<p>I am SO excited now. SOooooooooo exccited!!!! :) :):) thanks for that extremely DETAILED course work description!! :):)</p>
<p>hi,
sorry for the wait...
well, okay...i am not sure about what stern is like..but, i can say that since Stern is a total business school, then it'd make sense for someone to hire a stern graduate than a CAS grad. even if they both major in econ.
i dont take econ, so it's a bad Q to ask me. so sorry about that...however, stern is just more oriented....so it'll win, yes.
they are very strict at stern and very very very into business. i walked into the stern builiding once or twice and it was freaky. ppl wear suits, so professional, the revolving doors are so hectic....it's a real business world. so someone who comes from that environment as an econ major is probably more likely to get a job at some business firm b/c they're better prepared. CAS is not bad for econ, it's just that in stern you get the business side of it.
it depends, what do you want to do? if you want the theoratical side of it, if you want to be a prof or just want to see econ in the abstract, than CAS is better. Stern is if you wanna get plenty of money for knowing all about numbers and you are practical and technical, forget theories and philosophy, you only talk business....that's the difference i suppose.</p>
<p>i know one guy who drives a car, yeah, but like
y17k said: it's so damn crowded in the city....!!!! the parking, i dont know the exact rates, but yeah, the city is anything but cheap! you'll feel like you're paying double for everything, unless you lived there for a while and dont feel a difference.
it's not a place to cruise around, if that's your plan....you'll get into traffic jams and its just hectic.
walking around the city, taking a bus is nice.....but driving may be a problem.
getting a taxi lift is nice, it's full of them, but driving yourself may be annoying.</p>
<p>hey!
so where are you transferring, i missed it...?
why....NYU has a nice name, come on....lol.</p>
<p>personally, no, i dont know any...
i think its a bit rare for freshmen to be off that soon...is that even possible?
i'm not sure. but why would you do so anyway? you wont get to meet your incoming class folks...and you'll miss out on the freshman stuff.
if you wanna go there spring semester, i guess you can, but the application process needs time, not sure how long--it may be different for diff. country.
but many folks wanna go to florence b/c its beautiful: from the way it was described by a junior or a senior student, it's amazing...b/c its very set up. we got an NYU villa there. it's very pretty, big, magnificent. you gotta learn some italian, but i heard its not that difficult b/c the profs understand that you just wanna enjoy the place and dont wanna overwhelm you.
but yeah, many students wanna go there, so it's a big application pool, so i dont how big are the chances of a freshman getting an approval versus a last chance senior, know what i mean?
P.S--i heard Prague, also very beautiful, is extremely cheap..i was adviced to hurry up and go there b/c they switch to the euro and things will be more expensive...but a dollar there is like.....a lot!!! one girl bought like a month supply of food for a meager amount of bucks...so, it's nice and cheap. unless you got a lot of money, you also gotta be pretty realistic about the other world you're going to.
i hear London is mad expensive, hard to enjoy your stay to the max cos you gotta spend so much money, so if you dont have $$ its hard to go out and just chill, cos you wanna go shopping, movies, yada yada...
so, choose wisely....
but florence, yeah, probably the most set up, comfy place for NYU abroad, cos of the villa.</p>
<p>I don't know if this question is too personal, but how do you plan on paying for NYU after you graduate? I just received my financial aid package yesterday, and by the time I get out of there, I'll be about $128,000 in debt. Do you think it's worth it? I'm planning on majoring in journalism and not going to graduate school, so I wanted a good UG school. I'm just really, really, really worried about the money. I mean, I'm only 17. I can't grasp what "debt" is.</p>
<p>But it's NYU. And it would kill me if I couldn't go there. Ahhh. This is so hard!</p>
<p>thanks for all the helpful information, breath.</p>
<p>i really wanna go to nyu but i don't know how i'm gonna afford it. i get $15000 scholarship. but other than that it's all loans. is there anyway to get more financial aids which are not loans? and also, could you explain more about HEOP please? i live in ny so i think im qualified for that. </p>
<p>thanks a lot :)</p>
<p>how does cstep work? how much financial aid will i be given? i got my acceptance into steinhardt through cstep but it didnt include info on aid..</p>
<p>hey breath, thanks for all the valuable information you have been providing.</p>
<p>I just got accepted into the heop program to the college of arts and sciences today and i was wondering how the summer school program is like. </p>
<p>1) How many days a week does it meet and from what times?
2) Is there homework? If so, was the homework hard and time consuming?
