<p>I feel very confident about my chances and am applying to CAS as a transfer, along with several other schools. As I started to think of it as a certainty, I have started to imagine what it'd be like to be a student there.</p>
<p>I have visited, but only briefly and we did not get to take a tour of dorms or anything of the sort. I plan on making a trip back once I find out where all I am accepted.</p>
<p>Anyways, what's really kinda worrying me is that I read all of these reviews about how hard it is to make friends. Is this true? It also seems that this difficulty to make friends is exacerbated if you do not live in a dorm near Washington Square Park. Can somebody (current students, ideally) tell me about their experiences. More specifically, I don't have a problem making friends at my current college, but I am hoping I can find people that I really like as well (not that just like me.) :D</p>
<p>heh. thanks for the invite. but more specifically, would it be ideal to get a dorm near Washington Square...like Hayden or something? I hear the upper-class dorms are nicer but are located farther away and I really want to be in the Village cause I love it. </p>
<p>I'd be coming in as a junior transfer but plan on spending about 2.5 years at NYU (to allow for a little time to study abroad and try to double major)...</p>
<p>You won't be allowed to dorm in Hayden because it's an all-freshman dorm...I would stay in Alumni Hall or something because it's in the village and relatively close to the Square. You should look up the upper-classmen dorms on the NYU housing website...you'll be able to see which ones are in the Village. Most are about 10-15 minutes away from Washington Square, which is not bad at all.</p>
<p>For upperclassmen dorms, there isn't really (or least that's what I have heard) - the "dorm personality" thing only really pertains to freshman dorms.</p>
<p>heh so I kinda wonder where the bohemians and rebels go after freshman year...I suppose Alumni Hall. I tried using the search function on NYU's residential site but it keeps giving me some sort of error. Bleh. But it is helpful so thanks.</p>
<p>Um so I've kinda narrowed it down (I guess if you could call it that) to the following based on proximity to WSP as well as the number of students (as in I don't want to be part of residence halls with 125 students or located 35 minutes away from class!) Also, I've obviously marked off the ones that I now know I could not live in since I'm not a freshman.</p>
<p>13th Street
Alumni Hall
Broome Street
Carlyle Court
Coral Towers
Greenwich Hotel
Palladium Hall
Second Street</p>
<p>I'm going to keep researching these, but if anyone currently attending could tell me more specifics about them please do!</p>
<p>All those dorms are pretty nice, but note that Greenwich Hotel and Palladium are primarily sophmore dorms. From what I've heard, people at Coral Towers, Carlyle Court, and Alumni Hall have all given mostly positive feedback. Honestly, I don't think you can go wrong with any of those dorms.</p>
<p>sweet Palladium seems to have everything (sports facilities, dining). I went ahead and crossed off 13th street just b/c I realized it's less than 200 residents. For some reason i really want one with a lot so it'll be diverse.</p>
<p>If you come here you should join the Undergraduate Pre-Law Society. It's really good - they give out free practice LSATs, have their own journal, hold lectures, and have a lot of connections to internship opportunities.</p>
<p>If you can afford it and if you can get in, alumni is a great dorm. It usually fills up pretty quickly - mostly with seniors, though I did manage to get in second half of junior after studying abroad. The only thing is it not the most social of dorms - people who want a single tend to like their privacy. That said, while I was there, they were making a lot of effort to organize social events and combat that stereotype.</p>
<p>Overall, I think location is probably more important than anything else. This might not be what you want to hear, but my experience was that regardless of the dorm, after freshman year your dorm probably won't be a major source of making friends. In this respect, I think NYU is a microcosm of NYC as a whole. Unless they happen to be friends from class, people don't know their neighbors or even talk to each other on the elevator.</p>
<p>That doesn't mean you won't make lots of friends at NYU. Make an effort to join clubs and to meet the people in your classes and you have no problem finding plenty of great friends!</p>
<p>Btw - I know it might be tough as a transfer student, but I met some of my best friends while studying abroad.</p>
<p>your not human if you dont like nyu, its in the best city in the world, has a great rep especially stern and it has the best baseball team in the world the yankees of course!!!</p>
<p>I was really disappointed when I realized I could never live in Hayden since it's all fresh. And yeah, Alum is too expensive (like 15k) and I don't want to live in a single really. I figure if I live in a double, triple, or whatever (I hear they have some lofts of like 11!) then that would make things a bit easier. I'm really liking Palladium hall as of the moment...and I was wondering if someone could tell me more about the Explorations programs. Are those pretty cool for meeting similar people...or what's the deal with them?</p>