<p>I wanted to know how is the Econ program at CAS differs from that of Stern?</p>
<p>-What are the topics like?
-I can imagine CAS's is more of a Liberal Arts major, but whats the difference? Econ IS Econ
-Do CAS Econ majors get good jobs after they graduate? What kind of jobs?</p>
<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/771181-stern-not-stern.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/771181-stern-not-stern.html</a></p>
<p>Now I’m an incoming freshman, so this is just my perspective and stuff that I’ve heard, but nothing I’ve seen first-hand. So take this with a grain of salt.</p>
<p>With CAS Econ you have a choice of two different tracks, theory and policy. Both net you a BA, I think, whereas if you took econ in stern you would get a BSc. I don’t know anything about CAS general requirements but since CAS itself seems like a liberal arts-ish school you may find yourself focusing on a lot of hose types of courses.</p>
<p>Also, from what I hear lots of firms/companies in NYC hire from Stern (first) and then you get down to CAS students. Even so, it really depends on how well you can sell yourself when you go for the job, just because you’re in CAS instead of Stern doesn’t mean you won’t get a job. As for what kind, econ can go into quite a few different things. :)</p>
<p>Thank you. And thanks for the link… love the name “to stern or not to stern”</p>
<p>“Also, from what I hear lots of firms/companies in NYC hire from Stern (first) and then you get down to CAS students.”</p>
<p>I can assure you this is not true. I had a similar dilemma as you, and decided on CAS b/c the prep. school kid in me couldn’t swallow studying undergrad biz for some reason. Anyway, I doubled in econ & math in CAS and graduated in 3 years and locked up a job before graduating. If you are talking about Wall St, there are many factors into who a firm hires. Its basically all about how you present yourself and if you have a sense for the markets and business. I know a ton of non-biz people at NYU who ended up in finance, though the job market is not what it used to be (lol) and this affects everyone across the board. </p>
<p>PM me if you want to discuss more.</p>
<p>@ ABirch:</p>
<p>I was interested in your reply, because D has decided to change her CAS major from bio to econ/math. I understood it to be one combo major, not a double major. Any opinion on the combo major rather than double majoring? She’s on a pre-med track, which will eat up lots of elective space, so I don’t know that double majoring PLUS pre-med is a reasonable goal in 4 years.</p>
<p>Its a joint major (about 7-9 classes in each dept). Not really sure what the difference is re: combo vs. double @NYU, so I’m not sure how to answer your question. The only thing is some depts offer a “joint” major, e.g. econ/math, econ/comp science, etc. Perhaps a double major would be something like econ and english.</p>
<p>I had plenty of pre-med friends…I don’t think undergrad major really matters for med school. So my advice would be to pick something where you think you’ll get the highest GPA and obviously ace the MCAT. It might be hard to double major while being pre-med, but its been done.</p>
<p>ABirch, I don’t think anything I wrote contradicts what you wrote – people from all over get jobs, however (and this is what I hear, I’m just a freshman) many companies offer Stern kids opportunities for the types of wall st./ibanking jobs a lot of people have in mind before CAS. That doesn’t mean at all that being in CAS will mean you won’t have a job when you graduate.</p>