Current NYU Senior Taking Questions

<p>@streetracerfxx</p>

<p>If you go over the amount of credits needed for Senior Year and you want to keep your financial aid for the extra time you’re spending at the school, you can petition for an extension for your financial aid. You can list double major as a reason for your extension.</p>

<p>@chinablue </p>

<p>Do you mean from an administrative viewpoint or how your son’s fellow students might view him? I knew a girl who participating in ROTC my freshman year and no one seemed to give her a hard time about it. I don’t think a big ROTC school but I also don’t think he’ll feel odd for being in ROTC.</p>

<p>Thank you for that reply. That was actually kind of bothering me. That just relieved my apprehensions. Thank you again.</p>

<p>So how lenient is NYU with deadlines? From experience I think they’re pretty lenient.</p>

<p>what kind of deadlines? i know for certain things like Housing, they really don’t mess around.</p>

<p>All deadlines. For instance, I didn’t send in my school transcipts and teacher recommendation forms until 1-2 weeks after the Jan. 1st deadline. I was still accepted.</p>

<p>Now I’m sending my health immunization records 2 days after the deadline. </p>

<p>Are deadlines just to remind you to send them in?</p>

<p>I just saw Hayden. It looks a bit shabby (stained carpets, moldy bathrooms, pealing paint, broken a/c and desk lamps, etc.). Any chance they will fix it up before move in day?</p>

<p>a) if the AC and desk lamp doesn’t work, put in a work-order and NYU maintenance will come and fix it.
b) for everything else. . . just go with it. the freshmen dorms are the most run-down. i stayed in Goddard for a summer and it was much more shabby than my Lafayette or Palladium dorms.</p>

<p>@AbbyP </p>

<p>Writing a resume is very easy. It’s essentially a list of your prior work / volunteer experience and awards and stuff. I put everything I had from high school, none of which really was that spectacular, and still managed to find two decent internships freshman year. Look at the templates on the Wasserman Center web page.</p>

<p>[Center</a> for Career Development](<a href=“Career Development and Jobs”>Career Development and Jobs)</p>

<p>What don’t you like about NYU?</p>

<p>First off, thanks for offering to answer all of our questions; i have lots…

  1. i know that as a d3, nyu can’t give offic. athletic scholarships, but i’ve heard of other d3 schools giving “academic grants” and such to their athletes. do you happen to know if this unofficial athletic scholarship giving goes on at nyu-specifically by the track coach?
  2. how is nyu with financial aid?
  3. does the lack of campus translate to a lack of school community? b/c individualism is great and all, but i’d like to feel some kind of sense of community at college as well
  4. how long should the answers to the supplemental questions on the app be?
  5. i know this is kind of a strange question but i’ve heard that a general sense of pretentiousness tends to pervade the student body at nyu. I don’t mean to generalize but I do fear a student body of rich, ‘too cool for school’ types…any truth to this rumor?</p>

<p>2) our financial aid SUCKS. a lot. a lot. more than you can realize.</p>

<p>3) if you’re determined to find a community, you’ll find one. if you wait around for a community to develop or for one to be handed to you, you’ll never find one. we’re New Yorkers, we’re determined to do everything ourselves. </p>

<p>4) i <em>think</em> there’s a character limit. if you go over a certain number of characters, the field won’t accept any more. but i haven’t look at the application in years, maybe a current or recent applicant can answer that.</p>

<p>5) hahahaha, this question reminds me of a button we sell in the bookstore. . .“it’s hard to be humble when you’re from NYU.” </p>

<p>but in all seriousness, i feel you’ll run across SOME students who are like that, but on the whole, people are pretty down to Earth. but new yorkers kind of have that attitude built in. we’re just born that way. :-P</p>

<p>Supplemental questions are seven lines.</p>

<p>^ I know, it sucks.</p>

<p>They have like a 500 char or 250 word limit or something, which is why I loved NYU’s supplement. No need to write like two extra essays like some colleges wanted.</p>