an honest answer might be:ih8makingscreennames wrote:Me too. I actually spent most of ASW (everywhere I was) trying to get people to identify negatives.redsxfan2010 wrote:Yup, exactly. It was admitted students who were talking about how they were ready to sign. But yeah I don't want to be a lemming, just making sure I wasn't missing anything.WinterComing wrote:I think Redsxfan2010 was referring to what he was told by fellow admitted-students, not the schools' song and dance sales pitch. I can confirm that there were plenty of bright-eyed kids at the HLS ASW who were equally ready to sell their souls because they were seduced by the aura. But ultimately, other people making a bad decision shouldn't cause you to make the same one. Don't be a lemming.fliptrip wrote:Be very suspicious of anything someone participating in an ASW has to tell you. I'm pretty sure they aren't sending completely honest brokers to those. It's a sales show, man! Go back to CLS/NYU on a non-glitzy day and randomly poll some kids and see what they say. Or, better yet, look to what the many CLS/NYU alums have to say about debt loads, etc. Take. The. Money.redsxfan2010 wrote:What is mainly giving me hesitation is having gone to admitted students day at Columbia & NYU and hearing so many people say that they were immediately ready to sign to go to either school at sticker where they must have had some great offers at slightly lower ranked schools.
To keep up my ASW rant, did you happen to hear from anyone that the biggest drawbacks of their schools are that there's just so much to get involved in that it's hard to choose exactly what to do? Doesn't that sound like the classic interview answer to the "what are your weaknesses?" questions?
Also fliptrip, the dean of CLS saying the biggest weakness was actually things she viewed as strengths and room for improvement made me audibly laugh quite hard. She lost me for the rest of her speech because of that response.
-the biggest downside to CLS is the cost of attendance and the bloated and incompetent administration that contributes towards it.
-the second biggest downside is jody kraus and his ilk, i.e. a small number of other pretentious, hyper-entitled, unconscionably lazy garbage faculty that you find at all the top schools who couldn't care less about students and give the schools an unfortunate character as effete, inconsiderate, and occasionally bigoted.
-the third biggest downside is the JG interior decoration and the highly questionable quality of famiglia's pizza.
one of the best parts of the school is the incredible and diverse student body and the array of opportunities available to any student who wants them. another one of the best parts is that essentially everyone who wants a job, either in the high paying private sector or public sector, can get one (if they are committed enough).
