<p>so im taking a semester off from college to save up some money and NYU is a school at the top my list. I have an associates degree from a community college in New York, graduated with a 3.7, was on the executive board of the student government, great recommendations from professors and plenty more recommendations from both my school and community.
I want to apply to the CAS as a Politics major and I also would be a commuter.
So do I have a chance for admission as a transfer student this spring?</p>
<p>Any advice is greatly appreciated and would being a commuter hurt or help my chance for admission?</p>
<p>You GPA is very strong; NYU does not care if you commute or live on campus. Three things though:</p>
<p>(1) I’m sure as you know, NYU gives little to no aid to transfer students. Expect to pay near to next to full cost. (A lot of $$$). </p>
<p>(2) Politics at NYU is different than at your CC. NYU has Bueno de Mesquita; which makes us a very strong politics dept. as he is one of the most renown political theory and mathematical analysis, political scientists alive. Because of this, our dept. is a tad unique in that politics at NYU is taught under heavy mathematical pretenses (especially true for intro courses). Once you progress into upper level courses either (1) you go into more ‘theory’ or ‘historical analysis’ based politics, which moves away from math either completely or partly; (2) you move into the analysis politics classes (meaning you take classes that study particular state governments, elections, etc.), which will be somewhat to highly mathematically based. The simple meaning to take away from this is that NYU has one of the most mathematically-based curricula for politics of any undergraduate institution.</p>
<p>(3) What are your test scores like? NYU does not require test score to be submitted for anyone who has completed two years of college already, as I’m sure aware. However, if you have strong test scores (~2100+), it would probably in your interest to submit them, as this demonstrates a strong candidacy.</p>
<p>Overall, your 3.7 GPA is quite good and depending on your essays, you stand a good chance.</p>
<p>thanks so much for your response. I’m particularly interested in your words about the politics department being taught with such a focus on mathematical analysis, this was something I was unaware of and I may need to look into this more to figure out if the program is right for me.
I wont be submitting a score report because my SAT’s are not at the level where they can aid me in gaining admission but I will focus that much more on my essays as I feel they may be incredibly important to a candidate like myself.
Again thanks for your response, I was very intimidated by NYU’s transfer stats but I remain hopeful!</p>
<p>Politics, at the upper level when dealing with topics such as comparative politics or Politics of X, where X is a particular state or region, will be mostly mathematically based. Game theory, median voter theory, graphical analysis, multivariate lines, etc. are the main points that these topic areas cover. Things dealing with theory, like a study of Dictatorship, Democracy, law, etc. will not deal too heavily, if at all, in math.</p>
<p>I’m definitely interested on the latter of what you listed. I’m more focused on American Government, study of the institutions and law, and democratic practices/processes so my guess would be I would not be exposed as much to the mathematical side of study as other students but I suppose you can’t avoid it all together.</p>