New York University Top Questions

We don't have a football team. Lack of school spirit.

The tuition I believe would be the worst aspect about my school. Although the school offers financial aid to students, it is not a substantial amount to help with some individuals to cope with financial problems. The university seems to focus its budget toward things that will in a sense market the university versus helping struggling students themselves.

The worst thing has to be financial aid. If you're a middle to upper middle class white person, you can kiss financial aid goodbye. I have to pull three loans a year to cover all my tuition and fees. While this school is amazing, it is still $50,000 a year.

The lack of merit-based financial aid. There is no place on FAFSA to write that I am trying to pay for school myself, so the family income excludes me from need-based aid.

There is no sense of community at NYU. I understand it is in the city, but there are ways to make the campus have a much friendlier feeling. When I applied I thought I wanted this, but I was gravely mistaken.

The worst thing about NYU is how spread out the campus is. Some of the dorms are really far from the main campus.

Probably the administration as they have proved to be extremely unhelpful at times.

The administration is a nightmare to get around, and the school is so decentralized. I can get past NYU's other flaws, but it was always impossible to get anything done, and it felt very impersonal, as if the school was more focused on attracting new students and appeasing the alumni in favor of an endowment. The current students often felt overlooked.

It can be alienating and because of that, very challenging for a freshman in college. The administration tries to promote community but the fact is it's a big urban school that attracts very independant students, and these things make creating a community harder. It can be hard to meet new people. There are clubs but they are not that popular, and there isn't much variety. You can feel stuck and alone sometimes.

The worst thing about my school is that we do not have any Division I football or basketball teams. We have terrible Division III teams that do not attract a worthy following.