I agree with you @alwaysamom - but in fairness to the kids- NYU doesn’t make it super easy to find out much about the studios. The websites are antiquated and light on info. The best way seems to be to research the original “founder” (Adler, Meisner, Strasberg etc) for some studios- but that won’t work for all. You can’t really visit individual studios during tours etc - they don’t make it easy to find out specifics. You just sort of have to rely on the sorting hat to make sure it all works out.
With that said - I don’t think there is a “bad” studio at NYU. Every singe one offers a respected and long established approach to acting and art. (and that includes playwrights- some REALLY cool stuff comes out of there!) Unless a kid has gone to a PA school, summer intensive, or had some other specific training in acting (which I think is the least common- kids take dance lessons and singing lessons, and get help with monologues- but fewer seem to have acting classes) they may not really know the difference. So unless you KNOW that there is a technique you have a problem with- don’t judge until you are there. My D did the summer program there in HS- and a lot of those kids end up applying for/attending NYU. They ended up in all different studios- and some were very unhappy when the emails came out last year. I asked about this just the other day- D says that everyone she knows from “before” are in love with their studio now- it becomes your family.