UCSD (well, all UCs) RUMOR...is it true?!

<p>@ dtc7733 - which one? be specific. the chemistry one can be completed in <4 years easily</p>

<p>well I was accepted for Biochemistry/Chemistry as they called it</p>

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<p>This is going to be a preference issue: SoCal versus NYC. Typical suburban college versus urban college. Large public versus large private.</p>

<p>Both schools are renowned for various disciplines and you honestly can’t go wrong with either one (which is why you’ll have to base your choice on subjective preferences). </p>

<p>I honestly can’t comment about the UC budget crisis, but there is great insurance in knowing that private universities typically are excempt from these types of crises because of their endowments and independent administratorship. Research funding isn’t lowered, classes typically aren’t cut, professor hiring usually isn’t frozen, etc.</p>

<p>If it were me (and it actually was 5 years ago, though I was in-state and had a full-ride to UCSD, but was facing close to sticker price NYU), I’d go to NYU. This is not to say that if I had a chance, I’d have changed my decision (I really thoroughly enjoyed by experience at UCSD), but going in naively to a school with NYU’s brand name, and being able to live in NYC (someone from LA may not find SD as exciting as NYC; likewise, you may not find NYC as exciting since it’s just across the river) would have been big factors for me.</p>

<p>Yeah, exactly. That’s what makes it even more tough; it’s like comparing apples and oranges.</p>

<p>They’re both good schools and, honestly, the only factors that differentiate them are location, student body, and weather. And student body may not even be that different.</p>

<p>So, it’s down to weather and location, and I have a hard time making myself pick a school based upon those things; they just seem so trivial.</p>

<p>Also, NYC is an amazing city, I’ve always loved it, but you’re right. It being so close puts me off in that I want my college experience to be independent, and being so close gives me the option to go home. I don’t want that so much. But with this whole budget thing, I have no clue.</p>

<p>But again, I don’t know, I just can’t bring myself to make a choice on a college based upon location and weather :/</p>

<p>^after reading a NYT article about a girl who graduated NYU on huge debt and unemployed, and also someone we know who graduated from NYU and came back home because she is unemployed to live with her parents who run a small business (her sister who went to a locat state college is employed as a teacher), I have this negative feeling about NYU. It probably depends on your major wherever you go.</p>

<p>Do you want me to bring up all the anecdotes of my unemployed friends with the same stories?</p>

<p>^ No. I was just astounded how innocent both the parents and student can be — taking out loans and paying the expensive education while being buried in debt and blindly trusting that once graduating, there will be a bright life ahead.
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