The Truth about Internal Transfer to Stern from CAS.

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<p>I just got accepted as an internal transfer to Stern this week and i just want to let future internal transfer prospects to know a few points about this process: </p>

<p>1) Don't trust your CAS advisors and ESPECIALLY don't tell them you want to transfer to Stern. They don't know anything and will try their best to discourage you from doing so. They'll bring up stats from past few years and tell you that your chances are close to 0 <---- probably the biggest BS you'll hear in NYU</p>

<p>2) Don't trust all the other posts floating around the internet. Yes, the amount of internal transfers to Stern is not 2 out of 50... or 4-5 per year.... or close to 3% or w.e.... This all just BS.</p>

<p>3) I can't tell whether Internal Transfer is harder than External Transfer or not. But unless someone posting on the forums is an admissions officer himself, i don't know how they'll be able to have the knowledge about internal vs external transfer stats. </p>

<p>Heres what you do need to know (From my personal experience) :</p>

<p>1) Take courses that Stern kids will take in their Freshman year. So take Calculus I, Natural sci, Text&Ideas, Cultures&context, Writing the Essya, Microeconomics( preferably intermediate microeconomics), Stats, and any other elective you want.</p>

<p>2) You need to have a legit reason for transferring. Let's face it, 99% of the people want to transfer for the "prestige". We all know, but obviously you shouldn't put that down on your application short answers ( there's three). </p>

<p>3)It's better if you take more math related courses. Stern loves analytical people ( assumption). </p>

<p>For future references, i saw about 20-30 people who got accepted to Stern for internal transfer this year. Most of them are freshman from CAS ( econ majors). There were about 4-5 juniors i've met. And i even met someone from LSP who transferred directly to Stern. Point of this post? IT'S NOT AS HARD AS PEOPLE TELL YOU IT IS. So don't be discouraged by your CAS advisors, ignorant people online, or anyone else. Just do it, it won't hurt you.</p>

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<p>if this were facebook id like this post
very interesting post</p>

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<p>Haha thanks. Just wanna give a little insight to future transfer prospects. Most of the people who post about internal transfers have no idea what they are talking about. I just don’t want people to be discouraged by baseless information that’s floating around the web.</p>

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<p>avg gpa for xfering cas to stern out of curiousity?</p>

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<p>I’d say 4.0 if you take easy classes or bare minimum reqs ( so like Calc I). 3.8+ would put you in a good position. It’s not that hard, look for ez profs on rate my prof.</p>

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<p>3.7+ will do as well. They look at your first semester gpa and second semester Midterm grades. If you are tight with your profs they’ll be pretty lenient with your mid term grades since they won’t show up on your transcript.</p>

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<p>thanks so much for this post man. My biggest regret is not applying to stern because I was scared of getting rejected and misconceptions that CAS econ was just as competative for job applications as Sternies. Anyways, could you tell me what you had to do to transfer from CAS to Stern? (Do they look at your high school grades, because this last semester of senior year isn’t going too well because of senioritis and all and me thinking 2nd semester senior grades don’t matter.) Thanks!</p>

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<p>cas econ is just as competative for job apps as stern … thats true
i hear the curve as stern sucks too, even if its simple assignments you gotta try to make it perfect…id rather stay in cas econ, easier to graduate higher in the class and if you graduate top of the class in any department you major in you can pretty much do anything you want (within reason)</p>

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<p>Heres my reason of why i transfered. If i stayed in CAS it would’ve been not a problem for me to keep a high gpa. But the difficulty of getting a job post graduation depends solely on your own effort. You have to put into a lot of extra effort than the people in stern because you are not offered a lot of networking opportunities Stern kids get. Yea don’t worry about your high school grades… it’s all good. Just take the classes they require you to and get good gpa in college. With a 2100+ sat you should be in a good spot. 2000+ will be a little tougher but it wont affect you as much. Mainly based on your first year GPA. (don’t take easy bs courses like Calc I… your chances will be much higher if you take Calc II).</p>

