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June 16, 2017 12:45pm ET

Enrolled: Undecided

Admitted: CEIBS , Carnegie Mellon / Tepper

Applied: CEIBS, Carnegie Mellon / Tepper

Entering Year: 2017

Notes:

Guys - I have no idea what I want to do after MBA. Either consulting or banking. Which school would you go to?

Duke is higher in rankings but Cornell's got the Ivy league brand. Thoughts?

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Anon Likes Earned: 0 With no scholarship to either and consulting, Duke for sure imo (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 I would go with Duke (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Duke, easy (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Cornell is the ugly stepchild of the Ivy League aka the safety school. Go to Duke (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 Duke should be able to provide you more opportunities, directly out of the MBA. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Ask on any online forum, and you can be sure people would advise against cornell. So if popular opinion is what you're looking for, definitely go with Duke. But if you'd like to seriously consider, I'd say try to at least decide between consulting and banking (they're pretty different industries!). Cornell would have an edge for banking. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I'm going to Duke, so you should go to Duke too. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 You'd best decide soon- can't recruit for both (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Duke should be far better, I believe it is one of the most undervalued schools for applicants, it has all of the recognition among employers and will be far easier to compete for the same jobs that at an Ivy. (0)

Whatajoke Likes Earned: 0 Did trump university tell you that duke is undervalued and that graduates will win so much in the job market that they will get sick of winning? (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Duke has a good basketball team. Cornell has..... idk what is in Ithaca (0)

Big Red Likes Earned: 0 ICE HOCKEY! (0)

lol hockey?? Likes Earned: 0 If that doesn't steer you to Duke.... (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Duke!!!!! (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Cornell!!!!!! (0)

Trolls Likes Earned: 0 Cornell is the obvious choice here (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 ball is life. go to duke (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 LOL at the Cornell students. How is Cornell the obvious choice? Duke is higher ranked for like decades. It's undergrad is top 10 and known as the harvard of the south. Cornell is known for Andy Bernard's school and the Ivy safety school (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I went to Cornell undergrad. Trust me you do not want to live in Ithaca (0)

Clowns Likes Earned: 0 LOL at the clowns who bash good schools and take this site way too seriously. They are peer schools and will provide similar opportunities (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 No one but deluded Cornell students think they are peer schools. Tier 1 is M7 schools. Tier 2 is Haas, Yale, Tuck. Tier 3 is Fuqua, Ross, Stern (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Yes but what's a more fun experience? If equal work opportunities, would rather go to a school where there's cool people. Not Ivy rejects (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Go to Cornell if you're into culinary arts. They combined the schools and all that they're known for really (0)

Weak Likes Earned: 0 ...says the guy/gal who got rejected from top tier undergraduate schools and now feels the need to prove how how cool they are because they hired a consultant and got into a "tier 3" school. Great job and Hope you don't screw up your second chance! (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 If you can't stomach constant jealous types who say weird things like "Ivy Safety" and reference Andy, don't go to Cornell. Cornell isn't for the insecure (if you're insecure and still go to Cornell, that's how you end up like Andy Bernard lol) (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Cornell has the highest suicide rates. Coincidence? (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Cornell and fuqua are not peer schools. Unc, mccombs, Cornell are peer schools. Fuqua, ross, Stern are peer schools. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Cornell is safety Ivy school for undergrad and safety business school for M7 candidates. No one wants to spend 2 years in Ithaca (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Duke is also a safety school for M7 candidates (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I'm sure all our opinions on what are peer schools and what are safeties are very important in the grand scheme of things. And woe is me if someone were to bruise my ego and offer a different opinion coz then I'd create an odd analogy to really make my point. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 If you go to Duke, at least people in the South respect you. Atlanta is full of Duke graduates. If you go to Cornell, you're just known as the person who got rejected by all the real Ivy schools. They have no location advantage - distant 3rd in NYC behind CBS & NYU (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 You set a pretty low bar for the south. Does anyone even care about Atlanta? Oh boo hoo - guess no one can live in Atlanta with a fake ivy mba degree. Atlanta is for rejects who couldnt make it in a real city (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Outkast is from Atlanta. Ithaca has.... Ithaca college? no one really knows (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I mean considering BCG is expanding Atlanta with more than 200 jobs so it must be a hot city. Especially considering that McKinsey recruiting in Atlanta is one of the toughest after NYC/SF/Boston (0)

So persuasive Likes Earned: 0 I guess only Fuqua students are smart enough to evaluate economic and social health based on hiring at bcg and McKinsey (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Considering that many people want to get to MBB, then yeah, I would say that's a fair assessment (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 It's sad Cornell can't even leverage Ivy league status to upgrade their graduate programs. Law school, business school, etc. are all below tier. It's sad really (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 What advantages does Cornell have over Duke? None. Their Cornell Tech program is regarded as a big joke in NYC (0)

Regrettingmydecison Likes Earned: 0 Unfortunately I'll be a classmate with this jackass. Who cares if you think Cornell is inferior - Do you think it will help you? Hopefully the rest of the class isn't so terrible (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 lol as if you had a decision to make. more like duke was your best choice (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 I too would regret my choices if all I had was Cornell MBA to look forward to :( (0)

@Regrettingmydecision Likes Earned: 0 You're naive if you think that's actually a Fuqua student. It's just the common troll (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 If you need to have a brand name school on your resume in order of get "respect" and feel good about yourself, you've got bigger problems in your life than which school you should attend lol (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Not really as you are assuming all opportunities out of schools are equal. You've got bigger problems in your life if you go to Cornell LOL (0)

Karma's a bitch Likes Earned: 0 Watch out - it's gonna get you!! (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Lot of bitches at Cornell ugh (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Crippling debt & lack of career options are going to get you if you go to Cornell for MBA (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Opportunities out of duke and Cornell are probably comparable and more dependent on what you were going before you went to either school. Choose based on fit! (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 There's not many fit people at Cornell. Lot of Top 10 school rejects. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 wtf this is about cornell & duke... (0)

Anon Likes Earned: 0 Let's be honest, this thread isn't about anything... (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 agreed. prospects graduating from cornell is not good for anything (0)

Sorry not sorry Likes Earned: 0 Looks like you know from direct experience. Hope things improve for you. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 yeah hope cornell really improves (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Fuqua is a better option, it has a broader program which you will use to decide what to do after. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Agreed. Cornell can't even decide what to do after joining all their random schools into one business school (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Both are great. Eventually u'll work with wharton and booth graduates in a dead end job in wall street. Unlike H\S graduates who will be written in forbes magazine at the rising stars lists (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 right like the CEOs of Microsoft & Google. Oh wait they are from Booth & Wharton. (0)

Anonymous Likes Earned: 0 Steve jobs did not garduate, neither zuckerberg nor gates. However you would not choose not to go to school right? That is because you and your friends are not like them and youre not like the ceo of google or microsoft for that matter... see you in a back office position in 20 years (0)