Living in NYC at 16: Can I do it?

soozievt
Sat, 19 Nov 2011 20:02:06 +0000

Every person is different and so you have to think about your own readiness for independence, etc.

My daughter started NYU when she was still just 16. She entered K early and then she graduated HS after junior year. She grew up in a rural area, an opposite extreme to NYC. She managed just fine and in fact, socially is drawn to older kids than herself and always has been. She had gone away every summer for 8 summers to a camp and so had been away from home (but not in a city). Her dorm at NYU had almost as many people as her entire home town! She grew up on a dirt road where you could not walk to anything and in a town that had not even a traffic light, and surely no public transportation. She loved it all from day one and really wanted to go to NYU/Tisch and to NYC. She hasn’t left (graduated NYU in 2009) and never came home for any summers either. She has become a true NYer. She grew up about six hours away from NYC.