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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]The answer is always NYU.

-1st generation college grad who went to NYU[/quote]

Why do you think it is overrated?
The cost ?[/quote]

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. [/quote]

Thanks for sharing. I had the opposite experience. I posted earlier about how rigorous I thought the curriculum was. I decided to graduate early at the last minute, as a philosophy major, and I got a job at a major investment bank, solely due to career services. My friends are mostly from arts and sciences and have done very well for themselves. I went on to a different graduate school and I have a good job. But it's a gigantic school, so very reasonable that people would have different experiences.

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PP here:
That’s understandable that people in different programs had much different experiences.

Tho, I have to ask: how the hell did you parlay a Philosophy degree into an I-banking job out of undergrad? I was under the impression from career services that banks wouldn’t even bother interview those outside of Stern, Econ, and hard science majors. The banks already had so many applicants from those programs that they couldn’t/wouldn’t interview others.

I actually now work in the financial industry, but that’s due to going back for a masters in Econ. [/quote]

That's a great question! So it's true that the I-Banking divisions would probably just recruit at Stern. However, the Operations Divisions often look at Arts and Sciences and that's how I was able to get in. I talked up my concentration in Logic being a good fit for Ops, and worked out well for me. But most of my major just was (really difficult) philosophy classes (NYU and Princeton were the philosophy powerhouses at least at that time). The plan was originally pre-law, but not going in that direction ended up being fine. Having to read some dense prose, make sense of it, follow the argument, analyze it, speak about it, write about it.... all of these skills are helpful and lend themselves to many things. Often on this board when parents are nervous about the majors their children are choosing and the job prospects, I tend to be in the camp of- let them do it. Let them do what interests them and what they are going to get good grades in. Especially if it's the kind of student who can do a good job and explaining and defending their abilities and tying them to prospective job responsibilities. A kid who is less skilled at interviewing and needs their resume to speak for itself, should maybe rely on those high paying major categories. Just my opinion![/quote]

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