<p>I agree with lindsay that it is very easy to have fun without blowing your budget. Do as much as you can with your floor budget b/c its a great way to see the city and hang out. Do as much as you can through clubs. I painted a school with circle k as part of ny cares day in brooklyn last weekend and it was really awesome. Same with my college dems trip upstate, no one there was a freshman but we still had a good, inexpensive time. Also, if your teacher is like, hey there's this event @ blah blah, consider it. One of my professors is a tour guide at the Met, and while the 20 fee is "suggested' i still liked getting to go on her tour and chill in the museum for free (without feeling guilty). Professors are sometimes can pull lots of strings to get you to stuff they are promoting in class.
Btw, my monthly budget is around $200 (including my metro card for work).</p>
<p>NYU really really sucks at adminstration. I'm so tired of going to meet with adults in the community that treat me like s*** when I have a problem.
For example:
1) NYU LOST my ap transcript and I had to pay for a new one so I could transfer credit. They still haven't officially given me credit because their "processing"
2) I'm an GSP-> Tisch transfer and I love it. Except the part where no one knows anything about what I have to make up when I transfer. And if you try to talk to a Tisch counselor about it (my best suggestion so far) you get nothing.
3) i'm on loans, like everyone else and my loan program kept calling (every day) nyu trying to confirm I was a student there. so a month later (after nyu, still hadn't responded) when I went to try and register for classes they were like ... no, insuffiecient balance on prior semester. because my loan still hadn't gone through. so I talked to the office of the bursar and they're like o.... you can only use our loan program. not sure if that's true or not but I was just like fine... whatever.
4) the health center. why is it that there are thousands of students here and we only have 2 staff members adminstering flu shots. and if try to ask any questioins, a security guards yells at you ike your a disobediant child.</p>
<p>so other than the craptastic administration, life @ nyu is awesome. there</p>
<p>haha (10 char)</p>
<p>Heh, yeah, with any big school you're gonna have red tape...</p>
<p>Who here went to NYU by themselves? No friends, family, etc. Was it hard to make friends?</p>
<p>Was there anyone there that has gotten accepted with an average GPA (3.0/86%) and a good SAT score?</p>
<p>with a 3.0 uw and 3.44 (86) w</p>
<p>highly doubt it
if ur act/sat is amazing, and your EC's make you famous, than maybe</p>
<p>there's always a chance. I have no friends from home here, honestly do stuff that is randomly fun and like team worky and you'll meet people.</p>
<p>"Who here went to NYU by themselves? No friends, family, etc. Was it hard to make friends?"</p>
<p>I did. It's somewhat harder to makes friends than at other state universites...for obvious reasons. But if you make an effort, you'll find friends.</p>
<p>well hopefully ill be doing what u did firewalker...
well i mean their might be a few kids that will go to nyu from my school, but not a sure thing</p>
<p>and i know that my good friends arent going to be going</p>
<p>as for me
if i keep my grades up hopefully i can get in with some dedicated decent ec's
top 25% rank, and a 3.5uw/3.8w</p>
<p>How are the dorms, and it is troublesome to have to walk a good distance for some of the dorms to the square? Does the school have wireless internet access, and where? What is the best type of computer to buy laptop vs. desktop and apple vs windows?</p>
<p>Right, if you're an independent person, being alone here shouldn't bother you too much. (Although, seeing guys getting play left and right while you're in on a Saturday night may tick you off at times :)) It might take you a little to develop your group of friends...but casual acquaintances are fine too.</p>
<p>The dorms are excellent. If you've ever been to a state school, you'll know. It's a couple of blocks walking from dorms away from WSP, but it's not THAT bad. That is, if you're cold-tolerant. We do have wireless internet access, in the dorms and at school buildings. I brought my monster desktop...but I am a computer nerd, so...its a matter of personal preference. Same thing with the OS.</p>
<p>It's brilliant, I love it. Go there!</p>
<p>Yeah. If you want to stay celibate for your entire college career.</p>
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Was there anyone there that has gotten accepted with an average GPA (3.0/86%) and a good SAT score?
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My friend got in with that exact average (86.something out of 100) with 1380 on their SAT and some average EC's. She's Asian too, which makes it all the more astonishing. Then again, she applied ED, was GSPed and our high school is a feeder to NYU. I also kn now another kid who got in with a 91/100 average who sent in a midyear report with an 'F' in a course and was still accepted to NYU (he did have high SAT's, definitely above 1400/2100 from what I remember) and currently attends. Then again, many other kids got rejected with better GPA's and solid SAT's. NYU is totally random...which should scare qualified applicants and give hope to underqualified ones.</p>
<p>Its just as easy to make friends at NYU as it is in any other school. In your dorm alone you will meet hundreds of people. and partying in manhatten is VERY expensive. I think i spent like 40$ last night and i didnt even drink too much. But it was really fun</p>
<p>I disagree it is "just as easy"; Without a more structured campus and as many campus events & sports as other schools, I think it's a bit harder. Not saying it can't be done. Also, with people living from 26th street all the way down to Water, everyone is spread out, which doesn't help.</p>
<p>Meh, the "hardest" part about NYU is that it is located in new york city. If you can survive that, you'll be fine at nyu. I'm an econ major at CAS, and the classes are easy enough. Basically, if you have half a brain, you can just read the book and not really attend lectures, and pass classes just fine, as long as the professor isn't strict about attendance. You'll have plenty of free time, much more than you had in high school, but that might also cause you to lose track of time, and not go to class at all, and you'll end up failing out sooner rather than later. So if you know how to manage time to get crap done, this is an awesome school in an awesome place to be in. Otherwise, you might get distracted by all the stuff available to you (NYU stuff is just a drop in the bucket compared to the rest of the city), and end up screwed academically.
This is pretty similar to other colleges, except instead of drinking and partying 24/7 you have a chance to go out into the city and actually do something.</p>
<p>i disagree with the above statement that reading the textbook and not attending class will get you by. i don't know how it is for other nyu schools, but at stern most of the professors do not take attendance. however, if you want to pass the class, you must attend. textbooks are usually required to purchase but students barely use them. everything comes from class notes and lectures. if you skip out, you are seriously hurting your grade. in my marketing class, my professor's exams came directly out of notes. many people did not realize this during the first midterm and were screwed. so, go to class folks. you don't pay $50K a year to sleep in your dorms.</p>
<p>I guess it varies from class to class, but the intro-level courses are in large part covered by the book. It's not there for decoration. Sure, certain classes will have tests based on notes, but that's why you go to every lecture for the first few weeks, since the professor will generally tell you if he's going to be testing you on notes. Using common sense when deciding attendance policies is advised.</p>