Is is better to go to Yale or Stanford for undergrad if interested in investment management or PE and want to come back to New York?
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Both will get you there just fine. Not the right decision factor between the two schools to compare.
Stanford is just a superior undergrad experience - and honestly if you’re smart enough you should be able to join the right finance clubs / take the right course load in Econ / MS&E to be competitive for both buyside and sellside roles after you graduate.
You aren’t “networking” that deeply in undergrad for it it to have true impact on your career long term especially if your first full time role is in NY (unlike B-school where location based network matters a ton more).
If you got into both - take Stanford any day. Nobody “regrets” going to Stanford, ever (maybe unless the other option is Harvard)
Agree that Stanford is an amazing school and choice, but it’s a little bit odd to think that people “regret” going to Yale. They are both amazing schools and hard to go wrong with either. I think it’s also an east coast vs. west coast thing
I didn’t mean to imply that anyone regrets going to a school like Yale, but I would say people regret not getting into Stanford/Harvard and “settle” for other elite schools like Yale, Princeton etc. In fact I bet people will raise an eye if you said you got into Stanford and turned it down for Yale, but not the other way around.
Maybe regret isn’t the right term as you can’t control where you get into - but it’s reasonable to say up until the last 20 years or so “thee” college to go to in the United States was Harvard, mythos and all, until the tech boom and new money started making Stanford “thee” school to go to. Not a sound argument with facts and figures but pop culturally this makes sense.
Princeton over harvard is an extremely common choice to make
Actually it isnt.
Either will be more than fine for those careers, you will have plenty of options. Pick the school you will be happier at - those are very different schools/cultures/curricula.
Stanford
Hot take but would go to Yale if you’re 100% fully long-term set on NYC. Stanford is AMAZING and has a great network, but so many people go there and stay in CA whereas Yale is huge in NYC (see nyc Yale club haha). It’s really nice to have a large alumni network in the city you want to build your career in and have tons of friends moving into NYC after grad. One caveat is if you’re interested in VC/Growth/Tech than Stanford would have an edge there
Yale - better east coast network and story.
I went to Yale and if you truly think you want to stay long term in NYC, pick Yale if you’re the networking type. Purely based on undergrad experience? Stanford any day lol.
Interesting, I’d say Yale has the better undergrad experience. Stanford is kinda hard, Yale is a breeze lol
Sorry - meant in terms of location, campus life, etc. No idea how they compare in difficulty
Interesting, I’d say Yale has the better undergrad experience. Stanford is kinda hard, Yale is a breeze lol
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