<p>Hi guys,
A bit about myself: I am at NYU, College of Arts and Sciences. I am right now in the second semester of my Freshman year. I am an anthropology major.
I hope I can answer your anxious questions about college.
Best of luck to all of you,
breathfire.</p>
<p>What's the anthropology program like? I might want to major in that.</p>
<p>this may be trite, but what were your stats? what dorm, if any, are you in, and do you recommend it? if you don't come from a wealthy family, how are you paying for nyu? if you do, disregard that last question.</p>
<p>thanks</p>
<p>how are the general courseload in CAS? is it managable or can it be overwhelming? </p>
<p>also, do all CAS studeents take placement tests at orientation? if so, in what subject areas</p>
<p>thnks</p>
<p>I am sorry I didnt reply for such a long time, it is midterm season at NYU.
Anthropology program, so far, is amazing!! It is an exciting major!! there are four required classes that you need to take: Human, Society, and Culture which exposes you to Cultural Anthropology, Human Evolution--physical anthro (a VERY difficult course, I am taking it now and it's suuuuchhh a pain!!), Archeology, and Linguistics.
The people in the departement are very pleasant, at least the ones that I've met. Very distinguished faculty, novelists, etc...i.e people who know the stuff and are excited to share it.
Ask me more if you are interested.</p>
<p>Hi,
well, okay, the stats right now, according to the website and as you may already know : H.S GPA: 3.63, SAT: 1310-1440, top 10% of H.S class: 71.9%</p>
<p>It's hard. However, I am not wealthy and my stats were horrible if you wanna compare it to the smart people in h.s who applied. I got in b/c of Higher Education Opportunity Program, do you know about that? If you are from NY area you should consider it ! anyways, HEOP is helping me pay by giving me 850 dollar stipend every semester, a check that you can spend anyhow you want to but you're sort of expected to spend it on books/transportation. i dont dorm, but i can tell you that dorms are expensive....some are 8,000 others are 10,000 and up up up....i live on the unlimted 79 dollar metro card.
i pay by taking out many loans, but b/c i'm far from rich and next to poor, i get good fin.aid. i also work at the NYU library, only 11 hrs per week b/c of classes and get paid 187 every two weeks, which is nothing , but every little bit helps.
ask more if you need!</p>
<p>hi,
yes, CAS students do take such tests.
Let's see, there were tests in sciences, math, and languages, i think. I am not
too sure and don't want to lie to you...i took a placement test in Russian, my native language ...and guess what??? i PLACED OUT of the language requirement. So if you got another language that you know well, take the test, if it wont place you out then at least it'll put you to the adv level and you wont have to spend semesters at level one or two or whatever.</p>
<p>the workload is difficult, BUT it depends on your classes, really. your major.
right now, i am taking a horrible load. For ex. I got writing, convesations of the west--antiquity and the middle ages, human evolution, african literature.
dear friend: DO NOT do this to yourself. don't take such classes together.
writing means a hell lot of writing, not too difficult but writing is writing.
ConWest is a required course, you get to pick which era/time period you want to learn about, as interesting as it is...it means reading, reading reading reading and guess what else? reading! and two essay! human evolution is a physical anthro requirement, my Prof is difficult and the class is soooo hard, the mean score for the Midterm was a 72/23. Plus dont forget that there are labs and recitations that will take up your time. African lit is wonderful, but you got 6 novels to read and 6 essays not write, no midterm no final no lab no recitation. But reading and writing. DO NOT take on such a schedule, cos you wont have time. plus i work and commute, so can imagine!
it depends on how you work your schedule really...if you wanna take a hard course, and if you're not stupid like me, you'll surround it with 3 other moderate to easy courses. There are 4 classes you need to take each semester, you can take 5 or 3 but it depends on why...
i can tell you the medical students and the psych students are having a hard time. but it's all possible. My GPA right now is 3.9 , it'll probably fall to 3.8 or w/e, but it's possible to be a good student even if it's hard.
ask more and i'll tell more!</p>
<p>what is the stereotype of the gallatin students at nyu?
is it harder to get into gallatin or cas, if there is even a difference?
do gallatin students seem to generally like it there?
any info you have on gallatin that you CAN'T find on their website would be helpful, basically.</p>
<p>"keep pretending like it's a real school!" is the common saying.
gallatin is unique. the students there come up with the craziest, longest major names....hmm, i think it's harder to get into CAS out of all the schools.
i know one gallatin student and he hates it. that's b/c he just wants to major in History, period. in gallatin, things are complicated, they have these independend or whatever you wanna call them studies/majors.
another student likes gallatin b/c he doesnt have to commit himself to any major exactly. by the end, he'll have a diploma saying independend study or something like that. i am not too sure about gallatin, i'm in CAS. but trust me, there are students who want to transfer to gallatin b/c they want more than just an XYZ major, they really wanna mix things up and have some sort of an interdisciplanary approach.
