Graduate programs

I am mainly between Cornell and Columbia for my top choices.  I was accepted to Cornell and still waiting to hear back from  Columbia. Should hear back early March

Finance focused RE programs? If you want a very strong finance-focused education and the chance to accumulate several NYC brand name RE investment-centric work experience while you study and a large local, extremely committed vocal alumni base then NYU's RE Finance & Investment program. But if you go down that road, follow the repeated sagely wisdom from this forum and enter with a "Day-1 Mindset” to: hustle, network, contribute and be consistently active with your industry leading profs, RE clubs and seasoned, local NYC industry classmates to obtain those extremely valuable intra-semester positions and internships.

If you want more full time focused study outside of NYC (which will offer an internship I believe during summer break period - check on this aspect to make sure it's current) with an excellent also 2 year+ finance education given its many wonderful electives then Cornell in Ithaca. Columbia’s program is very much arch+development focused (which may not be a bad suggestion for you at all, diversifying your background, since you already have a seemingly quite solid formal finance degree and financial management background).

I think one aspect as correctly pointed out above by cre analyst (2 summers of experience vs 2 full years?) - how much experience do you have going in as that will greatly affect your opportunity coming out - with more deep, on-point and practical experience leading to much better post-graduate outcomes.

So far I was accepted to Pepperdine (w/$) Georgetown, NYU (w/$), Cornell (w/$) and Fordham (w/$) Johns Hopkins (full ride). Waiting on Columbia but I’m leaning towards Cornell since I like their in-depth 2-year program.