<p>Stanford, Yale and Princeton universities rounded out students' top five choices in the survey.</p>
<p>The survey is compiled from forms sent in by people who buy their book - most recently titled "America's Best 357 Colleges - 2005".</p>
<p>Interestingly, responses declined 13.6%, from 3,339 last year to 2,885 this year. It is unclear whether the decline is due to a drop in sales for the PR publication or to some other reason.</p>
<p>oh, but NYU is so ugly!</p>
<p>PR's sales may well be down. They had a net loss of $31 million for fiscal 2004:</p>
<p>its rankings are phony and I think students have finally realized</p>
<p>there are lies, damned lies, and statistics.</p>
<p>"What's your dream college? The Princeton Review, best known perhaps for its annual ranking every August of the nation's best party schools, has ranked America's dream colleges by surveying students and parents. The question was open-ended so any college or university could be named. In all, 223 schools were identified as "dream colleges."</p>
<p>I really hate the term "dream college"</p>
<p>Stop complaining. NYU is great, let them have their little dream school thing. (I might be biased; I got an early acceptance to their film school)...haha</p>
<p>lol be careful - NYU film school students have the highest suicide rate of any college students.</p>
<p>I applied to both schools, as well as a few others. For me, Harvard is a bigger dream than NYU (though I know I'd love it at NYU as well). I however, did get deferred from early action at Harvard...so we'll see if the dream happens.</p>
<p>Crypto86-Where did you get this information? I thought Cornell had the highest suicide rate (got a likely letter from there, but most likely not going).</p>
<p>Crypto86 that is just wrong. A girl did sadly commit suicide in 2004, however this was only the second suicide at tisch film, in history. I know, because I spent the summer at nyu.</p>
<p>Well my twin brother is a graphic design major so I heard it from him - he was looking into NYU but decided against it. I hear the film school is insanely difficult and students just can't take it anymore so they jump off buildings and stuff. Ok, by "students" I mean a few, but still, that's crazy.</p>
<p>Hmm. Same thing happened at Yale. One murdered, one likely suicide (jumped off a building) in two years.</p>
<p>o wow, i don't remember reading about anything like that</p>
<p>The girl who committed suicide at tisch was not just under pressure; she was mentally ill. She stripped off all her clothing and ran up the stairs as secruity men tried to stop her. It was horrible. </p>
<p>You might be getting NYU admissions confused with how hard the school is. Something like 4% are accepted each year...its really a matter of luck that I got in.</p>
<p>NYU probably got the dream school spot more because of the location than the school (which is good). I guess a lot of people really want to study in New York.</p>
<p>At least those living in NYC, Westchester, Long Island and northern Jersey.</p>
<p>Michigan's 15 story bell tour in the center of campus has that reputation too....</p>
<p>pshhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhhheeeeeeeeeww.....Splat</p>