Hi Guys.
What in your opinion is better for IB in US (New York) : top tier UK university ( Oxford , LSE , Imperial ) or such US universities as Brown,NYU,Cornell,Pomona,Vanderbilt (not top but still target or semi-target) ? In terms of network of course any decent US university from top 30 beats Oxbridge because of location but in terms of prestige in US? What do you guys think about this matter?
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Brown and Cornell
Oxford > Brown, Cornell > LSE, NYU > Vandy > Pomona
While I would agree that Oxford is best known, "LSE, Imperial" are definitely not any better off than "NYU/Brown" in prestige (or in recruiting)! A target in the US is any ivy or any school where all the major players have OCR. So the ivies and NYU are definitely targets, and Pomona/Vandy are probably semi-targets.
I kind of hate you for being just another kid on this site who will sell their soul for prestige. Do people on this school not realize where kids come from? Like three times as many kids in the GS class this year went to Brown and Georgetown than went to Harvard and Yale. So long as you went to a good school, you'll have a chance at IBD. But don't for a minute think that it is easier to get into a top IBD because you went to Oxford/Harvard rather than Dartmouth/Brown!
Put into groups and ordered within groups.
High targets: Oxford, LSE Mid Targets: Imperial, Cornell, Brown, NYU (East Coast Target) Semi-Targets: vanderbelt, pomona
I would go LSE/Oxbridge if I had that chance (which i did).
After the UK's top 3, it's a tougher choice since mid-tier US targets do pretty well at that point. If you had a Columbia in there, I would recommend that one after the top 3 UK schools. I know Imperial is really good in the UK but it doesnt have the same brand in the states. In fact, anything not LSE/Oxbridge/LBS isn't know in the states. And NYU really doesn't have much pull in the west coast where UCLA acts as a strong regional target,(it's actually harder to get into than Berkly since everyone wants to come to LA)
Seriously?
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge
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hahaha, IDIOT!
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxbridge
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Cambridge[/quote]
Oh dear :)
if you want to work in the us go to a us school.
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finance recruitin is very regional...if you wanna work in ny, better to go to an east coast skooL in US...that doesnt mean those are better skooLs than oxford, just better for ny recruitin
as a side note, oxford is very overrated from the US perspective since only top notch US guys go there.
it is still an excellent school but slightly overhyped in the US.
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