<p>Here are just some questions I have for current students. I've never really visited/toured NYU, but it would help to get some perspective from a student! Thanks :) answer as thoroughly as you want!</p>
<p>1) how is student life? is it easy to not "be a number" and make friends with lots of people as well as finding your own group, or is it more of a "clique" type of feel?
2) since there are no sports, is school pride low?
3) how competitive/cut-throat do you feel it is?
4) is it hard to study in the cold? :\ if anything that is my biggest fear coming from texas
5) was financial aid generous?
6) do you know if the pre-med program is any good?
7) what dorms do you encourage? discourage?</p>
<p>THANK YOU AND good luck with your last few months! almost school out for everyone! :)</p>
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<li><p>there are many activities on campus to keep you involved in things besides studies…but it’s not a campus-y type school so it doesn’t lock you into its environment completely…or at all. I think this makes it easier to mingle with different kinds of people rather than forming cliques. I never really felt like a number—I had the luck of having people who really cared about me and nurtured me in my department and at work (Bobst library)…but of course you’ll run into the cold administrative side of things where you’ll be a number. </p></li>
<li><p>I never felt like “yay I’m from NYU go Bobcats!” but I think that school pride appears in other ways besides sports (although I thought NYU did have sports…) I mean, NYU owns so much of the city territory (which makes local residents pretty angry at times) so you might get the “I own this place” kind of feeling sometimes. But yea, besides wearing NYU shirts and hoodies I haven’t spotted anyone enthusiastically painting their faces with “NYU” branded on their foreheads…</p></li>
<li><p>I found the classes challenging but I didn’t feel that it was a student-against-student competition. Altho, some classes had grading curves, which made it a me-against-them type thing because you knew that a certain someone got a 95 on the exam and bumped the curve. Othertimes, the teaching assistants and professors would admit that they grade you in relationship to how other students did…so if they absolutely LOVED someone’s essay and that person gets an A than other people’s essays will be compared to it. I guess that’s also like a curve. But I have to emphasize that I never really felt a cut-throat competition. Just concentrate on yourself and do well and wish everyone the same. Form study groups and help each other (most students I met were receptive to this). </p></li>
<li><p>The cold sucks. So do the summers when the air-conditioners make you freeeeeezeee in the classrooms. I lived in NY way too long to imagine a different atmosphere so all I can say is: good luck in making the transition! Oh, I actually find that sometimes the cold makes you concentrate…I hate studying on a beautiful, warm day because all I want to do is enjoy it in the park. So cold can help you concentrate sometimes. What else are you gonna do besides sit and study, hugging a hot cup of coffee? </p></li>
<li><p>For me, yes. I had a really financially disadvantaged family situation so my package was generous. Still had loans of course but I felt pretty covered. </p></li>
<li><p>I don’t know anything about the pre-med…but that it’s difficult and sometimes they try to “weed” people out by pressing them to drop it. That’s just one thing I heard from a friend of mine who did pre-med. </p></li>
<li><p>I commuted but I know that the farther the dorms, the better they are—but those are mainly for upperclass(wo)men. </p></li>
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<p>I graduate in 2009 and I have to say, it was gone in a blink!</p>
<p>THANKS! 
Very thorough. Ultimately, I’d love to end up there if my financial aid permits me too!</p>