<p>^well, stern is a school within NYU. Schools within colleges have their own admission process. Stern is the hardest school to get into of all the schools in NYU</p>
<p>Stern is NYU’s business school.</p>
<p>But why would your family move when you go to college???</p>
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<p>It has a Tisch, which is very respected, particularly in the film industry. And its law school is also among the best in the country. It also has top programs in mathematics and philosophy to name a few.</p>
<p>NYC is extremely expensive. Columbia is able to give out better financial aid because it’s a very affluent university. Since it lacks a large endowment, NYU funds it excellent program through high tuition, and lack of financial aid.</p>
<p>Schools that are roughly as selective as NYU but with better financial aid:</p>
<p>Boston College
Brandeis
College of the Holy Cross
Macalester College
Occidental College
Reed College
Trinity College (CT)
U. Richmond
U. Rochester</p>
<p>I don’t understand this situation at all. Your family is extremely poor but can afford to live in NYC? And find jobs that are better than the jobs they have now?</p>
<p>In my opinion NYU is, by far, THE most overrated of all the schools that are popular on this site. It is not that academically rigorous, a lot of the students are so-so (except for Stern and some of the arts programs), and it is off-the-charts expensive. My son’s friend was there last year and found it extremely disappointing. Many of his professors were adjuncts and he found his peers lacking in intellectual curiosity and knowledge from high school. If it were not in NYC and have an easy-to-remember name it would have little of the appeal that it does. This, in turn, gives it more selectivity than it would have otherwise.</p>
<p>Thanks for the list! And yes my family has a way to live there because we are familiar with the place. So now I need to study my SATs but I don’t know how to study the proper way. I don’t know about classes and tutors, what about learning myself? Please, that’s very important to me.</p>
<p>Your family has a “way to live there” because they are “familiar”? What the heck does that even mean? Just because you’re “familiar” with a place doesn’t mean you magically have a house and jobs waiting for you every time you visit.</p>
<p>For the SAT, use the CollegeBoard’s big blue book. Do practice tests.</p>
<p>^ Maybe it means they know where police leave the cardboard houses alone?</p>
<p>Sorry, I meant that it’s easier to go there to check if there is a house for rent. If I want to go to let’s say California, I’ll have to visit there with my mom to find a house for rent.</p>
<p>I got another question. my high school only offers 2 ap classes (only 260 high school kids), and I can’t take either due to my class schedule. But I’m planning to get into National Honor’s Society, which is what my school only offers in terms of extra curricular things. Will colleges look at that in a bad way since I don’t do any AP classes?</p>
<p>As a freshman, you won’t be living in a house. You’ll be living in dorms, unless you’re attending one of the CUNY’s. The schools you’re interested in require freshmen to live on campus.</p>
<p>So neither you nor your family will need a house for you to go to college.
(And if you mean to visit, I assume you/they’d go to a hotel overnight).</p>
<p>iIf your High school offers 2 AP classes, you have to take them.
Colleges only expect you to take the AP classes offered at your school, not more, but they DO expect you to take the AP classes your school offers.
This is especially true of the highly selective schools you’re looking at.
National Honors Society does not matter to selective colleges (being part of it is nice, but it doesn’t make any difference since it’s expected - not being in it makes a negative difference of sorts, I guess). However being part of NHS will NOT make up for not taking the AP classes that were offered at your high school.
How many Honors Classes have you taken? For the schools you’re looking at and keeping in mind you’d have these 2 AP classes also, you’d need 5 Honors Classes each high school year, except senior year when you’d need 3-4 Honors and 2 APs.</p>
<p>Look at Fordham</p>
<p>OP do you mean that your family will move to wherever you go to college, rent/ buy a house, that your parents will get jobs there, and that you will live at home and commute to college?</p>
<p>Unless you are very young, it is extremely unusual for your parents to move when you go to college. Typically, you’re expected to be at least minimally self-sufficient. As another poster asked, why are your parents going to move with you?</p>