Chance for Stern vs. CAS

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>NYU is one of my top-choice schools - and until very recently it seemed natural that I would apply to Stern because I am wanting to go into business, but the thing is that my business interests are more in the arena of communications/marketing/advertising/PR and not finance, and not only is Stern incredibly difficult to get into to begin with, but something like 70% of the grads go into finance and that's not my end career goal in business, even though I know finance classes will be inevitable. I want to have some interdisciplinary study, such as potentially minoring in Spanish.</p>

<p>I am really interested in NYU as a school in general, not just for Stern - the study abroad program is incredible and I want to spend at least a semester living in Spain, I have visited NYU's campus and I love NYC and the diversity of the campus! I don't want to ruin my chances of getting into NYU at all by trying for Stern when I'm not 100% for it, and I know I can still study business at CAS (the things I really want to study like marketing etc.) and have more liberal arts in my education, which I would like. </p>

<p>I am wondering if CAS might be more of a target for me than Stern.</p>

<p>-I am an IB diploma candidate; taking IB business as one of my HLs
-3.9 unweighted GPA; school doesn't do weighted
-top 10% of my class (suburban public school very competitive, class of almost 500)
-SAT reading 750, math 690, writing 730 = 2170 overall
-I qualified for DECA nationals for 2 years in a row; State Champion sophomore year and 4th-place at state junior year
-VP of community creative writing club where I help teach writing lessons to younger students
-Secretary of my hometown's youth government board
-I have been employed at the same place since my sophomore year
-significant community service; worked in summer school classrooms helping elementary schoolers for 3-4 weeks every summer for 3 summers; junior counselor for 4 weeks at a camp last summer; I have volunteer-tutored elementary schoolers every week since freshman year
-I was selected as HOBY ambassador from my school in 10th grade
-Student Trustee at my hometown's schools foundation: I represent my school at events, attend board meetings and am learning a lot about how nonprofit businesses work
-I love writing and consider myself a strong writer
-I am from Washington state</p>

<p>Let me know! Thanks for reading all this :P</p>

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<p>I was in the same position as you (I’m even also a diploma candidate). When I first started looking at NYU a year back, I was interested primarily in Stern because I’ve always been interested in business. What I really wanted, though, was a more flexible and well-rounded education where I could study business and other interests in conjunction.</p>

<p>Hence, I applied ED1 to CAS just this month for Economics. The Economics program is shared and said to be more “flexible”, in that it isn’t necessarily tailored to the pre-natal Wall Street junkie. Also, there are two cross-school minors at Stern: one on entertainment business (which is what I’m interested in) and one on general business (it’s hosted by CAS in conjunction with Stern). </p>

<p>I think you could reach for Stern, and you definitely are a pretty good match for CAS. In the end, it’s all about what you want to study. It seems like you would do well at CAS, in my opinion.</p>

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<p>Thanks! Good to know. On common app for NYU, they ask about your choice of alternate schools within NYU, but is there even a possibility of them putting me into one of those alternates if I don’t get into Stern?</p>

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<p>Apply to CAS. You will most likely be rejected by Stern given your SAT scores. Apply to CAS and try to transfer after a semester (if you have a high math/econ grade transferring is easy to Stern. I did it myself two years ago.)</p>

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<p>I think you are fine for either as long as your essays are good. But, Stern is a reach for almost anyone. But that could change with ED2</p>