NYU - what do you know?

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GW is more comparable to UMd although I would actually say that academically, Maryland is stronger and GW has more of an advantage in the job market.

Foggy Bottom beats College Park hands down.

Yes - but academically, most liberal arts and science majors are stronger at Maryland. Music, CS and engineering are also strong at Maryland. GW definitely has a better location, better pre-professional, better in intl relations and related fields and probably better at job placement.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t hear anything on here about NYU. Is it really hard to get in? What are the stats of your admitted student. Is it all rich kids who go there? Do they like middle class kids? My DD would love to go to school in NYC but she doesn’t have the stats for Columbia. I am not a fan of Fordham and don’t know much about St. John’s.

Manhattan College, Pace, Baruch try.

St. John’s is great but it is Queens and close to city but need to take bus to subway not the easiest to got out in NYC.

Hofstra on Long Island another choice. Take LIRR into city.

There a a small college called Adelphi on Long Island has its own train stop and 28 minutes to nyc

Manhattan college is fun! In a very good part of Bronx by subway very easy subway, cab, Uber and a college neighborhood feel

is hunter good or bad? I just have vague memories of serena vander godson's drug dealer boyfriend dropping out from hunter...

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

GW is more comparable to UMd although I would actually say that academically, Maryland is stronger and GW has more of an advantage in the job market.

Foggy Bottom beats College Park hands down.

Yes - but academically, most liberal arts and science majors are stronger at Maryland. Music, CS and engineering are also strong at Maryland. GW definitely has a better location, better pre-professional, better in intl relations and related fields and probably better at job placement.

definitely better at job placement
it is actually easy to secure significant internships as a GW student
solid internship experience = foot in the door for jobs

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NYU gets a lot of dismissive hate on these boards but my kid loves it there and has gotten a great education. She’s a kid who loves living in NYC and would have hated a Big 10 college experience. Her friends there are mostly middle class, not rich, though there are certainly a lot of wealthy kids there too. It’s gotten harder to get in in the past 5 years, but it’s in reach for an A student with strong test scores who doesn’t have the hook or wow factor to be competitive for Ivy level schools.

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Anonymous wrote:I don’t hear anything on here about NYU. Is it really hard to get in? What are the stats of your admitted student. Is it all rich kids who go there? Do they like middle class kids? My DD would love to go to school in NYC but she doesn’t have the stats for Columbia. I am not a fan of Fordham and don’t know much about St. John’s.

Manhattan College, Pace, Baruch try.

St. John’s is great but it is Queens and close to city but need to take bus to subway not the easiest to got out in NYC.

Hofstra on Long Island another choice. Take LIRR into city.

There a a small college called Adelphi on Long Island has its own train stop and 28 minutes to nyc

Manhattan college is fun! In a very good part of Bronx by subway very easy subway, cab, Uber and a college neighborhood feel

is hunter good or bad? I just have vague memories of serena vander godson's drug dealer boyfriend dropping out from hunter...

Hunter is a great city college. I graduated from Hunter after being in the military and went on to get my JD/PhD in economics from an Ivy. It’s definitely a commuter, serious school for mature students. Not a typical college experience at all.

[Anonymous]

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Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t hear anything on here about NYU. Is it really hard to get in? What are the stats of your admitted student. Is it all rich kids who go there? Do they like middle class kids? My DD would love to go to school in NYC but she doesn’t have the stats for Columbia. I am not a fan of Fordham and don’t know much about St. John’s.

Manhattan College, Pace, Baruch try.

St. John’s is great but it is Queens and close to city but need to take bus to subway not the easiest to got out in NYC.

Hofstra on Long Island another choice. Take LIRR into city.

There a a small college called Adelphi on Long Island has its own train stop and 28 minutes to nyc

Manhattan college is fun! In a very good part of Bronx by subway very easy subway, cab, Uber and a college neighborhood feel

is hunter good or bad? I just have vague memories of serena vander godson's drug dealer boyfriend dropping out from hunter...

Hunter is about the same as Baruch, but they "specialize" in different thing. Baruch is the flagship business school of CUNY and is well known for its accounting and finance programs. Hunter attracts lots of nursing majors, as well as pre-med and other life science. Keep that in mind when looking at any statistics that compares salaries upon graduation. My guess is that more of Hunter graduates aim for a grad school right after college.

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Anonymous wrote:I think of NYU in very similar terms as GW. Good private, urban universities in terrific neighborhoods, competitive (but not top tier) for admissions, strong reputations in the liberal arts and social sciences. Not a lot of school spirit. Importantly, both universities are notoriously stingy with financial aid in the form of grants. They give out a shameful amount of loans (which are lumped under "financial aid"), while at the same time doling out financial aid grants in the form of merit scholarship to kids with high stats in order to boost their rankings.

