Is it worth going to a university with a better name if you can?

>>2101582
Depends but mostly no. It might matter for your first job but after that employers tend not to give a shit where you went to school or what your grades were, they care about actual job performance. For someone like me it matters even less because I'm a premed student and med schools don't care where undergrad as long as the grades are high. That's why I go to a state school in a place with good weather and pretty women. It's cheaper than a 55k/yr private school and there are far fewer liberal faggots.

I know nothing about nyu but it's in nyc so I'm guessing it's expensive as shit and liberals make life miserable

>>2101582
There's a study on that: http://www.nber.org/papers/w7322.pdf

The answer is: Not really. Your performance matters more than the name of your university

>>2101663
>>2101667
Thanks boys, people harp on about /connections/ but lets be real, all the people you will want to making connections with will be pissed drunk half the time.

>>2101832
Wrong.

I go to NYU and I only drink with friends. All of my other connections through university I met through project and start ups.

NYU is great if you put in work at the engineering school. If you go to Stern or CAS you will be competing for jobs engineers get easily.

My starting salary is 93,000 including over time. Work weeks are about 40-42.

>>2101582
Hey I go to NYU, I'm happy to answer any questions about it. It really is such a shit investment if you pay full price, I have a full ride but I know people who are taking out 68,000 dollar loans every year. I am not in finance but the name brand of NYU can really carry weight, my freshman year I got a 15$ an hour internship with housing, the connections are totally worth it if you meet people, especially out of the college in the city.

yes.

literally the only thing 99.999% of the people in your life will ask you about your college experience is "where did you go?"

>>2101832

This guy is right,
>>2102464
connections aren't made with other students they're with actual adults working in the city

>>2102576
I've always been an autist and did will in high school which reflected on my SAT's but I'm not sure i'll get a full ride to any university, never mind NYU. I was thinking about taking a gap year to work on my ideas for the year. Would you recommend that, becasue if it pays off, it'll be good to have when applying to these universities... I say that becasue apparently they love extra curricular shit, especially if it relates to the major you want. Or am I wrong.

Thanks for contributing man.

>>2102618
Gap years are becoming trendy, but I highly recommend against it unless you are 1000000% sure in your aspirations and have a turbocharged motivation, as a 1 year gap in academia from HS to Uni can cause people to drop like a rock in many facets. There are a few, however, who legitimately do something meaningful within the gap year, but take in mind, it's a large risk.

>>2102618

I pretty much agree with this >>2102771
I wanted to take a gap year but it's is a lot of time to have off and without set goals it can slip away and you've spent a year doing absolutely fucking nothing. If you have a schedule, a job, and an actual goal of what you want to do during your gap year, go for it. And so many smart people I know go to a lesser school that offered them better aid and then study their ass off and transfer somewhere better with great aid.

>>2101582
NYU Courant wanted me to join their applied math department for graduate school, I didn't go because I really wasn't into what the professors were researching. I'm more of an experimentalist myself. If I wanted a comfy high paying job I should have joined but that's not really a priority of mine