UVA vs NYU LSP? Need help

International student so no worries on financial issues, have to decide which to choose (NYU LSP or UVA). WIth NYU LSP offer in hand (spring enrollment), I’m thinking about reapplying to other schools and entering another college in 2024 Fall, UVA may be my priority in this case. A somehow reachable ib target school for me as an international student. 

Parents be like: More opportunities in NYC, which puts NYU in advantage in terms of recruiting. Those opportunities (not directly related to internship, hard to describe. Try to imagine the scene: walking around the street in NY and suddenly find some activities or competitions hosted by big banks and you can then take part in, or suddenly meet some famous banker in coffee shops. idk if you guys got this) that may enable me to meet new people and boost my possibility to receive an internship offer. I don’t know if this is true but I really can’t get this idea (almost everything can be done in the digital age–from sending emails to coffee chats…), what if the entire NYU (still, with a great B school as well as large alumni network) is located in the center of nowhere? To what extent will the location of the school affect my networking process/internship opportunities/IB placement? Just curious. Location tends to be the main reason that my parents and a butch of people around me persuade me to enroll into NYU LSP program and transfer out to CAS/Stern by the end of sophomore year. Really don’t know if this is a stereotype rooted in Chinese point of view or if this is the reality–location matters and it’s an influential factor when choosing schools, as you can have access to more opportunities than those schools in the country. imo location does not matter for internship application.

By the way, I know banks recruit from Stern heavily, how about other schools in nyu? Assume Sternies and kids from CAS/LSP/Steinhardt work hard at the same extent (involve in clubs, network with alumni and people on linkedin, learn  necessary technical questions, etc.), will the eventual placement of non-stern kids be on the same par with those sternies? And what actually makes NYU stand out in recruiting other than location factor,  large alumni pool, and the prestigious B school?

People around me are telling me NYU is the best in terms of recruiting (of course they mean it’s beyond schools like Harvard/Wharton), they deem NYU (by NYU I’m excluding stern in this context, sorry but non-stern NYU) better than lower ivies like Cornell/Dartmouth and business school of great public schools like UMich/UVA. According to the comprehensive target school lists made in 2020/2021/2022 on wso(the 2023 version sucks), there’s not much of a significant difference between Stern and the 4 schools mentioned above. 

According to a variety of school comparison posts in this forum,I can tell that UVA mcintire seems to be on the same par with schools like NYU stern/Umich ross/Georgetown/Notre dame/Northwestern/emory/some top LACs when considering recruiting? Of course there’ll be slim differences but not too much among those schools but not that much. Am I correct？