Columbia or NYU?

<p>I recently got accepted by Columbia and NYU and am losing my mind tryign to deide where to go. </p>

<p>Prestige is very important for me. I plan to get into Investment Banking in future or business consulting. </p>

<p>I am thinking i will major in Economics and statistics if i decide to go to columbia. I would major in Economics and finance if i were to go to NYU.</p>

<p>Campus life is somewhat important. Party atmosphere isn't since both are in the city, i can just go to any party scenes in NY. Campus life for me is extracurricular activities and atmosphere.</p>

<p>I want the school that will help me for both internship and career opportunities as well as one that will get me to Wharton for mba.</p>

<p>Finally, i want some HOT girls on my campus!!</p>

<p>Any help is appreciated.</p>

<p>I am actually facing the same dilemma. I thought i was going to go to Columbia, and I just visited NYU yesterday and liked it very much.</p>

<p>I was accepted to both schools (Stern and Columbia) and Columbia clearly beats NYU in all respects. Columbia is much more prestigious than Stern. This is nothing against Stern but Columbia is Columbia. Since they are both in the city, they both will offer great internships. When it is time for u to apply for graduate school or an i-banking job I think a Columbia degree will hold more weight than a Stern one.</p>

<p>Columbia. Ivy degree is carries a lot of weight in i-banking, and columbia has the resources also because it has a top-notch MBA program.</p>

<p>stern is somewhat lacking nowadays</p>

<p>Have you read your own post, NYUor? You pretty much answer your question for yourself.</p>

<p>"Prestige is very important for me."
Columbia. No contest. If you were into theatre, NYU might compete, but for those financial internships, no company is going to prefer NYU to the best economics department in the nation.</p>

<p>"Campus life is somewhat important."
You define this as extracurricular opportunity, and I can't think of a single activity that Columbia doesn't have. And the campus is more centralized than NYU's, which contributes to the college atmosphere, IMO.</p>

<p>"HOT girls."
If you don't mind your trysts in the library, the Ivy League is the way to go ;)</p>

<p>yeah I ended up picking Columbia. Filled out the form and sending it tomorrow. See you guys next year!</p>

<p>i am leaning toward columbia as well, but stern business reputation keeps poking</p>

<p>any columbia students willing to shed some light?</p>

<p>particularly those who picked columbia over nyu.</p>

<p>I picked NYU over Columbia, when I went to visit Columbia I found that people were incredibly obsessed with the fact that they went to Columbia...If you ask me, Columbia kids are often rejects of Harvard/Yale and decide to make the best of their Chop-liver School. I am not saying Columbia is not prestigious and does not deserve its reputation I am saying you have to be realistic.</p>

<p>NYU is, in my opinion, a better school. It is larger, it has people from all different backgrounds (the people at Columbia tend to be Homogeneous and think of themselves as "Elitists" when really they are just Snobs) and I think the Arts at NYU are by far superior. If you want Culture, Art, and a Colorful Experience NYU is the place to go. My friend chose Columbia last year and she hates it, she thinks everybody is completely fake...
In addition, NYU’s Location in the village beats Columbia's location and NYU is a lot more alive...But it is your decision. </p>

<p>P.S I turned down Cooper Union as well ( I am an Art Major)
I also got a full Ride to NYU and I am in the Dean's Scholars Program...so that also factored in for me.</p>

<p>How could it even be a question between the two? It's like choosing between Harvard and BU, or Penn and Drexel, or Cornell and Ithaca, or Columbia and NYU...oh wait...</p>

<p>I would definitely recommend Columbia</p>

<p>columbia is way more prestigious than nyu....no comparison</p>

<p>I agree, JohnnyK.</p>

<p>Are you on crack? First of all, yes there is a prestige gap between NYU and Columbia but it is not that big. To say the gap between NYU and Columbia is as large as the gap between Harvard and BU or Penn and Drexel is just a stupid point. All you are doing is exaggerating the circumstances and, in the process, making an inaccurate comparison...NYU is not Ivy League but to compare it to BU and Drexel and to sit here and say Columbia is “that much better” just reads as ignorance...</p>

<p>It is amazing to me how many people just go by a school's name alone when they judging the quality of an education…At any school, it is what you make of it…</p>

<p>Mikestrman...I feel like you're trying to rationalize your decision to give up Harvard, Columbia, and Cooper Union for NYU. I totally agree that education is entirely what you make of it, but you needn't try to diminish Columbia in order to make NYU look better. NYU is a solid school with many strengths, but in pure terms of reputation, it is just not as highly regarded as Columbia. So what? No one's saying that that matters, but it's a fact.</p>

<p>Now who's being judgemental and generalizing when they say that Columbians are Harvard/Yale rejects and that Columbia is a chop-liver school? Don't dish it out if you can't take it......</p>

<p>no I agree Columbia is "ranked higher" but my point this whole time has been that rankings and names honestly mean nothing, when it comes to the quality of education...I think people will tell you differently because they either go to that school or because the idea that (their) school is better than another has been sucked into their heads when in fact they have nothing to compare it to...It also depends on what you want....And what i said about the Chop-liver Harvard Yale rejects, I called it a generalization but based on what I have found or the people I know, it seems to be very true...</p>

<p>I am not a Columbia student. I turned down Columbia for Penn.</p>

<p>I could see myself at Columbia. I could never see myself at NYU.</p>

<p>Elitist? Yes, I am. So is most of the elite...welcome to Earth.</p>

<p>You must realize that schools like Columbia are prestigous for a reason -- their name has been earned.</p>

<p>Oh come now Mikestrman, you chose NYU mainly because they gave you a FULL RIDE. Had that not been the case, you probably would have chosen Columbia yourself ;)</p>

<p>All aside, NYU is a great school, but trying to assert its superiority in a Columbia board isn't the wisest thing to do.</p>