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Wednesday, March 23, 2005
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NYU UD’s fourteen year old daughter thinks she’d like to go to New York University. She is not alone: ' New York University beat Harvard University as the top “dream college” for a second straight year, leading a survey of U.S. students who increasingly are applying to urban schools, The Princeton Review Inc. said. …The number of applications to New York University more than tripled to 34,000 this year from about 10,000 in 1990 as students sought access to corporate internships and entertainment to supplement their education. Homicides dropped to 570 last year compared with 1,827 in 1993, according to New York City police department data, reducing concerns about urban crime and terrorism. “Over the last five to eight years, urban schools have had an incredible renaissance with college students,” said Robert Franek, Princeton Review's publisher and vice president of admissions services. … “Young people want to be in cities because they can do things in a city they can't do in the wilderness,” said New York University spokesman John Beckman. “They can get a taste of what their career might be like, they can do interesting jobs as they go to school.” …Current students at New York University include the actor twins Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen, whose careers started in the television series “Full House.” ' It has nothing to do with actor twins for UD’s little one. A few years ago, on their way back from two months in Indonesia, UD and her daughter spent ten days in New York City. The little one fell hard for the place. |