Pace University or University of Colorado Boulder? HELP

College Search & Selection
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I’ve been having the hardest time deciding between these two schools. What one school has, the other doesn’t have. I’m going to outline what I like and don’t like about these two schools and I just really need some advice, I’ve never been so torn. I have a scholarship from Pace but even with the scholarship, it’s not that much cheaper than Boulder so cost of the school is not relevant when trying to choose between these two.

Boulder Pros: Traditional type of college which is what I prefer, overall a great school with a good reputation, best college town, great weather, amazing social scene, strong business program.

Boulder Cons: Not New York City meaning networking is not as strong for what I want to do (marketing in the luxury beauty industry).

Pace Pros: It’s in nyc which means lots of great networking for what I want to do, New York is my favourite city in the whole world and I know I could be happy there.

Pace Cons: no social life, hard to make friends, school doesn’t have much of a reputation outside of nyc, commonly referred to not a good school overall.

Essentially, while I have always dreamt of going to a more "traditional"college such as Boulder, Pace has more oppurutnites for what I want to do in the future but I don’t know if it’s worth being lonely. I don’t want to sound like all I care about is social stuff but Boulder still has a great business program. The main thing I would be sacrificing is the networking and connections that Pace has. Hopefully you guys can understand why I’m torn. PLEASE HELP

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While Pace on the paper does not seems to have a better reputation as Boulder, it is well respected in the Business World. If you do well in Pace, you will have a great future. The intern opportunities are endless at Pace and its placement office kept a huge list of paid intern jobs and they are very accessible in the NYC. You can work part time if you want and they pay well. I was in Pace Westchester and there was no jobs over there, as soon as I moved to NY, I was able to find a part time paid intern job on the wall street out of a page in the placement office. That leads to a full time offer from the same company upon my graduation.

If you want to ski, be happy, goto Boulder. If you like to work and get paid, go to Pace.

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Boulder is far, far better of a university than Pace. Boulder also has a very good B-school. Easy decision.