BY EDWARD B. COLBY and BILL HUTCHINSON
DAILY NEWS WRITERS
If only in their dreams, college student applicants across the country picked New York University as their ideal school to get into, a new survey says.
NYU topped Harvard, Stanford, Yale, and Princeton in the annual "Dream Colleges" ratings by Princeton Review, a test-preparation and admissions service.
"I have to admit, it was my dream college," said NYU junior Mo Wyse, 21, a history and economics major from Seattle.
But the sprawling Greenwich Village campus, which boasts star-studded coeds like the Olsen twins, didn't fare as well with parents.
Moms and dads put NYU 10th on the list of schools they dream of sending their kids to, while Stanford was No. 1.
The survey quizzed 2,885 college applicants and 1,045 parents of applicants.
Why is NYU so hot? The city's falling crime rate, reduced fear of terrorism and close proximity to the country's best would-be employers, the surveyors said.
"Over the last five to eight years, urban schools have had an incredible renaissance with college students," said Princeton Review publisher Robert Franek.
NYU spokesman John Beckman said being in a city that has as much to offer off campus as on is a big draw.
"We don't pay any attention to lists," Beckman said. "The students who are choosing NYU are also choosing New York City."
But most of the freshman applicants will never realize their dream.
Fewer than 10,000 of the 34,000 students applying to the college this year will get in, university officials said.
For Dana Love, 22, an NYU junior majoring in journalism history, the dream is an illusion. She said NYU turns "bright-eyed freshmen" into "hard, jaded seniors who feel like a number in a vast bureaucracy."
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/local/story/292916p-250747c.html
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