Larry Gu attended public school in the Oklahoma City metro area. He is a senior at the Classen School of Advanced Studies at Northeastern as part of the IB program. He was accepted into New York University through the Early Decision process and plans to major in Global Public Health: Media, Culture, and Communication while on a Pre-Med track.
@larriglue loves NYU’s public health program because it investigates the relationship between public health and other disciplines, such as biology or social work. This interdisciplinary approach to public health uses two different interests of his and combines them into an interesting and inclusive major.
The reason he chose NYU is because of the vast number of resources he can take advantage of while pursuing his major. NYU has 15 different locations where you can study abroad, ranging from Asia to Africa. This is what drew him to NYU in the first place.
Larry is our Guest Student of the Week, so make sure to ask him all your questions!
@Pendoo, the earliest you can apply for internal transfer admission is the second semester/term of consecutive full-time study at your current NYU school or college. But, I believe things can be worked out once you talk to your academic advisor!
@coolguy40, I received very good financial aid from NYU, so I can afford it without debt. I am still looking and applying for outside scholarships as well!
Hi! Congrats! I am so stoked to here about this because I also go to school in the Oklahoma City metro area, I got to Harding Charter. Are you nervous about going somewhere so far away and so busy/different? Would you say the IB program has helped prepare you or helped you get in? Did you take any classes specific to pre-med? (I’m also interested in the pre-med track)
FYI, Premed is not a major but a track at the College of Arts and Science at NYU. You mean to do internal transfer from College of Engineering to College of Arts and Science . Usually pre-med is a set of pre-requisite courses ( which may vary from medical school to medical school) one has to take before matriculating to medical school.
I am planning to join Berkeley City College and I want to do my major in Biochemistry and I’m planning to transfer to UCLA to further complete my undergraduate major. So, I just wanted to clear my confusion because I have been hearing a lot from some people not to do premed prerequisites courses in community college because I won’t get admitted to top medical colleges like Harvard which I would love to admit to.So what is the actual stuff? Can anyone please explain me what do I need to do?These days have been so hard for me thinking about my medicine career. I feel so helpless. I feel I won’t be admitted to top medical colleges if I take prerequisites in community college.I want proper guidance and also my steps from community college to med school.
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@Monnes, that’s cool! I have some good friends that go there! I am more excited than nervous at this point. I have visited NYU’s campus before and I absolutely fell in love with it! The IB program definitely helped me prepare for college due to the workload, however, I don’t know if it necessarily helped me get accepted more than a student who did not take IB classes. I took both chemistry and biology, however, I enjoyed biology more so I took AP Bio and IB Bio. I had a good balance of STEM and Humanities classes.
@RB12345, hi! Personally, I do not know what the difference between community college pre-reqs and pre-reqs at UCLA is, so I apologize. I am just starting to learn more about the medical school journey as I am just starting college this Fall. I believe that schools will see how hard you worked in a community college, and I believe that you will be successful!
Hello. You stated you received good financial aid from NYU. Is that need based aid or merit based? I have read many times on this board NYU gives very little financial aid.
Thanks.
I am interested to go the pre-med track also. Could you advice if this is the good direction to go? These are the classes I picked for my sophomore yr:
AP Environmental Science YR
AP World History YR
PAP Algebra 2 YR
PAP Chemistry YR
PAP English 2 YR
PAP Spanish 3 YR
Soccer Girls EQ2 YR
Soccer Girls NC YR
I am planning to replace the soccer (I already did in freshman, have a credit now and really not a player, just a JV mgr because I suck) with
AP Seminar (Capstone stuff, also gives me Speech credit)
AP Art History (Gives me Fine Arts credit also)
Why’d you decide to pursue both pre-med and media? That’s super cool! I’m actually really interested in media and communications too. Is it common to pursue multiple things at NYU?
@IvyCavalier2004, I would say that you need to stay on top of your workload while balancing extracurriculars. Community service is very important as well, so be sure to involve yourself in that too! If you are very interested in Pre-Med, you can contact a doctor and ask to shadow them. Most of the doctors would be happy to let you shadow them!
What really drew me to NYU was the vast academic opportunities available on its many campuses around the world. I thought that Global Public Health and Media. Culture, and Communication was perfect for me because of my interests in both the Humanities and STEM, so it worked out!