My oldest daughter attended NYU as a vocal performance major and got her BM in 2012. Youngest D entered that fall and in 2016 graduated with her BFA in art. In fall of 2016, she started a masters in art education which she will be completing this summer. But I’m still not done. Oldest D applied and was accepted to NYU Stern for a full time MBA–so I’m an NYU parent for another 2 years. Eleven consecutive years! The good news is that both D’s got significant scholarship $ for their graduate degrees 
Parents, if you have any questions, feel free to ask away!!!
Wow, you must be as knowledgeable about NYU as any AO. I wanted to ask you about the internship opportunity and job placement. Although your children all went to NYU as a (preforming) art major, I was wondering if CAS has a good infrastructure for helping its students find internships and jobs. I know it mostly depends on individual’s competency and major though. My son will start as a freshman at CAS this fall (major undecided).
@jyc1230 In my experience, students need to seek out opportunities. The Wasserman Center (the university-wide career development center) will help a great deal–there are job listings for all majors/ areas of interest and various info sessions to review resumes, cover letters, hone interview skills, etc. However, it is up to each student to take advantage of these services. As a parent, I kept on top of my children to take advantage of these opportunities until they became mature enough to seek them out on their own. But there are some students who manage 4 years at a school and never seek out career services at all.
In order to find summer jobs and internships, one needs to start the process by late fall and be ready with their resume/ cover letter by January break. In addition to the Wasserman Center, many departments get job postings too. Those are sometimes sent out to students in email blasts. But different majors or departments handle that differently–some being more hands-on than others. Personally, I thought the art department was much better at informing their students about jobs, internships, grants, etc. (across the entire art department) than the music department. Music Business majors would have access to job listings, but they were only sent out within that major. Vocal performance majors were more on their own.
Based on that, it may pay to have your son declare a major early on, in order to access a particular departments internships/ job listings, even if he changes his major later.
Thank you so much for your detailed answer. It helps!
@uskoolfish is there any way for incoming freshmen to indicate their housing preference of being put into a single, double or triple? or is it just randomized so whoever is put into a single just has to pay more?
You will be asked to request housing, but your placement won’t be guaranteed. There are very few single housing options. I doubt that a student would get it without requesting it–and it is in demand by some students. A triple is considered low- cost housing. And that is a specific request and again, in demand. The majority of dorms offer doubles or suites with doubles.