<p>Stern:</a> The favorite son of NYU | nyunews.com</p>
<p>Is this even true? I'm going to Stern next year. I know its really great, but do Sternies really have a problem with the rest of NYU. From the user comments on that page, it seems so. Am I going to find it difficult to interact with non-Stern friends (especially with the lack of a "campus" and proper sports). </p>
<p>In short, how is the Stern-non Stern relationship?</p>
<p>After skimming, I can tell a lot of comments were written by HS kids, mostly applicants. No one cares about USNWR or rankings in college. We’re all at NYU to get some kind of degree and have fun in the process. Most people have friends across all schools - I’m in CAS, my boyfriend’s a Sternie and I have friends in Steinhardt, Gallatin, Tisch, and Social Work.</p>
<p>Stern is an excellent school but it is by no means NYU’s best program - CAS has top programs in Philosophy, Math, International Relations, etc, Steinhardt is renowned for education, Tisch for Film and Arts, Gallatin is unique - obviously since Stern is a Business school, it will have the largest endowment. People generally become business majors to make money; Stern has many wealthy alumni who donate and I don’t know why anyone would be upset over it. </p>
<p>More $ donated by Stern alumni to Stern = more money for NYU to spread to the rest of us. :)</p>
<p>One thing I dislike is when Stern kids think everyone else has it easy or something. Let’s be honest, Stern is a hard school but subject like math, physics, engineering are the most difficult in undergrad, the curves there are usually harsher. Although Business at NYU is significantly harder than in most colleges where business is a joke.</p>
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<p>Yeah, Alix pretty much nailed it. </p>
<p>The three of us (Alix, AoDay and I) actually GO here, and it’s really obvious that some high schoolers hijacked that thread. </p>
<p>Also, NYULocal > WSN. Sorry.</p>
<p>I don’t find that NYU favors Stern over any of the other schools, but some of the Stern kids themselves do think they’re God’s gift to the student body. My roommate this year was in Stern and all she did was talk about how it was really the only good school at NYU and how everyone else had fake majors or whatever. Personally I’m pre-med and I was killing myself while she was plying video games on her laptop because her course load wasn’t nearly as hard, but there you go. It’s not just her either, a lot of the Stern kids are really obnoxious.</p>
<p>There are two sides to the coin though obviously. I’ve met some Stern kids who act like normal human beings too. It’s the same with anything I guess.</p>
<p>^ Haha that’s what bothers me about a lot of Sternies - it’s like stop pretending you’re getting a PhD in physics here - you’re a freakin business major lol. NYU has many programs top 5 in the country; Stern is ranked something like #15 overall. Newsflash: that’s because most Ivy league/top schools don’t have undergrad business programs, except Penn and Cornell. </p>
<p>Fortunately most Stern students aren’t obnoxious like your roommate; my boyfriend works really hard at his internships but he doesn’t pretend for a second that Stern is some kind of god or that his major is particularly hard lol. One of NYU’s most rigorous programs is probably Engineering which isn’t ranked well at all! </p>
<p>I stand by my previous comment that more alumni donations for Stern is good for NYU. I don’t understand why anyone would begrudge them that. Naturally finance is a field where people are making money, and NYU has low alumni donations overall.</p>
<p>I really hope I can as a Sternie get along well with the rest of NYU. I was worried that all the Stern kids were somewhat hated and even if I am normal, we won’t get along that well. Also, being among some Sternies being a bit obnoxious and arrogant was worrying. I hope I don’t become obnoxious.</p>
<p>Yeah, NYU for sure has a lot of great programs! I hope to double major in math which is again a top ranked program (though I still don’t know how that will work out because of number of credits but I’ll see)</p>
<p>P.S - Alix2012 - I do disagree with your Stern #15 comment (businessweek got it wrong, U.S News placed us #5 and #2 for finance, and the ivy league comment can’t hold because Stern as a whole wins against a lot of them (even in MBA rankings) - its always top 10 in general business and top 3 in finance. (I did turn down 4 of the ivy league to go here - and I wouldn’t have done that if it wasn’t good) (which again made me worried about the whole attitude issue because I didn’t want to regret my decision to turn down other awesome places)</p>
<p>I don’t want to be jerk and focus on rankings.
But I got your point. NYU does have other top ranked programs other than Stern. Hopefully I’ll have a great time at NYU (and not only Stern)</p>
<p>I’m in the same boat as oilspill. Being a Sternie 2014, i was kinda worried about how the rest of NYU views Stern. Hopefully most Sternies are not as pretentious as rumored.</p>
<p>Once you actually start college, most people will not judge you because of what school you are in. Its like in high school and being a senior and asking everyone OMG whats your SAT score? whats your AP scores? whats your GPA? No one really cares once you are in college. Its all just a name if you are all in NYU</p>
<p>Unless you are going for a job interview, when people outside of NYU ask you what school you go to, you just say NYU. Most people don’t say “oh, I go to Stern”, that is weird.</p>
<p>I think generally, or at least in my school, stern is regarded more highly than most other NYU programs. Whenever people hear I’m going to NYU they just say that it’s “great”, but when they ask me which major and I say “business” they say “wow congratulations I heard that is so hard to get into!”. Of course, this is purely anecdectal and may not apply to a larger population at all.</p>
<p>Sorry, but lol at Oilspill writing a whole paragraph about rankings and saying, “But I don’t want to focus on rankings.” It’s just kind of ironic.</p>
<p>^ That’s because Oilspill is really an ironic gallatin hipster, dontcha know? :P</p>
<p>@Oilspill: My point was kind of that rankings don’t determine difficulty; as I said, one of NYU’s most difficult programs is our low-ranked Engineering one, whereas higher-ranked programs (education, film, etc) are often easier.
Look, people judge you by your personality and behavior, no one cares what program you’re in. If you’re friendly, naturally you’ll make friends by default. It’s not like students in X program have trouble making friends with everyone else. No one really cares if you’re in Stern or not. And no one cares about rankings/SAT after like 11th grade.</p>