Current Stern Sophomore: Ask Me

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501

<p>What was your whole recruiting process like from the beginning point when you first arrived on campus all the way up to the point where you got the internship at MS? What were the first steps you took?</p>

<p>-Did you come on campus with knowledge already of how this worked or did you not have much of an idea?</p>

<p>-Did it involve joining a lot of clubs and e-mail listings to really get into the recruiting or did NYU sort of walk you through it in the beginning? </p>

<p>The reason I ask these questions is because it appears to me that Wasserman advertises these recruiting sessions mainly for the Juniors and Seniors. Correct me if I’m wrong.</p>

502

<p>@runi
I haven’t taken either so this is completely based off what I’ve heard friends and classmates say, but Calc III is easier than Calc II because it builds directly off of Calc I whereas Calc II explores material tangentially related to the elementary course. If you don’t plan on doing more than a double concentration with no minors (very easy now since they changed from majors to concentrations), you could easily take all three calc classes or just II and III and still have credit flexibility.</p>

<p>@lullina
Yes. I have a double major, the tri-school BEMT minor, and I took a semester abroad all while taking 14 credits in Italian. It would be even easier for you since concentrations require less credits than majors.</p>

<p>@fireman
I didn’t do jack **** freshman year except attend a Citi firm-wide presentation and I think maybe a JPM IB Risk one as well. Sophomore year, I got in that professional development program I mentioned, and from there it was 110% all the time. I went to almost every event possible, and since I got my name/face known at the career center, with most of the staff there, and then with the recruiters from every firm who participated, I got to bypass the standard OCR you see Wasserman hosting and got into the accelerated processes some firms offer.</p>

<p>Because I did that, I didn’t have to go through the ‘normal’ channels of recruiting per se, i.e. instead of making a resume submission online through the firm’s site (complete black hole, guaranteed way of not succeeding) or through our own OCR page, I either did paper or email submissions to a recruiter I personally knew.</p>

<p>I came on campus with 0 knowledge of any of this and everything you’ve seen me say in this thread is a result of probably a 4-month period where I immersed myself in all of it and did everything I could to make myself the most competitive candidate possible. NYU will do pretty much nothing to help you get involved. It’s up to you.</p>

503

<p>Well, I thinking about double majoring in finance and international, having a concentation in BEMT, and I want to study abroad. Is it possible to do all of this?</p>

<p>Also, will history credit (like getting a 5 on AP or 6/7 on IB) exempt you from cultures & context?</p>

504

<p>Yes, that’s possible. Double concentration (this is what majors are called now) + a minor + study abroad is possible as long as you don’t waste electives in your fresh/soph years. You need to save the electives for your semester abroad.</p>

<p>History credit does not exempt you from that MAP requirement unfortunately.</p>

505

<p>But wouldn’t you have to use electives to learn a language to study abroad? Or could you just completely not the language and just study abroad anyways?</p>

506

<p>Yeah. You don’t need to take a language prior to studying abroad. In every site, however, you need to be enrolled in the language of the country you’re studying in.</p>

507

<p>I know that NYU doesn’t have Wifi in any of the dorms and you can only use Ethernet cables to get Internet connection. I believe I’ve both heard and seen on NYU’s website that they don’t allow routers to be brought into the dorms. I kind of like to play Xbox Live, so is there a way to get connection to Live? That would be a major downer if there was no way to connect although it seems hard to believe that on a college campus people couldn’t get Internet connection to video games somehow.</p>

508

<p>i mean, couldnt you just plug in an ethernet cable into your xbox?</p>

509

<p>Some of the dorms actually do have WiFi, and contrary to what they say, most students have brought routers in the past.</p>

510

<p>@fireman
Last summer they began installing wireless in the dorms. Some buildings were activated late in the summer, others weren’t finished until way into the fall semester. As far as I know, nearly every single upperclassman dorm has wifi now and they’re working on the freshman buildings.</p>

<p>You actually have the exact same issue I did. I was a competitive gamer for years, and I was all worried I wouldn’t be able to move my consoles into my room and somehow the university would catch me and I’d get in trouble with the gremlin for having my own router. Turns out, it’s all pretty much a big myth. I’d say by October freshman fall there were one or two networks popping up in my building, and it was hilarious how after winter break everyone had the same idea. That first week back in January there were literally a dozen new wifi networks, and I brought my own router I’d been using at home.</p>

<p>Connecting to Live through ethernet was dumb complicated in Goddard, I had to manually go into the Dashboard and configure it essentially like a PC and enter the subnet names and IP protocol. Kids I knew in other dorms had that problem too. That was when I plugged it straight into the wall. Once I configured my own network, I went back to the standard format, plug and play.</p>

<p>This is all a huge hypothetical though, because you’ll be surprised by how you’ll have no time or desire to play at all. I went from being a tournament-winning, ranked player to playing about every other week. My console got so ****ing dusty, it was unreal. We only really used it for Madden or arcade games when the guys came over and we’d bother everyone by just screaming at the game for a few hours. Trust me, as a freshman adjusting to school and the city, you will (or should) have no time at all to sit in front of a screen when there is so much to learn, explore, and do.</p>

511

<p>How long did you study abroad in Florence? Did you have a lot of free time to travel around Italy/Europe? And how was your study abroad experience in general?</p>

