<p>Yeah, I definitely want to do at least Finance and a Math minor. Is Econ hard to do? I'd have five classes worth of credit towards the major. I'm interested in the CPA...but I'm thinking it's for the wrong reasons. I'm actually interested in finance for a career.</p>
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<p>Not anymore it isn't. They've cut the Scholars program to make more money for financial aid. There are no incoming Scholars in the Class of 2012 (2011 is the last class of Scholars), and they're closing it to upperclassman applications. Dean Blount-Lyons' argument is that "everyone is of Scholars caliber" or something like that. I don't know... I kind of tuned out after a bit.</p>
<p>How do you like Stern ijailin?</p>
<p>I'm kind of glad they got rid of stern scholars if this is true...it just caused resentment by people not in scholars...and caused the people in scholars to not enjoy college since they were always worried about dropping below the minimum GPA.</p>
<p>It's all right. A lot of the people are very competitive/worry more than I do about grades, which is something new to me, since my high school was nothing like it. There are all sorts of people in Stern -- there are people that I don't like here, but there are 500 people in a class, so I've found my groups of friends in Stern. The group I usually hang out with here, though, is a mixture of all the schools, which I find refreshing. </p>
<p>Study abroad, though... the opportunities for that are great. There are I think seven NYU campuses overseas.</p>
<p>Stern clubs... eh. Everyone seems to join Finance Society (although I haven't... didn't see the point), but not many people are very involved. For the most part, people attend club events occasionally, sometimes for the free food.</p>
<p>Yeah, Scholars isn't that great. I went to an alumni dinner, and they told us that back in the day, they used to go all around the world. We went to Florida, which is great and all, but nothing like the Caribbean (yeah, I'm not sure what's so business-related about the Caribbean either). There's really no point to Scholars anymore. It does look good on a resume, I guess, but we don't get money out of it or anything.</p>
<p>I like it, because there are is a lot more money routed towards Stern from NYU, and so we get a lot of things (educational and not) that other schools don't, and because of the study abroad opportunities. Not sure about some of the people, yet, but...</p>
<p>I have a couple of questions, but first, I'd like to thank all the current NYU students/parents for contributing to this thread. This helps a lot, and your effort is appreciated. Here we go...</p>
<p>This is what I'm planning on doing:</p>
<p>Finance w/ IB co-major, and minor in either Economics, or Public Policy & Management Minor. </p>
<p>For those of you guys who have some business world experience, do you think it's better to minor in one over the other? Also, would my minor in Economics be at CAS or Stern?</p>
<p>Another question: What is the liberal arts curriculum like? I would like to pick up a new language, but neither as a major or minor. Is that possible/required?</p>
<p>Finally, I, and I think many others, would appreciate it if a freshmen CC user could provide a sample schedule just to provide some insight into a Stern freshmen's week.</p>
<p>Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>Some more inquiries:</p>
<p>I don't know anyone who has graduated from NYU, or really anyone who is a graduate with a business degree. I am a first-time college students, so I'd love some honest, insider information.</p>
<p>Who are the best professors? Are professors in general accessible? Also, how large are freshmen classes? You can just say how many you had in your biggest class, and in your smallest class. Also, although I'm very interested in business/finance/economics, a liberal arts education is very important to me. How hard are these classes, and are there a lot of options to choose from? </p>
<p>Finally, this is a question related to financing my education. I will need to partake in work-study while attending NYU. Are work-study jobs really hard to find? What kind of jobs are there?</p>
<p>Again, thanks to everyone in advance for helping me- and others- with all this.</p>
<p>team, unless things changed, you can't minor in econ. The reason being an "econ" minor in CAS is 5 classes, and a stern major in 4 classes. You can't minor any stern classes for the same reason. You're minor won't really matter anyways. </p>
<p>I'm knee deep in recruiting season now (and getting my ass fairly kicked). but the three things that matter most for getting first round interviews for summer after Junior year are networking, sophomore year internship (or during the school) and GPA. </p>
