<p>I am undecided in whether I should be a business man or go into the medical field. I really love NYU and am going to apply there early decision. My stats are 3.6 gpa weighted and a 2250 SAT. I also am involved in several clubs and honor societies with over 200 hours of community service. I assume that i am going to have great teachers recs and essays. There are two choice i can't decide on.</p>
<p>Should i apply to stern ED with the small chance of making it and if i decide not to go into the business field switch to NYU CAS.
or
Apply ED to NYU CAS with a higher chance of making to and do a double major in Econ and Biology.</p>
<p>Before anyone else comes in here, I’m going to let you know that you have little to no chance of getting into Stern with your GPA. You can apply to CAS for Econ and be just as competitive for jobs as Stern students, so I’d suggest that</p>
<p>The admissions officer i spoke to about this said the stats are almost identical for Stern and CAS. It’s a misconception that stern is exponentially more competitive than CAS. </p>
<p>to the poster above me - that’s NOT true. many people from my school have gotten into Stern with 3.6 W GPAs and 2100s, and NO AP classes. It all boils down to the quality of one’s high school. So if you have those stats at a competitive high school in the northeast, then your probably going to get in. If you go to a ****ty school is Kansas, then yeah, you’re probably screwed. </p>
<p>That’s why the chance threads really mean nothing, because your can’t compare people across high schools.</p>
<p>Are you sure that theres not a difference between the applicants for Stern and applicants for CAS? It was to my knowledge that it was wideley known that there was a difference between Stern and CAS applicants.</p>
<p>From BusinessWeek Stats for 2010-2011 Stern</p>
<p>Students in newest entering class (2010-2011) that are:
Female: 36 %
International: 17 %
Mean and Median age of full-time business students in the 2010-11 entering class:
Mean: 18
Median: 18
Percentage of 2010-11 entering class:
Top 10% of high school class: 90 %
Top 25% of high school class: 100 %
GPA of 3.75 or higher: 59 %
GPA of 3.5 to 3.74: 34 %
SAT scores for the 2010-11 entering class of full-time undergraduate business students:
Mean: 1449
Median: 1450
Middle 50% range of SAT scores:
From: 1410
To: 1500
Mean and Median ACT scores for the 2010-11 full-time undergraduate business students:
Mean: 32
Median: 32
Middle 50% range of ACT scores for the 2010-11 full-time undergraduate business students:
From: 31
To: 33</p>
<p>You can use this data to compare it to CAS.</p>
<p>The following is “Just the Facts” 2010-11 from NYU website. There is no separate data available for CAS but this might help to compare with Stern data posted above.</p>
<p>Undergraduate Enrollment: 20,815
Admissions Statistics
Number of Applications:
42,242
Percent Offered Admission:
30%
Number of Early Decision Applications: 2,854
Early Decision % of Class:
23%
Percent Offered Admission: 38%
Number of New Freshmen: 4,650
Academic Statistics (Four Year Programs)
Grade Average:
A-
SAT Critical Reading (middle 50%):
630-730
SAT Math (middle 50%):
650-750
SAT Writing (middle 50%):
660-750
ACT with Writing (middle 50%): 29-31
Percent of Students with Rankings: 29%
Top Tenth of Class: 77%
Top Quarter of Class: 96%</p>
<p>The difference between Stern and CAS is not large. Remember, the difference in acceptance rates to the two schools is insignificant. (Something like 23% and 25%). CAS has so many applicants (it’s the most applied to college at NYU, which gets more applications than any other private school in the country). CAS gets to be almost as selective as Stern. The difference between the two is not as great as people seem to think.</p>