<p>I am considering applying to Stern as a Marketing major. Are many of the required classes at Stern (especially for this particular major) mathematics-oriented? </p>
<p>I am curious because while math is something that I'm pretty good at, well...it's not something I necessarily enjoy. Funny how that works sometimes.</p>
<p>Would I be required to take lots of difficult math classes -- more than if I went to CAS, for example? </p>
<p>Second, I'm entering my senior year in high school, and considering applying Early Decision. There are not a lot of options at my school concerning business classes -- I think there are one or two Economics classes offered, which I will more than likely not be able to take because of scheduling conflicts. Would this hurt my chances of getting into Stern?</p>
<p>This is kind of a silly question, but I'm curious. :P I've heard lots of stereotypes about Stern students from a few NYU students that I know: conservative, money-hungry, pretentious... things that I definitely am not! Is there a lot of truth to these stereotypes?</p>
<p>yes the majority of the classes will have math. you dont need to be a genius, but you will need at least semi-strong math skills to succeed. as a marketing major you will still need to take 2 accoutnign classes, stats, operations, a finance class, and microeconmocis, all of which are pretty math heavy. your marketing classes will not be as math heavy, but they will still be using some quantitative analysis. but the math we use is definitely easier than the math classes at CAS (i am assuming you were referring to a math major at CAS.)</p>
<p>not taking econmics shouldn't make a big difference, although it will help you when you have to take the stern economics class. as long as you have the numbers you should be fine. </p>
<p>the stereotypes you mention are partly true. there are plenty of kids here whose sole purpose is to land an ibanking job. and stern has many more conservatives/republicans than other nyu school. however, you can still find a party crowd here. and since you will be a marketing major, you shouldn't have a problem finding kids who aren't money hungry, especially since marketing is like the most popular major after finance/accounting.</p>
<p>There will be math, but it's generally on the level of algebra (except for the required MAP math class, but you'd have to take that no matter what school you go to). Since you say you're good at math, it won't be hard for you to suck it up and get through it relatively unscathed.</p>
<p>The stereotypes really aren't any more true of Stern than the rest of NYU, and I'm pretty sure they only exist because people (not in Stern) keep spreading the rumor that it does. People who saw me every week still asked me ridiculously unfounded questions at the end of freshman year - I wanted to say, I'm IN STERN; can't you figure out for yourself that not every Stern student is ____?</p>
<p>Anyway, are there conservatives? If you mean in the sense of creationism-believing, homosexual-hating, etc etc, I sure haven't met any. If you mean in the economic sense of believing in capitalism and so on, well.. of course, it's business school, but it surely won't affect you in any significant way. </p>
<p>Are the students money-hungry? Pretty much every student is looking for a good job, but I don't think that means money-hungry (and it certainly doesn't distinguish Stern students from any other group). I have known a few people who've told me they want to be retired by 30 or make x amount of money or so on, but that includes Gallatin students too.</p>
<p>Are Stern students pretentious? Um, I would have to say that all the schools at NYU have a pretty equal share of pretentious people XD</p>
<p>There are stereotypes about every NYU school, (except for maybe CAS because it's too diverse to stereotype) e.g - Tisch kids are super-artsy, and got in because of musical/artistic talent rather than smarts, GSP/LSP kids are dumb, and it's true that Stern kind of has that money-hungry, businesspeople stereotype, but it's not true.</p>
<p>Are there kids in Stern like that? Yeah. There are pretentious snobs in all the schools (like tisch kids who are convinced they're the next Martin Scorcese) but overall Stern isn't any worse.</p>
<p>In a school like NYU with so many bright, talented students, you will meet your fair share of pretentious ones, but most people aren't like that.</p>
<p>Thanks, everyone. :) I was a little worried because I go to a school with a lot of very conservative people right now and I was looking to get away from that atmosphere. There is a lot of ignorance and narrow-mindedness here (RAGING homophobia), and one of the reasons I was initially interested in school in NYC was the change from that.</p>
<p>Thanks for help about math, too... algebra and statistics are my strong points, so that should help.</p>
<p>why does Stern get so much hate, especially from CAS? i heard that during orientation for CAS, there was a lotta hating on Stern. i think this is pretty analogous to the hating wharton receives from Penn CAS lol</p>
<p>I think it's because CAS is too big and diverse to have a specific stereotype, whereas it's easy to stereotype Stern (the most selective school) as the one with all the pretentious, money-hungry businessmen...which is not true lol. But yeah, I imagine it's the same at U.Penn with the Wharton kids. </p>
<p>but I'd rather have the stern stereotype than the tisch or gsp/lsp one haha.</p>
<p>It's also pretty illogical that there would be 'hating' on Stern during freshman orientation - at that point, no one from another school at NYU would have even met a Stern student (I suppose orientation leaders, though I find that possibility terribly depressing).</p>
<p>Oh well, it's not like people like to draw conclusions from actual facts.</p>
<p>I believe the orientation leaders are chosen by school, i.e., Stern upperclassmen, orient Stern freshmen. So I wouldn't think much hating is going on there either.</p>
<p>they might be hating based on what they've heard of stern, rather than kids they've actually met. I mean, why bother reserving judgment until you meet someone?</p>