Dont think of NYU schools as so separate. Gallatin students take same classes as CAS students, as Steinhard and Stern. Sure, different schools have different requirements and some classes are only open to those schools, but classes have students from a bunch of different schools.
so it's not like being in gallatin is going to remove you from the rest of NYU. some Tisch students feel removed in a funny way, but we take the same classes many times.
best of luck and ask more.</p>
<p>can you minor in anthropology?</p>
<p>im planning on double majoring in film and journalism and i thought throwing anthropology in there as a minor might help me learn more that i can use in the fields of my majors.</p>
<p>yes you can minor in anthropology.
I know a girl in Tisch school of the Arts who is majoring in dramatic writing and has an interest in anthro as a minor.
anthropology is wonderful, i think it'll be a good thing for you to look into it, it really adds on something special to your knowledge of the world and the people around you. I think you'll love it.
Best of luck and ask more!</p>
<p>do many profesors inject politics into the classroom? i mean, politics courses would be obvious classes where that would happen, but does it happen in philosophy, english, writing, and the sciences as well? i mean, im a moderate person, i dont want to have to listen to someone ranting on one side of the issue all the time, or grading my papers based on their radical point of view.</p>
<p>honestly, what is the general stereotype of a gsp student? do some cas/stern people view them as kids they would rather not be friends with because they aren't that smart and barely made it into nyu? do gsp students find themselves having to defend their intelligence? i got offered gsp which i am sort of upset about because friends with worse grades/stats/rank/ECs got reception invites. anyway...i'm afraid that should i choose to go to nyu other students will make me feel inferior to them for two years, will exclude me, and won't respect me as much. do you know if gsp students get a gsp e-mail address like @gsp.nyu.edu? thanks for taking questions- i really appreciate it!</p>
<p>1) Do students from all the schools feel united as a whole? Or are Steinhardt students, their own little clique, Sternies there own, Tisch their own...</p>
<p>2) Is is absolutely impossible to transfer from one school to another (besides to Stern, which I'm hearing is difficult). But would transferring from Steinhardt to Gallatin, or from Steinhardt to CAS be absolutely impossible? If not, what are the procedures? Do you have to wait a couple years, building your resume, pre-requisites, etc? </p>
<p>3) I know NYU is a REALLY huge school without a campus, and residential buildings are usually far from academic buildings.Does this lack of a campus make you feel like you're not part of something? Like you're just your own independent person living in New York by yourself and just taking some classes, or is there really a bond?</p>
<p>I'm really having a hard choice choosing.</p>
<p>hi,
i know you are expecting the answer: it depends on the prof.
Let's see. My current prof for African Lit, who obviously hates Bush and is against the war, does mention it from time to time. But he does not go on and on about it forever. If we're reading a book and the book has something political in it, then he might compare Bush to tyrant XYZ of some novel.
My Prof. for Prose Writing is really special, there's no prof like him. I'm in HEOP and have to take Prose, so if you are not in HEOP you won't have him. But anyway, for ex.: he always, okay, 95% of the time discusses current issues. politics, gay marriage, drugs, yada yada. he wants to know how we, the young students, think about these issues. He's funny and it's not a burden. But i never had a prof that goes on and on about politics, nope.
as for papers: it's like a rule that a Prof doesnt change you based on your political views. If he or she is pro gay marriage and your not or vice versa, but you write great paper defending your position, it's an A. Of course, lets be honest, it's always easier to side with the Prof. It's easy cos you know he or she will agree. But even if they agree and your paper is crappy, you won't get an A. My Prose Writing teacher said that from the beginning.
