NYU Shanghai Is NYU's "Bad School" Right?

Musktard
Sat, 04 Apr 2015 20:42:36 +0000

I think the article Xeros shared is pretty interesting. http://oncenturyavenue.org/2014/12/the-rise-in-student-transfers/

@listmin123‌ The NYU Shanghai officer I talked to explained to me that this statistic includes anyone that includes NYU Shanghai on their application so that article is pretty disingenuous. The rest of your post is pretty irrelevant. Are you a student there? If so, your argument and the manner in which you present yourself isn’t too convincing. I know that is rude and I’m sorry but you seem obviously biased and your argument isn’t very coherent. Are you telling me you’ve “rub[bed] shoulders…with CEO’s (sic) from the likes of Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan”? I find that hard to believe. NYU by itself is already considered a tier 2 or tier 3 school. I’m not sure what would dispose Lloyd Blankfein to spend his time with random students from a school of NYU’s caliber. To be clear, I’m not even considering the Shanghai affiliation. And please do not try to explain to me that NYU SH has more pull in financial services compared to Stern.

@listmin123 That’s a very fair point. What would you attribute to the lower SAT scores from US applicants to? There seems to be many people on CC with NYU SH as their second or third choice that were ultimately rejected by all of the campuses except NYU SH. Is there an explanation for that? The “best fit campus” argument doesn’t hold because each campus does admissions separately. Also, NYU is certainly a valuable name for a resume but it will not get your foot into the door for many jobs unless the word ‘Stern’ is appended. Unfortunately, NYU is just a tier 2/3 school in the states. Consider CC ‘top universities’ section, for example.

@kateth14‌ Many people take AP classes. That isn’t an excise for a low unweighted GPA. Have you gone through the CC profiles of people accepted to NYU SH compared to people accepted to NYU AD/NY? There’s a noticeable drop in quality.

@Xeros97‌ Thanks for sharing your experience with me. I’m sorry you had a rough time there. Where did you transfer to? Do they have a transfer office?

@Anuragr‌ I really appreciate your response. I suppose my worries have more to do with culture we exist in and less to do with the school itself. College has become a system of social meaning as opposed to a means towards education. There are so many workplaces that seem to value ‘luxury’ brand college names. NYU (sans Stern) already has a comparatively weak name so the fact that many people (even in this thread) seem to believe Shanghai is the lesser NYU campus worries me. NYU SH doesn’t seem to compare much weight in China itself either. I’ve looked through the campus recruiting pages of many schools with offices in China and they are far more interested in schools like Peking University. Then there’s the fact that China’s economy has been de-stabilizing all year. What will industries look like in Shanghai when it’s 2019? I’d appreciate your responses to my concerns.