<p>Thanks for all the info! :)</p>

512

<p>This is more a lifestyle question, but how much do you recommend spending (or receiving from your parents) a month?</p>

513

<p>blizzard28, </p>

<p>Hehe, hellodocks is a totally independent NYU student who pays his way through school by himself. He works and assumes debt on his own. So proud of him. I want him as my adopted son! Regarding your question, hellodocks may or may not be the person to talk to. While he serves as a role model, not everyone will be able to handle and take on so much on his or her own. So, my thought is hellodocks himself will live rather frugally (though not deprived; I think he knows how to balance frugality with having fun).</p>

<p>There will be people who live really tightly on a budget but NYU students have a whole range of budgets. My reading of posts here last year led me to see that some NYU students can make it on $100/ month or less (gold star for them). Others live the really good life at $1000+/ month. And, of course, you have the super affluent (like famous stars who have no worries about a budget at NYU).</p>

<p>I decided on middle of the road personal allowance for my S at $600/ month. This has been the right amount for him, allowing him to eat some cheaper meals off campus to supplement his minimum meal plan at NYU (175 flex) and to go to discounted musical events, shop in thrift stores, replenish necessary supplies for school and the dorm, etc.</p>

<p>So, your answer depends on how much your parents are willing to or are able to contribute. Also, it depends on your spending habits and ability to capitalize on “cheaper” or free student events and venues.</p>

514

<p>blizzard,</p>

<p>Also, a fairly good discussion previously about the actual spending money of some students provided by their parents:</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/1137033-i-am-confused-about-cost-attend-nyu.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/new-york-university/1137033-i-am-confused-about-cost-attend-nyu.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

515

<p>What is the Statistics class that all Stern students have to take? Is it Statistics for Business Control? Does that class have any prerequisites?</p>

<p>Also, if you know anyone who has participated, how is the Spring in New York program? Are they lenient in letting you take the courses that you want to take, or are you strictly limited to the ones stated on the website?</p>

516

<p>Do you know how difficult it is to get an internship during the school year of freshman year? And how exactly do you put yourself in a position to land an internship during your freshman year since you really don’t have any prior work experience and have limited/none business knowledge. Thanks.</p>

517

<p>hello! what do NYU (Stern, preferabbly) kids do during the ‘winter recess’ ( the period between X-mas and Jan 20-something when the 2nd semester starts) like do they look for a short interning stint? or is it more of an opportunity to do volunteer work? thnks!</p>

518

<p>@homg
Flew in January 25 and flew back this Friday, May 13. I didn’t have that much free time, but that’s because I did my typical thing and got involved in too much. Compared to all my friends, I had more schoolwork and more extracurriculars that were a time commitment. I did travel a lot though, almost every single weekend after spring break. I went all through Italy, and to Greece, Spain, France, and Germany as well. Had to cancel trips to Istanbul and Morocco otherwise I’d have been there too!</p>

<p>@giantmidget
There is one prereq for that class, a passing grade in Calc I. If you’ve applied AP credit that lets you place into a higher calc class in the fall, you may enroll in stats your first semester while you take a higher-level calc.</p>

<p>I don’t have much experience with that program unfortunately, so I can’t give you much concrete info. To answer your question though, NYU is notoriously inflexible with anything and everything, so my guess is if that they offer a certain roster of courses, that’s what you get to choose from and nothing else. Especially the Stern offerings, to be honest, from scanning the roster they put up it looks like a handful of relatively less popular classes that don’t fill up, classes that fall outside the notorious “Stern curve,” or ones that are known to be a bit easier. =/</p>

<p>@bigblue
Very difficult. It’s hard to get experience when you haven’t even completed the first year of your education and that first year is full of unrelated gen-ed ******** that isn’t applicable to your studies. If you do get something, it’s probably unpaid, and it’ll probably be PWM. You put yourself in the position by taking advantage of Wasserman, speaking with some guidance people, doing some research on companies’ websites, making some calls, and getting involved. Everyone has to start somewhere. If you let your lack of experience cripple you, you’ll get nowhere.</p>

<p>@sonic
No one works then. Why on earth would you want to? It’s called work-life balance, the minute you get a chance to relax like that you should be capitalizing on that! You just got through the trauma of finals, you have less than a month off … do not work, study, or stress. Know when to work and when not to. Christmas holiday is not a time to work.</p>

<p>Most kids aren’t even in the dorms, the few that are are there probably to see stuff in the city or are in and out as they visit family or friends, or they’re international kids who can’t take the trip home.</p>

519

<p>@hellodocks </p>

<p>They have many Stern courses available, which surprised me, because I know Stern sometimes acts as if it is superior to the rest of NYU. My issue is that I hope to transfer to Stern for Fall 2012, and I have some prerequisite courses that I have to complete. They are Calc 1, Fin Acc, Any introductory business course, and stats (with or without calculus).</p>

<p>I know I can do the Accounting and the introductory business course, but dunno about the calc or the stats. Is there any stats course at NYU does not have a calc prereq? </p>

<p>If they are flexible and allow me to do the courses, I would definitely apply. I think it would boost my application if I already have a number of NYU courses on my transcript.</p>

520

<p>Also, is calculus an important part of that class? Could a student with rudimentary knowledge of calc get a good grade? Have you ever heard of anyone being waived the prerequisite, or being allowed to take Calc 1 and Stat for BC at the same time?</p>