3) Were there any tests to study for or was any of the content challenging?</p>
<p>also, overall what did you think of the heop summer school program? Was it a chore or did you really enjoy the classes and got a better feel for the school?</p>
<p>thanks.</p>
<p>anyone: what is HEOP?</p>
<p>i know, i was 17 too and i took out my first loan and didnt get what happened or what that meant...
yep, debt is the way....
and you'll have to pay it off otherwise you'll go to jail....!!
okay, seriously now. my fin. aid situation may be a bit different from yours.
i am kinda...well, totally broke and single parented. so on my FAFSA application my family contribution is expected to be: 0
but even if it weren't that...i'd have to take out loans, and i still have to take out loans, but not as much as you do i think.
yes, i took out perkins, stafford, and PLUS--my mom took it out but not so much, like for a grand something, but i'm sort of paying it off now. i have a job, doesnt pay much, but every month i cover the $50 bill of that loan return. unless she'll pay it off in full, that's just the way it's gonna be.
unless you got a full scholarship, pretty much everyone at NYU is in debt, huge debt. after i graduate i'll have to return all the money, they'll probably be in a form of small payments/whatever small is...so i suppose that when i graduate from nyu i'll have a more decent job, cos i'll have an nyu diploma--which has some weight, and pay in small portions. i mean, that's just LIFE!
education is worth it though. i am troubled to see ppl go to some other college, a cheaper college b/c of it. you know, in the end, it's worth having a degree from NYU, why? cos it's freaking NYU. unless you can go to Harvard, or some fancy school like that, dont trade NYU for a cheaper one just cos it's cheaper. i dont know how great our journalism program is, but i suspect that majoring in journalism and going to NYU, in the greatest city where all the important stuff is happening, is...worth it!! imagine you trade NYU for some little school in East Cupcake Village, why would anyone want a journalist from there? but NYU--New York City, New York life..that says a lot, for a journalist.</p>
<p>earn good grades, get scholarships, i know you'll be in debt, so will I. but i think that if it's for a good education, it's totally worth it.</p>
<p>hi,
dont you have any Grants on your fin. aid paper? i had some grant, the CAS scholarship for 7,000, the NY TAP, cos i live here, and the rest were loans.</p>
<p>obviously, there are scholarships. i mean, if you get good grades then it's easier to get extra money, there's plenty of money out there, it's just that not a lot of ppl go for them...they dont wanna write the essays, etc...but it's worth it. and if you live in ny, dont you have TAP? unless you're super rich.</p>
<p>HEOP: Higher Education Opportunity Program for the NY state residents
Well, if you have already gotten into NYU, then i dont think that you'll be able to get into heop. b/c you get into NYU through HEOP..not just join.
but basically, it's supportive program for those who are academically and financially disadvantaged. It brings down the curve of NYU's admissions...like my SAT and h.s GPA were not that great, but because i've done so many things in my h.s and had a difficult program and,especially, b/c i was broke as hell and still am, i got in.
heop thinks that if you are broke, like me, then it doesnt mean that you cant go to a good school. you know how many ppl who are broke deny themselves of a good education right? so Heop supports you by helping you get into the school, if the school has a HEOP program. NYU does. plus, it helps you by giving you a stipend, $850 per semester, which saves you from out of pocket expenses on your books/transportation, plus the program also covers your dorm, if you dorm, for up to $ 10, 000.
it's a sweet scholarship. there are mostly minorities there because those are the ones who are usually finincially disadvantaged, as you may know. but it doesnt matter, it's not like for blacks or hispanics, you can be whatever, just as long as you arent rich i guess.
there's also C-step, it's the same program basically, just you have to major in something specific i think and you dont have to be all poor. one girl in C-step was mad rich, her father owned the Jizzy Jazz chain...i dont know how she got C-step support...they have their own limits.</p>
<p>c-step, jee-dont ask me what it stands for...but
it's an opportunity program. you'll be given $250 per semester, a check and you can do whatever you want with it....preferably buy your books. heop would give you more, $ 850, but you'd have to be poorer. :-)
you'll mix with the heop students when you'll take the workshops and summer classes that are coming up....you know about those? there's a summer program you gotta attend to, you take like classes, but depends on what school you're in.
then during your freshman year, you'll have to take workshops, they're a pain, but whatever...it's all done by sophmore year.
i am not sure how much money you get for dorming.....i'm in Heop so i know that for us the program covers up to 10 grand for a dorm,but maybe with C-step, cos "you're not as broke as us" they'll cover less...but there's financial help which is good even if small.</p>
<p>How strong is the economics department at NYU?</p>
<p>do u make a lot of friends during the summer classes for heop/cstep? how are they? are you graded? im going to them this summer</p>
<p>hi,
ahh the summer..
