obvious choice?

Baruch

Baruch has the best OCR but you will completely miss out on the college experience. Delaware would, by far, be the most fun

Does it have to be one of these schools? The reason I ask is that if you are certain you want to do IBD, maybe you should try your luck at some better schools. I think almost all of these schools are ranked fairly low. I never heard of their finance programs. You mentioned tuition is an issue so I am sure you have to stay within your limits.

As you said, tuition is an issue so I am limited to my choices. I have an sat score of 1920 and a GPA about 3.5

I almost want to get peoples opinions if Baruch wasnt an option. College seams like a once in a lifetime experience I don't want to miss out on; However, I still want to be academically challenged at the school I go to.

I know a guy who went to UM-A for a year prior to switching to Brown. Consider something similar.

I went to U of Delaware, so if you have any questions let me know. I was a chemical engineering major so I don't really have first hand exp with the business school, but I will say that OCR for business is pretty weak. Also, I've been networking for some time now and I haven't come across many alumni in front office roles. With that said, UD was a great time socially and I definitely recommend the school for engineering, but if working on the street is your end goal, I would consider other options or transfer after frosh yr.

Although transferring has crossed my mind, I've been told that I will not get the same experience and I'd be risking credits. Also transfers tend to get smaller financial aid packages.

I have nearly enough credits to skip a year of college currently, So transferring after a year will leave me with little time at another college.

There is no doubt that Baruch will open many doors in business, but I will seriously be lacking a social life as a commuter.

People on this site downplay social life a lot. It's important for your mental health. There's too many stories of kids at good/elite schools who throw themselves off the library roof or something.

Thanks Ragnar, I just hope its even possible to balance social life with a college that will open doors for me in the future with the options I have available.

As a current student and as others have said, Baruch definitely has great OCR. Quite a few BBs were hiring for FO positions for this summer, including JPM who have been coming on campus for a while now, and GS, who just started coming to our school. Also to reiterate that if you value a "true" college experience (dorming, etc), Baruch may not be for you since it is a commuter school and most of the students I've seen tend to stick with their cliques(spelling?) Pretty much the only way to socialize is to join clubs or frats. That being said, we do have two finance based clubs that have had previous members/leaders go work for BBs, the Wall Street Club and Finance and Economics Society (FES).

Get real dude. You will have a much better social life in New York City as a commuter student than at one of these small-town college campuses. You can never get bored in New York City. At many of these small-town college campuses, the students are bored to death and all there is to do is to get drunk and f**k.

Baruch has an engineering major?

Also, you can do like most Baruch students: Go to a party school, fail out, then attend Baruch. Best of both worlds...

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Go to Nassau, do well, transfer to NYU. Doesn't make sense to pay twice Nassau at Baruch for liberal arts classes, considering there is practically no OCR unless you're in Zicklin (two years in.)

@Rufio, what i meant be that was if I go to Baruch itll be hard to enjoy the college experience, if i go to Udel, I will enjoy college but will i get a good business education? will it open doors for me (OCR)?

Is it possible to get the best of both worlds? - This is likely the most important question.

@febreeze Baruch doesnt have an engineering major, so if I decided to attend Baruch I wouldnt be able to lok into engineering.

What type of engineering are you thinking of doing? If it's chemE/mechE/EE and you can make it through the major then I would say delaware is worth it. UD is top ten in chemE and I believe top 50 for EE/ME, so a lot of companies that recruit for chemE also hold interviews for EE and ME positions out of convenience. Some of the companies that hold OCR for engineers are exxon, dupont, hess, bristol-myers squibb, merck, gore, dow, sunoco, exelon and a bunch of smaller engineering firms. For business the best jobs on OCR are deloitte federal technology consulting, J&J FLDP (internship only), and a bunch of the typical accounting jobs at the big four. The rest is pretty much all BO stuff and sales so business won't give you the same ROI as engineering will imho.

Thanks for the solid information from Udel BicepBrah. I'm most likely majoring in business. Do you have any input about the transferring? as outlined in my post above.

Doesn't Yeshiva have a program with Columbia for engineering?

Yes. However, ill most likely be majoring in business.

I was also accepted to Rutgers New Brunswick with an ~8k scholarship. How Does Rutgers compare to Udel and Umass? Does it have better OCR/academics?

From what I've seen, Rutgers Business rankings have been decreasing.

Lol. Baruch is what you make of it. Some parts of it may suck (especially admin-wise) but the bottom line is you get a shit ton of potential opportunity for an awesome value. For those of you complaining about the social life, your campus is NYfuckingC. I've had WAY more "development" and social life living in an apartment and enjoying what New York has to offer than I think I'd ever get somewhere else. Real life development socially and career-wise as opposed to being lost in some college town. I wouldn't be able to network or meet up with some guy from GS if I was in any random city. But yeah, if you decide to live with your parents your college life is fucked. Your choice, OP.