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Cornell MFE has a $10,000 total scholarship. I am out of state for NCSU.
Some comments: I have very little industry experience in general, not to mention finance, etc., so career services takes a little more precedence than usual. I am amazed to have gotten into a high ranking ivy league school. However, unlike NCSU, I have not found anything particularly standout about Cornell's career services and placement rates (In my case, placement rate is a little more important than salary outcomes, especially when the salary outcomes are comparable), and that is a resource (career services) I might want to lean on considerably for guidance/help. The tuition costs are quite steep for Cornell over NCSU, but that is not my biggest concern. I believe that Cornell's alumni network may be a lot more valuable than that of NCSU, but I fear (perhaps unreasonably) that with my lack of experience I will not make best use of this network and may have more reliable success with NCSU's career support services. Of course, the program as a whole is very important, including the education and everything tangential, but I just wanted to note this slight bias in my mind about the decision.
Some comments: I have very little industry experience in general, not to mention finance, etc., so career services takes a little more precedence than usual. I am amazed to have gotten into a high ranking ivy league school. However, unlike NCSU, I have not found anything particularly standout about Cornell's career services and placement rates (In my case, placement rate is a little more important than salary outcomes, especially when the salary outcomes are comparable), and that is a resource (career services) I might want to lean on considerably for guidance/help. The tuition costs are quite steep for Cornell over NCSU, but that is not my biggest concern. I believe that Cornell's alumni network may be a lot more valuable than that of NCSU, but I fear (perhaps unreasonably) that with my lack of experience I will not make best use of this network and may have more reliable success with NCSU's career support services. Of course, the program as a whole is very important, including the education and everything tangential, but I just wanted to note this slight bias in my mind about the decision.
