<p>What DON'T you like about NYU? Anyone?</p>
<p>i thought the dorms would be cool... but they can be really unfriendly. i think my floor worked really hard so that we got to know each other, and its been better than what i've heard from other people. and next year (upper class years) i hear dorm community goes out the window (like people don't even know their neighbors. part of me says that if everyone just convinced themselves to introduce eact other, smile, say hi, a lot of the "loneliness" would be eliminated. but thats a really optimistic view, and in reality, going to nyu and living in the dorms can feel like just living in some apartment building and rushing in and out for work....</p>
<p>Isn't that good for those that are actually going to live and work in the city after graduation? I guess that takes away from the college experience and the community of the school...:-</p>
<p>No real campus. And, I think very little sense of a college community.</p>
<p>Is there a community within the schools?</p>
<p>the reason i like NYU is because i want to go to a school with less of a "college community".</p>
<p>everyone thinks they can play the guitar b/c it makes them sooo ~<em>artistic</em>~</p>
<p>Do people...together (like with each other)...take advantage of what the city has to offer?</p>
<p>sure, tomorrow my son is going to the museum of modern art (again). Not sure if he is going alone, but if you were his friend I'm sure he'd be happy to have the company.</p>
<p>he's on campus thru most of the winter break so he could work alot while he has the time.</p>
<p>I don't think you can be in NYC and not 'do' the city.</p>
<p>If you don't want to do the city, what's the point of being in it?</p>
<p>I'm going to MoMA on Friday! It's free from 4-8 pm...</p>
<p>What I don't like? It's hard to make friends: floor isn't so social unlike other schools (just came back from visiting friends at Harvard, BC and tufts). Too many required courses. =/</p>
<p>Compared to other schools of the same caliber, the amount of required courses is nothing...</p>
<p>1) lack of community within the dorms after freshman year
2) too many pretentious hipsters (who only hang out with themselves)
3) red-tape beauracracy and how there are different divisions and CAS students can't minor in Studio Art or how you can't study this or that just becuase you're not in this school or that school and transfering from one school to another is a hassle
4) social atmosphere kinda sucks, sorry</p>
<p>NYU seems to be just like my school, and my reasons for transferring...except for the fact that it has Stern and is in New York City. It's hard to change a school I guess, but I guess I'd have to make more of an effort. I'm sure it's really tough on transfers (making friends), but it's easy to do really well just because you may be studying more than you would.</p>
<p>I wrote this on another thread, but I'll repaste it here. The last two are much less important than the first one. </p>
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<li>People who think they are somehow above the rest of the society's influence with their unique artsy pursuits and think they are just soooo "New York" when they read Ginsburg at the local coffee shop (while paying with their daddy's credit card). </li>
<li>I can never find a desk at the part of the library that faces the park<br></li>
<li>No wireless in the dorms</li>
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<p>agreed with worth2try on #1. Also that theres like an abundance of rich kids (who are either celebrities, kids of celebrities, or friends with kids of celebrities) who worship refinery29 and think they are the coolest shiz ever and probably never study</p>
<p>hahaa worthy, I think I'd probably yell at the kids telling them that they should go to the jazz club or something if they want to be Ginsberg. The Beats didn't hang around coffee shops, they were more counterculture than that. </p>
<p>micheeatsfish: what's refinery29? Why is NYU so celebrity friendly?</p>
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3) ...CAS students can't minor in Studio Art or how you can't study this or that just becuase you're not in this school or that school and transfering from one school to another is a hassle
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<p>I agree that the separation of schools looks artificial. However, you are wrong about CAS students being unable to minor in Studio Art. The changed the policy recently, email Ann Chwatsky to verify.</p>
<p>What I don't like about NYU? That its academics are completely inconsistent with its stature. I think that NYU's rank is helped by the fact that it is located in New York, and everyone and their mother applies (D included :-), which props up their selectivity stats. If you look at this year's ED thread and compare that to say, BC or Brandeis, you will notice a shocking discrepancy in the measurable stats such as GPA, class rank, SATs.</p>
<p>I'm a junior in Stern</p>
<p>Keep in mind the opinion of NYU tends to decline as time goes by, so try to keep that in mind since it's mostly freshmen on this board who haven't experienced the negative sides of NYU (although the responses seem on target in this thread)</p>
