What's life at nyu like?

NYU2013
Fri, 18 Nov 2011 22:46:49 +0000

Your mother has been highly misinformed.

Most NYU students are not “rich” or “wealthy”. Most NYU students are just like most other college students in terms of socioeconomic standing.

Party hardcore? None of my friends “party hardcore”. In fact, because NYU is not a sport school, in my experience, there is less hardcore partying at NYU than most private and state colleges. In my time at NYU, I have not seen a single dorm party. And I don’t know of frat parties either (because they’re in the dorms and you can’t have parties in dorms). I’d say there’s less partying at NYU than a lot of other schools.

NYU is a large school, there are plenty of people here. Which means you have plenty of people to make friends with! Because it’s such a large school and attracts a particular type of student (independent, intelligent, academic, preprofessional young people), it’s highly likely that you will find quite a few other people who are very similar to yourself.

I would tell your mother not to worry and that NYU is not like she has imagined it. It’s a great school and personally, I like it a lot more than most other universities.