<p>what are the differences in terms of admissions standards?
what's the "catch" with gallatin? cause if you can go to gallatin and then study anything in any school why would you want to go to stern where you can only study business?</p>
<p>Stern is about numbers SAT GPA etc., while Gallatin is more about the whole package as far as admissions is concerned. </p>
<p>At Gallatin you are allowed to take Stern classes, only 32 credits though, and is for people who are into business as well as other interests such as arts, language, science etc. Stern you get electives too if you wish to endevor in other places besides business. Stern you get a solid business degree, unlike Gallatin where you get a BA in Individualized Study.</p>
<p>ok thanks. if i understand you correctly you CANNOT get for example a B.A in Economics from gallatin? what the heck is a b.a in individualized study? it seems pretty worthless? based on what info did you say all this?</p>
<p>In Gallatin you get a BA in Individualized Study with a Concentration in ________. Whatever you made your major, is your concentration, although it won't state your concentration on your diploma.</p>
<p>If you want to study Economics you can do that at Gallatin - Econ is a major at both Stern and CAS, so you can take how many of those classes you want (mindful of the Stern cap of credits). At CAS and Stern you would be restricted to take certain classes etc., while at Gallatin if you don't want to take for example Advanced Microeconomics (I'm making this up) you don't have to, rather a CAS or Stern major would probably have to take it in order to fufill graduation/major requirements.</p>
<p>and can i take classes at stern if I am at CAS?</p>
<p>I think you can, but that would most likely involve a lot of red tape that Gallatin does not have, since they are notorious for cross registration. If you want to study Econ though, I'm pretty sure that many of the Stern/CAS classes are mixed from each school, at least I know the intro ones are.</p>
<p>I am prety sure i want to study econ (career:business/finance). the prob is i am more of a econ/history,physics than econ/pure math. I get the feeling stern is more for the second type. So which school is best for me?</p>
<p>more or less, id go with stern cause its good, reputation etc... but in case i decide to change major to something totally different i am afraid i'd be stuck at stern.. another issue is i believe that CAS or gallatin is much easier to get into than stern. am i right??</p>
<p>thanks a lot IheartNY08 for all ur good advice.</p>
<p>CAS is easier to get into than Stern. Gallatin... no one knows about. You can consider it almost a separate school. They want to see you are independent over all things - Gallatin this year I think is going to be insanely hard to get into based on all the press it has been receiving because of our famous freshmen. </p>
<p>If you think you can get into Stern, I suggest you apply there. Like I said before, you are allowed electives to pursue other interests. Or, you could apply to CAS and double major in like Econ and History, and minor in Physics if you desire. Then there is Gallatin where you have the most freedom. It's really your call...</p>
<p>IHeart-CAS and Stern are about the same as difficulty in admissions, nearly identical SAT averages. Gallatin is a little bit easier than CAS and Stern. There is only one undergrad econ. dept at NYU...both CAS and Stern students take the same classes togather if they are studying econ.</p>
<p>To answer the original question, Gallatin people can and do take Stern classes. The "catch" is that with Gallatin is that its a different degree you get from Stern..in Stern its a BS in whatever you studied, from Galltain its a degree in individualized study.</p>
<p>Good luck.</p>
<p>-NYU class of '00</p>
<p>I wasnt able to find admissions rate for each school but i found this:
stern: 2100 undergraduates
CAS: 5700 undergraduates
Stern having probably the best reputation of all the NYU schools but with such a small undergrad. population doesnt that make it much much harder to get into than CAS?
with 1390 SAT , 3.7 GPA unweighted , live in france but us citizen do i stand a chance at stern?</p>
<p>Stern is definitely harder to get into than CAS - no questions asked. Everyone who goes to Stern are Ivy League business school rejects, and Stern, next to UMich's business school are next in line as the top business schools in the country. </p>
<p>NYU does not release admission statistics per school but Stern, along with Tisch, are notorious for being the hardest schools to get into at NYU.</p>
<p>Stern is a smaller school, but CAS gets more apps. I know because I worked in the admissions office when I was in college, the avg. SATs for the 2 schools are pretty much identical...I know this because I've seen the breakdowns on spread sheets in the admissions office. This is from NYU's web site:</p>
<p>True, Stern is a top business school, but many schools at NYU have people who were ivy or near ivy calibre. As far as studying business is concerned, I just wasn't interested in it because it really seemed bland to me (even though I work in investment banking now). At end of the day, the smartest people are the ones going to med school or getting PhDs, clowns like me who spent 4 years of college boozing it up work on Wall St. For example, I took a few math classes, and I had friends in Stern--I was highly unimpressed with the math the finance majors in Stern had to do (not sure if Wharton is like this as well), but it was very watered down, there was barely, if any calc. involved.</p>