Would choose Stern if you like its culture and location.

Stern quite a bit better. Not sure about Tepper but Stern definitely does have a hardo reputation, can be very cutthroat.

My kid just finished his first year at stern. He enjoyed his first year but culture is competitive at stern and the curve is tough too. He enjoys the urban campus and grew a ton this year. He stayed in nyc for the summer bc he was able to land an internship but full disclosure a lot of the kids landing internships especially first and second year have industry connections. I think most recruiting happens for junior year. He made some good friends but I do think the friend aspect is harder on a campus like NYU but I’m sure the sports part will help. My kid has commented the stern sports kids are def cooler/more laid back than the rest which can be hyper competitive.

Both great choice, so decision based on culture / fit.

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Anonymous wrote:I have found most Stern kids to be insufferable. Obviously they will be part of the larger NYU community which is huge and has lots of different types of kids so I'm sure they will find their spot. But Stern kids tend to be Gordon Gekko wanna be's who couldn't get into Wharton undergrad. Very superficial and cutthroat with a chip on their shoulder that they aren't at Wharton or even an Ivy.

Caveat - it is a big place, and there are plenty of kids there who are nice kids who are not like I described. But it skews heavily that way.

Not all Stern kids are like that, just like not all Wharton kids are nice and non competitive. I will say I know of many kids that turned down T 15 for Stern.

Do you think that a regular kid turns into this arrogant kid once they go to Stern or do you think only the arrogant and kids go to Stern? You are saying the same kid if they went to Wharton would have been a nice kid because you said most of the Stern kids are there because they couldn’t get into Wharton?

How many kids from Stern do you know? 25? 50?

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Anonymous wrote:There's a big difference between NYC and Pittsburgh for four years. I went to Pitt and know Oakland well. I've also been to NYU's campus area.

I think the student bodies will vary in regional background as well.

New York is a deliberate choice in all ways.

I can't imagine anyone being neutral about the choice after visiting both. And I can see it going either way.

I personally would recommend being local in NYC for anything related to NYC Finance. It's just easier when you can network locally, can get to know future apartmentmates, etc.

For West Coast tech business jobs it probably doesn't matter.

Sports always injects variables into a decision process that go beyond how a normal kid would look at the school.

Do you have a pathway to starting as a freshman all 4 years at NYU vs CMU? What special supports and perks do you receive at each? How much of my life is consumed just getting to and from practice?

It’s not entirely rational…also, any merit dollars from NYU or CMU, so what’s the cost.

PP. I don't know how frequent Western Pennsylvanians are at CMU these days. But it seems really alien to me as an ex-Pittsburgher that people would go to CMU for a team sport and then expect that sport to provide them with a guaranteed robust and lucrative network. Whole university alumni base okay, but just one team's alums? I am skeptical.

There are older threads about CMU on here worth Googling.

Many schools that were fairly regional in terms of student bodies even in say the 1980s are very different today.

A school like Emory was quite regional and now 30% come from the Northeast with many private school kids. There is a fairly large and strong NYC network that wasn’t nearly as prominent 30 years ago.

Also, you don’t need tons of alums to be successful, and as a student/job seeker you need to kind of “go with the flow”.

So if 10% of the team’s alums are successful (multiply that by say 25 years of alums) and loyal and they work at places that are perfectly fine in the finance or tech world…well you go with the flow and intern or take jobs at those places.

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Anonymous wrote:DC is a recruit at both schools and is expecting coach support in exchange for ED application. DC interested in business major - between Tepper and Stern undergrad, what are thoughts comparing the two in terms of overall education, prestige in the job market, and outcomes? heard stern is pretty cutthroat in general, is tepper similar? thx

Aren’t they both D3?

Yes.