Has anyone else experienced the lack of prestige with saying you will be attending NYU? At my school many average students were accepted to LSP last year and I’m encountering people being oblivious to the competitiveness of Stern. How can you set yourself apart without coming off as being pretentious or insecure?
Note the insane stats of Stern: http://www.stern.nyu.edu/programs-admissions/undergraduate/stern-advantage/profile
You cannot worry about such things as lack of “public perception” prestige when considering an admission offer from highly selective programs. The general public is not your audience when it comes time to get a job. You need to impress hiring recruiters and clients - in other words, people who well know the value of a Stern degree and the quality of its graduates. Stern has a near 100% (if not an actual 100%) job placement record, and these placements are clearly with high-paying and/or prestigious opportunities given the average starting salary statistics. That’s the only “prestige” you should be worried about. Stop trying to justify your decision to people who don’t matter, and congratulations on your acceptance.
I completely agree with prospect1. There’s no reason to have to justify yourself to classmates who will be more or less irrelevant for the most part in later pursuits. I’m sorry if this part comes off as rude, but just the simple fact that you want others to think of your Stern admissions as impressive or difficult is already pretentious and insecure. Applying to a school or program simply for the fact of wanting recognition from getting in is completely misguided. Of course, you should be proud of your accomplishment. It’s an amazing one, and it’s my dream. Just don’t go around hoping for everyone else to be.
I was admitted to Stern ED, and I can definitely relate you how you are feeling. However, its important to realize that the schools at NYU might as well be their own individual schools. The acceptance rates between schools are so different (stern is 13% while some others are ~50% or higher ) that the reputation is really based off of which school you are at at NYU. I don’t think you are being pretentious or insecure since its difficult to get into Stern and some people (obviously not the employers) don’t recognize that it is much harder than regular NYU.
“Fellow Sterniens”?
“People being oblivious to the competitiveness of Stern”?
“Note the insane stats of Stern”?
Are you trying to be an elitist or something? If you want to “set yourself apart” without being pretentious, why don’t you take a more humble approach and stop acting like a stereotypical Stern student? Be content with your own accomplishments, and don’t obsess over what others think about you. Keep complaining about how your no one recognizes your “prestige” and you’ll never “set yourself apart”. In fact, you’ll blend in nicely with the rest of the population: just another pretentious, insecure, attention seeking kid.