<p>As a dance major at Tisch (and a New Yorker for more then 3 years now), I'll be dancing 6 hours a day along with academics. Not much time for anything else. I plan on cooking and I am a vegan. I don't do starbucks, and get to see some shows and concerts for free ( I have good connections). As far as clothing.... I just about live in leos and tights. I can't imagine that I would be spending $150-$200 a week.</p>
<p>my friends in dance/theatre go to expensive shows alot...connections might not help you much since you're going to be forced to go when everyone else wants to go (its really cliquey). But you are correct with the whole no free time thing haha.</p>
<p>Sounds like your friends are in the musical theater (CAP) program, which does have some dance, not the dance department ( ballet and modern/ contemporary.) I think there are only about 75 (total all years combined) dance majors in Tisch.</p>
<p>"Unless you have a 3.9-4.0 (which you won't, unless you dont have friends go out, in which case you have no personality and won't get hired anyways), GPA isn't that important, its about who you know. If you're able to go out to fancy places, you'll meet rich friends, who have successful parents who can get your foot in the door...its what I did."</p>
<p>Hahaha, this is so true. I've had a banking internship and just finished a consulting internship, and I'm about to start my sophmore year at NYU. How did I get them? CONNECTIONS! Encourage your kids to go out and meet people...the money they spend now may off big time when it comes to landing a job.</p>
<p>Okay, I've read most of the posts (but correct me if I misunderstood)...</p>
<p>A Broadway show, as someone stated, is not "fluff", it is a culture experience...while I'm not saying to go see one every week, it is part of New York! Why go to NYU if you don't want to go into NYC at all? That doesn't make sense to me.</p>
<p>wow mattistotle makes NYU kids sound so spoiled. I can agree with some of the things he's saying (like making connections is important) but a lot of it I find to be inaccurate. He's making it sound like every student goes out and drinks on the weekends and splurge on designer brands. I don't know if it's just in the nature of being a business-related major and in stern to make connections via drinking and going to bars, but I hardly went to club/bars my freshman year. Actually, in all honestly, I don't think I've been to clubs freshman year and I'm not embarassed to say it because I don't like that kind of scene. Yea, my roommate and I go to hookah bars but it's not like an upscale "CEO of some major company's gonna be there" type thing. I recently just got hired as an intern for a competitive position/company and it was NOT through drinking and spending money. In fact, it was free. I searched up some NYU internship database, sent in my cover letter and resume via online, and was scheduled for an interview and hired on the spot. Granted, you have to have good social skills for the interview (and its up to you to build up confidence and those social skills wherever it may come from and going to bars/clubs may be one of them) but it was not the case for me.</p>
<p>Yeah, my weekly budget rarely broke $50.</p>
<p>But then again, I very rarely went out.</p>
<p>How this thread made the "Hot Topics" list is beyond me.</p>
<p>Actually, almost all my friends are in Gallatin/tisch/CAS , very few in Stern (Wish I had more, but I can't stand most of the people), but ya I guess you can't extrapolate what I said to everyone...there's 5000 people per grade level, and I can only speak for my and my friends experiences. </p>
<p>On a side note, you got very lucky, careernet sucks until you get interviewnet junior year. My friend worked as a secretary at a real estate company, she was leaving and they needed to hire a replacement, so they used career net. $10 an hour job/barely applicable to finance...160 applications for one spot. The jobs are usually even worse than that.A few people get lucky, but don't count careernet.</p>
<p>Yea, its true, you have to filter so much crap out at careernet, but I have come across very good ones. On the otherhand, I got my internship via an internship listing that is school/department specific and I find those to be very good.</p>
<p>Careernet is great. I landed a bunch of solid interviews through it. Though the ratio of interviews to apps I sent out is small, I WAS/AM a freshman when I did all that so I'm still really impressed. There's a ton of good stuff on it.</p>
<p>This is a pretty helpful post for me! I live in Belgium and I'll be moving to NYC next month to go to NYU (GSAS).</p>
<p>What is the average per hour pay an NYU student can get working at the University ?</p>
<p>How boring.</p>
<p>Just ask your parents for money. Only ugly people work.</p>
<p>usually 10/hr 20legend</p>
<p>Thanks mate !</p>
Hopefully I can revive this post
Since the posts are literally 8 years ago, could someone give us prospectives a better idea of how much you guys spend each week/month at NYU? Thanks!
Subway fare in 2007 was $2. now it’s $2.75 per ride. A sandwich is $9 although there are some cheap eats. I’d figure $75 rather than $50 per week today, as a very rough estimate
@dustyfeathers any ideas on how to get well-paying jobs? I’ve heard students can make a lot of money through jobs such as bartending
In London, my D had a budget of £30/day - that was for food, transportation and fun. In NYC, it is $20/day and it’s tight but that is also for food, transportation and fun. That is just living money. I think she would have been a bit better off at £40/day in London and $30/day in NYC.