I would allow my child to go but only because we have enough saved such to pay for college.

NYU is a much stronger school than GW.

I'm the poster whose kid attended and I was actually surprised. One of my other kids attended Georgetown and I would say the liberal arts courses (talking specifically about English, foreign languages and social sciences) were comparable although the strengths were different and the slant (NYU- liberal and Georgetown traditional) couldn't be more different. NYU was probably better in English and Georgetown in social sciences.

GW is more comparable to UMd although I would actually say that academically, Maryland is stronger and GW has more of an advantage in the job market.

No

GW >> UMD >> GW

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I think of NYU in very similar terms as GW. Good private, urban universities in terrific neighborhoods, competitive (but not top tier) for admissions, strong reputations in the liberal arts and social sciences. Not a lot of school spirit. Importantly, both universities are notoriously stingy with financial aid in the form of grants. They give out a shameful amount of loans (which are lumped under "financial aid"), while at the same time doling out financial aid grants in the form of merit scholarship to kids with high stats in order to boost their rankings.

I would allow my child to go but only because we have enough saved such to pay for college.

NYU is a much stronger school than GW.

I'm the poster whose kid attended and I was actually surprised. One of my other kids attended Georgetown and I would say the liberal arts courses (talking specifically about English, foreign languages and social sciences) were comparable although the strengths were different and the slant (NYU- liberal and Georgetown traditional) couldn't be more different. NYU was probably better in English and Georgetown in social sciences.

GW is more comparable to UMd although I would actually say that academically, Maryland is stronger and GW has more of an advantage in the job market.

No

GW >> UMD >> GW

GT >> NYU > UMD >> GW

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Is NYU ED2 coming out on 2/15?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t hear anything on here about NYU. Is it really hard to get in? What are the stats of your admitted student. Is it all rich kids who go there? Do they like middle class kids? My DD would love to go to school in NYC but she doesn’t have the stats for Columbia. I am not a fan of Fordham and don’t know much about St. John’s.

Manhattan College, Pace, Baruch try.

St. John’s is great but it is Queens and close to city but need to take bus to subway not the easiest to got out in NYC.

Hofstra on Long Island another choice. Take LIRR into city.

There a a small college called Adelphi on Long Island has its own train stop and 28 minutes to nyc

Manhattan college is fun! In a very good part of Bronx by subway very easy subway, cab, Uber and a college neighborhood feel

is hunter good or bad? I just have vague memories of serena vander godson's drug dealer boyfriend dropping out from hunter...

Hunter is about the same as Baruch, but they "specialize" in different thing. Baruch is the flagship business school of CUNY and is well known for its accounting and finance programs. Hunter attracts lots of nursing majors, as well as pre-med and other life science. Keep that in mind when looking at any statistics that compares salaries upon graduation. My guess is that more of Hunter graduates aim for a grad school right after college.

I’m a New Yorker born and raised, and went to NYU. No one goes to hunter or Baruch unless you live here. Just my anecdotal two cents. And Hofstra and Adelphi are not in the same league. I would sooner check out Boston schools like BU if NYU is a reach.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:I don’t hear anything on here about NYU. Is it really hard to get in? What are the stats of your admitted student. Is it all rich kids who go there? Do they like middle class kids? My DD would love to go to school in NYC but she doesn’t have the stats for Columbia. I am not a fan of Fordham and don’t know much about St. John’s.

Manhattan College, Pace, Baruch try.

St. John’s is great but it is Queens and close to city but need to take bus to subway not the easiest to got out in NYC.

Hofstra on Long Island another choice. Take LIRR into city.

There a a small college called Adelphi on Long Island has its own train stop and 28 minutes to nyc

Manhattan college is fun! In a very good part of Bronx by subway very easy subway, cab, Uber and a college neighborhood feel

is hunter good or bad? I just have vague memories of serena vander godson's drug dealer boyfriend dropping out from hunter...

Hunter is about the same as Baruch, but they "specialize" in different thing. Baruch is the flagship business school of CUNY and is well known for its accounting and finance programs. Hunter attracts lots of nursing majors, as well as pre-med and other life science. Keep that in mind when looking at any statistics that compares salaries upon graduation. My guess is that more of Hunter graduates aim for a grad school right after college.

I’m a New Yorker born and raised, and went to NYU. No one goes to hunter or Baruch unless you live here. Just my anecdotal two cents. And Hofstra and Adelphi are not in the same league. I would sooner check out Boston schools like BU if NYU is a reach.

The main reason for that is both are commuter schools. They don't have dorms (I am not counting a handful of private accommodations) or a campus per se. US students are usually looking for a different kind of experience.