Columbia.

Yesterday I accepted at Columbia. It was a hard decision to make given the timing of Columbia's offer and the high quality of NYU's program, but I believe Columbia was the right way to go. I talked to five of my friends in faculty positions about it and the advice came down to 2 for Columbia, 1 for NYU, and 2 neutral. One of the two for Columbia was also very strongly for Columbia. For me, a deciding factor was also that a few people advised that Columbia had a stronger faculty-placement program and my own research supported that. And I am of course pursuing an LLM because I want to teach in the near future.

Columbia will be more expensive, involve more commute time, and I now have to get all my school stuff done all over again. Still, Columbia is the route I'm going. Classes start in September.