Transferring from UCLA to NYU?

transferringbud
Sun, 25 Jan 2015 01:43:02 +0000

I went to school near NYU, so I was mostly on “NYU campus” (and read Washington Sq. Park and Greenwich Village). I even took a course there with NYU students as a high school student and used their library… And what people are saying above is pretty much right-on. NYU won’t give you a personal feeling, if not less than UCLA. As you know, the entire school is mingled into the city. West Village, Greenwich, NoHo/SoHo, East Village…They have lots of LOTS of non-NYUers, and you can’t even tell who goes to NYU or not. A lot of students live off-campus, or even if they live in the dorm, there’s no such thing as “residential quad” and so on. Plus, NYU’s investing a lot on grad schools, so the chance is, you will find NYU pretty similar to UCLA in that sense. And as Qwerty said, NYU has A LOT of students. Including grad students, NYU have a bigger student body (although # of grad school students seems irrelevant, but this certainly affects the atmosphere of the school). As for undergraduate enrollment, NYU has a little bit more than 22K and UCLA 29K, so there’s no significant difference. At least, UCLA has a campus and sports teams that can bind students together. Of course, I’m not saying you gotta stay at UCLA. But if you really want a personal feeling, you should look for some different schools than NYU. From being with NYU students for a while, I had a feeling that NYU students are really, really disconnected to one another.