Faced with tough decisions... help!

Transfer Students
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<p>I'm currently in a position in which I have some tough decisions to make. I remained home my first year of college and took classes at nassau community college as an accounting major. I worked hard and earned myself an overall GPA of 3.5. I applied to buffalo university, binghamton university and indiana university. I got into buffalo and indiana.</p>

<p>I am currently set to go to buffalo, but have recently decided it may not be the school for me. I am considering taking out the loans in order to attend indiana university. There I would have to get straight Bs in order to get into the Kelley school of business.</p>

<p>My other consideration is to stay home another semester and apply to binghamton and NYU to transfer in the spring. </p>

<p>My main concern is job recruitment, I've spoken to a few friends that have graduated from buffalo and binghamton and have been told binghamton has a serious upperhand in job recruitment. I know recruitment out of NYU would be even better, and out of kelley it would be very good as well although I'm not sure if that's so for NYC(?)</p>

<p>I need to decide whether or not it's worth it to take out substantial loans for indiana or even more substantial for NYU in order to get a degree from those schools and for the job recruitment from there.</p>

<p>I also need to consider the rigor of each school... I plan to go to grad school, so would it be smart to go to a school like buff where I would stand out and give myself a better chance at a top grad school more easily... or go to one of the better programs that may be harder and have the possibility of not doing quite as well and not getting into a top grad school.</p>

<p>I need to make a decision soon and I'm trying to get any advice that I can... please help!</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>If you plan on going to grad school then why start incurring debt now in undergrad. I would say to attend a SUNY now and then use your loans to pay for a top grad school.</p>

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<p>The counter response to that in my mind (just trying to cover all angles and consider everything) is that if I were to attend Indiana, bing or NYU I would have a better chance to be recruited for a better job. At a better job, there’s a better chance the company pays for grad school… which would be great. Maybe my impression of job recruitment out of buffalo is wrong? Not sure but the few people I spoke to said people out of buff were not getting offers to work in NYC and people out of better programs like bing were often getting offers…</p>

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<p>Binghamton might work out well then as the price is right and the reputation is there as well.</p>

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<p>personally i wouldnt go to buff…
id chose any one of the others over it… but thats just me… :slight_smile:
id say, try some more at home, get that GPA even higher, seriously… and get a lot of EC’s in, work on your essays already… NYU is really really hard to get into… but once youre in, its soo worth it in terms of possibilities:)</p>

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<p>I went to NYU myself…I think the idea of school reputations being that big of a deal is overrated. But then I guess it depends on what sort of career you’re looking for.</p>