The year was 2020. A simple question haunted Ed & Ari in their final year of high school: Why NYU? No, we're not talking about the expectations of immigrant parents or the "leg up" that an elite university education might give you. We're talking the cringe sh*t you make up for the admission officers. That's right. In this episode of WHAT THE NEW YORK?!, Ed & Ari read their "Why NYU?" essays that got them (or in Ari's case, didn't get her) into NYU.