Decisions Help!-- full ride Vanderbilt vs. Columbia?

Haddon1267
Fri, 13 Apr 2012 22:54:31 +0000

OP: your situation is not comparable to the woman of Harrington College of Design in Chicago. As an ORFE student, and maybe with an interest in working on Wall Street, you have a very different prospect financially. Depending on your ambition and the efforts you are willing to put in to support such an ambition, a Wall Street job for a Columbia ORFE student is quite realistic. The amount of debt (20x4=80K) is not trivial, but is not something you cannot handle with a finance career. Again, you have to make sure you work hard enough and be competitive for one of those jobs if you choose to take on the debt, but you don’t need to be scared of it.