Plus, if it IS a politics class, its NYU and most ppl there are liberals as you may know. but not everyone. so even in a politics class you'll have many opinions about one thing. The Prof will know NOT to judge you. In other classes, like philosophy, it's the same thing. Unless the prof is a total biased idiot, he or she will know the fluidity and complexity of political/philosophical views. But I dont think you'll meet such a Prof at NYU. I haven't.
In sciences, like I'm taking Human Evolution, my Prof teaches exactly what he's supposed to. why would he tell me about Bush instead of DNA?
REMEMBER: profs get evaluated--you get to say what you think about them on those evaluations....and they get posted online on the NYU website. It's called course evaluation (u can find it on NYU's search engine) obviously, and before you take a class, if you are going to NYU, check it out, see what ppl have to say, does the prof ramble about something unrelated or not?
and there's always ratemyprofessor.com
and in college, you can tell the prof, politely, to stop yapping about it and get on with the program. it's your education.</p>
<p>oh NOOOOO!!stereotype? i didnt hear any.
first thing at NYU: you're at NYU. Period. Whether you're in CAS or GSP does not matter.
You'll sit in a lecture class with like 120 people, at least mine was like that, and the Prof would go around and ask ppl for their names, majors and what school they're in. There are a bunch of CAS, Stern, GSP, Gallatin, Tisch students all packed together.
I have friends in GSP, are you kiddin'??? and oh yes, they are wwwwayyyy smarter than I am and i'm in CAS !! at nyu, you don't feel like you're in yada yada school as much as you feel that you're at NYU. one place for everyone.
Okay, i know ppl who got into GSP and thought that they werent as lucky to get into CAS, but what's the difference now? we take the same classes, we have similar requirements, we go to the same clubs/meetings/etc....
i HIGHLY doubt that anyone is gonna sit there and think "oh, it's a GSP student, haha" NO. no one cares. really. I mean for Gallatin, ppl say that "keep pretending like it's a real school" but once again, its a small joke and just trust me, no one really cares. you're at NYU, that's all.
students do always ask each other what schoo they're in, but it's more of a common thing to ask, like what's your major? they wont look down on you and you wont have to prove anything. at first you might feel that way, cos my friend, whenever she said that she's in GSP,she was kinda like you--a little hurt about it--but you'll find that NYU is a huge school, everyone is doing their own thing, and it just does not matter. no one is gonna dwell on it or make you an outcast.
you'll have <a href="mailto:XYZ@nyu.edu">XYZ@nyu.edu</a> email address, i just checked out my GSP friend's email address, it doesnt have GSP on it or anything like that.
it's oookkkaaayy. nyu is school w/a prestigious name, whether you're in GSP or whatever, plays a small significance.
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nd oh yes, i dont know if you read this on the nyu bulletin:
After a student spends two years in the General Studies Program, he or she will then transfer into the school to which he or she originally applied. A student will be able to complete all of the degree requirements for their major area of interest within a total of two years. That being said, students who attend NYU via the General Studies Program will spend two years years in GSP and two years in the school to which he or she originally applied (e.g. The College of Arts and Science) and will graduate after spending four years in total at NYU.</p>
<p>hope the tranfer makes you feel better if you're not into GSP.</p>
<p>hi,
1) we feel very much united. I heard some Tisch students say that they're "alienated" but it was in a rather funny way, cos you know those film students are too cool for everyone else, while we're writing research papers they're out filming a movie. But no, there's not much of a difference btwn the students. Why? because we end up taking the same classes anyways. For ex. in my intro to anthropology class, there were students from different schools. we all took the same class, did the same h.w and made good friends. i mean tisch might be the different one b/c its artsy, but i know a Tisch student taking my Human Evolutions class. She majors in dramatic writing but is allowed to double major or minor in a CAS course like anthropology. so we're under the same roof pretty much.
I'm in CAS, but i have friends who are in GSP, Tisch, Gallatin, Stern...so it's not like "i'm in CAS so i dont wanna hang out with GSP" or whatever. no, it's doesnt play a role. i might never have to enter the Stern building because i dont want to deal with finance, but the stern students sure come around to where all my classes are and sit there.
