<p>If I’m looking at YoHoYoHo’s list, places out of those where I’d like to go:</p>
<p>Harvard University: 1.0% (15/1448)
Yale University: 2.7% (29/1072)
Columbia University: 5.6% (149/2660) (maybe)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology: 9.9% (44/443)
Georgetown: 11.1% (222/1986) (waitlisted there but didn’t pursue, not too interested)
Carnegie Mellon University: 12% (admitted there in HS but turned down, don’t regret that)
Cornell University: 21% (Skewed due to guaranteed transfers)</p>
<p>Have you considered Wellesley, Smith, etc?</p>
<p>Or Babson, which has cross-registration with Wellesley?</p>
<p>Wellesley has cross-registration with MIT.</p>
<p>Yes, I think you should check into Babson, then take some classes at Wellesley.</p>
<p>…and just editing to add that there is no harm in applying to transfer – you can always decide to stay put, it’s just providing yourself with another option.</p>
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<p>Glad you’re still here. Thought we had lost you. I see absolutely nothing wrong with only/mainly being friends with Stern kids. You should seek out friends who you feel most comfortable with. My D is primarily friends with people at her school who are serious students in the various scholar programs. Just try to ignore the others who are annoying you.</p>
<p>If you want to only be around people that dont annoy you, good luck with that. I’m not being mean, but really in life, in work, in school, in families, there will always be people that annoy you,</p>
<p>I have a brother n law who is the biggest jerk. Do I transfer? No , I dontt let him bug me. </p>
<p>You can’t change other but you can change how you react.</p>
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<p>Agreed. Also, if you don’t feel like being the paragon of virtue, you also have the option of devising ways to bug them back. Sometimes, it can be its own source of entertainment. :D</p>
<p>I’m about to leave again. I never said I can’t stand people I don’t like, I said I sometimes felt surrounded by them. Please don’t assume things. </p>
<p>And yes, annoying people back is extremely entertaining. They usually don’t know what to say back!</p>
<p>I find it amusing that you want to run from this thread because we made comments regarding what you said regarding being around annoying people. Point is no matter where you go, even on this site, you will find annoying people.</p>
<p>You seem very sensitive and reactionary and if you feel the need to move on whenever “surrounded” by some people that annoy, then lifes gonna be tough. Any job you have, and relationship, and further education, any seminar, any club will have annoyingmpeople, as people aren’t perfect, have different ambitions, have different ways of balancing life, have different ways to amuse themselves.</p>
<p>Feel free to transfer, but I promise, wher ever you go you will still be there and how you handle annoying people won’t have changed and it’ll be back to this.</p>
<p>I’m seeing a pattern that you want to leave your school or leave this thread when people are annoying you. You’re young and hopefully will learn that you will have to deal with people and situations like this. It’s part of life. I actually came across a very similar thread to yours in the College Life forum yesterday. You’re not alone.</p>
<p>I certainly don’t always like the advice that I receive on CC. And, yes, there can be some annoying people here. But, overall, I think you will find people who care and want to help.</p>
<p>There will always be annoying people, but you can choose not to have them in your life. NYU is a large U with a lot of people, but it also attracts a certain type of people. If you find it hard to connect with most of them then I think you should consider transfer. It is no different if you were going to a small LAC in upstate NY, those schools also attract a certain type of students. But try to really figure out what is it about NYU that you do not like and not transfer to another school because of prestige. Cornell is very different than Georgetown. I would think students at MIT would be very different than H or Y.</p>
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<p>Drama and gossip can be found everywhere. You also don’t have to like people particularly much, provided you can get along with them for the time required for a team project. Given that you will have about a bazillion of those facing you in your future career, mastering the art of coping with team members who make you crazy is something you may as well start doing.</p>
<p>It is OK to only have friends in your department. Or only have friends in your residence. Or only have friends at your gym. Or, well you get the picture. Do your best to keep your eyes on the prize (the degree, the internship, the eventual first job, etc.) and you will be fine.</p>
<p>Love the slogan ‘wherever you go… there you are’.</p>
<p>No need to transfer. Not only can you find like-minded people in your own program, but the city is FULL of interesting young adults attending other schools or working . Enjoy NYC!</p>
<p>A newcomer to a town asked what the people were like there.</p>
<p>“What were they like in your old town?” asked an old hand.</p>
<p>“They were difficult to get along with,” was the reply.</p>
<p>“That’s how they are here too,” said the old hand.</p>
<p>Later, a second newcomer asked the same question, and the old hand again inquired: “What were they like in your old town?”</p>
<p>“They were easy to get along with.”</p>
<p>“That’s how they are here too.”</p>
<p>Cobrat, if you are at NYU, I think one of the problems is the increasing number of students in the LPS (or whatever they call, it, less selective) program.</p>
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<p>The differences in the types of students each division attracted were present back when I attended HS in the early-mid '90s as well. Stern was one of the hardest divisions* to get into at NYU whereas CAS or Steinhardt were much easier to get into in comparison. </p>
<p>Back then, Stern was comparable to Columbia SEAS in admissions difficulty from my HS in terms of GPAs and SAT breakdown emphasis(Both strongly emphasized high math scores). </p>
<p>In comparison, it was actually much easier to get into CAS or Steinhardt than it was to get into SUNY Binghamton or Stonybrook at the time. </p>
<p>The differences between students admitted to NYU Stern versus CAS or other divisions were already present 2+ decades ago. Only possible differences I can think if is the gap between Stern and CAS has probably narrowed a bit…but it’s still there according to younger NYU alums and current students I’ve come across. Also, it seems the gap in political views between their respective student bodies on average is still present. </p>
<p>*Tisch is also hard, but they were using very different admission criteria like auditions and/or portfolios considering they’re a school of performing arts.</p>
<p>So . . . . I’ve decided I’m not transferring.</p>
<p>Cobrat, I will go back even further; I remember when people with $ went to NYU because they could not get into Baruch, Hunter or Queens because they were more selective. NYU popularity and selectivity has only gone up with in ~ the last 15 years (with the exception of Tisch)</p>
<p>Adad, nice story…</p>
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<p>Out of curiosity, was this before 1969? </p>
<p>If so, that’s no surprise considering the CUNY system was considered the “working-class’ Ivy league” back then. Considering all that, it’s no surprise to many New Yorkers of those generations to turn down NYU for CUNY schools like CCNY as General Colin Powell did in the '50s. </p>
<p>However, that all changed with the implementation of open admissions in 1969 and the rapid deterioration of the quality of student body, flight of many topflight Profs and students, the sudden plummeting of its academic reputation, city’s financial crisis/consequent budget cuts, and elimination of free tuition for city residents in 1975. </p>
<p>By the late '80s and early-mid '90s, NYU Stern already had a great reputation while CAS was considered a respectable school for well-off B- students and was at least…perceived to be much better than the heavily stigmatized CUNYs then. </p>
<p>A stigma which was reinforced by the local mass media and many pre-'69 CCNY/CUNY alum teachers and family friends/acquaintances who strongly discouraged their own kids and friends like myself from considering it in the '80s and early-mid '90s because they felt the system’s academic standards had fallen far from what it was when they attended.</p>
<p>Waitingforivy,
Oops, my mistake on the requirements for the transfer common app.
2 LORs from college profs, 1 college transcript+LOR from college advisor, 1 HS transcript +/- LOR from HS GC, 1 essay, 1 short answer. The 3 additional essays were based on a supplemental app.</p>