<p>I've heard that its pretty hard to get into certain classes as a freshman at Stern, as juniors & seniors get priority. I want to take one of the business of producing classes in my spring semester next yr, and maybe some more film producing classes later on for a minor in producing - how hard is it to get into the entertainment business/producing classes as a underclassman?</p>
<p>Even getting into your freshman classes can be tough. NYU uses lotteries for most things. If your lottery number isn’t good, you’ll have trouble getting a ‘good’ anything that you are in the lottery for.</p>
<p>for registering, nyu does not use lotteries. it goes by how many credits you have. so registrations takes place during one week. those with the most credits (seniors or juniors with lots of AP credits) register on monday and people with no credits (incoming freshmen) will register on thursday/friday. the days are also dividided up into hours, so someone with just one more credit than you can register an hour before. for example, sophmores with some ap credits or who took summer class will register in the morning and sophmores with no extra credits will register late afternoon on the same day. so yeah, as a freshmen you will get last priority. also several of those classes have prerequisites, like a certain class, or to have sophmore standing or something. you should check for prerequisites because albert sometimes lets you register either way and then just kicks you out of the class when school starts if you dont have the prerequisites. </p>
<p>however, if your class is not very popular there is a good chance you can get it. several freshman are able to take electives they want, so it is definitely possible.</p>
<p>Actually, everyone already at NYU registered a few weeks ago. Incoming freshmen either register during their orientation sessions or over the summer after a certain date (CAS does the former, Stern the latter, for example).</p>
<p>It’s difficult to get into classes that aren’t freshman-only, yes. Even when it’s a core class, it’s sometimes hard to get what you want.</p>
<p>hssenior, why bother posting if you don’t know what you’re talking about? nyu does NOT use a lottery when it comes to class registration.</p>
<p>I think “business of producing” at Stern might be a little difficult to get into freshman spring - upperclassmen usually fill up the stern electives pretty quickly. Also, I believe you can only minor in producing at Tisch (and I think that’s a pretty popular minor). Did you mean an Entertainment, Media & Tech specialization instead?</p>
<p>Lottery or not you get an assigned date/time to register. If you date/time is later you can get shut out of classes you are trying to get into.</p>
<p>Ok, thanks guys. </p>
<p>@youkosiren - I think Stern kids are allowed to get a minor in film producing at Tisch (the EMT concentration at stern is also possible).</p>
<p>If the registration order is really based on credits, I guess I’ll take the AP tests that I was thinking of canceling after all.</p>
<p>If anyone has any more advice or comments feel free to keep posting.</p>
<p>hssenior, yes you get an assigned date, but it depends entirely on the number of credits you have. so yes, it’s good to come in with credits from AP/college coursework</p>
<p>one thing to keep in mind though is that once you apply those AP credits towards your degree, you can’t change your mind and then decide to take them off. so if you decide to pursue a minor or second major in the middle of college (which many due) you may find you may not have enough credits left since you applied all your AP. this is why counselors will recommend you wait a couple years before you apply your AP credits rather than doing it freshman year.</p>
<p>Err, sorry, that’s what I meant - Stern students can only get a producing minor in Tisch; there isn’t a producing minor in Stern.</p>
<p>The only thing about AP credits is that you kind of have to be careful with applying them. Since Stern doesn’t let you out of many reqs with APs, you end up applying the credits as electives… which also means you’re going to eat into the elective credits you’d need to use for your producing minor without going way over the 128 credit limit where financial aid stops. </p>
<p>Don’t worry - it’s not too hard to get around that. If you get over 128 credits and still have classes left to take that you need in order to graduate, you can continue getting financial aid. You’ve just got to plan ahead. </p>
<p>Also, there’s one trick you can use to get good registration times for classes in your sophomore year… study abroad in the fall! It’s pretty easy to get into most study abroad classes, and your registration time is the earliest day at NYU (though it doesn’t make much of a difference as everyone studying abroad is registering at the same time). However, when you’re registering for classes you’ll take when you get back to NYC, you ALSO get to register on the first day. Oh, yeah, added bonus if you’re studying abroad in the fall - you can also pretty much pick what dorm you want to live in when you come back in the spring. It’s a pretty good deal.</p>