<p>Go to Davis. NYU is not worth the extra cost. I know several students who for reasons similar to you turned down NYU to go to their flagship publics (a public that isn’t as well regarded as UC Davis). Afterward, they went to more prestigious law or graduate schools.</p>
<p>It’s not worth it for your parents to use their retirement money or for you to take out big loans to go to NYU. UC Davis is a well regarded school.</p>
<p>Echoing the previous sentiments. NYU isn’t that prestigious of a school, and certainly not worth the additional cost.</p>
<p>Don’t end up like this guy:
[The</a> Cost of College: Dream school, nightmare debt – amFIX - CNN.com Blogs](<a href=“http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/25/the-cost-of-college-dream-school-nightmare-debt/]The”>http://amfix.blogs.cnn.com/2010/05/25/the-cost-of-college-dream-school-nightmare-debt/)</p>
<p>Or this girl:
[A</a> former NYU student faces over $100,000 in debt and everyone’s pointing fingers | - NJ.com](<a href=“http://www.nj.com/shopping/index.ssf/2010/06/a_former_nyu_student_faces_ove.html]A”>A former NYU student faces over $100,000 in debt and everyone's pointing fingers - nj.com)</p>
<p>You might also point out to your parents that spending their retirement money on your undergraduate education is not doing you any favors in the long run if you end up having to support them, pay their long-term nursing care bills, etc. because they spent all their money on NYU. Aging parents who can support themselves are a huge blessing to any adult child.</p>
<p>^^^</p>
<p>So, true. </p>
<p>Going to NYU is not going to make you more successful no matter WHAT your intended career will be.</p>
<p>Keep in mind the “extra” costs of NYU that come with living in Manhattan. I don’t think $15 beers are common near Davis.</p>
<p>Plus the travel costs back and forth. </p>
<p>I find it strange that parents who can be so frugal to save that much on a very low salary would be willing to spend it so unnecessarily on NYU. What do they think NYU is going to do for their child that UCD can’t??? Certainly nothing that is worth their retirement!!!</p>
<p>Suze Orman and other financial advisors always advise against using retirement money for college education. Your parents will need that money. You need to tell them this and let them know you have decided to go to UC Davis. They will thank you later for being so wise!!</p>
<p>Go to UC Davis. The financial stress is not worth it.</p>
<p>My roommate’s dad went to UC Davis and makes 500k a year. I have no idea what he does, but I’m sure he’d have felt silly if he’d shelled out for NYU.</p>
<p>Hi:</p>
<p>I’ll chime in with the rest and say that UC Davis sounds like the right choice to me. In fact, reading this thread has made me want to find out more about this solid, reputable school. Best of luck to you!</p>
<p>The two main factors Law Schools will consider for admission is GPA and LSAT score, not so much the prestige of the school (of course Ivies are a separate thing). Check this thread from the UChicago forum to get some perspective.</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936860-honors-graduate-174-lsat-shut-out-top-law-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936860-honors-graduate-174-lsat-shut-out-top-law-schools.html</a></p>
<p>You can also check this one:</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936205-chicago-undergrad-worth.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/university-chicago/936205-chicago-undergrad-worth.html</a></p>
<p>Show your parents this article:</p>
<p>[placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt:</a> Personal Finance News from Yahoo! Finance](<a href=“http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109701/placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt?mod=edu-collegeprep]placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt:”>http://finance.yahoo.com/college-education/article/109701/placing-the-blame-as-students-are-buried-in-debt?mod=edu-collegeprep)</p>
<p>If law school is the intent (or any grad school for that matter), then Davis is totally the way to go. Show a strong GPA, ace the LSAT, and use the money saved to pay for Stanford Law.</p>
<p>Congratulations on your acceptances! UCDavis is a wonderful school for undergraduate education. To be able to get a degree from Davis for 40 grand is quite an opportunity.
Go and enjoy!</p>
<p>We are not a low income family, and my advice to my own would be the same. Davis!</p>
<p>Sorry, it looks like another posted submitted the same article.
The student in the article went to NYU which is why I posted it. It’s a good cautionary tale. A degree from NYU does not a necessarily lead to a decent job, or even any job. This person is only making $22 an hour - and this is the best paying job she’s ever had since college - even with her prestigious degree. Guess it wasn’t worth $100,000 after all.</p>
<p>Friend of mine went into big debt to send D to NYU. Daughter was not able to get summer jobs in our city because people here like to hire (even for permanent jobs) students from the local 2nd tier public or the state flagship, which is less highly rated than is NYU. </p>
<p>Daughter now at great expense spends summers working in NYC. She also had to work unpaid internships in NYC while her high school classmates who had gone to in state public schools were getting paid ones.</p>
<p>Unless you have your heart set on living in NYC, this is a no-brainer. And even then, as others pointed out, you could go there for grad school.</p>
<p>Even if your heart is set on the NYC experience, with the money you’d save by going to Davis, you could spend your vacations in NYC doing more than you could do as a broke NYU student.</p>
<p>Like everybody else, I think UC Davis is the obvious choice! It is a terrific school in the same “prestige league” with NYU. Remember you will not only have to pay the tuition differential but your travel expenses will also be higher if you are coming from the West Coast.</p>
<p>If your parents insist on lavishing their scarce funds on you, I think you’d do better using it on an experience that would really broaden you, for instance an immersion-based study- abroad program in your junior year, which could make you fluent in a foreign language.</p>
<p>I’m in NY, and I don’t find NYU to be all that prestigious anyway. Good school, certainly, but nothing worth breaking the bank. Only exception might be if you were majoring in business or finance. NYU Stern’s proximity to Wall Street leads to heavy recruiting for their business students. NYU Law is also highly regarded and heavily recruited, but you don’t need NYU undergrad to get there.</p>
<p>Do you notice that not one person is telling you to go to NYU? That is highly unusual here on this forum, and it means something.</p>