#NYU Tandon vs Rutgers-Brunswick (Honors)/Stony Brook (Honors)

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stone prawn
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Schools: NYU Tandon vs Rutgers-Brunswick (Honors)
(Stony Brook admitted me, but I am taking a gap year so they might not give me honors again)

Intended major: Electrical Engineering (+related majors and minors)
Similarities:
Costs:

  • Rutgers: 55k but much cheaper if I move, which I will if I go
  • NYU: 60k (for just tuition)

NYU Tandon
School 1 Pros:

  • Prestige
  • D3 Soccer (my big dream)
  • Close to home/friends, no need to dorm
  • Probably more ambitious student body (?)
  • Able to do minors in the best NYU schools like Stern, Courant (?)
  • 1 billion investment into Tandon recently
  • Possible networking not just in EE but other campuses, since I would minor
  • More internships/opportunities (?)

School 1 Cons:

  • Expensive
  • Don't like campus, also lived in city my entire life
  • Strange course curriculum for EE, odd reviews from people and seems like many people get admitted by random chance?
  • Many commuters, I would prefer a school where the majority of people socialize and are housing there
  • Lots of international students, I would prefer people who have lived in the USA

Rutgers-Brunswick (Honors)
School 2 Pros:

  • Better student life
  • I really like their campus and how huge it is
  • Super cheap
  • Nice intrumural sports
  • Live on my own, not in the city
  • Close to nature, hiking and it would be a new experience

School 2 Cons:

  • D1 soccer
  • Sports culture/traditional experience (I personally don't like it, other than the campus)
  • Might also be a commuter school, but I did not get that vibe

Tiebreaking considerations

  • NYU seems to admit much stronger candidates
  • NYU has good labs but it seems to not have much space and people, so I think it has less clubs and could be annoying for engineering projects?
  • Not sure which school is "better" for engineering and what factors go into which is "better"

NOTE: Cost is not what I am thinking about because I have options

worldly parcel
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SBU honors is good bro

copper egret
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nyu if u dont care about cost

polar nova
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For engineering, I'd pick Rutgers over NYU generally. One thing to consider is how much smaller engineering and specifically electrical engineering is at NYU. From College Navigator, NYU graduated just 36 students in EE. They had more students doing master's (61) and PhD's (34) than Bachelor's degrees. Rutgers, on the other hand, had 253 Bachelor's grads with 53 Master's and 11 PhDs.

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My take is that if you want an undergrad focused experienced, Rutgers is preferred. If you want access to higher level research, then NYU might be better since you'd likely have better access to that research as an undergrad. But I'd probably still go for the undergrad experience at Rutgers.