<p>@pqr
The chances of you wanting to concentrate in stats are minimal. It’s not really that popular a major here. If you want to take micro freshman fall, go ahead. I don’t think it’s a good idea and recommend against it. You’ll have harder grading in spring micro, but it’s easier to beat the curve by one or two points instead of getting a B+ with a 97.</p>
<p>@runi
Not taking micro in the fall is not a problem, some people don’t even get to it until third semester.
C&C is not harder than WTE, if anything, it’s Stern’s gift to you on a golden platter because it gets you out of that god-forsake CAS class.</p>
<p>@Toasted
Class of 2013 was the only year they allowed complete exemptions, right now I’m pretty confident it’s either WTE or C&C for all freshmen.</p>
<p>@lullina
I have no idea, I’ve never even heard anyone here mention it so doubtful. Search our website maybe.</p>
<p>@lovetorun
I don’t drink at all. I have friends. I do stuff with my friends. I’m fairly happy at this point in my life, probably would be even more happy if I stopped to smell the roses for once, but I’m going 100% 24/7 and it’s easy to gloss past the good stuff if you’re always focused on some goal. It’s easy to find people who are like you or who you like. There are 20,000+ undergrads here. If you don’t want to drink, you don’t have to.</p>
<p>Hey hellodocks, thanks for everything your responses have been real helpful!</p>
<p>I got a 730 on the SAT writing, do you know if thats high enough where I would be able to skip WTE. Also, I got 5s on the Calculus, Statistics, and a 4 on English so do you think it would make sense to take more advanced courses yet risk hurting my GPA further? Lastly, I know many people at Stern are aiming for those investment banking jobs, but by senior year on average how many people are interested in still pursuing investment banking and how many people from Stern are able to land those jobs? Thanks a lot in advance.</p>
<p>Take Calc III if you can place into it. Otherwise stick with Calc I. Calc II, ehh, I don’t recommend unless you know you want to major in stats directly from the start.</p>
<p>I can’t answer how many and who wants or gets banking by graduation, but our placement is pretty solid. If you deserve a job, you’ll get one. Every single BB firm except Deutsche is here for OCR, every elite boutique, tons of MM firms … and that’s just sell-side. Buy-side is here too.</p>
<p>Thanks hellodocks. Is there a GPA range that puts you in a good position for a job just as rule of thumb (some have said that a 3.7 puts you in real good shape while others have said that a 3.5 is good enough). Also I’m a little concerned my writing/reading skills aren’t great will that severely affect me at stern? Thanks.</p>
<p>Hellodocks
so you are saying that for study abroad…your major does/does not play any role. Then what kind of subjects will you be choosing and what are your living arrangements…</p>
<p>@bigblue
3.5 is the general rule of thumb, a lot of recruiters will see that as a basic threshold and if you have it, good, if not, skip. That’s just a screening tool however, so if you’ve made the right moves and networked to the point where you’re not making a blind resume drop online, GPA becomes less important. I snuck by with something well below that and still pulled offers.</p>
<p>3.8+ is considered standout and will probably get you pulled for a first-round even if you’ve done little to no networking.</p>
<p>Reading and writing aren’t stressed that heavily here, but if you don’t have the ability, you’ll find it’s something you really can’t pick up. I’m fortunate in that writing has always come easily to me so papers and written prompts I excel at, and for the quant subjects that I suck at, I just spend hours and hours drilling it into my head until I can get a good grade.</p>
<p>@nice
Major CAN play a role, I said that for me it didn’t. For some people, Paris is a must-go because it has a ton of courses for Psych and other majors. London is huge for Sternies because it offers many courses we need during our sophomore and junior years. Shanghai for the same reason. </p>
<p>If you’re like me, however, and want a break from what you normally study, you can choose whatever you want. I dropped three out of four elective classes I have before I graduate on this semester just so I could get a taste of something new. Living arrangements vary, but depending on the study abroad site, you’ll either be in university-sponsored housing on-campus or off-campus (where you pay the university and they handle it), or an apartment that the school helped you find and you pay the landlord.</p>
<p>I know three kids who had 4.0s after freshman year, one with the most stacked schedule I could imagine as well as some pretty phenomenal ECs as well. Another girl pulled a 4.0 in the spring. Also know kids sitting on 3.0s now.</p>
<p>Personally, a 3.5 isn’t that hard. I pulled a 3.7+ with recruiting, rough classes, borderline full-time work hours, and leadership in multiple extracurriculars. It’s the moves you make to make sure you succeed that count. Work smarter, not harder.</p>
