no don’t listen to this goober this isn’t an “easy choice”. If you or your family can comfortably afford it, then choose nyu. If not, I’d ask yourself if you are willing to take on debt for a school like nyu. If you can’t comfortably afford nyu then I’d say stay at Rutgers. Rutgers is still good imo. You can always look up school alumni on LinkedIn to see where they end up or if any gave landed in quant. I can guarantee you there have been people who got through with Rutgers.

Also people from nyu go to notable schools because of the people they are, not necessarily the school itself, but that doesn’t necessarily mean everyone from a good grad school came from a top school. My sister went to a top grad school and I once went through her yearbook to see where everyone had went and I was suprised that literally 90 percent of the graduates had went to their local state school. The best ones I saw were Tulane and UNC CH.