<p>Yeah, so the above question. What appealed to those of you who currently attend (or attended)? What appeals to you still about your school and why did you choose to attend? (Besides perhaps financial reasons.)</p>
<p>Also, could anyone give me some information about classes? What is the general atmosphere like? What is something an "insider" could tell me about NYU that I couldn't figure out from the website.... how about some gritty inside details?</p>
<p>I wanted the city for most. I didn't care if people were anti social (they actually are not) I wanted the freedom, and the independence. And of course the NYU name. I wanted city internships (perfect for a journalism major) and I wanted just to know that at any time there was no excuse for me to be doing nothing.
It is everything I wanted and more. The people are really nice. I see people I know all the time. My classes are nice.. I actually have reasonably small classes (btwn 16-20 people) for the most part.. but my friends in Tisch have classes with about 300. There's a lot of reading and writing. Get prepared to read and write for hours. I thought college was going to be easy.. but it's not really.
NYU really is what you make of it. There's billions of oppurtunities and you need to be a person that wants to make the most of it.
And lack of campus.. so not true. Washington Square is our campus. And during school hours.. you can really feel it with tons of kids rushing through.</p>
<p>Check out this thread. <a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=246778%5B/url%5D">http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=246778</a></p>
<p>NYU is amazing, Classes are great, academic scene is great (i saw Thomas Friedman (world is flat) and Stiglitz debate about globalization a few weeks ago, Social scene is great, bars are amazing, restaurants are great, drug scene is good too.</p>
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<p>Yes I'm sure you have solid connections with the bums in the park. xP</p>
<p>I was choosing between UMich and NYU and my reasoning pretty much went like this (excluding financial reasons, which were actually a fairly large factor as well):</p>
<ul>
<li>my dad went to UM, but none of my relatives went to NYU</li>
<li>I stayed in one of the dorms at UM for a summer camp and they were dinky and had shared bathrooms for the floor, but NYU has private bathrroms</li>
<li>UM is only 40 min away from home, but NYU is 10 hours</li>
<li>I've lived through 15 terrible Midwest winters, and at least at NYU, it'd be terrible NYC winters</li>
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<p>So. Extremely superficial reasons, but I haven't regretted it. I figured if I didn't like the city, it'd at least be a "been there, done that" kind of thing vs having spent my entire life in the Great Lakes region.</p>
<p>What I like about it now? I can really only attest to my experience at Stern, but...</p>
<ol>
<li>I like the structured nature of the program</li>
<li>I like being around people who have energy, drive, and ambition (as I am someone who sort of lacks those qualities - oh, constructive peer pressure)</li>
<li>I like the international focus, since it seems like very few other colleges have the same sort of study abroad "culture". Once you're a sophomore, everyone will be like, "oh, are you going to London? I was just in Paris/Florence/Madrid!" Plus if you're in Stern, you get that ISP all expenses paid trip over spring break junior year, which was probably one of the best times I've had in college.</li>
<li>I like being around all the restaurants and little boutiques and things that are in NY. Now I go home and get cravings for Thai or Korean and it's painful because we don't HAVE any of those restaurants :(</li>
<li>I like not being in a "jock" school because I totally don't do the whole "rah, team, go" business. I mean, there are sports, but you're not an outcast for not taking part or cheering them on.</li>
<li>Same as #5, but substitute "Greek".</li>
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<p>Wow these are really great comments, thanks guys..... could anyone tell me a bit about the level of support you get from profs? I know there are some pretty huge classes at NYU; how does this affect your relationship with your profs?</p>
<p>I love NYU and can't imagine a better school. I just gave some seniors from home a tour of NYU and I guess I pretty summed up NYU for them in this way.</p>
<p>1) Everyone is motivated. Everyone is excited about learning here (and I'm using all-encompassing words like "everyone" to mean most kids...of course there are exceptions everywhere). People are talented here but they are no inyourface about it, cut throat competitive, or snobbish about their academic or artistic achievements. </p>
<p>2) People here are cultured, accepting, and I feel like the most mature about issues going on. Being gay, doing this doing that...no one is going to look at you differently. </p>
<p>3) Study Abroad is HUGE and there are NYU sites all over the world. </p>
<p>4) You get the internship opportunity that you NEED if you aren't planning on going to grad school because basically to be hired, your employer isnt going to look at your grades. It's the professional experiences that will get you the job and with internships here it is gets you ahead of people. It gets you working for huge name companies that will add to your resume. And in NYC, it's easy for NYU kids to get internships because it's the best school around with the exception of Columbia...but most Columbia kids are on that grad school intellectual path. But that is not to say that NYU is highly vocational in their teaching or ANYTHING of that matter. It is a great school with a great academic reputation. If you want to go to grad school, NYU can get you there. A lot of programs/departments here are well known in the nation (i.e Philosophy, Economics, Film/TV, Journalism, Math...etc). So you get the best of both paths. </p>
<p>5) (Moving on to superficial things) NYU Dorms are in my opinions REALLLLLY luxiourious. How many schools out there can you name that gives you private bathrooms (shared with only your roommate and some instances 3 other people), walk-in closets (sometimes multiple closets, i.e like i have), and great views of a great city? </p>
<p>6) Food here is also better than a lot of schools. I know its probably hard to believe, but Kimmel (one of the better dinings) makes the best pizza EVER.</p>
<p>7) The freedom you have to join, get involved, or do whatever you want. You can't find a club, they'll support you in making one. You want to write for the paper but the paper's superrrr exclusive and you can't find a way to get involved? Not here. As long as you put effort into something and keep working, you move up the food chain and actually get SOMEWHERE. You want to play a sport but feel like you're not good enough or will just bench-warm? Not here! Yea it's Division III but that just means theres more room for you to play and improve, and d3 is not even that bad!</p>
<p>The only criticism i have for NYU is probably
1) There are like no straight guys here.
