UCSB vs. NYU

[carmine crater]

Schools: UCSB vs. NYU
Intended major: economics (hoping to transfer to business tho)

UCSB
Pros:

• good weather! next to the beach & sunny all the time
• lots of friends going here
• closer to home (am from cali)
• party school lmfao

Cons:

• got in for economics, and they don't have a business school so i wouldn't be able to transfer (but who knows may end up staying in econ anyways???)
• less prestige

NYU
Pros:

• new york connections
• has an amazing business school (but definitely cannot get in 🗿)
• beautiful location
• better than ucsb for econ
• good prestige

Cons:

• would be starting in the spring semester so im very worried ill be left out and ill have to work extra hard during the summer to catch up
• SO expensive (my parents can afford it but idk if its worth it esp for undergrad)
• not as safe as ucsb
• far from home

**Addendum: **

• top goal is to go to a school that can prepare me for grad school! i feel like nyu will be better than this but i just don't know if its worth 320k

[mighty saffron]

NYU is a school I don't really like due to the dangerous streets and stuff

also no campus which is a large consideration a lot of people don't notice

I would pick ucsb, like you said excellent parties, lower stress, and low tuition

NYU I might give more consideration if you do NYU Stern but otherwise I would pick UCSB 100%

[marsh hamlet]

Greenwich Village is many things but dangerous is not one of them. 🤣 I understand the other things ur saying but like don't say that.

1. Violent crime is not that much of a concern in most American cities anymore
2. That part of NYC is safer than many others. Midtown is more dangerous lol.

[mighty saffron]

from a suburb point of view, it is still less safe. But overall in NYC it probably isn't one of the dangerous areas.

https://www.areavibes.com/new+york-ny/greenwich+village/crime/

[marsh hamlet]

ugh

[mighty saffron]

I would prefer a campus based school to reduce the chance of crime even more

[marsh hamlet]

I feel like safety concerns in a place like NYC are just a dog whistle I'm sorry

I'd be more worried about being run over by a car

[mighty saffron]

with those subway incidents I've sort of been concerned of that place lmao

[marsh hamlet]

Much more worried

[marsh hamlet]

Yeah but those are just flashy and make it on the news

No one is going to read "person gets killed by car for the 5000th time this year"

[mighty saffron]

ithaca p sus too

[marsh hamlet]

"livability"

Just accept it

[mighty saffron]

compare to suburbs

[marsh hamlet]

Crime is all about hysteria

Just don't think about it lol

[mighty saffron]

this is one of the reasons i didnt pick usc as a freshman

I wasn't about to get jumped and murdered

[marsh hamlet]

That's paranoia lol

The only school where I'd be even slightly concerned about that is UChicago

And even that is a stretch and that wouldn't factor into a decision

[mighty saffron]

it's not paranoia, it's simply considering all the important factors

[marsh hamlet]

It's not an important factor

[mighty saffron]

I'm more likely to consider ucla which is also in a safe area for example

[marsh hamlet]

You are so much more likely to die of factors that you aren't even considering

[marsh hamlet]

It's just a stupid concern, I'm sorry

[mighty saffron]

it's also being harmed

[mighty saffron]

Obviously it's not the only thing I care about

it's one factor in many

[marsh hamlet]

Then why aren't you mentioning the fast moving traffic in California

That leads to many dying every year

vs the relatively slow moving traffic of NYC

[mighty saffron]

actually I'm perpetually stuck in traffic

traffic here is no joke lmao

[marsh hamlet]

By that I mean people driving fast

Not like fast traffic jams

It's just a nearly irrelevant concern

If something happens so little, you should eventually stop thinking that much about it

You'll be cutting opportunities because of things that objectively speaking don't affect the vast majority of people

And the fear of crime in this country

Let's be honest

Is based more off of racist fear of minorities than it is on actual danger

That isn't always the case and I bet as a young and highly-educated person it isn't for you either

But it's what started this hysteria and American stereotype in the mid-20th century

Even then tho things weren't as safe as they are now

It was hysteria even then

And now we have almost no crime

Yet people are still freaked out about this stuff

It's just perplexing

Sorry by the way to OP for ruining your forum post with this convo :p

[meager token]

NYU imo

nyu has stronger econ side but if livability and being close to family is more imp

then ucsb

[marsh hamlet]

^

[carmine crater]

thank you all!!

[slim shard]

NYU. You can't do much with an econ degree from what i've heard so business just makes more sense

[mighty saffron]

s/he didn't get into stern though

[slim shard]

if its possible to transfer

[inland jewel]

i'd say nyu if u want to do banking