<p>So I'm an NYU student and want to know how others perceive NYU. Generally people seem to think it's overly expensive and often ask "why didn't you go to one of the ivies instead?" What are your impressions? Is it overly expensive, an excellent school, or would an ivy have been a better school?</p>
<p>it IS very pricey
it IS a good school
and of course an ivy would’ve been a better school but it really depends on which school one can GET INTO.</p>
<p>my bro went to nyu, so it’s cool</p>
<p>Not so much expensive as short on financial aid. An excellent school, but not the traditional college experience. Fabulous for the right student but not for everybody.</p>
<p>An up and coming school that has been climbing in the rankings but not a peer of the ivies. Long been a school for those with more money than good grades (that’s from my youth).</p>
<p>I personally chose NYU over other top-schools because NYU is very reputable in philosophy, arguably it has the best faculty in the world, and is also very good in political science. As these are my two majors, I figured that NYU offered a very good opportunity both academically and for opportunities for internships in NYC. Would it have been a mistake to have chosen NYU over say Cornell?</p>
<p>Your ego’s really in need of a stroke isn’t it?</p>
<p>My perception has always been that NYU is too expensive. For example, U Pitt has a top-notch Philosophy program, and it’s like $20k/yr less OOS.</p>
<p>Since you don’t appear to want to become an investment banker or management consultant, no worries!</p>
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<p>Considering the numerous high school classmates and friends who attended and graduated from NYU over the past 15+ years, the impression I got was that it basically provided a respectable state university undergrad education/environment at an Ivy-league price…and with stingy financial aid to boot. </p>
<p>While NYU does have topflight academic departments such as Philosophy, History, and more…the real impact and benefit of that status tends to mainly fall on grad students doing their MA/MS or PhDs. </p>
<p>A reason why I and several high school classmates who turned down NYU’s CAS/Stern admissions offer felt we’d be better off going to NYU for grad/professional school. </p>
<p>If my high school classmates and I had a choice between NYU and Cornell for undergrad, we’d take Cornell in a heartbeat. Not only for the greater prestige…but they tended to offer much better FA packages to admitted students from what my high school classmates and younger friends experienced. </p>
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<p>That was still the case when my high school classmates and I were applying to colleges in the mid-'90s. While the stats of incoming classes nowadays is far more impressive, many more recent NYU grads(class '07) mentioned that NYU still had the same issues with large classes mostly taught by TAs, spotty/unhelpful advising, unresponsive bureaucracy, academically mediocre rich classmates with serious entitlement issues, and more that my high school classmates had dealt with as students in the mid-late '90s.</p>
<p>Yes, NYU falls into what I think of as the “death zone.” It charges top-tier prices, but it doesn’t deliver value commensurate with the price. For me, it’s all about value.</p>
<p>So yes, to me, an NYU tee-shirt says “I overpaid.” Just being honest.</p>
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<li>State flagship size and ambiance at an elite private school price.</li>
<li>High COA + weak FA = really, really expensive in relation to what you get.</li>
<li>Some faculties are very strong, others just OK; overall a mixed bag.</li>
<li>No real campus in the traditional sense, and no campus life.</li>
<li>Attracts a lot of New Yorkers and “tri-state area” suburbanites who don’t get into better schools, plus some students from elsewhere for whom the main attraction is NYC, not NYU per se.</li>
<li>On the plus side, it’s in NYC which if you have the money to enjoy it is fantastic.</li>
<li>On the other hand the city could be a distraction from serious academic work.</li>
<li>Bottom line, I’d never recommend it to one of my daughters. They can do better.</li>
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<p>NYU = Good school with no real campus</p>
<p>My honest impressions in high school and college of NYU: </p>
<p>I used to think NYU for undergrad was a school for rich kids who weren’t good enough to get into ivies but still wanted a brand name to throw around. After visiting NYC and touring both Columbia and NYU, I liked NYU much more than Columbia and started to understand some of the NYU hype. It’s a really cool place to go for school, just really expensive. In a way, I think NYU is both underrated and overrated. </p>
<p>As for NYU’s strength in philosophy, yes, it’s got the #1 ranked philosophy department but I still wouldn’t pay NYU tuition for undergrad to go there for that. I’m a philosophy major myself, and I can pay much less to be exposed to philosophy depts at Rutgers (ranked #2) and Pitt (rank #4).</p>
<p>My impression of NYU: an amazing amazing school! I am dying to get in! It has incredible resources and opportunities for students, unlike many Ivy Leagues in rural areas - thats not to say Ivy Leagues aren’t great, but if I were to get into NYU and say, Yale, I would choose NYU any day!</p>
<p>NYU is a very good school. It gets knocked because it’s awful with financial aid leaving many low-income/middle-income kids soaking in life-choking debt (which reflects badly on NYU). It has no real campus and therefore can lack that “spirit” that exists at schools with a traditional campus. </p>
<p>*but if I were to get into NYU and say, Yale, I would choose NYU any day! *</p>
<p>If you can full pay at NYU, then that would be fine. If Yale would give you a great FA package while NYU would give you big loans, then choosing NYU wouldn’t be a good idea. And, could ruin your life.</p>
<p>NYU is prestigious, period. I would rather go there than Brown or Dartmouth. But then again, that’s just me.</p>
<p>I wonder, do people have the same perception of USC as they do NYU? I would hate to be stuck with the “spoilt kid” tag since I applied to USC.</p>
<p>So in everyone’s opinion would it have been a wise decision to choose NYU over UM or Cornell, since FA/money wasn’t an issue when picking a school?</p>
<p>Everyone in my school who got in last year wasn’t that smart.</p>
<p>I might choose NYU over UMich and Cornell but that’s NOT because NYU is superior to the latter schools, but because NYU is in NYC and NYU has this unique reputation that caters to well-off students. </p>
<p>As to NYU vs USC, NYU has a much stronger brand. Somehow, when I think of a great university in LA I think of UCLA, not USC.</p>