What is the most overrated school popular among the dc metro area crowd?

[Anonymous]

Tulane

[Anonymous]

Vanderbilt, Notre Dame, Rice

[Anonymous]

U of Va

[Anonymous]

New York University

[Anonymous]

University of VA

[Anonymous]

UVA, NYU, Rice, Vanderbilt

[Anonymous]

Umich, by a mile

[Anonymous]

Univ of Va

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is always NYU.

-1st generation college grad who went to NYU

Why do you think it is overrated?
The cost ?

Costs.
Administration that’s more focused on real estate expansion than education.
Extremely low pay for adjuncts and PhD students relative to cost of living.

I was a double-major in Tisch (Film) and CAS (Political Science). Nearly everyone I know from Tisch is no longer in the arts field. I was friends with a ton of acting students and I know only one who “made it.” The rest? Working in a gym, paralegal, etc in their late 30s. I’m still close with about 10 people from my Film program and only two still work in the industry (one is a union editor the other makes documentaries but has a very low income).

It’s a school that doesn’t instill any sense of reality in most of its students. My friends in other CAS majors got their PhDs at great schools, but struggling in academia to make ends meet. We are all late 30s.

There are great programs at NYU - Stern, pre-med tracks, neuroscience, math. But outside of that, it’s a lot of broken dreams. Career counseling is atrocious.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:The answer is always NYU.

-1st generation college grad who went to NYU

Why do you think it is overrated?
The cost ?

Costs.
Administration that’s more focused on real estate expansion than education.
Extremely low pay for adjuncts and PhD students relative to cost of living.

I was a double-major in Tisch (Film) and CAS (Political Science). Nearly everyone I know from Tisch is no longer in the arts field. I was friends with a ton of acting students and I know only one who “made it.” The rest? Working in a gym, paralegal, etc in their late 30s. I’m still close with about 10 people from my Film program and only two still work in the industry (one is a union editor the other makes documentaries but has a very low income).

It’s a school that doesn’t instill any sense of reality in most of its students. My friends in other CAS majors got their PhDs at great schools, but struggling in academia to make ends meet. We are all late 30s.

There are great programs at NYU - Stern, pre-med tracks, neuroscience, math. But outside of that, it’s a lot of broken dreams. Career counseling is atrocious.

This is timely advice about most colleges.

[Anonymous]

Emory, Vandy, Wash U., Tulane, NYU......all glorified safeties. Oh, and UVA of course.

[Anonymous]

Rice, Emory, Vandy, uva, NYU

[Anonymous]

NYU

[Anonymous]

Now the question is how many of your kids applied to those schools you named and got rejected or not off the waitlist or didn't apply because they wouldn't get in?

Be honest.

[Anonymous]

University of Virginia