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[quote=Anonymous]NYU takes maybe 33% of applicants, so it's competitive. Columbia takes 7%, which is really tough. Barnard, which shares most courses with Columbia but not Columbia's core curriculum, takes 25%. Some of the CUNY's have acceptance ratios of 25-30%.

If you really want to get depressed, google the NYTimes 10 most expensive colleges. Columbia, Barnard and NYU are in the top 10, because of the cost of living in NYC. So unless money is no object, I'd try to get her to think out what she wants to do job-wise that would use her living-in-NYC experience!

A friend who went to NYU says the lack of campus makes it different from other college experiences. There is some housing but not enough, so lots of kids are living in off-campus apartments which has a really different feel, obviously. Columbia and Barnard guarantee housing all four years.

My sense is that the $60K for NYU might be worth it if you're studying something they're really known for, like film. But if your daughter doesn't know what to study, then not so much. She can get a great degree in something like poly sci at a much cheaper school.[/quote]

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