<p>I've read somewhere on CC that the NYU community is weak and you're going to have to be tough to go there/live in NYC. Plus, many of the NYU students are unhappy and most transfer to Columbia or Sarah Lawrence etc. Is this true?</p>
<p>What is Sarah Lawrence!?</p>
<p>Anyways, yeah of course you need to be a special kind of person to go to NYU…you’re in a huge city! If you want to play ultimate on a grassy quad and tailgate before your school’s football games, then NYU would probably be the last school on your list.</p>
<p>MOST transfer?! we have a high external transfer rate, but out of the 55,000 students that attend NYU, most definitely don’t transfer, maybe 8-10%, and the biggest reason is money. </p>
<p>But yeah, you have to be a certain kind of person to make it here. independent, street smart, kind of non-traditional. I mean, it’s a pretty unique school environment. whenever I tell people I go to NYU, one of the first things they ask is if it’s true it doesn’t have a campus. No, it doesn’t. We’re not a traditional college with a picket fence and grassy quads and football games and frat houses…everyone is more independent, the social scene revolves around the city and sometimes it feels like you’re going to Grad school rather than Undergrad.</p>
<p>^that’s exactly why I love NYU. I say no to grade thirteen and yes to the real world.</p>