New York University

I am a graduating senior at NYU. Do not attend this school. The administration runs this school like a business, they don't even pretend to have the interests of the student body in mind. They have expanded all over the world with unnecessary study abroad sites that jack up our tuition and they've basically destroyed the bohemian cultural of Washington Square. Instead of focusing on actual pertinent issues like creating a sense of community (NYU is pure Melville-NYC) or addressing the student housing problems (you will leave the dorms as soon as you can, they are awful unless you are lucky enough [and rich enough] to get one of the three or so nice ones [and consider how many others want that same room]) or working towards NEW classes (As an English major you will never study anything written after 1950 except in a few select classes that I applied to every year and only recently got into just because they fill up so fast) and smaller classes (You will take lectures for basicall... Read more

I dropped out after A WEEK AND A HALF because I realized this school was a joke. I now owe $18,000 dollars for absolutely nothing. How can they do this? How is it not against the law to charge so much? They put their students in so much debt they will be paying off school for literally the rest of their lives. Only go if someone is paying your way. DON'T EVEN KID YOURSELF OTHERWISE IT IS NOT WORTH IT.

NYU sucks... 1-Too much red tape to get things done 2-No one cares about the students (unless they jump or threaten to) 3-Financial aid is a joke, so is the Bursar's office 4-TA's (for the most part) don't even speak English 5-Most of the students are out-of-town pretentious assholes 6-There's no such thing as the NYU community 7-It's ovverated and overrpriced Avoid going here if you can.

NYU is horrible! They stick you in a filthy, disgusting tiny room with snobs who are terribly unfriendly and give you a key and you are on your own. No one helps you, no one tells you that you need a cord to go online at one of the most expensive schools in the country, and they snap your head off if you even ask for toilet paper here! The lobby guards are always on personal calls and act like jail wardens. Every spoiled bitch thinks she is from Sex and the City, every guy is either gay or a tool it seems. Think again if you feel that NYU is the school for you--it has no campus at all and they can stick you anywhere and no sense of community whatsoever!

Honestly, the only perk about this school is the fact that it's in the middle of New York City. The dorm rooms are the size of a shoebox (and they charge you as though it were a 5-star hotel room), nobody cares enough to help you if you have questions, there are allegedly "tons of opportunities" here but they're impossible to find out about--and if you do manage to find out, it costs you extra. EVERYTHING here costs extra. You'd think with a tuition of 50k, they could give us students a break on some other stuff, but apparently that would be too generous. And the food is terrible--if you don't need a meal plan, don't get one. Everything is coated in grease and oil. As for the student body, yes there are a lot of very open and cool people, but for every tolerable person there's a snobby rich bitch who only thinks about him or herself. The campus is so spread out, if you have a class that's not at a Washington Square building, you're never going to make it. And they have so many ... Read more

Excellent school if you really want to learn and get ahead in life. Jobs respect the NYU reputation. The learning curve is high and you're expected to put out. I thoroughly enjoyed mt experience there. The only con... It's pricey,but worth it.

Excellent school, excellent reputation! You will pay through the nose though. After all, nothing is cheap in NYC!!!

I haven;t studied in NYU, I studied in a public school. Very good public school, one of the best in US, but still a public school. I am an extrovert person. I find parties and party places. I know people. I really don't care if NYU if in the center of goddamned New York or my university is in a blue collar undustrial city. That's in terms of nightlife, girls, etc. I've had more girls that I can afford anyway. NYU, however, has one advantage, about which even most of ivy league schools can be jealous about- it's connection with employers. I'm talking about economics/business/etc related jobs. I read it's the same about law. Sorry, you can't beat that. NYU has the best connections. and if you know your purpose for going to college (which is finding a job), you'd choose NYU.

Seriously, the only way to experience this university is to come take a tour of its area in the city. Don't listen to the people who complain about it yet got rejected from it. Listen to the people who are here, and most of them can't get enough of it. The only thing you really need to know is that it is not the typical college experience. You're going to do things, you're not going to sit in your dorm room and play video games all day. It is LIFE and it is AMAZING.

I transferred from a state school to NYU a year ago. I'm orginally from the city, so that part really is not that exciting. As a chemistry major, I had the pleasure of dealing with mediocre lab equipment, 1 or 2 hour waiting for the computer labs, grad students that spoke 2 words of english, professors that could care less and whose lectures had almost NOTHING to do with the material in the exams, and exponential grade curves that allowed me to get a C in physics by guessing every single question on all 5 exams. All for the low, low price of 40K a year. I'm getting the hell out of here before I too jump from a tall building like 6 other people have already done in the past year. Yeah...NYU sucks.

NYU is a great experience for students who want to skip traditonal college nonsense. Instead of keg parties and football games, one can see a Broadway production, hear jazz at Small's, or drink homemade beer at McSorley's. Also, NYU has an excellent faculty and there are plenty of intership opportunities. I disagree with Claude - most departments at NYU, with the exception of the School of Ed (But doesn't that apply to most universities? Sorry, it had to be said) are first-rate.

the heart of new york!!

Liberal elitists... not to mention they rejected me.

posers

The location of the campus is a killer. Too urban, too many distractions, too much traffic. Put your hand on the all 24 hours a day and feel the vibration. No engineering college.

NYU, like BU or GW, is basically a sidewalk school (without much of a campus), which is fine if you care more about being in the City than "being in college". Tisch is great for musical theater and drama. The film school is the best. NYU is great for applied mathematics and Art History, but most of the other departments in the College of Arts & Sciences are second rate.

I love NYU! The classes, people and social life are amazing. It's not your typical campus, but no typical campus has everything that NYU and NYC have to offer!

Who wouldn't want to attend college in the most happening city on earth??!!! Great academics, plenty of internship opportunities, and the best night life around. If you can make it there you can make it anywhere...it's up to you...New York - New York!!!!

NYU combines a party school w/ supreme academics.