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Sort By: [Date] [Major] [Rating] Unknown  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Not so bright i love it here. best educational experience of my life. Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: B+ Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Oct 03 2008 3rd Year Female -- Class 2009    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=54661&uid=946'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Journalism  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Don't choose ELC if you need any hand holding or want to go to college to figure out what you want to be when you grow up. In my experience, it's the perfect place for students who come to the school hoping to gain knowledge, not good grades and a perfect transcript for grad school applications. That's probably the most cliched statement these online surveys offer for ELC--that it's a place you go to grow, bla bla bla. But really, what is fantastic about this school and what makes it such a truly unique place is the opportunity and freedom students have to pursue individual courses of study and engage in rigorous, in-class debate. The faculty is, for the most part, brilliant--I've never had a professor who didn't challenge me and raise the bar for what I expect "school" to be like. I am majoring in Writing, particularly Journalism, and the well-connected people in career services have helped me land internships at top notch publications. The kids in the writing dept are smart and passionate--like anywhere else there are a few duds, and the courtyard is ALWAYS filled with smoking hipsters--but the writers are really good here. The social life is a little tricky--if you live in the dorms your first year you'll have an easier time making friends. It's not so much that people are mean, it's just that in NYC, when everyone's living such a busy life, it's often hard to make those initial bonds that happen routinely at big universities with campuses and greek life and what not. Education Quality: A+, Campus Aesthetics: B Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Sep 07 2008 2nd Year Female -- Class 2010    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=54123&uid=946'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Economics  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright When I visited Eugene Lang, I really liked it. I was extremely happy when I got accepted. As soon as the year started, I saw the college for what it actually is. Here are my reasons as to why I am transferring out of this school as soon as fucking possible. Social: -First of all, if you are a normal person who wants to have interesting and mature conversations with other like-minded people, if you are politically active and want to experience new things, go somewhere else. People here are really hard to get along with. Kids seem to want to continue social aspects of high school that I am very ready to leave behind. People create cliques and refuse to be open minded about meeting new people. -New School's entire atmosphere and mood set is overtaken by parsons students, who are annoying, ditsy, stupid, shallow and judgmental. A few Lang students in my dorm went to the main lounge to watch the democratic primary debates and got turned down by fashion students who insisted that watching a rerun of America's Next Top Model was far more important. It is ridiculous how fashion conscious students are...people are more interested in looking hipster and shopping at American Apparel than actually studying. It is also ridiculous how many aspiring models ( at lang!) I have had to sit with in class who moved to New York to simply get a modeling contract and have no desire to study- they just sit in class and pose. -If you are a girl, straight or gay, and do not look like one of the models I mentioned above and have moderate standards, you will have no sex life/relationships. I can safely say that 80% of the boys who go here are gay and the one's who are straight are... just not that great. The few lesbians who go here have apparently resorted to writing women seeking women personal ads all over the bathroom stalls because that population is tiny and hard to find. -There are a shit load of rich kids who do nothing but lines of coke and come to class wasted and unprepared. - If there are any nice people here, it is really hard to find them because all of the dorms are spread out over the city and social life within the dorm is limited...you feel very much alone and not at all part of a community. RESOURCES Eugene Lang should not cost as much as it does because there are no resources. Our library is small and in a basement that used to be a discount department store, so we are allowed to use the NYU library (but still! we should have a GOOD one of our own!) Our cafeterias all close really early and are really expensive so there's no cheap alternative for kids who don't want to spend money in NYC restaurants everyday. -The dorms are OVERPRICED! Mine was in an amazing area, but there wasn't any proper maintenance. There are tons of mice, even if you're careful about not leaving food out and even after you fill in work orders and get holes sealed up ( I once counted 7 different looking mice running around in my room within 2 hours...I heard another student once woke up to a rat sitting on his chest). It was disgusting and disrespectful towards the students and my family should not have had to pay 13000 for that. Bullshit. In conclusion: if you have heard anything positive about this school, it is because those positive words are probably about the Graduate school, which has a really good reputation and high standards and hardworking students and lots of international students and good professors. So if you really want to go to the New School, wait until grad school. But please please, for your own happiness, don't go to Lang. Surrounding City: A+, Collaboration/Competitive: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  Jun 05 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! Blog about this comment from your webpage or Blog, or MySpace account: Just copy and paste! <script src='sr_comment.js?sckey=48633&uid=946'></script> <a href='http://www.studentsreview.com' style='font-size:8pt;'>Data Source: StudentsReview!</a> Rate this comment: Useless (1) (2) (3) (4) (5) Helpful       Save   Undecided  Major Salary, Salary Trend, Satisfaction, Unemployment Quite Bright Perpetual competition to be the best LES/Williamsburg Hipster douchebag. Students are too busy snorting lines to do the reading, so seminars can sometimes be painfully silent. Dilapidated facilities, gross lack of student activities, and blindly liberal trustafarian student body take away from the consistently inspiring faculty and experience of studying in New York. Innovation: A+, University Resource Use: F Have a Question? Your Response/Question:     To be informed when someone replies to your comment. (private)  More →  May 30 2008 1st Year Female -- Class 2011    Forward  Blog it! 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