<p>Hi all,</p>
<p>I am hoping to transfer after my sophomore year from a top-10 liberal arts college and am wondering which school at NYU will maximize my chances of being accepted. I was an A/B student (with honors classes) at a competitive high school with a 1410 SAT I and and SAT II's in 700's; and a 3.5 college GPA with several activites. Would like to study government and communications but getting into NYU is my priority. What's my best bet? Thanks in advance.</p>
<p>looks like a lot of us are trying to get into nyu. i personally am trying to get transfer into stern school of business but with a higher college gpa and lower sat's. i recommend applying to the college of art and science. they offer majors in humanities and what not.</p>
<p>I'd suggest CAS as well... I'm applying for Spring '06 and one of the majors I'm interested in is Politics (not "Political Science) in that school. If you have any desire to go to Stern, though, apply there, since they won't let people who have transferred into NYU transfer internally into that particular school.</p>
<p>Tracemhunter: What school are you currently attending?</p>
<p>i go to a local cc but the only thing i can recommend is that you improve your gpa because the average admitted gpa is A- or 3.7. i was looking at the forum on nyu's admissions site and this is what i found:
<a href="http://nyu.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4934033161/m/2541008071%5B/url%5D">http://nyu.infopop.cc/groupee/forums/a/tpc/f/4934033161/m/2541008071</a>
"However, please note that standardized testing does not play a huge role in our transfer process. The committee concentrates much more on your academic progress in college as demonstrated by your college transcript."</p>
<p>I'm thinking I'd like to study communications at Steinhardt and am wondering if my lack of communications classes over two years at my current school will be a liability. On its admissions bulletin board, NYU says "It is usually not necessary to have previously participated in course work from an area that you intend to major in once you transfer to NYU", but Steinhardt's Communication Studies page says "Typically, students take courses in the major their first semester. By their junior year, students will be fully immersed in the program and begin the field experience stage of their education." Will this be a problem? Thanks.</p>
<p>Basically I want to take advantage of the media internship possibilities in New York and a Communications major at Steinhardt seems like the way to that. Are there other options especially considering the fact that I haven't been able to study communications at my current school, or does that not matter?</p>
<p>haha - the link that tracemhunter provided is actually the link to my post on the NYU admissions committee board!!! what a coincidince!</p>
<p>I see that you want to study government and communications. Do you want to study each separately or is there something in particular that you would like to do with those two subjects? If the latter is true, then you might want to check out the Gallatin School of Individualized Study. It is one of the smaller schools at NYU, and someone who is interesting (or wants to do something interesting) will stand out since so few applicants are in that pool (NYU has seperate adcoms for each school).</p>
<p>Also, Gallatin will let you basically do whatever you want (under the care of your own personal advisor of course). You would be able to take advantage of classes and opportunities in all of the colleges at NYU, including Steinhardt.</p>
<p>I won't write anymore on account of my sounding like the Gallatin spokesperson, but I do think it's something you might want to check out!</p>