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

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Uva

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Anonymous wrote:Uva

It certainly is popular.

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Anonymous wrote:Uva

It certainly is popular.

And overrated

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UVA = Overrated

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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.

Seriously trying to figure out how the fact that people decided not to pursue their dreams is the fault of the school. Nobody hires you in entertainment because you went to a school. They hire you because you are good, or fit the role, or made a good film or otherwise took the initiative to make your own opportunity. Donald Glover is a relatively recent NYU Tisch grad. Dreams or hustle -- all on you buddy.

Are you really comparing Donald Glover - the wealthy son of a very famous man - to the average NYU student taking out student loans?

Um, I am assuming that you think all Black people are related. Donald Glover is no relation to -- who were you thinking -- Danny Glover? Nope. His father is a retired postal worker, Donald Glover Sr. Hustled his ass off making YouTube videos in college, got noticed, got a writing gig, turned it into a TV gig, blah blah blah. The lesson really being that in theory you don't even need film school. You need balls -- and talent.

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NYU

[Anonymous]

University of Virginia

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Anonymous wrote:University of Virginia

UVA = Overrated

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Anonymous wrote:At least NYU is in a world class city, eastern seaboard, and on the Acela.

Tulane is in a violent and humid sewer in the middle of nowhere. And U of Michigan is in a cold grey provincial podunk college town in the middle of nowhere; where the "big city" life is nearby Detroit, which just earned FBI's no. 1 most dangerous city in America.

Why would anyone choose to go to college in a region nobody wants to live in after college? Every Tulane and Michigan kid flees those regions immediately after graduating.

Because college is only four years, not your entire life. Ann Arbor has a lot going for it.

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UVA

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Anonymous wrote:At least NYU is in a world class city, eastern seaboard, and on the Acela.

Tulane is in a violent and humid sewer in the middle of nowhere. And U of Michigan is in a cold grey provincial podunk college town in the middle of nowhere; where the "big city" life is nearby Detroit, which just earned FBI's no. 1 most dangerous city in America.

Why would anyone choose to go to college in a region nobody wants to live in after college? Every Tulane and Michigan kid flees those regions immediately after graduating.

Because college is only four years, not your entire life. Ann Arbor has a lot going for it.

Seriously. Why would all these out of state kids stay in Ann Arbor for their whole lives? UT Austin kids don’t all stay there. Stanford kids don’t all stay in Palo Alto.

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I'd love to live in Ann Arbor

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New Orleans is in the middle of nowhere? What weird bubble do you live in?

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Anonymous wrote:UVA

UVA = Overrated

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NYU