Rediculous re: NYU prestige being comparable to Northeastern/Bing/UVM. OP please do not listen to this. And Stern’s prestige is completely separate.
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That’s your opinion. NYU is mainly ‘prestigious’ for finance. Outside of that, I’m not sure many see it as great shakes. Please reread my comment - I compared it to very good schools, including Northeastern.
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Northeastern is not a very good school by any stretch of the imagination. There are at least 20 better state schools.
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Opinions are a dime a dozen here… I’m sure OP is aware enough of their reasons for choosing their (possible) colleges to discount some comments here. Wouldn’t bother debating posters on opinions and also pre-empting a mod jumping in with “cc is not a debate society” 
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Isn’t it a bit harmful when your “opinion” (picking a school like binghampton or northeastern over NYU) could cost a student hundreds of thousands of dollars over their career? I understand you have a positive opinion and pride in what I assume is your alma mater in NEU but please also have other peoples’ interests in mind; you are here to give advice I think.
It’s harder to get into northeastern than NYU, I know very successful NEU graduates (my husband has his MBA from Stern).
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Our neighbor’s son went to Northeastern and is now an investment banker at UBS in NYC.
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Acceptance rate does not equal difficulty; CDS shows 25th-75th percentile 1440-1530 SAT and only for the 28% submitting SAT scores. The 1390-1460 of 2021 (last test required year) is probably more representative. Comparatively NYU SAT is currently 1480–1550 and CDS pre-test optional (also 2021) was 1460-1520.
NYU also has not one but two flagship programs in Tisch and Stern that, at the undergraduate level, are top 5 in their field… and in sub-fields, such as finance for Stern, top 2. NEU does not have a single program that’s top 10 in any field.
There are successful graduates at every school, and in the grand scheme of things NEU is a good school. No doubt you can be successful from there. But this is a red herring on your part; I am not speaking in absolute terms but saying that Northeastern compared to NYU is not a good school.
And congrats to your husband on his Stern MBA, but we are discussing undergrads here; Stern undergrad is relatively much stronger than Stern MBA.
This is anecdotal evidence. Doesn’t help. If you want the full picture on how NEU does in finance, check this out from 2020:
10% of business majors went into investment banking, and their average salary was 81.5k. 81.5k was FAR below the street average of ~135-150k in 2020 (now about 160). This means that out of the 10% that manage IB, they almost all go to very subpar banks/boutiques. Congrats to your neighbor’s son on UBS, which is a street average bank, but this is an extreme outlier result. Compare that to NYU, which even OUTSIDE of Stern places dozens on kids to bulge brackets. And Stern sends 35+ kids a year to goldman and JP morgan alone. (see this https://www.stern.nyu.edu/sites/default/files/2025-05/NYU%20Stern%20Undergraduate%20Class%20of%202024%20Outcomes%20Report.pdf)
An opinion is that. You might go to Hofstra or Rhode Island and make more than you would from NYU. You don’t know where you are - right place, right time. Until a recent retirement, we had a Harvard Law reporting to a Fairleigh Dickinson undergrad. We at one point had a Vandy MBA reporting to a West Georgia undegrad.
There’s no assurance from any school. There are really successful grads from most any school.
People have opinions. It was me who said, outside of finance, NYU isn’t great shakes vs others. You disagree. That’s your opinion and it’s fine.
You want finance but got deferred at Wharton. You were thinking about NYU, as I recall, but concerned about grade inflation. I showed you third party data that showed NYU is #1 on Wall Streer due to size but per capita it’s similar to Fordham, Babson and Bentley. Is that accurate ? I don’t know - it’s not data I created. It’s from college transitions.
It will be hard for grads anywhere to get in that industry.
But if NYU is the school for you - then great. Go for it. What you think and wants what it matters.
But life isn’t 100% - where you go - like every Stanford grad makes more than a SF State grad. Or every Harvard grad makes more in life than a Hofstra grad.
So you cannot say anyone is costing anyone $$.
But opinions are that - opinions. Sometimes we agree with each other. Sometimes, like in this case, we don’t.
Pursue as you wish, not how others do.
What I see here is a whole lot of anecdotal evidence. We’re also not talking about me, we are talking about NYU vs NEU. See my responses to other people on this thread for non-anecdotal evidence. OP is applying for business.
There are advantages to both. For one, the campuses are different. One has co op ingrained. They are very different schools.
People need to be somewhere four years, day after day. What might be better for one isn’t necessarily better for another.
This is the OP who is maybe finance, maybe marketing. Mom just wants them in a big name.
I’d argue they won’t be pursuing finance. You can tell - they are not quant happy - and a co op for a marketing student would be a great thing.
I can see NU being better plus OP wants to get out of NYC and experience more. Or as she said - “and I think time away from my mom is a good thing.”
Every case is different and based on what OP writes, it seems even Suffolk or Drexel would be better than NYU.
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I’m sorry but I don’t think Suffolk or Drexel are better than NYU for anything (unless you somehow get zero aid and need it at NYU). The resources, alumni network, and quality of student are not comparable. These things (especially quality of your peers) matters much more to a smart student than campus and even what major you are applying for.
Debate isn’t allowed but you are missing the point - every student is different. Per OP, NYC isn’t really good for them.
I’m not sure why you aimed at that post at me, I was not the one saying bing or NEU is as good as NYU (and no, I have nothing to do with NEU and no idea why you thought that)
I was the one saying careful whose opinions you take into account here on CC - some people have drums to beat here (something you’ll notice if you’re on this forum for any amount of time). I think the data you posted are useful btw, and the kind of thing I was alluding to as being able to reference beyond opinions here.
This is a chance me thread. Please get back on topic and direct comments to the OP. Further posts will be deleted without comment.
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@anonymous0714 you have an excellent acceptance to Fordham. Do you understand that if you get accepted elsewhere ED2 that you will need to give that one up?
You are a strong student but I think these ED2 choices are reaches.
My vote would be to apply regular decision to any remaining colleges. That leaves your options open to choose from all of your acceptances before May 1.
Everyone else in your life seems to have a number one choice for you…except you. YOU are the one going to college.
No need to ED2 anywhere.
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Well said.
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