<p>OK, have to chime in here. I think there a big difference between being pretentious, or being proud to be a student at NYU. Why not be proud if you have been accepted GSP, at Stern, CAS or Tisch? Would it be ok to be “arrogant” if you get into Harvard or Yale instead? </p>
<p>My D applied to NYU ED. NYU has been her dream school for a very long time. When she was accepted, she was ecstatic. No, it is not Brown, Cornell or Princeton, but she can’t not picture herself going to school anywhere else, with the most dynamic city in the world as her campus, surrounded by 20.000 very different people of all walks of life. </p>
<p>And oh, by the way, she was accepted into Tisch. Does this make her one of the “pretentious” ones like a poster above sneers? No, she is proud and grateful to have made it through their audition process and into HER dream school. Is NYU for everybody? No. But you know what, there are tons of other colleges you can apply to. Not all of us thrive in rural college areas with Division I football teams :). Believe it or not, some of us could actually care less…</p>