<p>I heard so many cons about NYU:</p>
<p>-SUPER EXPENSIVE $$$
-NO CAMPUS
-STUDENTS ARE VERY UNHAPPY
-LIFE IN NY IS VERY PAINFUL</p>
<p>does anyone want to show me how all these are supposedly true?</p>
<p>I don’t think new york is for everyone, especially not every 18 year old.
It takes a certain type of person to deal, but, I dunno, I’m not letting any of that stuff bug me.</p>
<p>Well…
-It is super expensive, there is no denying that
- Why do you need a campus with green grass and a gate if you have Lower manhattan as your campus?
-All the people I know there love it
-Life in NY is interesting. You get the benefits of NYC, but at the same time, living there isnt the easiest thing (I wouldn’t call it painful). Basically, the city will beat you up, you just beat back on it and everything is alright. With that said, I can’t imagine wanting to living anywhere else. period. (I basically consider my self a New Yorker in exile).</p>
<p>my favorite quote about NY was in new york mag a year or so ago. </p>
<p>“I call new york city my abusive boyfriend. It beats the **** out of me a lot, and I complain, and cry. But, deep down, I know I’ll never leave it.”</p>
<p>It depends on how well you’ll adjust. Overall the people I know adjusted very well to the city but that doesn’t speak for all 5,000 or so of us. I lived in Jersey so it wasn’t an extreme change, I’ve been to the city before.</p>
<p>I can’t say that I’m ecstatic but I do have alot of challenging work here which is worth paying for, I guess. Aid here is stingy… they didn’t give me any and I’m relying on outside scholarships.</p>
<p>I personally am in love with NYC. If you don’t like NYC, if you hate being around tons of people, if you hate large cities… ■■■■! Don’t go to a college like this then! It is a no brainer. If you are not independent enough you will not make it in NY.</p>
<p>Exactly. I’m so freaking independent that I can’t see myself anywhere else. I need the city so badly; I love it. New York is so efficient and just plain amazing. I feel like I get so much more done when I’m there.</p>
<p>i love being busy and rushing around. i hate small towns, i hate the “rural” area… i hate rolling plains… i would not survive in a campus situated on “rolling hills and green acres and a lake” ick… no thanks.</p>
<p>werrrrd</p>
<p>central park is about as rolling and green as I’m willing to get…</p>
<p>haha. agreed.</p>
<p>Lmao NYC’s not all that tough. I survived it.</p>
<p>There’s no reason to put a college down just because it wasn’t meant for you. Chocolate or Vanilla?</p>
<p>I read on princetonreview.com that they are ranked high for most unhappy students.</p>
<p>Unhappy with financial aid though, not the school</p>
<p>And it makes sense that NYU would have a lot of unhappy students - the student body is enormous. Even if only 2% of students were unhappy, well that’s already ~1000 kids.</p>
<p>i don’t think nyu makes kids unhappy but a lot of realists and romantics (on opposite ends of the spectrum but both extreme) tend to gravitate toward nyu and i think it’s safe to guess that these people tend not to be super peppy/“happy”</p>
<p>however i think that this thread is pointless bc if you have to be convinced to apply somewhere, it’s pretty ***king obvious you shouldn’t apply to that school… duh</p>
<p>It really depends on your personality. some people dislike “not having a campus,” so it’s not for everybody… but at the same time, it’s New York. I like it because you’re not really isolated from the “real world.”
Most students I know end up loving wherever they go, though. I didnt want to go to NYU at first but now that I’m here, I’m having a good time. </p>
<p>… and of course it’s expensive. NYU does offer pretty substantial merit scholarships though…</p>
<p>Yeah, I was definitely one of those who didn’t think the no campus thing would be a big deal, but when I actually began attending NYU I realized how much it negatively impacted me. So I transferred, no big deal.</p>
<p>There are definitely a lot of cons about NYU, but there are also so many people that love it. You can’t really speculate about how it’s going to be; you have to actually go there and live it for yourself. If you go and don’t like it, you can transfer like I did. At least you can say that you tried it, you know?</p>
<p>One needs to distinguish between NYU and NYC. Liking one does not mean that you will like the other. I was miserable during my two years at NYU. Never in my life had I experienced such negativity. I went there thinking that college was a place of intellectual exploration, of coming into one’s own as a person. Instead, NYU turned out to be filled with angry, hateful people who sneered at everything and looked down on everyone. And there was a great deal of homophobia among the students, which is really strange, considering that it’s in the Village and has a huge theater arts program. The only thing that kept me going was the city itself, and the only benefit that I received from attending that sham of a school was that it allowed me experience NYC. I don’t live in NYC, but I visit frequently, and NYC feels like a second home whenever I’m there.</p>
<p>Personally, I can’t see the appeal of a “traditional” campus full of college greens (I only applied to campus-less schools in Boston and NYC). It’s a matter of personal taste, really. If you don’t think you’d be able to handle city life, then don’t go.</p>