“Out of curiosity, which is worse: secular college or YU?”
YU because at least if you go to secular college you won’t come to [falsely] believe that you are getting real, true, and valid unadulterated ruchniyus,; however,if you go to an institution like YU, you will think that you have as good in ruchniyus and as valid a derech in Torah which isn’t true. (Rav Moshe ZT”L once said that one of his maalas was that his daas Torah was never corrupted in the slightest by even a shemetz of secular knowledge.)