Undergraduate Selection

You have basically listed them in reverse order of where you should go.

Not sure about Cornell versus NYU for finance, but both will serve you better than Yale-NUS if you want to be in New York or the US in general.

For Hong Kong, definitely Cornell (as far as I know, Hong Kong and Singapore employers love Oxbridge + Ivy kids).

Yale-NUS might be great in 5-10 years, but right now it's too new to have a brand and/or career services (relationships with employers). I'd choose between Cornell and NYU based on whether you want to go to a city campus or a middle-of-nowhere-cold-as-hell campus.

Also, t-jfk might be putting NYU>Cornell because of the location. Being in New York makes it easier to network - and NYU also has a pretty solid alumni base in banking etc.

Alright thanks!

NYU it shall be then!

Cornel might be an Ivy but it is a shity Ivy. And is held in very low regard when compared to other Ivy League schools. I would, personally, rather go to Chicago, Duke, Georgetown (to name but 3) non-Ivy schools over Cornel (excluding elite-elites like Stanford and MIT).

NYU would be great for networking and you will have a really good time there being in the city. Plus is arguably a better school, particular if you can get into Stern.