<p>long story short, i have an immediate family member who’s a professor in one of NYU’s schools and i get a free ride as long as they work for NYU. </p>
<p>the only way you’ll know how much financial aid you’ll receive is if you apply, to be honest.</p>
<p>Thanks, MAP. 
So, there’s no way to predict who will get aid and how much? </p>
<p>Also, as you probably know, NYU was ranked high on “Least happy students”. Can you think of any particular reason for that? Does NYU really have a cynical/depressing overall environment? 
Just wondering because I already get tired of seeing so many down, apathetic people at my high school and might not fit in with the NYU environment if it’s similar.</p>
<p>I can’t even say how I relieved I was when I saw other people concerned with the partying thing. :)</p>
<p>Thank you missamericanpie!</p>
<p>the statistician in me raged at that princeton review poll because it was the most ridiculous thing i had ever seen. 300 students polled per university out of the TENS OF THOUSANDS of NYUers?! but i digress.</p>
<p>no, it’s not that depressing. however, it’s New York. it’s easy to turn inward and feel depressed in a big city. i think people don’t realize this before they come here. New Yorkers seem rude and apathetic to non-New Yorkers. we’re just blunt, honest, and wrapped up in our own things. i spent a month in Paris and i didn’t notice any rude French people, until i realized i was just desensitized having been in New York all my life. </p>
<p>basically, it’s very, very, very easy to be depressed in New York. but NYU itself is not depressing. we actually have amazing counseling services for students, including an anonymous self-help line staffed by trained counselors and group sessions for people to just let out their feelings.</p>
<p>Ah, okay, thanks for the info!</p>
<p>(current freshman) The first couple of days I actually felt depressed about NYU because going into a city from a rural setting, losing all my friends/family/space/etc was somewhat of a big shock and for a bit I wasn’t even sure I wanted to go to NYU anymore, lol. Now I’ve settled in and it’s great! </p>
<p>(concerning a question on the first page) I’m not a big drinker/party-goer either but I’ve had no problems making friends. My suitemates ARE the drinker/party-goer types and they’re having a great time too. Honestly, NYU is so diverse that there will be a niche for you if you just put some effort into finding it.</p>
<p>Everyone is concerend with how much it costs to attend, and I was wondering, for those who pay, is NYU worth all of the money?</p>
<p>i won’t weigh in on that, but everyone i’ve met who is full pay agrees that NYU was absolutely worth it. </p>
<p>HOWEVER</p>
<p>they were also in fields where NYU or the NYU name would REALLY help. </p>
<p>a) someone in Tisch
b) someone in Stern
c) other people in my communications program in Steinhardt </p>
<p>you’re paying for the experience but you’re also paying for the degree and the line on your resume. Stern and Tisch are renowned, and my department is attracting media scholars from around the world.</p>
<p>to be really blunt in that New Yorker way, if someone were to say that they were going to be an English major and full pay at NYU, i would tell them to take hard look at NYU again. </p>
<p>i’ve heard of people leaving NYU because their loans were revoked. </p>
<p>NYU offers lots of experiences that you can’t get at other universities. just my study abroad alone made coming to NYU worth it, and i’ve heard other people say the same thing. </p>
<p>it’s a real personal choice. what people also forget to consider is that if you’re considering some sort of professional schooling after NYU, you’ll have even MORE loans. how much debt are you willing to accrue?</p>
<p>@ohgod
Do your differences in attitude toward drinking/heavy partying affect your relationship with your suitemates? Like, do you feel like they treat you differently or judge you because of that? I know I can base my own judgment of NYUers on this, but I’m just curious to know.</p>
<p>@missamericanpie
Do you know anything about the Marketing program at Stern. I know it’s not Stern’s best major, but what do you know from talk to other NYU students, if anything?</p>
<p>And another comment to the non-drinking crown on this thread. How do you feel about the CHOICES floors (substance-free floor, including drugs) in some of the dorms? Personally, I’m on the fence about it. Why? It’s more of an separation thing. I can be friends with people who do that stuff, it’s just that I’m not the person to hang around them while they’re doing it.