A)i had to take 1) prose writing, 2) quantitative reasoning (math class, but if you're advanced you might have to take calculus or some other math class), and 3) MAP--Morse Academic Plan...the class mimics the Conversations of the West requirement that you'll have to take in your regular academic year. It's basically like AP english in h.s...well, maybe a bit harder, i dont know. it's like literature, say Antigone, you analyze it..extract socio-philosophical issues from it, that sort of thing. it's the most interesting class if you ask me.
the classes meet, M-Thursday, so you have fridays off. i think the Prose class meets for 3 days, like the regular prose you'll take in the fall. it's 1 hour 15 minutes except for Math...which goes on for 2 hr 30 minutes, a double period class, unfortunately. I belive my classes started at like 9.30 and went on until almost 5...b/c i had 4 hour breaks in the middle on certain days. so you get some rest.
B) yes, there's h.w. if you have the same program as I, then you'll have h.w.
for math, just solve math problems, my teacher collected a bunch of them by the end of the week (thursday). i hate math, so all the questions were a burden. yeah, it takes up time, for math the questions are like 1a, b,c...z...lol.
you get the point. for Writing, my teacher (Prof. Espinosa) was really cool and laid back, she's mad young. we didnt have regural h.w. rather, we had some in class writing, including a Diagnostic Exam--not counted towards your grade, but just to see how you write; a final--basically, you read some essays from your textbook that you buy (the put money on your NYU card so you can cover the textbooks) and they ask you to agree or disagree with some point the author made...testing if you can write an argumantative essay. The profs. are all different, some will make you do a more work, give you a midterm and a bunch of essays to write that'll be graded. there's a research paper that has to be done...like 6 pgs or something...on a topic of our choice. during the reg. academic year, the research paper will be 10-12 pgs minimum for Prose Writing, so get ready.
for Map, it's a bunch of reading, a midterm, a final based on what you read and lecture notes....and essay, like 3 of them analyzing the text in question.
so, yes, it needs time, but it's you can do it.
C) i mentioned the testing...midterms, finals--same goes for math, i forgot to say that---i did badly in that b/c i'm really bad in math.
i thought it was hard for math....for MAP, i did great, my essays were good maybe b/c i read some of the stuff, like Antigone, in AP english in h.s. if you go to class and stay awake you'll do great. for Writing, as easy as my Prof may have apperead, she gave me a B- in the end...why? no idea.....but anyways, i got a B- for math too. and A for MAP.</p>
<p>overall, i wished i was on the beach...honestly. i mean, who wants to be stuck in school like that? but i cant lie, all the HEOP C-step students knew where things were, buildings, people, all that before the regular freshman,it's an advantage. you're familiar with the library and the facilities, so that's good. and you make awesome friends early on. you get early info. and there are activities, fun stuff like games and talent shows, free. so that's fun too. i mean its a combination of academics and fun.
maybe it'll be better if you dorm....you can dorm for free during the summer if you live far away--like Staten island or something, or upstate somewhere.
dorming might be cool cos the apartment style dorms are available and you get to just chill around in the city. if not, you'll be going to regural summer school, having occasional fun, but cos you commute you'll probably miss out on it anyway b/c you dont wanna come back home way too late. so it's a chore yeah, but hey, the benefits outweigh the cost--you get into nyu, you meet your friends, you know NYU before anyone else, you have a taste of what the semesters are like (there're not exactly the same cos the classes are smaller and everything is less hectic b/c there are not so many ppl there) and just...i dunno....enjoy the city when you have your 4 hr break, if you do.
---tip: check out the gym, either Coles or Palladium: during the breaks some of us went to swim in the pool to cool down. it's fun....</p>
<p>thanks for answering my questions! you cleared a lot of things up for me.. do the grades that we during the summer courses count? can we use the gyms for free? are the classes in the gyms free (like yoga, pilates)?</p>
<p>it sounds like funn.. im rlly looking foward to the summer classes.. as nerdy as it sounds loll</p>
<p>i kno this sounds stupid but wat type of clothes did u wear to class? loll</p>
<p>i know it's way late, but my internet/lap top crashed.</p>
<p>i am honestly not sure about economics. i think that you take, obviously, many more math classes, while in CAS......i feel bad about not helpin u much. sorry...</p>