<p>Been accepted to both, and finding it really hard to make a decision on which to go with. </p>
<p>I'm probably looking at doing most of my work in Political Science and Economics. I'm interested in the more traditional college life, but NYU also has a significant bonus from being in NYC.</p>
<p>opinions? I have heard some strange things about NYU's political science department, but I don't know if any of its true. Can anyone comment on its quality?</p>
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<p>If you're a conservative, don't go to NYU!!</p>
<p>YouTube</a> - Liberal NYU Abuses Students; Hires America-Hater Teachers</p>
<p>um... it's from fox news. don't believe any of their bs.</p>
<p>I wouldn't trust ANY network news in today's world... However, that youtube video is extra ridiculous. Professors aren't paid to agree with their students, they are paid to teach them.</p>
<p>yeah fox news is a bunch of propaganda ********</p>
<p>I'm pretty much down to the wire on making this decision. I'm actually a transfer coming all the way from New Zealand. So i have the tiniest of amounts of time left up my sleeve. My big problem is that the two schools pull me in very different directions, so its hard to compare them in quantitative terms.</p>
<p>I guess I'm a little worried about the community aspect. At my current school we don't really have any campus community whatsoever to speak of. And i lament that.</p>
<p>But NYC is so awesome (visited it on a trip around America earlier in the year, also got a chance to go to Chicago and Northwestern itself). And it does have a lot of connections to things that could help me later on in my life. </p>
<p>As for political orientation, as a foreigner considered somewhat conservative in his own country, i can pretty much speak both America's political languages, so to speak. I'm also fairly tolerant of anti-americanism, though i dont like it, because we have a lot of really ignorant anti-Americans here, so that isn't likely to get to me.</p>
<p>I also have guaranteed transfer housing at NYU, and not at Northwestern. I consider that a really important factor. I dont want to live off campus. Indeed coming from so far away it would be really difficult for me to even arrange it.</p>
<p>Northwestern University is indisputably superior to NYU CAS.
You're basically down to academics v. location and housing.</p>