<p>I know you start in the Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, but that is so far away from their main campus in Greenwich Village! I’m just planning around like where to go afterwards and stuff so I was wondering do you end at the main campus or at the Welcome Center? Thanks!</p>
<p>I just had a tour on Friday and actually, its about 10 feet from George Washington Park, so it isn’t far away at all. On my tour, the info session was at the Welcome Center, and then we were led around to visit Bobst Library, the Kimmel Building, and a few other places. We went into the park and talked about the dorm rooms. You end near Broadway 
It was so worth it. Have fun :)</p>
<p>Haha, you must not know much about the neighborhood if you think that’s far away. The welcome center is literally on the southeast corner of Washington Square. On a tour you’ll have four stops after the center: Bobst (our library), Kimmel (the Student Center), Goddard (the closest [and best!!] freshman dorm which is across the street from Gould and also on the corner, and the bookstore on Broadway or the Silver Center (the home of CAS).</p>
<p>They’re all no more than 5 minutes from each other and the only reason the tour takes anytime at all is because you have to wait to navigate all the buildings in a group of 25+ people.</p>
<p>thanks so much!</p>
<p>i’m looking at this on google maps and the welcome center is on West 4th Street… not near Washington Square Park.</p>
<p>Are you seriously going to trust Google Maps (which you’re using incorrectly) over first-hand experiential reference from people who’ve lived in that exact spot themselves?</p>
<p>Jeffrey S. Gould Welcome Center, New York University
50 W. 4th Street, New York, NY 10012
[50</a> W 4th St, New York, NY 10012, USA - Google Maps](<a href=“Google Maps”>Google Maps)</p>
<p>I lived in Goddard, across the corner from it on 79 Washington Square E. The problem is that Google Maps for some reason places the Gould Center up in the 30s which is clearly wrong, nothing can be on 4th Street but in the 30s, streets never intersect, they only cross avenues.</p>
<p>I went on one of the tours Yesterday. I was a little disappointed. All of the stuff we did see and talk about was very nice, but they guide never showed us a classroom or a dorm room. I got the impression that they were trying very hard to only show us the very best. We never went far, all the buildings we went in were adjacent to each other and the park. The tour ended with us standing infront of a gift shop. </p>
<p>I drove up from Georgia. Over all I wasn’t thrilled with the tour, but if you are considering NYU I deff suggest going there if you aren’t familure with nyc (I wasn’t) to make sure it’s a good fit for you. Plus chances are you can sneak in with a tour guide from the school you want to apply to (I did, went with the stern kid). Despite the tour designed for tourists I am sold on the school after my visit.</p>
<p>(Lots of kids go to these tours make sure to reserve a spot online, and get there early. There is a nice starbucks right next to the welcome center)</p>
<p>Oh and the welcome center is extremely easy to find. It’s on the South East corner of the park. It’s connected to the stern building. Across the street from the starbucks. Just go to the park, walk South through the big arch, out of the park and onto the sidewalk, then just walk east untill you see big obvious Welcome Center signs</p>
<p>ok thank you for the advice!</p>
<p>and now that i actually looked at the roads i realize it is right there</p>
<p>Johnhughsy,</p>
<p>I think it is also very disappointing NYU does not include a tour of a sample dorm room and classroom. Those were two of the things we looked forward to seeing in sonny’s other college tours.</p>
<p>The dorms are generally a selling point, especially if you get to see a room at say, Founders with the high floor city view or Rubins with the Fifth Ave. view. I found the CAS main building, Silver, to be outdated, with the old New York feel.</p>
<p>The Stern classrooms and some others must be a lot nicer and/ or renovated.</p>
<p>well, if you want to visit a class, you can, although it is not a part of the campus tour. I did when I visited NYU.
I asked a guy at welcome center if I could visit a class, and he showed me the list of classes prospective students can visit. Then, I got a permission and jsut went to a classroom. The professor and students were nice and it was a great experience.
If you have time and want to see a classroom, you should visit a class!</p>
<p>@ylaxw
Haha, they aren’t roads. We don’t have roads in New York. They’re all streets, and then there are Streets and Avenues.</p>
<p>@the others
I think this may have been the first year they began omitting the dorm tours. I know because last year I was in Goddard and there were four different weeks during the year (two fall, two spring) that were absolutely awkward. Complete fishbowl experience as swarms of odd families hit our dorm (because it was closest and most ‘traditional’) to stare, hang around the hallways, and ask to come in our rooms even though they were told to stay in the demo room only.</p>
<p>I also have a dozen friends who are Admissions Ambassadors, and I think I remember them talking in the fall how it was different from last year since the tour got rearranged.</p>
<p>@evolving
That’s one of the reasons so many kids resent Stern. We have a separate endowment (Stern alum tend to only want to donate to the school they felt they belonged to) and separate facilities. Agreed that CAS is disgusting, it’s very old and dirty and uncomfortable, not a single student here likes it. Stern and Tisch have nicer facilities, and apparently Gallatin as well (haven’t personally had classes in 715 Broadway, their building).</p>
<p>That too bad about the dorm tour. We got to see Weinstein and one of the dining rooms. They should have at least one dorm tour. Its one of the highlights of the tour.</p>
<p>Not if they showed you Weinstein, haha. That place is a complete prison, probably the most miserable place to start your college experience.</p>
<p>when did they stop the dorm tour? This fall they were definitely showing rooms in Goddard.</p>
<p>Yeah, okay, so I was right then, I thought they hadn’t completely stopped. All the Ambassadors were blabbing about it and I didn’t know if it was definitively decided one way or the other.</p>
<p>Hellodocks
Yeah, Weinstein, was pretty bad with it’s cinderblock walls.</p>
<p>@hellodocks
please relax with your new york pretentiousness. i’ve been to the city before my dad works in Goldman Sachs. i have multiple friends that go to Stuyvesant, Brearley, Chapin, Trinity, and other schools. a street and a road are basically the same thing.i’m not even going for myself, my family friend is visiting and would like us to take her on a campus tour/visit there.</p>
<p>@hellodocks
please relax with your new york pretentiousness. my dad works on Wall Street and I’ve been to the city before. there really isnt a huge difference between a road and a street/avenue.</p>