UT McCombs vs Cornell ILR vs BC CSOM

I am currently a junior in high school and am prepping for applications this fall. I feel like I have a good shot at all of these schools and they are my top choices but was wondering whether you guys think Cornell ILR or CSOM at Boston College are worth it over McCombs non-BHP with in state tuition. Although my parents said they could pay for college, I would feel awful asking for over 100k a year especially with my sister going into college soon as well. Do you think ILR or CSOM are much better than McCombs? Any advice would be appreciated!

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Would take McCombs over Boston easily. The tuition difference really can’t be justified between them and as far as I know McCombs places better if you’re involved in the right finance communities. If you can afford Cornell though, I’d go there over both McCombs and Boston since you really can’t go wrong with the ivy brand and your average Cornell student will likely have an easier time recruiting than the average McCombs/Boston student.

 

I think UT just has such a big class size, but BC is not huge and places a lot of people into banking, plus clubs really ain't matter that much in BC. I would say it's prolly easier to break into banking from BC.

 

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