<p>I don’t see it being feasible to graduate with a 4.0. If you do, you’re either out of place at this school or you’re locking yourself in your room and not capitalizing on the opportunities here that help differentiate you as a candidate, and the marginal gain from having a GPA past 3.8 doesn’t compare to having extracurriculars, recommendations, networking, or professional development programs filling out your resume.</p>
<p>Also, side note:
I will not be participating as an OL at this year’s Welcome Week, so apologies to anyone in the incoming class who hoped to see or speak with me there.</p>
<p>Are there certain recruiting events where employers say we only want kids from specific schools within NYU coming to our recruiting events (i.e. only Stern kids, only CAS kids, only Tisch kids)? Or are they for the most part open to all NYU students?</p>
<p>Almost all are posted exclusively within the Stern intranet, either through ICC bulletins, extracurricular societies that host them, across an email listserv, or a sub-section of Wasserman. Theoretically, anyone from NYU could walk into them, but Stern is the target. NYU isn’t.</p>
<p>Tisch and Steinhardt are the same way, unless you wind up on a listserv or bulletin somehow, there’s no way you’d know about the recruiting that happens there for fine arts, film & tv, or music business and sound production kids.</p>
<p>lullinatalk, It may be that communal bathrooms are better when it comes to cleaning. I remember communal bathrooms at Columbia U were cleaned by staff.</p>
<p>Unfortunately, if you get dirty or cleaning adverse roommates, it could be worse sharing the bathroom with 1-3 or more roommates/ suitemates. My S has had to give assignments to his suitemates to keep the bathroom less messy and filthy. Hopefully, it is because of the personalities he is dealing with. Maybe you will be lucky and get some “clean” suitemates. You have no control over who your suitemates are unless you have a group of people requesting the same suite together.</p>
<p>I am not definite about this, but I think it is Greenwich Hotel that has cleaning service (but Greenwich is not for freshmen).</p>
<p>How useful are networking events? I know that they are definately useful in meeting people and finding out more information, but I have also heard that they tend to get packed and that it’s difficult to build useful relationships with the bankers at the events because it gets so packed. I’m a little concerned because I don’t know that many people on Wall Street, so how difficult is networking going to be for me and what else can I do other than attending networking events. </p>
<p>Also, I placed out of Biology which would probably get me out of my natural science requirement, so I’m debating whether I should take a natural science to boost my gpa or not. Do you know whether any of the science courses are worth taking purely as a gpa boost? Also, I placed out of stat so should i take the 2 elective stat course or the 6 credit?</p>
<p>@pqr
There’s no formula. That depends on your interests, because you’ll excel in groups that you’re happiest in. If you’re Asian, please don’t do BAP. It’s the most stereotypical thing and it’s hilarious watching kids go in BAP thinking it’s their automatic ticket to a job. Some that I am involved with are The Finance Society, IAG, PDS, SEAD, and STEBA.</p>
<p>@lullina
There are no communal bathrooms at this school, but you will have one in your room. It’s your responsibility to arrange some kind of cleaning schedule with your roommates or suitemates, but that’s on you.</p>
<p>@bigblue
Well, most people’s idea of networking events is a huge room with a couple professionals in each corner with a horde of job-hungry kids surrounding them, a real minnows in a shark tank kinda deal. I don’t like those because like you said, the odds aren’t in your favor. That’s why I think you have to look for alternative vehicles, i.e. a professional development program that gets you into specific networking events that are far more intimate. All things aside though, even that giant moshpit will be better for you than nothing. I got my start by attending those and standing out. That led to better things.</p>
<p>Don’t take NatSci if you don’t have to. If you have to, take ‘How Things Work,’ it’s a tremendous GPA boost. If you can skip it, skip it and just take an upper-level elective in Stern instead. It’ll be better for your resume and you can pursue something actually interesting. Also, take the 2-credit regression. If you can get out of that hellhole of a stat class, do it by any means.</p>
<p>My son has taken the ACT, done quite well, and does not intend to take the SAT. So is there an ACT score that would exempt him from the WTE requirement and let him take C&C instead?</p>
<p>No, they only take SAT I Writing score, and they don’t exempt the course but get placed into Commerce & Culture, a writing / composition course at Stern. This is the equivalent of taking an advanced WTE. Only in the class of 2013 (Docks’ class), Stern tried out WTE for <700, C&C for 700-740, and exempt 750 or higher. They denied ACT equivalents in the 2013 and 2014 classes.</p>
<p>Going back a few pages there was some questions about Calc…</p>
<p>Is Calc III easier than Calc II?
If I want to take Computer Science/Stats classes in the future…but I still want to major in Finance which should I take? I know Calc II is a prerequisite but I’ve heard it’s very difficult and I’m not the best calc student. Any advice?</p>