<p>If you go in undeclared, are you allowed to pick a major during the school year?</p>
<p>I've heard financial aid is not very good. This is a big issue for me. Could anyone tell me the average amount they will give you for one year?</p>
<p>What is the acceptance rate at Stern and Tisch?</p>
<p>Does NYU require an interview?</p>
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<li>Average financial aid package: $20,643</li>
<li>Acceptance rate for all of NYU is 36% and they don't like to say that one school is more competitive than another so I don't think you will find specific schools anywhere.</li>
<li>NO. Auditions for some programs in Tisch are required...</li>
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<p>Actually, the above is slightly dated... the NYU site has the stats for 2011.</p>
<p><a href="http://admissions.nyu.edu/fast_facts/%5B/url%5D">http://admissions.nyu.edu/fast_facts/</a></p>
<p>Avg. financial aid: $20,095 (a little lower)
Acceptance rate: 29.2%</p>
<p>Here's a page for Stern: <a href="http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/07/undergrad/profiles/stern1.htm%5B/url%5D">http://www.businessweek.com/bschools/07/undergrad/profiles/stern1.htm</a></p>
<p>In general, the acceptance rate for Stern and Tisch are both lower than the all-NYU acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Most people don't declare a major until later on (although obviously some people have it all planned out), and you can change your major as many times as you want, provided you can finish school on time (I'm pretty sure that's the case).</p>
<p>Merit scholarships are rare in Stern and Tisch... I think Stern actually ended giving out pure merit scholarships and have restricted it to merit provided you have demonstrated financial need.</p>
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<li><p>One needs to be careful changing majors, particularly at a school where combined costs for everything exceed $50,000 annually.</p></li>
<li><p>The later you change majors (say end of junior year), the more likely you are to run into serious problems graduating in four years -- and year five isn't free. </p></li>
<li><p>Pre-requisites and general education requirements may not be a big credit issue if you change your plans in your first year. Or if you change from, say, history to English literature. But if you change from science to a humanities curriculum, or humanities to social science or business, you're likely to find yourself with credits to make up, and conceivably extra time, or summer study.</p></li>
<li><p>I don't know what "finishing school on time" means in this situation. You can't change majors as many times as you want and hope to graduate in four years. That isn't realistic. You might be able to change once or even twice, but beyond that you're courting trouble. </p></li>
<li><p>The college I attended as an undergraduate decades ago had a requirement that you had to complete your degree within six years of enrolling. Maybe in that context, "finishing on time" permits more flexibility, but that's an expensive context at NYU. </p></li>
<li><p>Also you have to keep your nose clean. You don't want to wind up like Bluto in "Animal House" who realized as the dean asked him to leave that six years of college had just gone down the drain!</p></li>
<li><p>Talk to an academic adviser. Plenty of people change majors. Often it's a good idea. But you need to be careful. Selecting and discarding majors isn't like trying on a pair of shoes; there are very real potential costs.</p></li>
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