<p>I’m trying to decide between NYU, Bu and GW, and one common thing I’ve heard from family and friends is that New York is too big to be a good college town. I know New York is a fantastic city with a lot to offer, but it is huge and expensive, so this seems like a valid point. Any opinions?</p>
<p>New York, Boston, and DC are all large cities. If you wanted a smaller city by area, you could just stay in the island of Manhattan, but all parts of NYC have great things to offer.</p>
<p>Of course, if you don’t like the size of NYC, don’t go. Have you ever been there?</p>
<p>I have been to NYC and I absolutely love it, especially the area where NYU is :)</p>
<p>But, yesterday I went to Accepted Students’ Day at BU and one thing they mentioned as a perk for BU is that Boston is a very managable and very walkable city that students can really get to known over the course of their 4 years in school. I know the whole purpose of Accepted Students Day is to persuade students to attend that school, but this really did seem like a good point, and it got me wondering if NYC was a good college town. Is it managable? Can you really get to know it?</p>
<p>I’m not an NYU student, I just saw your thread in the “Latest Posts” section. NYC is different from pretty much every other city. It could even be called a tight collection of cities. I don’t live right there, but I go there often, and it’s easy to navigate. Of course, it would be very difficult to know where everything is!</p>
<p>I’m sure NYU students will tell you about specifics through a student’s point of view. However, if you like Boston more, go there. The next four years of your life should be spent where you want to go. Good luck in deciding.</p>
<p>I was actually in the BU area over spring break visiting another chapter of my fraternity, and I have to say, as a college town, I think I prefer the feel of Boston over New York. It’s hard for me to give you advice though because it’s really up to the individual and what they feel most comfortable in.</p>
<p>Just from my experience, Boston gets boring after a while. I spent a month there, with a 9-5 job, and I already had explored a lot of the main city. It is very walkable, and extremely compact for the big city that it is, but I think you’d find yourself taking a lot of trainrides out elsewhere for a change of environment if you’re adventurous like me. Also, there aren’t that many 18+ clubs to go to, which struck me as odd for a college town. Otherwise, I guess there could be some comfort in being able to know the city like the back of your hand in such a short amount of time. It depends on what your personality is, I guess.</p>
<p>It totally depends on you. But, personally, I feel that New York City is a city of exploration as I have gone there every weekend for many years. There’s many things to do, lots of things to see. You’ll have to have an independent spirit. Some friends from NYU love the city feeling while others feel lost within its enormity.</p>
<p>Our daughter just graduated from NYU. NYC isn’t “a good college town” like other good college towns; the concept doesn’t quite fit. You choose NYU if you want to spend your college years in one of the world’s most vibrant big cities with all it has to offer.</p>
<p>I think part of the beauty of NYC is that for its tremendous size it’s so accessible. You can walk a number of streets very quickly, use the subway to get anywhere anytime, bus if you must, or all else failing, hail a taxi 24/7. From what I’ve heard from friends at Harvard/MIT/Tufts/BC/BU, Boston is a great collegiate town because of its student body, but New York doesn’t fit that limit. That’s putting a constraint on the best city on earth. It’s a city, not a college town. That term inherently implies that the town relies explicitly on college population for energy, and New York offers so much more than just that.</p>