<p>“Academically, I would give NYU the slight edge. While DukeDevil1170 is right about grad school, but NYU undergrad is better than UMich, since state schools are usually less selective for undergrad due to state mandates.”</p>
<p>Nonsense. Michigan is academically superior to NYU in a vast majority of comparable departments. NYU is not a typical private school. It has over 42,000 students and is even larger than U-M.</p>