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[quote=Anonymous]My DS is starting spring semester at NYU in January, so I can't answer a lot of your questions.  I can, however, provide a little insight as to why I think he decided to go there, which may help you.  You may already know a lot of this, but here goes.

DS really enjoys being in a high stimulus diverse urban setting, and liked his high school which had over 2000 students.  Almost all of the colleges to which he applied were in large cities, or close to them.  He would have wilted at a SLAC or small Catholic one.  I assume your DC has visited, because they shouldn't consider going there unless they have had some experience with the day to day experience of cacophonous noise, congestion and throngs of people one encounters in NYC.

There are a lot of NYU reddit threads about going there, making friends and creating community.  NYU lacks the infrastructure of a traditional campus, like sports and Greek life, but there is still a lot to do.  School spirit isn't a thing there.

Some say that students tend to get segregated by the school within NYU that they attend because they go to classes within different buildings dispersed throughout Manhattan (and Brooklyn, if engineering). My impression is that it is a university for outgoing, engaging kids who aren't afraid of putting themselves out there to make friends and find activities outside of class.   If you DC is more introverted, I'd give it some thought as to how he would adapt before applying ED there.

NYU is a majority non-white school, with a lot of international students, so if DC is more comfortable with an UMC suburban setting, you might want to think about that as well.  Students range from wealthy to FGLI.  It was a draw for my DS, but may not be for your DC.

As for green space, Manhattan actually has a lot of parks, the High Line isn't far from NYU and there is, of course, Central Park.

Lastly, NYU isn't a much of a STEM school, under 25% of the students are STEM, and if your DC is applying to an engineering program, it is across the river in Brooklyn, the Tandon School of Engineering.  It is, however, great for an eclectic, interdisciplinary education in the social sciences and humanities, which is one of the reasons my DS choose it.  He will get what he puts into it.

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