…anyway, I want to live in Founders Hall, which doesn’t have a CHOICES floor.</p>
<p>@ohboi</p>
<p>i had a girl in my video game class who was in marketing and she was totally bored by the major. she felt that all of the work was really easy. however, she also remarked that the Stern name had helped her get a few interviews at marketing firms. </p>
<p>CHOICES are mainly for upperclassmen who don’t want to be around the stuff. maybe they’re recovering from addiction, maybe their parents were alcoholics, maybe for religious reasons, whatever. it means that you won’t imbibe alcohol or do any drugs (smoking isn’t allowed either, even if you smoke outside) in the residential hall AND that you won’t come back to your room intoxicated. people ask me all the time, “aren’t all res halls drug free?” YES, they absolutely are drug free. CHOICES are for people who don’t even want to be in the same room as smokers or people who drink outside of the dorms. </p>
<p>i’m of age to drink, and i’m very respectful to our roommates who are both religious and who both choose not to drink. we keep our alcohol in a separate fridge and we both try to be quiet when we come back late from going bar hopping.</p>
<p>So, what do you think makes NYU’s study abroad program so unique/different from those available at other colleges?</p>
<p>Also, when people get their loans revoked, it’s because they didn’t meet the minimum GPA requirements/academic progress?</p>
<p>Ohboi: Well, I have 5 suitemates and I would say 3 of them (including my roomie) like to go out partying, etc. and the other two (and me) are social in other ways. None of us knew each other before rooming together. To be honest recently between classes, homework, and hanging out with all the people I know dorming near the park I don’t even see/talk to them that often. Basically we just have different personalities/people we like to hang out with, and we all know that, so besides from “hi/bye/how’s your day been” we just don’t include each other in the things we do. Am I being judged? Sure, probably, but it’s not really affecting me adversely. Sometimes you’ll see roommate horror stories (someone I know has a roomie who doesn’t flush half the time, ***? and another got sexiled, kind of – woke up and her roomie and a guy were going at it, lol) but we all get along mostly so it’s fine. There are plenty people here who aren’t wild party-goer types, so I wouldn’t worry about that.</p>
<p>NYU really does go above and beyond to make sure that your study abroad money is used wisely. we have tons of study abroad sites, and NYU sponsors weekend trips and events for you to go to, for free. i was in the graduate program so our program was more freeform, but i basically stayed in a Parisian apartment overlooking the Eiffel Tower, and NYU helped me find that apartment. NYU offers lots of support to study abroad students and there’s many opportunities to go abroad. CAS Presidential Scholars get to go abroad for free. i’m not sure about the other schools. there’s intersessions abroad, summer abroad, winter abroad, whole semesters abroad. it’s a really well developed program.</p>
<p>Is there anywhere I can get free printing on campus? I heard Weinstein and 3rd North, but I’m not sure if that’s true.</p>
<p>so everyone gets a 500 page limit PER SEMESTER, not per academic year as the rumor mills have been saying. there’s a few places. </p>
<p>a) Kimmel: the SRC on the 2nd floor and on the 4th floor
b) the Steinhardt building on West 4th
c) Washington Place computer lab
d) Third North
e) Weinstein Learning Center</p>
<p>it will make you swipe your card and say that it’s taking “.10 cents”, but it’s really deducting from your 500 page allotment. </p>
<p>[NYU</a> > ITS > Locations & Facilities > Computer Labs](<a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/its/labs/]NYU”>http://www.nyu.edu/its/labs/)</p>
<p>What kind of career opportunities are there with a media, culture, communications major? I’m really interested in publishing and magazines… Do you get prepared to work in these fields?</p>
<p>Hakan Yalincak is my boy.</p>
<p>Also, class sizes: I know they will vary, but how big are you classes, generally, missamericanpie? As a freshman/sophomore, will we be able to experience many classes less than 25ish? I know my school right now is totally overcrowded, and even classes in the upper 20’s feels like a lot of people to me… Thanks :)</p>
<p>NYU has low endowment $$ per student. That said, they DO give LARGE scholarships to some students. Not to brag, but to inform, I will say that my son, a CAS junior who had a 2250 on his SAT received a 30K scholarship the first year and it is 32K this year. My EFC is 12K so he doesn’t get any federal grants. Also he is taking out perkins loans of 2400 per year and a stafford loan of 3500, 4500, 5500 for his first three years. BY no means is he getting a full ride.</p>
<p>Also the Palladium gym is amazing. My son has worked there for over a year now (both as work study and over the summer - non work study).</p>
<p>Is there a program or person to talk to at NYU about scholarships? Does NYU offer merit scholarships? I know it says somewhere on the website, but what do dorms come equipped with? Do they tend to have ugly carpets like dorms usually do? Also, a subjective question: How is the food?</p>