2) And if there is there is like a billion cute, attractive, and smart girls out here. It'll feel overwhelming and you'll feel bad about yourself because you feel like you can't compare but thats a whole nother social issue.</p>
<p>and thats it. </p>
<p>In terms of professors...I love my professors now espeically my WTE professor. He's smart, funny, and is really animate in teaching. Classes at NYU actually range. I have a class that has only 12 kids and a class that has about 200 kids but the bigger classes always have small recitation/discussion classes to balance it out with. My relationship with my profs are great (esp. the WTE essay class). He had one-on-one conferences with each of us about the paper we turned in and we sat down to talk about it. Also there are learning centers here that provide you with tutoring/help and oftentimes (esp. in the expository writing classes) they are actual professors tutoring you!</p>
<p>"2) And if there is there is like a billion cute, attractive, and smart girls out here. It'll feel overwhelming and you'll feel bad about yourself because you feel like you can't compare but thats a whole nother social issue."</p>
<p>That means jack sh1t. I've found out that being a straight guy, like me, has the same, if not lesser chance of getting play as a straight woman. The 6:4 Girl:Guy ratio does absolutely nothing. From my experience here, so far, girls tend to flock to a few, hot guys, leaving us regular guys with nothing...</p>
<p>Make that a 7:2 Girl:Guy ratio, because that's what it is, de facto...</p>
<p>Hence, girls need not b1tch about the lack of straight guys. Theres PLENTY of us here. High standards, much?</p>
<p>If anything, I should be b1tching about the lack of down to earth women here.</p>
<p>i just realizzed
why does everyone say 6:4
when it's the same as 3:2</p>
<p>Because that's the "official" tally?</p>
<p>who says there are no straight guys?</p>
<p>Please read before you ask questions like that.</p>
<p>Look at post #8:</p>
<p>"The only criticism i have for NYU is probably
1) There are like no straight guys here."</p>
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That means jack sh1t. I've found out that being a straight guy, like me, has the same, if not lesser chance of getting play as a straight woman. The 6:4 Girl:Guy ratio does absolutely nothing. From my experience here, so far, girls tend to flock to a few, hot guys, leaving us regular guys with nothing...
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<p>Patience...our time will come.</p>
<p>EDIT: And don't you mean an 8:2 girl:guy ratio? I mean, only looking at the heterosexual population.</p>
<p>Refer to post #10 I made...</p>
<p>"Make that a 7:2 Girl:Guy ratio, because that's what it is, de facto..."</p>
<p>I hope our time comes soon. I'm getting tired of waiting, to be honest with you.</p>
<p>haha, waiting?! you guys are nuts. when i first came here, i noticed that there were just a lot more people wanting to do random hookups than serious dating.. </p>
<p>also, remember, you don't go to college, you go to nyu.</p>
<p>"I'm getting tired of waiting, to be honest with you."</p>
<p>Eh, but it seems to be the only option that we have.</p>
<p>Limebutterfly, I agree with you. Nevertheless, it is a lot harder in practice than I expected. Should it be a problem that as a heterosexual (guy), I'm getting hit on by guys rather than girls?</p>
<p>..."there were just a lot more people wanting to do random hookups than serious dating."</p>
<p>Feel free to send such girls to Hayden Hall, Room 1016.</p>
<p>Because I sure as hell haven't seen those girls yet. Where the f-uck are they?</p>