Feeing guilty for attending NYU

Emotional Support

I want to start by saying I’m grateful to be attending NYU - it’s my dream school and have been set on it for years now. But for som reason I can’t help but feel guilty for attending NYU because I’m not attending Stern or any of their top schools, but rather engineering which I’ve heard terrible things about after being accepted. I’m not really locked in on a major bc idk what I want to do so I was thinking about trying to switch to Econ (if they allow Tandon-CAS transfers), but even then I feel so bad that my parents are paying 40k a year (after scholarship/aid) for me to not attend a top school in the country. Maybe if I was a stern student I’d feel better but I just feel second-rate and my parents feel the same. Maybe I’m just being ungrateful.

Posted Mar 1, 2026, 2:35 PM UTC

2840
Loading comments…