I attended New York University without the assistance from the institution. I was worried first because of communication but the site actually provided a lot of assistance so I had no trouble during the studies.
 
1. Quality of Lesson
- Haven’t had SCPS marketing lessons so I will tell you about the morning English classes!
- Morning class starts from 9 to 12, afternoon classes start from 1 to 3. Reading and writing classes on Mondays and Wednesdays, listening and speaking on Tuesdays and Thursdays. Each part of English is taught by different teachers who specialize in their parts. I definitely had the feeling that it will be more effective this way because when it comes to real exam it will be easier. I also liked NYU program which was more ‘academic’ sides as it was held by the school. The teacher tries to communicate with the students so it was more interesting and it is talk-oriented lessons. Unlike morning classes, you get to choose the lessons that you are interested in. I chose TOEFL and newspaper reading classes which were very satisfactory.
 
2.  Dormitory Facility
- Britanny is not up to standard compared to Palladium, where I used to live during the summer vacations. But the biggest advantage of NYU dorm is that you actually get to live with the NYU students. When I first started to live in the dormitory I could not get close with my roommate however, after sharing some Korean foods and communicating we got along pretty well. Most of rooms in NYU dorm are composed of 2 rooms and shared living room but the one that I am living in has a room for two people and 3 people in living room. Some people may find it pretty uncomfortable but for me it was just fine!
 
3. How to get to NYU from dormitory
- NYU buildings are all separated from each other especially ALI ones. Usually dormitory is close to the NYU buildings but Woolworth building that we have lesson at is pretty far so it is good to take trains. R (yellow) line downtown lanes will take you to city hall or take the 6 (green) lane and stop at the Brooklyn bridge. Depending on your NYU dorm location, choose your train lane. It was pretty confusing at first but got used to it pretty quick. New York has great ‘street system’ so you will have no difficulty finding streets. And I love the weather these days so I sometimes take a walk which cost me around 30~40 minutes and for train it only takes 10.
 
Big thanks for always taking care of me!

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New York University study abroad/certificate participation review
 
The palladium dormitory is the best where I am living right now and Lafayette, Alumni respectively. 3 minutes from Union Square and is a good location for everything. 800 dollars per month will grant you water, electricity, gas and internet. Rooms are to be shared but if you are lucky you may get a single room for yourself. There is bed, desk, and in the living room they have refrigerator and microwave so you have no problem cooking. And the dormitory building has restaurant and gym too. The building has centre temperature control. Oh they also give you tissues and plastic bags so it is good to apply for dormitory.
 
They only accept cheques and cards but if you do use cards you will have to go somewhere else to pay it. In my case, I had to go from offices to office which was very annoying. ALI people do a very poor job.
 
Oh and meal plan, I don’t recommend this. I can’t remember exactly if they open at weekends or not but you will have to buy lunch anyways because the building is pretty far. It has buffet style but paying 14 dollars and eating that quality of food is not worth it. You can always apply later.
 
You also have to charge some money in your student card to do the laundry. It can be charged either online or using machines. But internet will charge you 2 dollars extra with minimum of 25 dollars.
 
They test you both the ALI study abroad level and certificate level so I think TOEFL score is a must in order to sit for SCPS certificate programs. I applied for marketing principles and practices, data analytics, interpretation and reporting, positioning and brand management and the marketing plan. Each course costs about 805 dollars so I paid 3220 dollars. Following link tells you all about it.

http://www.scps.nyu.edu/academic-programs/continuing-education/
 
You can choose your elective subjects depending on that year’s bulletin.
 
Oh and once you transfer the money, you need to get proof document to student service centre. I was lucky to pay only 40 dollars worth of textbook but my friend paid 800 dollar.

Teachers have different ways of teaching but they are definitely above average. One of them was very good. But then the lesson is debate based and it was so hard for me as I was not very good at English at that time. (learning marketing for first time too)
 
And you will have two different accounts for student ID for internet. One of them starts with N and the other one is netID which you need to access internet and use NYU blackboard. You will be able to create netID at NYU homepage.
 

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