<p>It all depends on what you make of it. I made by best friends at NYU freshman year, and I lived with the same 3 guys for my remaining time in college (2 of us were CAS, 2 of us were Stern). But this is just me, and I also made few good friends junior and senior years as well. If you're going to be on the tennis team, I'd say you have a good group of friends right there, but its not like you'll be limited to to just them. </p>
<p>Are there cliques of all types at NYU? Of course, cliques are at every school in the country, so its not just unique to NYU. I would say the situation is better at NYU than most other places, in that different types of people interact quite frequently. Example, I played varsity soccer at NYU, and many of my friends were soccer players (not a big surprise), but I had friends who played other sports, and many non-athlete friends as well (you're dreaming if you think you're going to be partying or rooming with the basketball and football players at UMich...at NYU, one of my suitemates played on the basketball team). </p>
<p>In general, I would say the student body is very friendly and apporachable. Outgoing? NYU weekends start on a thrusday (no friday class) and its in Manhattan which has more per capita bars than anywhere...you tell me the answer to that one. If you're a cool guy, I highly doubt someone will not want to be your friend just becuase you are in GSP...NYU people just aren't like that.</p>
<p>hey thanks for the prompt reply jw. i hope you understand why i'm being so anal about student body; i'm spending the next 4 years at a school with new students and i wanna make sure it's the best time of my life (well, maybe except for high school).</p>
<p>jw, another question, my friend's cousin who goes to nyu says that nyu is extremely bureaucratic and the "professors" there can't really speak english and a lot of them are graduate students and TAs. Is there any truth to this?</p>
<p>I have no idea what your friend is studying but I can assure you that NYU professors (except some of the ones teaching foreign langauges perhaps) know how to speak English fine. Yes, there is some bureaucracy, but not anymore than there would be at any other large school. Also, some TAs and grad. students do teach classes...again its a large school, but they don't teach the vast majority of classes by any means. Even at Harvard and Yale, you'll have TA's teaching classes, the only placees you can avoid this are small LAC's. </p>
<p>If its NYU vs. UMich, and you're worried about TA's teaching classes, you'll have much more to worry about in Ann Arbor. NYU has a better student/faculty ratio, smaller classes, and definitely less TAs teaching classes.</p>
<p>Teaching Assistants teaching Too Many Upper-Level Courses:</p>
<p>"What percentage of upper-level courses is taught by teaching assistants?"</p>
<p>1 University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
2 University of Iowa
3 University of Kansas
4 Ohio State University - Columbus
5 Purdue University-West Lafayette
6 University of California-Riverside
7 University of Tennessee - Knoxville
8 Rutgers, The State University of New Jersey - New Brunswick
9 University of Michigan-Ann Arbor--pay attention to this one
10 Florida State University </p>
<p>I don't see NYU or any other selective private school make the top 10 on the list. Its pretty much dominated by state schools.</p>