<p>Networking and prior experience is really important, don't be a back rat who doesn't do this. I know for one i-banking company a person with a 3.0 beat out a 3.98 (most places have 300+ resumes for 10-30 interviewing spots, ***** gets intenseee) because he chit-chatted with a few recruiters at a speaker event. Not sure what their resume/cl's looked like, but still its ridiculous.</p>
<p>Professors you can find on internal recommendation system when you get here, but honestly it doesnt matter.. every class follows a curve, and for the most part you'll learn from the book/slides..which are pretty standardized. </p>
<p>Classes range from 20-30 to 300_, professors are mostly really good at Stern, not so much in CAS. </p>
<p>Work-study is easy to find, but as I said above try to get internship - even if unpaid - as soon as possible</p>
<p>Hey now, I've had good CAS professors. You just have to take the classes actually taught by profs and not grad students. Just saying...</p>
<p>I have to say, I did almost 0 networking and got an internship + full time job, so I think experiences vary... that said, I did work for a financial planner for 6 months after freshman year (didn't really do much finance-y stuff, but it looks good, yeah?)</p>
<p>Freshman sample schedule:</p>
<p>Semester 1</p>
<p>World Cultures T/R 9:30-10:45
Calculus I (I was lazy) M/W 8:55-10:45
Writing the Essay M/W 11:00-12:15
Freshman Honors Seminar (usually would be Natural Sciences for most freshmen, or Microeconomics, if you test out of Calculus I) T/R 2:00-3:15</p>
<p>Semester 2</p>
<p>Statistics M/T/R 3:30-4:45
Microeconomics M/W 2:00-3:15
Business and Its Publics (like Writing the Essay for Stern) T/R 11:00-12:15
Conversations of the West M/W 11:00-12:15</p>
<p>All are required courses, except for the honors seminar. That, ConWest, World Cultures, Writing the Essay, and Calc are through CAS. The others are through Stern.</p>
<p>Yeah, there are some really good professors in CAS. Take Ulfers for ConWest if you can (he teaches Antiquity and the 19th Century... I had him for an honors seminar, but I heard he's also good for that class).</p>
<p>do you think its better to take calculus 1 even if you can test out of it?</p>
<p>Depends on your major/how much calc you want to know. I am most likely a Finance/IB major (like 40% of the school... another 40% or so is Finance/other), so all that is required of me is Calc I. And I was never jumping to learn the material in Calc II or III, so I opted for Calc I, where I knew I could get a good grade. Besides, I hate the more tricky integrals that you get at the very end of I (but which seem to dominate the first part of II, as well as series <em>shudder</em>). I don't think anyone really cares which calc you take if your major doesn't require all three of them.</p>
<p>Is it hard to minor in Math?</p>
<p>thanks ijailin89, I was thinking the same thing. I'm in Calc BC right now, and I don't really understand most of the stuff we do in there, even though I have an A. </p>
<p>The only thing is, do employers look at the classes you take (how hard they were) or do they only look at your GPA?</p>
<p>Just your GPA. They will spend well under a minute on your resume. I say 20% max even ask for a transcript when applying, and thats more or less to see that you aren't lying.</p>
<p>I minored in math and it wasn't bad at all - it's only 4 math classes. I applied my AP calc credit (which I don't think you can do anymore) and the calc II I took at the local university before I started NYU, so I only had 2 math classes left to take at NYU (I chose linear algebra & calc III). That said, I ended up taking an additional math class just for kicks (ordinary differential equations) and still graduated on time, even though I started the minor spring of junior year. The only annoying part is that math classes aren't the typical class length, so I always found myself taking 6:20pm classes.</p>
<p>That sucks. I basically want to leave the door open for myself to get a Masters in Finance if I want to get into Hedge Funds, Securities ETC.</p>
<p>Masters of finance really aren't that effective. The good Hedge fund's usually look at ibankers/traders or MBA's from Top 5 MBA business schools.</p>
<p>I was looking at like MFin from like Princeton or somewhere overseas.</p>
<p>Well I guess you've been checking WSO... But yes Princeton is the one Master of finance program that would help you in a job hunt. The only problem is that it's so selective that if you can get into it, you could've probably already gotten into the job you would've liked straight out of undergrad.</p>