2)it's possible, but competitve. the reason is that they'd rather admit the incoming freshmen rather than internal transfers into whatever school. you're really competing w/the incoming class as far as i get it. stern, like you said, is like the most competitive one. i dont know which one's easier or anything.
you do have to wait one year before you submit an application for an internal transfer. i think the application has the regular stuff: name, gpa, etc. and then there are short answer questions. i think you can download it from the admissions webpage to look at it if you want. i am honestly not sure about which school has what requirements regarding internal transfers, like how many credits from school A to school B. best way to find out would be to submit your question to the nyu's undergraduate bulletin, if you haven't done so already: <a href="http://nyu.infopop.cc/eve%5B/url%5D">http://nyu.infopop.cc/eve</a>
sorry i dont know much about this...
3) yeah, who doesnt want the beautiful lawn campus that's surrounded by some fence and stuff...that'd be awesome. NYU's not like that, you're right.
i do feel like once i get out from my classes i need to go home (I commute).
maybe if there were a lawn or something i'd sit under some tree and chat w/someone. but i cant lie that NYU has a total lack of community. it does have a community. maybe it's not obvious from the outside b/c of the lawn thing, but there's a sense that you're at NYU even when classes are over.
being a commuter student is especially difficult to connect, b/c like i said i just go home--i also work, so i'm tired. but nyu is really trying hard to make up a great community. We have the well known Kimmel Center for Student life...a big tall building dedicated to doing nothing...just chillin'. The kimmel center is where students meet and just relax, so you'll find bonding therethere are clubs there and stuff, and during orienation and/or welcome week, they might throw parties there, really cool. i really felt like i was a part of nyu when i had my orientation/welcome week. plenty of activities, ppl reach out to you, music, food, like a second home.
If you're religious, we have a Catholic center...i'm not that religious so i pass those buildings by, but there's i think also a christian church nearby...yada yada. plus, the clubs and activities. as an anthro major, i am part of the anthro club and like every friday they play a movie for us at their big screen/ film room. I'm in the Commuter circle and we have free lunches together every tuesday, trips, sweepstakes, etc. so basically in every club, you'll find a niche. if you're a greek life person, we got that too...they really bond there.
the POINT is: our lack of community is only on a superficial level, you dont see a lawn, so you think that ppl dont bond cos there's no space or something. but the bonding at NYU occurs through outreach. we have a good community b/c ppl reach out to each other and build awesome networks.
I know that there are 2 dormitories that are like right on campus, Goddard and Weinstein. There's a 3rd one nearby but i cant remember the name.
also,the far away dorms are usually the prettier ones....and there's an NYU bus that can pick you up to bring you to campus for free.
There's Washington Sqr park which will be unfortunately closed for restoration for some time, but anyway if you want a visible campus, NYU ppl always chill at the park, there's a lawn and trees there :-)
And, the vendors nearby give us discounts if that counts for any bonding...the NYU id card is a huge deal around here. :-)
IT IS NEARLY IMPOSSIBLE TO BE YOUR OWN PERSON AT NYU...not in a negative sense, you can tell ppl to stop buggin you if you want. but having friends at NYU is a must! it's a huge place, right, so you need a buddy. if you're gonna dorm, you'll have fewer problems. the dorm mates go shopping together, movies, skating, park, yada yada.
NYU always says that it's "in and of the city" and that's true.
My friend at Stony Brook, a secluded college w/a visible campus, goes to parties at the dorms and there's one club nearby. that's it. at NYU, you have dorm parties, during the first few days, the dorm ppl have the open doors policy or something, where they keep their dorm doors open so others may meet the ppl inside and become friends. Community? i think so!
plus, you have the advantage of living in NY city, "the greatest city in the world", 24/7 places, lights, movies, mannnnyyy clubs, not just one nearby and then there's a forest blocking everything. NYU is the city, it's convenient. </p>
<p>I hope i encouraged you....</p>
<p>i think you advertised the school extremely well, now i really want to go there...</p>
<p>but theres a slight problem. Whenever we mention if theres a bond within the different schools, you never mentioned Steinhardt, and thats the school I'm in. I feel like Steinhardt is secluded. Can you give me some opinions on that....is it regarded as the stupid school or even lower than GSP or what...just soem insights on what people think of the school and how students from that school is treated?</p>
<p>I got into Stern School of Business...</p>
<p>and is it possible to have a minor at CAS?</p>
<p>hey could you talk a little more about the anthro club? that sounds cool. what all else do you do? do you have to be an anthropology major to be in it? (i mentioned earlier i was considering minoring in it, but ill have to wait until sophomore year for that)</p>