Columbia vs. NYU

kwu
Sat, 01 Aug 2009 00:11:52 +0000

Dunno about that.

NYU was founded specifically to fight that century of class, racial, and religious discrimination.

In Columbia’s defense, it gives significantly better financial aid, and it is the most diverse elite university in the country because it has the highest population of African-American students (a “critical mass,” I’ve heard it called), and that’s the typical standard under which a school is judged.

NYU’s FA is nothing to sneeze at, though. I got 25,000 dollars in “merit-based” grants, and an additional 5,000 in grants after appealing. Add that to 1,500 in state grants and 4,000 in federal work study, and I could have gone to town–or, the Village.