So now “feel” means “future destinations”??
Columbia and Penn have real campuses, with footpaths and nice buildings. Though their extent is obviously quite different, the appearance and feel of these places, for the time one spends there ,at least, is likely not dissimlar to how I “feel” at Cornell.
NYU has no campus. Walking from class to class at NYU is like walking to any other building in NYC. You walk on city sidewalks, not grass-bordered walkways. It does not “feel”, by my sensibilities, anything like those other schools. It feels more like a commuter school.
I’m talking about the student experience there, not future destinations.
One should also be aware that not all “Wall Street” jobs are the same. And, as I understand it, these days the term “investment banking” is applied to functions that it used to cover, but also to a bunch of jobs that used to be covered under the less-prestigious “commercial banking” field.
Wall Street hires janitors, these people do not all go to HYP. They hire back-office people, computer people ,accountants, etc… Also not HYP. Not all jobs are the same. There is even stratification among various “line” jobs. These are not all the same either. When I was there the most elite jobs were not equitably distributed among colleges.