<p>@JustaGirl - I’m guessing Econ is a lot more difficult in Stern, since Stern is a more competitive school in general. CAS-Econ is considered pretty easy, and I think it only has 10 classes for the major. In general, Econ at the Undergrad level is easy, then gets extremely hard in Grad school. Most people getting Econ PhD’s have undergrad Math degrees, for example. </p>
<p>As for strongest CAS departments, Math, Philosophy, Econ, International Relations, Journalism are all ranked very highly. Journalism requires a double major, btw.</p>
<p>Double-majoring doesn’t give you 2 degrees; you end up with 1 degree, with 2 majors. The difficulty depends entirely on the subjects. Certain majors go really well together, like Politics/History. Some majors only have 9-10 required classes, other majors have like 16-18, so check out the course requirements. I’m double majoring in Chemistry/Neural Sci and there’s many overlapping classes, but it’s still a lot of classes. Doubling in say, Chemistry and English Lit would be more difficult.</p>
<p>i completely agree with missamericanpie as to whether or not it’s “worth it”…hey, most of us are paying a lot of money to go to nyu, but not everyone gets the same things out of it.</p>
<p>Thanks!- applied psychology must not be a very popular major?
And I have another question does nyu recalculate gpas? Un-weighted or weighted?
Sorry I just have to ask because I was surprised to hear that some other kid’s school awarded .5 gpa boost while my school only adds .03 per ap class…
So lets say my gpa is a 3.8 and I have taken 5 aps and I am taking 4 more this year… what will my gpa be for nyu?</p>
<p>I’m a junior in Stern. My family EFC was pretty high. Got some scholarship money. Turned down better offers at WashU, Emory and Carnegie-Mellon to be here. I haven’t regretted my decision. I had great suite-mates in Rubin as a freshman. I still room with one of the girls. My original roomate visited me last semester in Prague while she was in Madrid. My 4 other suitemates wre in Steinhardt and CAS while I am in Stern. All got along great. we all remain good friends.</p>
<p>missamericanpie, could you answer a financial aid question for me?</p>
<p>I really would love to go to NYU, but I feel like I wont be able to because I’ve been hearing about their horrible financial aid packages. If I have a 3.9 GPA UW, 16/700 - Top 5%, 1960 SAT (1310 CR + M) and an EFC of 0, what are the chances that I will receive a lot of aid?</p>
<p>i can’t answer financial aid questions. i make a point not to, since i don’t receive it. you’re better off asking financial aid or calling admissions.</p>
<p>im totally freaking out, as you know/remember (maybe) i used to have an 1880 SAT superscore but after nov. my score went up to 1950 (bump in math)…so basically do you think they’ll see my november scores? </p>
<p>people are talking about how they already got responses so im kind of scared</p>
<p>do you know how the CAS- biochem major is? is it as popular as econ or math? because i plan to be a premed. or am i better off looking at another college that is renowned in life science??</p>
<p>my parent works in the school of med. all med schools care about is GPA and the MCATs, pretty much. my old roommate was pre-dental and biochem and she liked it well enough. she’s doing research now as a senior in a medical lab. the only thing that worries me is that med school is EXPENSIVE, and if you’re going into debt for NYU, you might want to reconsider NYU.</p>
missamericanpie is completely right, med schools focus on mcat and gpa (although volunteering in a hospital, research, ec’s, letters of recc, interview, etc, all come into play). so just major in whatever you want…most majors in NYU CAS only require 10-13 classes so it’s easy to fit the pre-med requirements with most majors.</p>
<p>About the Biochem major - no, it’s definitely not as popular as Econ, which I believe is one of the most popular majors at NYU, offered in both CAS and Stern (Stern has business econ, CAS is lib arts). Math is not too popular of a major either (it’s pretty difficult, whereas CAS-Econ is relatively easy). Science majors aren’t too popular at NYU, but that’s because we offer so many majors across all fields and there’s only a handful of science programs. But anyway, I’m studying Chem and I can tell you Biochem is pretty difficult, and has a lot of requirements as well…I personally think it’s harder than the Chem or Bio major. A lot of Biochem students end up changing their major to Bio or Chem after freshmen year. But don’t stress too much about major now, since freshmen usually end up changing at least once.</p>
<p>is biochem more difficult than bio or chem major because you have to take classes from both majors? my anatomy teacher who went to graduate school at nyu [biochem major] told me it was difficult but since she loved pure chemistry so much, she enjoyed it.</p>
<p>@mhmmclx - well biochem has more requirements than the bio or chem majors, so that makes it harder to do. I also love pure chemistry (chem major) but I find bio to be more difficult and time-consuming, so biochem would be harder for me. Similarly, a lot of Bio majors love bio and are good at basic chem, but find advanced chem and math classes (pchem I and II, calc II and III) harder. as a biochem major, you’ll be taking classes from both majors…Chem majors aren’t required to study Bio at all, for example, but biochem majors have to take the hard chem classes and hard bio classes to boot.</p>
<p>it’s not that bad though, my biochem friends like their majors and enjoy them more than pure chem or bio. plus its a smaller major, so smaller classes, more individualized attention, which is good</p>
<p>how hard is it to transfer??? i’ve asked this question to like everyone for a thousand times but i’m not really feeling it
i applied ED to hotel management in SCPS and I might want to change my interest later on maybe to marketing/management in stern or music business in steinhardt…</p>
<p>At NYU CAS, how binding is the major you declare in your original undergraduate application? Also, does this declared major play a role in admissions decisions in terms of space available in that program?</p>
<p>I’m asking about History in particular. Thanks.</p>