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<p>This post is so helpful and encouraging! thank you (: I’m going to CAS this fall for economics, and I plan to transfer to stern during my sophomore year. Which classes did you take during your freshman year? Also, I’ve heard that Stern prefers if you take Econ 2 instead of Econ 1. Is that true?</p>

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<p>I don’t know what Econ1&2 you are referring to. But stern prefers Intermediate Microecon than principles of micro. The courses are pretty simple, do your map reqs, so take text&ideas, natsci, cultures&context, WTE, and then do what stern kids would do but in the CAS econ department : intermediate micro, stats. Take higher level of Calc if you can, it’ll help you in the applications. And i don’t know why you are transferring in your sophmore year?.. Apply in your freshman spring. Hope this helped :D</p>

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<p>I was referring to ECON-UA 1 Economics Principles I(Econ 1) and ECON-UA 2 Economics Principles II (Econ 2). Also, are there any professors that you would recommend? (Mainly, for Calculus, Econ and Writing the Essay)</p>

<p>Thank you :D</p>

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<p>Never knew they still look at SATs after you are in the school and want to transfer,lol.</p>

<p>What kid of extra networking do sternies get vs CAS that makes it that much more different for employment after grad? I hear from people there that its roughly about the same</p>

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<p>alisha4NY- yes the principles are the basics for an econ major, but stern is looking for something that is equivalent to their microecon which is intermediate micro in the CAS econ department. For calc, i took honours so i didn’t have a choice for prof. For econ principles see if you can get Liebermann, his classes are almost always full. WTE, take bruce bromely. </p>

<p>woopthack- Stern offers a lot more events. There is a common hour for stern students which is during the noon ( don’t remember the exact time since i just transferred myself). Basically during this period there are no classes in session and is mainly used for club/ networking events. Stern mail listings give you a lot of info on upcoming networking events & presentations by great companies. Overall you are exposed to more networking opportunities. Now how much you get out of them depends solely on how good your interpersonal skills are. Obvsly people in CAS econ who have great personalities can definitely be great and even better than many sternies at networking. But CAS econ department does not offer nearly as many networking opportunities as stern does.</p>

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<p>Yeah i see what you’re getting at. But whats stopping CAS students from going to these networking events / company presentations? (Other than time conflicts with classes)</p>

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<p>^, my thoughts exactly. I had the idea that Sternies were more desirable/more competative soley due to the name Stern as it is a business school. It would seem to me that it would be possible though for a CAS student to just show up at one of those stern networking events and get involved in thier clubs too though. Btw, as a CAS econ student, did you just not recieve the networking schedules or networking contact lists that the Sternies got?</p>

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<p>You’re on a different playing field is what he’s getting at if you’re in stern but i think you can also take part in the networking opportunities that stern kids get, you just need to get in the loop.</p>

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<p>Nope, i went to networking events and i had the opportunity. But only because my friend was forwarding me emails that he got in his stern mail listing. What i’m trying to get is it’s hard for you to find out when these things happen if you are CAS econ. As opposed to the stern students, who get emails updates from the school. It is definitely possible to show up in the networking events and join stern clubs. I don’t think any clubs in NYU is confined to a specific group of people. But then again, theres the difficulties of finding out about these clubs since you don’t get email updates. Stern’s name definitely plays a huge role in your chances. But the reason why i think sternies are more desirable is probably the competitiveness (with the stern curve,etc). And econ classes don’t really give you the full education you need to go into say the IB field. Ofc, a lot of people learn on the job. But believe me, “getting in the loop” is very difficult. There’s always that awkward moment when you are the only CAS kid in a club full of stern students. Or at a networking event when the professionals who came in were expecting to talk to stern students ,etc etc. It was definitely hard for me but i managed and i’m sure there are people who can manage it better.</p>

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<p>Great Post!
Support!!!
So Genuine and Trustworthy! XD</p>

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<p>wait so just to be clear for transfering from CAS econ to Stern, they did NOT ask or look at your high school GPA? or anything that was relevant to high school besides SAT? Btw, I also heard that you had to write an essay or something explaining why you wanted to transfer? could you shed some light on these things. Thanks</p>