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Please dont take Naive in Nassau (aka i love li) as entirely the truth. Hofstra has no great reputation. Its a local school catering to local ambitions but it isnt a garbage institution. You can do very well with a degree from hofstra but you wont be recruited by big firms. With that said, if you can make an elite school, and get a job as a lawyer in a big firm or as an investment banker, that 200,000 in debt will be small change.
I Love Li But....where did you go to college? Elite school or local?
Oh stop being silly ... I'm a junior high school dropout! College? Who needs college? ...rolling my eyes...at gpsma.
Hofstra university with very little loan or an elite liberal arts college which is in top 5 US News ranking with large 200k loan?
International student with no visa to work in US.
Dream: Wall street, iBanking, law school, MBA
I've made to the most selective school but the money makes me think again. Will I be happy at Hofra?
Simply put, you will not get into iBanking/Wall Street with a Hofstra degree. Those are very competitive industries, that can afford to filter out applicants based solely on the prestige of their degree. Hofstra has zero prestige.
IF you have the grades do your under grad at Hofstra and then apply to another institution for your JD or MBA.
Do not plan on being able to do this.
#1-You can only get your MBA after years of work experience, and you will not get into a top-notch MBA program working in the kinds of positions that will be available to you with a Hofstra degree;
#2-Although you can apply to law school straight from undergrad, the fact is, law schools know Hofstra is a "lesser" school, so unless you've got a 4.0 with an amazing LSAT and stellar recommendations, you will struggle to get into the highest-ranked law schools.
Nothing but a degree from a first-rate institution will get you into investment banking or in the door at one of the major Wall St. players. Hofstra ain't it, and it will be a real struggle to develop the type of credentials needed for a first-rate graduate school with a Hofstra education.
(If you wanted to be in almost any other field, I'd be telling you to go for Hofstra - it's a decent enough school and a free education is a huge benefit in this day and age. However, there is almost no way to make the jump from an undergrad like Hofstra to a white-shoe law firm or a major i-banking firm; if you're 100% certain that that's what you want to do, you need the credentials to make it happen.)
Oh stop being silly ... I'm a junior high school dropout! College? Who needs college? ...rolling my eyes...at gpsma.
Oh come on now we know you are an Ivy League grad. You have a BS, MS and PHD....you know what they stand for...BS, More of the Same, and Piled,High and Deep.
Your erudite commentary is the only reason LI CD is here for!!!
These are dying industries in America. The way to land a US job in a big city, big company nowadays is with a degree in computer science.
Maybe you want to get a job in i-banking or law in Hong Kong or Singapore? Better check where they recruit their employees. I suspect it's not from Hofstra.
You dont need work experience to get an MBA. I know many people who went straight to grad school right after undergrad
Ditto this. My advice is Hofstra, then law school or MBA which ever floats your boat when the times comes. I think you need to stop planning the "forever' part of you life and worry about what is in front of you now. I would be wealthy if every high school kid I know followed the career path they thought they would when they were in high school. Also, often times if you are bright, the company will pay a portion of the mba tuition. Take one step at a time and don't plan so far ahead. It is nice to have dreams and goals but you need to creep before you can walk.
I've known people to graduate as undergrads at Farmingdale and Stony Brook and get into wonderful graduate programs, including very good law schools. It is all in how much you study and apply yourself. Study like there is no tomorrow, get a mentor, bug the professors for internships, ect. DO NOT get into debt as an undergraduate-save that $$$ for graduate school or to start your household. 200,000 is a lot of money. And one last piece of advice. The LSAT counts for lot, much more than your choice of undergraduate school. Start studying that test two years in advance.
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