NYU Stern v Cornell Dyson Undergrad

Thoughts on which school to choose for BB/EB? Stern sounds like a better choice due to location - not exactly sure if there is a difference between placements. Out of State both schools, similar cost of attendance with full pay. 

Cornell Dyson or NYU Stern

Cornell Dyson
62% (85 votes)
NYU Stern
38% (52 votes)
Total votes: 137
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Both schools are targets for NYC recruiting. Stern is slightly better for finance by rankings and much older than Dyson. Dyson is a new school at Cornell that started less than a decade ago. You can't go wrong with either for IB recruiting so would base the decision on other factors such as location, interest in attending, and other factors that are important for your college experience.

 

dyson per-capita placement is crazy, and selectivity is 4-5% with a 170 people per class. 

 

Cornell sends 1.5x-2x to BB/EB every year despite being half the size of NYU (Dyson being 1/3 of Stern). Main downside being you're in Ithaca and not Manhattan. Go to Cornell, lock in for recruiting Freshman and Sophomore years, and go abroad your Junior year.

 
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Look you can't go wrong with either, just wanna explain the blatant misuse of per capita recruiting numbers to signify which one's better. High Finance recruiting at NYU is highly concentrated at Stern, it's highly difficult to get into the circle if you're from another school (though there are kids who get in from CAS). At Cornell its more or less fluid, kids with PP&E/Econ/Applied Math/PoliSci degrees can way too easily get Front Office roles at BB/EB/PE, cause they ARE on a whole another level than NYU ones (same with Penn). Ergo, giving you a higher per capita on most datasets which use the whole Uni as a base. If you use only Stern as the base in case of NYU and add all the other ones in case of Cornell, its more or less the same. Moreover, no one's gonna turn you down till the mid/final rounds if your from undergrad at either of these unis. You should look over fit, whether you like competetiveness over colab, skyscrapers over nature, absence vs presence of college experience. In terms of student quality both schools are more or less alike (at least statistically, since they boost the same SAT median + the same acceptance rate)

 

you're such a retard, nyu has over 30,000 undergrads, 15,000 of which are in relevant schools for ib (not stern, like cas, tandon, etc), of these 15,000 even if only 4 percent of these students were competitive for ib recruiting, that's still 600 students, in addition to all the stern kids, which overall, comes out to a much higher total amount of competition than schools like cornell in their entirety

 

Before I respond in detail, you completely missed the point. The point was not that there is no interest outside of stern, but instead that it's a totally different ball game. We're talking about how hard it is to recruit for IB from stern. You need to get one of the 125 seats open to stern students and be one of the 300 or so people who recruit. the other 27k kids do not matter (they compete for about 25 spots total between them).

Anyway, 4% is a massive assumption. 2.3 percent of harvard students go into IB and, given it's harvard, I'd assume that means no more than 3% recruited. If harvard, including all its elite legacy and asian strivers and finance pedigree, has 1/33 of its class recruit for banking... obviously NYU,  and the subset of kids who decidedly did NOT apply to the business school, would be closer to 1-2%. But fuck it. take your 600. 150 a year into IB, total denominator 650+600. is roughly on the level of uchicago (actually a little bit better per capita). Definitely higher than Pornell. 

 

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