NYU seems unpopular from DMV

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Anonymous wrote:Just step over the homeless passed-out on the sidewalk.

You can always avoid this by going to the Shanghai or Berlin campus. What a joke.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just expensive. My child was approached by a coach and went for a tour and chat, and there was no answer too how kids with HHI between 100k and 300K can afford it. There's no team group house in Manhattan, no secret merit money-- it's just 100K per year.

If we were richer or poorer, we'd have been all for it.

This is the answer. For a lot of us, price matters .... a lot. We are from the midwest and know of two kids that go there. One has family money. The other has pretty big family business.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very expensive and has no campus culture. Super unappealing.

Some kids love the city. Mine would love to go there.

Cousin went there and loved every minute. Depends on the student and PP is correct. No campus culture compared to most other schools.

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Anonymous wrote:It's just expensive. My child was approached by a coach and went for a tour and chat, and there was no answer too how kids with HHI between 100k and 300K can afford it. There's no team group house in Manhattan, no secret merit money-- it's just 100K per year.

If we were richer or poorer, we'd have been all for it.

This is the answer. For a lot of us, price matters .... a lot. We are from the midwest and know of two kids that go there. One has family money. The other has pretty big family business.

$96,980 a year! https://bulletins.nyu.edu/nyu/cost-attendance/

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Anonymous wrote:NYU gets more than 120,000 apps a year. It's one of the most appealing schools in the world.

But for those shooting for the top schools, NYU occupies a weird space. Stern obviously gets the ambitious finance types - so gets smart students there.

But more broadly, NYU is not generally regarded as a top school. It's financial aid is said to be terrible - which makes it largely out of reach for smart MC and UMC students.

NYU is the poster child for rich kid school. And not everyone wants that environment, especially smart students that have tons of options.

Oddly enough, the favored SLACs here had significantly higher reported median family income than NYU in 2017 and there’s no reason to think that has changed.

Yet I rarely hear them called rich kids schools. Same for the elite Catholic schools like Notre Dame, BC, Georgetown and Villanova.

It advertises free tuition for lower income families which is a big reason why it gets so many applications. For a full-pay family, there isn’t anything that another university can’t offer except location.

I think it is more the Common App. NYU didn’t offer free tuition to families making less than $100,000 until the last couple of years.

There has also been a cultural shift in the last 20 years with kids. A lot of them want to live and study in a big city. Hence the number of apps at BU, NYU and USC.

Colleges aren’t generic, NYU has its own distinctive qualities and kids can decide if they like them or not. And location matters, my DS will be taking a social work class with community service that wouldn’t be possible anywhere else except in other big cities with large immigrant populations.

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NYU in New York, Boston University in Boston and George Washington in DC are three schools that people often attend to be in the city. OK academics but hard to justify for the price with the exception of certain programs.

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Other than Stern... Its not T25 so why bother.

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Anonymous wrote:It's very expensive and has no campus culture. Super unappealing.

Some kids love the city. Mine would love to go there.

Cousin went there and loved every minute. Depends on the student and PP is correct. No campus culture compared to most other schools.

This. Most kids we know want a campus with tons of school spirit and football. My DD and her friend group are looking at state flagships in the mid Atlantic, Midwest and the south. I do think lots of kids here find Pitt appealing because it does have a campus within a city vibe.

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Anonymous wrote:Other than Stern... Its not T25 so why bother.

You think Stern is T20 material?

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It is very popular among my college applicants. It works well for a rich kid who is full pay and wants the big city experience and is super mature and independent and doesn't need a traditional experience.

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At one point in the college application process, I told my daughter that she is welcome to live in New York once she has a job and can pay for her own expenses, and will have the ability to make that choice throughout her adult life, but that "I love New York" is not enough a reason to choose a school we can't really afford. She now attends a much less expensive school in a smaller city, which admittedly is not NYC but appears to have plenty to offer for college students, based on what I hear of her social life. If she had come up with a compelling reason to attend NYU, I would have been open to hearing it, but her interest was really driven by location.

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Anonymous wrote:Except for Stern, I don’t see much value there.

Tisch

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a safe campus at the moment (there’s a thread on the sexual assault. Of a female NYU student. By a homeless ex-con who NYU let squat in the students dorm).

What!? Omg! Why would NY U let that happen?

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Anonymous wrote:It's just expensive. My child was approached by a coach and went for a tour and chat, and there was no answer too how kids with HHI between 100k and 300K can afford it. There's no team group house in Manhattan, no secret merit money-- it's just 100K per year.

If we were richer or poorer, we'd have been all for it.

This. You have to be rich or poor in this country, then it is all possible.

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Anonymous wrote:It’s not a safe campus at the moment (there’s a thread on the sexual assault. Of a female NYU student. By a homeless ex-con who NYU let squat in the students dorm).

What!? Omg! Why would NY U let that happen?

It didn’t. See yesterday’s post and thread on this.