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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]There's a big difference between NYC and Pittsburgh for four years.  I went to Pitt and know Oakland well.  I've also been to NYU's campus area.

I think the student bodies will vary in regional background as well.

New York is a deliberate choice in all ways.

I can't imagine anyone being neutral about the choice after visiting both.  And I can see it going either way.

I personally would recommend being local in NYC for anything related to NYC Finance.  It's just easier when you can network locally, can get to know future apartmentmates, etc.

For West Coast tech business jobs it probably doesn't matter.[/quote]

Sports always injects variables into a decision process that go beyond how a normal kid would look at the school.

Do you have a pathway to starting as a freshman all 4 years at NYU vs CMU?  What special supports and perks do you receive at each?  How much of my life is consumed just getting to and from practice?

It’s not entirely rational…also, any merit dollars from NYU or CMU, so what’s the cost.[/quote]

PP.  I don't know how frequent Western Pennsylvanians are at CMU these days.  But it seems really alien to me as an ex-Pittsburgher that people would go to CMU for a team sport and then expect that sport to provide them with a guaranteed robust and lucrative network.  Whole university alumni base okay, but just one team's alums?  I am skeptical.

There are older threads about CMU on here worth Googling.[/quote]

Many schools that were fairly regional in terms of student bodies even in say the 1980s are very different today.

A school like Emory was quite regional and now 30% come from the Northeast with many private school kids.  There is a fairly large and strong NYC network that wasn’t nearly as prominent 30 years ago.

Also, you don’t need tons of alums to be successful, and as a student/job seeker you need to kind of “go with the flow”.

So if 10% of the team’s alums are successful (multiply that by say 25 years of alums) and loyal and they work at places that are perfectly fine in the finance or tech world…well you go with the flow and intern or take jobs at those places.[/quote]

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