<p>OK I should just paint a target on my back…</p>
<p>I give up. For some reason a certain population here on cc hates NYU. </p>
<p>Got it.</p>
<p>I’m done.</p>
<p>Missed the thread where posters are responsible for their schools shortcomings and will be punished accordingly.
My search function isn’t working either ;)</p>
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<p>Wow. You sound like some Mainland Chinese undergrads I’ve encountered while in college/taking grad classes who felt any criticism of Mainland China…however justified/accurate was “bashing China”.</p>
<p>NYU is OK in my mind, living in NYC is NOT. That is all I can say. I am visiting NYC every year, I would never ever live there.</p>
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<p>I know many college classmates and friends now happily living in NYC who’d say the same thing about the South or the Midwest…including several who were born & raised in those areas for the first 17+ years of their lives.</p>
<p>^No doubt as my own S. happily lives and rasing his family in crazy NYC. This is the only reason why I visit every year. It is a great fun to spend time with them, there is no fun at all for me to be in NYC. I am originally from place that resembles too much NYC. Unfortunately, that was the reason why my S. was looking to live in such a place. Well, good luck to everybody who is fond of taxi’s, subways, crowded streets, not for me, have had enough of it in my life. I love my back yard and empty streets and ability to drive anywhere I wish and not to worry about traffic and parking. I feel very limited in places like NYC, but my S’s family loves it, kids missing NYC while visiting us.<br>
My D. considered this dillemma very closely when choosing her Grad. School. After being in a city (much smaller than NYC and where she can almost always drive)for one year, she realized that it is not fro her either. She liked it in a middle of nowwhere in her UG.<br>
I would suggest to anybody who considers NYC, live there for couple of weeks, live with the family under normal day to day conditions and see if it is for you or not. It is very different life.</p>
<p>I think the point is not bashing NYU…the point is that kids with B grades get into pretty darn good schools contrary to the CC illusion that if you don’t have a 4.0 you should go to community college (which is an exaggeration I know). I also think the point is that reported information can be misleading without understanding the data behind the reported information. The fact that NYU takes B students is no reflection on the school or those students…it NYU and a whole bunch of other schools. It does not diminish an NYU education nor does it diminish the kids that chose to go to school there.</p>
<p>Conclusion…we all have to send our kids to “darn good schools” as other schools are beneath considering…I am happy to read very logical conslusions…on CC.</p>
<p>??If that was directed toward me I don’t understand the point you are making? I’m basically saying that many college bound kids are capable are getting admitted to selective colleges. I’m saying anything about where people choose to go. Perhaps I’m just being sensitive to the message you followed with or was this directed to someone else?</p>
<p>I did not direct anything to anybody. As a general rule, the message on CC is that kids can find the best education only at very Elite / Selective colleges. I have just repeated what has been repeated over and over again…but people are free to believe in what they want, sorry for them, but it is none of my business, I am not sensitive to anything at all, even if info is misleading, I do not really care…</p>
<p>I don’t think that’s the message on CC at all. Applicants are encouraged to go to state schools more often than any other recommendation here, at least as far as I’ve seen.</p>
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<p>That’s true. I’ve honestly seen more recommendations for the Colleges That Change Lives (kind of a misleading title; I’m sure other colleges can change lives just as well) colleges than anything else on here.</p>
<p>On the other hand, it does seem to be very common for posters here to ignore the schools that most college students in the US actually attend – the community colleges and local non-flagship state universities.</p>
<p>So when someone writes something about “most” colleges or college students, be careful to consider what the writer’s universe of colleges is. “Going away” to a four year college whose admissions is holistically done and includes substantial weight to non-academic factors like extracurricular activities may be an expected norm in some college universes, but is not typical of what many college students do, which is going to a local community college and possibly transferring to a local state university within commuting distance if s/he desires to complete a bachelor’s degree.</p>