Bottom line is visit and you will both get a sense of whether its good or not. I am sure there are more Jewish kids and more gay kids there than most schools my daughter went but lasted a year, we are not Jewish but both of her roommates were and Friday night they both went home to attend Shabbat (sp)? dinner, she loved them and was very close to them but it sucked that on a Friday night they weren't around.
She realized she really wanted a school with campus after all and transferred to U of Maryland where she is very happy.

If the school is in NYC and has alot of Jews, the food should be good. LOL

Anonymous wrote:OK OP, we have read your post. It seems as if DD has an issue with the gays. If so, then why in the world would your DD even be considering NYU which given its location has a high concentration of gay students and surrounding neighborhoods as well. I would really try to convince her to go elsewhere.

NO I do not have an issue. BUT I will admit my D has lived in a bubble of sorts and I am nervous for her going into such a vastly different environment, hardly a crime. Very sorry to have offended anyone, not my intention. We have a trip planned to go there in August. My hunch is that this is not a good fit, but who knows!

Bottom line, OP is freaked out by her DD attending a school with so many jews and gays. (Even though some of her friends are . . . just not in this concentration?). OP's DD doesn't care.

OP, you've been beaten around in this thread but I hope you find it instructive. Not only have you jumped to the erroneous conclusion that straight WASPs don't go to NYU, but you've expressed concern about how your DD will fare in an environment of Jews and gays. People don;t react well to that. I certainly was offended. So maybe you need to put some thought into this. If your concern is based on bigotry, drop it. If your concern is based on something else, drop the Jews/gay thing and focus on whatever "else" that is. Do that for your DD and so that you don't express these thoughts out loud and be embarrassed by them.

OK OP, we have read your post. It seems as if DD has an issue with the gays. If so, then why in the world would your DD even be considering NYU which given its location has a high concentration of gay students and surrounding neighborhoods as well. I would really try to convince her to go elsewhere.

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Anonymous wrote:OP here my daughter is friends with many Jews as am I, I think I worded it in a way that made it sound like thats an issue. Sorry!! Ditto gays. I just feel like it might be out of her comfort zone and that's the reason I am not sure if it is a good fit.

OP you really need to stop posting or read what you write before you post. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper. Now it's "some of my best friends are jewish and gay"

OP here, NO I did not say some of my best friends are Jewish and gay. READ what I wrote, I said my D and I both have Jewish friends, I did not say we have gay friends, or that they are our best friends. Come on....READ!!!!

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Anonymous wrote:I think it is too confusing for kids to have 2 diametrically opposing religions. You wouldn't know unless you experienced it yourself.

What does this even mean??

Do you mean that Jews and Christians shouldn't intermarry? Mine did and I turned out just fine. I was raised Unitarian and married a Presbyterian. None of us needed to enter therapy because of this.

Anonymous wrote:I think it is too confusing for kids to have 2 diametrically opposing religions. You wouldn't know unless you experienced it yourself.

What does this even mean??

with city costs it is almost 70,000 a year to go there

how can anyone afford that?? I just don't understand how you would consider that school

Anonymous wrote:OP here my daughter is friends with many Jews as am I, I think I worded it in a way that made it sound like thats an issue. Sorry!! Ditto gays. I just feel like it might be out of her comfort zone and that's the reason I am not sure if it is a good fit.

OP you really need to stop posting or read what you write before you post. You just keep getting in deeper and deeper. Now it's "some of my best friends are jewish and gay"

I think it is too confusing for kids to have 2 diametrically opposing religions. You wouldn't know unless you experienced it yourself.

Anonymous wrote:I'm half Jewish and I didn't want my dd going to GW because of its heavy Jewish population. Many people meet their spouses in college. Having grown up 1/2 and 1/2, I wouldn't recommend it.

I hope your DD falls in love and marries a nice Jewish boy.

You can be half Jewish and 100% bigoted, BTW.

Anonymous wrote:gross misogyny as always from Jewish mothers.

Can't be that gross, given the original topic.

gross misogyny as always from Jewish mothers.

Anonymous wrote:OP here my daughter is friends with many Jews as am I, I think I worded it in a way that made it sound like thats an issue. Sorry!! Ditto gays. I just feel like it might be out of her comfort zone and that's the reason I am not sure if it is a good fit.

Maybe she wants to get out of her comfort zone. That's not a bad thing. In fact, some might say that's what college should be about. I have 2 kids in college and some of their friends who went with the comfort zone theory of selecting a college were bored after 2 years.