<p>To Blizzard, re post no. 5: Try to talk to some current or recent NYU students about their actual academic experience - things like the process to enroll in classes, class size, whether their classes are taught by full profs or TA’s, whether they feel they have the opportunity to develop a good relationship with some of the faculty. I recently spent a day with a NYU PhD student who was very unhappy with her teaching load & presented a picture of undergraduate education at NYU that was not very attractive
. Maybe that was just one person venting so I wouldn’t take that with much more than a grain of salt, but if you were my daughter, those are the questions I would want to ask. My daughter did choose Barnard over NYU and did ask similar questions, and didn’t like the answers, but the primary reason for turning down NYU was financial, so it is also possible that my d was looking for info from a biased perspective at the time.</p>