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Cornell, UVA, Michigan, Northwestern, UNC, Boston U, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, UCLA, USC, Northeastern, Georgia Tech, UF, UT Austin
Cornell, UVA, Michigan, Northwestern, UNC, Boston U, Notre Dame, Vanderbilt, Wake Forest, UCLA, USC, Northeastern, Georgia Tech, UF, UT Austin
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Why would you even care about this? As per your own post history you're an ROTC student at a state school lmao. In terms of prestige though, its probably something like this.
most prestigious to least prestigious:
northwestern, cornell, vanderbilt, notre dame, usc, michigan, uva, ut, ucla, unc, then the rest
Thinking about transfering
1. Cornell, Northwestern
1.5. Notre Dame, Vanderbilt
2. UMich, UVA, UCLA, USC, UT
3. WF, UNC, GT (good for STEM)
4. UF, Northeastern
Would rather go to Notre Dame, UMich, or UVA for finance over Northwestern though. Overall prestige doesn’t matter as much as placements.
You’re trolling if you actually took any school on this list over Northwestern. Didn’t go there (went to the other Chicago T10) but have a close HS friend who went.
It’s the most prestigious on this list, places the best by far per capita (how easy it is to place), and places the best on the buyside and in top banking groups (quality of placement).
You forgot Hustlers University
1. Cornell, Northwestern, Notre Dame
2. UVA, Michigan, Vanderbilt
3. UNC, Wake Forest, USC, UT Austin
4. BU, UCLA, Northeastern, GTech, UF
Dawg do you realize that the first post on your account is about attending Notre Dame 😂. Putting ND with a top 10 ranked school and an Ivy league school is a different lvl of delusion.
The only correct list is
Tier 1 - Northwestern, Cornell
Tier 2 - UMich, Vandy, ND
Tier 3 - USC, UVA, UT
Tier 4 - Everything else
Ok
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