<p>I’m straight, and have been at community college in California for 5 semesters. Since I will have spent so much time at community college (3 years) by the time I go away to college, I want to make sure I have a great college experience to make up for the lost time in a way. One of the things I’ve missed out on is having lots of opportunities for meeting/hooking up with/dating girls, so that would be important for my college experience to include. I want to major in film, but I don’t want to be so surrounded by gay people that I have a hard time meeting straight guys I can relate to (please refrain from the cliche homophobia accusations). I am not some sort of gay-hater, I just want to be able to meet girls, associate with straight guys, and have a good college experience; I’m sure nearly all other straight guys feel the same, just as gay guys would prefer a school with lots of other gay people, and rightfully so. So is a large percentage of the guys in film school at NYU gay? Would I be surrounded by lots of gay guys on a regular basis?</p>
<p>There will be a lot of gay men and women - but trust me, nyu has a disproportionate balance of straight women to straight men (more women than men) so if you venture out a little, you will find that you have a wide window to meet straight women. You are at the advantage; whereas the straight women have a narrow window (more like a key-hole) to meet straight men.</p>
<p>Look. I’ll be frank with you, regardless of how well-intentioned you may be, it’s never <em>ever</em> a wise move to go out and state you’d prefer to be surrounded by x-and-such type of people, have this exact experience, and do this, that, and the other thing. You don’t want people to accuse you of homophobia, yet you make some dicey statements that would give any rational person ground to call you what you don’t want to be called. Just keep that sort of thing to yourself; sometimes it’s better not to say every single thing that’s on your mind, particularly when you can get just as informative of an answer without divulging exactly why you feel what you feel to such a level of specificity.</p>
<p>All that being said, if you’re so damn entrenched on such an idealized college experience, don’t come here. NYU is a very atypical school. We don’t have a ‘campus,’ our ‘dorms’ are converted hotels or apartment buildings, you’ll take public transportation more than you ever thought possible, you’ll also walk more than you ever dreamt of, you’ll have trouble finding something to belong to and experience a lack of identification at first, and you will in no way whatsoever have a “great college experience,” at least as you so narrowly define it.</p>
<p>NYU is 60/40 girls/guys. 31-36% of all the men here are gay, so basically it’s 60/25-28 girls/straight guys. That being said, you’ll find that you’ll have trouble finding good-looking girls here. Were we to be completely shallow, it’s definitely safest to say Tisch has one of the most noticeably attractive student bodies, straight girls and gay men included. Tisch also by far has the highest concentration of gay students, so since you seem to have no qualms expressing your uncomfortableness with that, it might not be for you. Hell, Manhattan might not be for you.</p>
<p>And for the record, not “nearly all other straight guys feel the same.” Some of my best friends and all-around favorite people here are gay. Gay people tend to be animated, expressive, intelligent, tasteful, fashionable, knowledgeable, articulate, classy, and hilarious. That’s why I am just about never offended when someone mistakes me as gay, because I consider every single of those to be incredibly positive attributes, so if someone sees any of that in me, I consider it a compliment. And you couldn’t possibly be any more wrong with “gay guys would prefer a school with lots of other gay people, and rightfully so.” Gay people tend to be incredibly accepting of anyone and everyone regardless of who they are, which is what led to the original “gay bff” craze because a lot of girls who had trouble finding friends found gay guys who loved them for their personality and nothing else.</p>
<p>In short: don’t come here if you’re as uncomfortable as you paint yourself. There are many gay people in New York in general, at NYU overall, and particularly in Tisch. If your primary concern is as shallow as physical interaction with girls, go to a state school.</p>