<p>1) Community. To most people who haven't experienced college, they don't think this is a huge issue. Although it's an ambigious word, NYU is lacking in every definition. During Freshmen year everybody lives reasonably close to WSP and you make close friends with most people in your dorms...and everything is great. For example me and my guy friends would have poker night every Thursday followed by Zen sushi for some cheap beer (We all had early recitations Friday, but still wanted to go out Thursdays)..and everything was grand. Then Sophomore year I had Carlyle, and most of them had Water Street - which is a 30-60 minute commute depending on the hours. NYU is probably one of the few schools in which distance will actually lessen friendships. Furthermore, since there are no real campus wide events, no real opportunities to meet up. For a while you make an effort and commute, but most of the time you just say "***** it" and stay in your area. Sophomore year, aside from your best friends freshmen year, you will probably have a different clique primarily because of distance issues . Not this is necessarily bad, but developing strong friendships over years is important...and I think this factor is why people say they have so few "true" friends. Not because they are shy or nyu is unfriendly...its just that by Sophomore year and definitely Junior year you can't run out for quick drinks or a quick snack with your freshmen year friends since they live so far away, and it sucks.</p>
<p>2) People in Stern are tools and think if they work 90-100 hours a week as an I-banker maybe people will like them. A lot of them go out 2 or 3 times A SEMESTER and spend the rest of the time studying to maintain 3.9+ and its very demoralizing. </p>
<p>3) hipsters aren't too bad, they throw some fun parties in williamsburg (Rubulad, Danger list). Can be a little pretentious, but they are pretty impressionable, so you can mold them if need be. </p>
<p>4) Stern's curve is still too rough when it comes to recruiting, a 3.5 is a 3.5 to most recruiters, yet a 3.5 from HYP is exponentially easier due to grade inflation. </p>
<p>5) NYU does half-assed attempted to fix student dissatisfaction...which then causes us to be so low in the ranks. NYU and Stern specifically should be ranked MUCH higher based on SAT/GPA , but we always get nerfed because we finish near last in Peer evaluation surveys (which make up ~30% of rankings) </p>
<p>6) People have unreasonable expections. NYU is the number 1 dream school, yet 30's in rankings...yet people applying don't seem to compute this disconnect. Furthermore, It's not "cool manhattanites' that are applying to NYU is people who want to BE "cool manhattanites." It's a bunch of people trying to hard to fit in. As an aggegrate, this becomes problematic. People come to NYU expecting these awesome people - because they want to be one of these awesome Manhattan people they see in Felicity. Consequently, everyone starts to act like a character in a movie - since thats what they see from everyone else - and it just seems so fake</p>
<p>7) People don't understand college costs </p>
<p>8) CAS has some BAD classes</p>
<p>9) People here are irrational politically. They don't even understand the issues, but protest and join groups so they can fit in. (I'm a liberal but NYU has turned me more moderate just seeing how crazy some people here are). Furthermore, no one is even really passionate - they yell a lot and protest a lot...but don't actually do anything that requires work and effort. Unlike the 60's and 70's, College students here aren't changing anything, and aren't even attempting to beyond half-assed rhetoric.</p>
<p>Keep in mind, NYU isn't too bad. I have a great internship (Which I'm at right now haha) and will have a great paying job when I graduate. I've made a lot of close friends despite the commuting issues. I would probably pick NYU again. There are good things, Manhattan is fun as hell - I'd get bored as heck if I had to go to frat parties every night. The dorms are nice despite being over priced and spread out. Stern has some of the best professors in the world, and recruiting is good (although it should be much better).</p>
<p>Why is it that all these Sternies are trying to transfer to Wharton? It's kind of alarming. People don't even support the soccer team (which I know was sick this year, they beat us :-()? I think the real attraction of Stern is it's location and it's ability to get recruiters...but I think it sucks that people at Stern are so career orientated that they don't do anything.</p>
<p>GroovyGeek-- From my understanding, CAS students can't minor in Studio Art unless they're an Art History major. Of course this is CAS's policy not Steinhardt's. Ann Chwatsky is part of Steinhardt, and when i spoke to her last she doesn't know about the Art History/Studio Art minor policy that CAS has, but in the end CAS is the one handing out degrees and diplomas. So in reality, you could take 4 art classes and satisfy all the studio art minor requirements, you just wouldn't have it written down officially on your transcript.</p>
<p>...this is just from what I know, since I last looked into it. If things have changed since then, let me know...because i still realllly want to minor in Studio Art.</p>
<p>it looks like they changed the studio art policy. hmmm...</p>
<p>I agree about #9 mattistotle. I always considered myself liberal but nyu has made me more moderate.</p>