College Decision: Georgetown vs Cornell vs Northwestern
Was fortunate enough to be accepted to the three schools. Hope to get some insight into which school offers the best access to careers in finance.
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No brainer. Northwestern is the best among these schools.
Generally is a stretch. Northwestern only really does well on usnews and usnews rankings have been pretty shit. HBS was sixth this year for MBAs, which is not remotely defensible.
For finance placement, Northwestern is probably the worst out of the three. There’s a ranking with 200+ comments that breakdown placements on WSO right now.
Given the back and forth about which school places best for finance, probably time to mention that you’re going to be most successful if you go to the place you’ll fit in culturally the best. All are good schools. And if you’re happy, healthy, and like where you are, you can get any job you want coming out of them. Would be a shame to make a college decision at age 18 about tiny differences in ease of recruitment for a job starting in 4 years
Cornell 100%.
Go to Cornell. You can tell your kids you went to an ivy league lol.
You'll get a great IB job from any of these schools though
thats like working at db and bragging about work at a bb
Rather work at DB than RBC
Current Georgetown student here who just went through the process—Georgetown places very well at BBs and some EBs and has a huge alumni presence on the street. I would say from personal experience that the kids who recruit (a lot of business school kids, but also students from across the other 3 schools) all end up landing a good gig. A bit biased obviously but Georgetown is great if you’re looking for a well rounded (and fun!) college experience while still wanting to end up in banking. Feel free to PM me if you have any questions as well.
Congrats man! I am at Cornell now and have tons of boys at Georgetown. Honestly, Northwestern hell no man. Way too far away and that is like middle tier. That doesn't even compete. I have tons of respect for Georgetown. I would say Georgetown vs Cornell is a safe bet. Cornell has a better greek life culture and anything you want is yours man. On the other hand Georgetown slightly warmer and no issues there. Either are great targets. Try to visit both or reach out to current students. Consider the costs as well. Good luck dude.
Wouldn’t you say the prestige of Cornell clearly outweighs any benefits Georgetown has over Cornell?
They're basically the same in prestige