<p>Anyone a Stern Scholar?</p>
<p>A month ago NYU mailed me some invitation to a breakfast for future Stern Scholars. But I still havent received any notification of it for sure.</p>
<p>If you recieved a Sunday at the Square invitation then you are a Stern Scholar. There is no other notification. You may get a letter and pamphlet if you missed Sunday at the Square.</p>
<p>what is a Stern scholar exactly?...and if you aren't one, is that bad?</p>
<p>Scholars Info:
<a href="http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/uc/prospectivestudent/scholarsprogram.cfm?doc_id=5158%5B/url%5D">http://w4.stern.nyu.edu/uc/prospectivestudent/scholarsprogram.cfm?doc_id=5158</a></p>
<p>Scholars isn't very important. Having been admitted to NYU Stern is big. You can always apply for scholars next year.</p>
<p>In short, it's used to distinguish urself among the other Stern students. Only about 70-80 students can be in the scholars program each year in a class of 500. Generally, the invites are sent to the top applicants.</p>
<p>Basically, the biggest perk is the travel and events. While it is not 100% free, it is so deeply discounted it might as well be. Trip to europe for 4 days or something (including airfare, hotel, food, everything) was only what...$200 or $300? I think that's what the guy said. There will be occasional activities like Broadway shows, restaurants, and the like and people generally rush to sign up. </p>
<p>Also, from what they said, your friends will mostly come from the scholars group. All the different people in scholars that I met said that most of their friends that they were close with were in scholars. After all, I guess it gives some sense of unity? somewhat?</p>
<p>Stat-wise, Scholars are better only because they're picked from the top of the pile stat-wise as freshman and only the best applicants are admitted in later years. So....I think that would somewhat be helpful. However, if you work hard and get good grades....it will not matter at all if you are a stern scholar or just regular stern.</p>
<p>....wow...that was not short. Also, you need to keep a 3.5GPA and 30 hrs of community service. You also get some seminars + lectures that are for scholars-only i believe.</p>
<p>oh, and a lot of scholars get scholarships in the range of 8-15k</p>
<p>many scholars are kicked out for not maintaining their gpa, while others are taken in because of a consistenly high gpa(don't know the exact figure). its not the end of the world if you are not a scholar as a freshman as you can apply once you complete your freshmen year</p>
<p>did you have to apply for Scholars as an entering freshmen?</p>
<p>admission counselors select scholars for the incoming class based on sat, gpa, ranks, leaderships, ecs...... if you didn't get selected, you can apply at the end of your freshman year or at the end of the first semester, but you have to have a 3.5+ gpa to get in and maintain it once you are in.</p>
<p>that's the weird thing...NYU admissions picks incoming scholars solely based on statistics (SAT scores, I believe)...however, if you apply to get in scholars, then Stern advising team takes into account everything</p>
<p>I'm fairly sure that non-freshmen scholars don't get additional scholarships, and freshmen scholars who get kicked out don't lose their scholarships either.</p>
<p>are some transfer students invited to be stern scholar?</p>