<p>Is it really hard to transfer from one NYU school to another?</p>
<p>See, I wasn't even going to apply to NYU until a couple days before the deadline when my counselor told me that I needed some more schools. I clearly did not do my research and applied CAS "just because"... I want to be a pre-med with international business as a minor. However, NYU is not very strong on the science side, but strong in business. Since I have to go to NYU now cause it's one of the only schools that gave me good scholarships (plus, it's in NYC), I'm thinking of transferring to Stern my second year.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if that's possible if I keep up my GPA. I also studied for marco and micro econ APs on my own and got 5, 4, respectively on those tests. I'm also the president of my HS business club and won many awards in business competitions. I dunno if those will help me getting in stern.</p>
<p>So in summary, my questions are:
1) How difficult is it to transfer from CAS to Stern (or Gallatin)?
2) How strong is NYU science... or should I consider another school (Brandies? U Rochester? BU? U washington)</p>
<p>Transferring into Gallatin from CAS is not hard. One girl I know who did it said it was fast and painless. Transferring into Stern is a whole other matter - in short, don't count on it.</p>
<p>I don't know where you got the idea that NYU's not strong in the sciences. For the last three years, the CAS valedictorian has come out of the Chemistry department. This year's valedictorian is also a Rhodes Scholar. We science people are surely doing something right. For CAS, I feel like the school's humanities, social sciences, and pure sciences are about equally strong. If you decide to change your major, you're not going to be screwed out of a top education.</p>
<p>I don't know much about NYU sciences but from the Gourman Report ranking in biology (what I want to major, I pasted blelow), NYU isn't that up there. I got into Uwash and Umich, URochester, BU, which are all ranked higher than NYU. I know judging based on ranking is pretty silly, but I've never been to any of those schools so the most I can do is ask questions and at the list. I guess I underestimated NYU's science program, but it's good to know that it isn't bad.</p>
<p>Biology rankings from Gourman Report
Caltech
MIT
Yale
Harvard
Wisconsin
UC San Diego
UC Berkeley
U Colorado
Columbia
Stanford
U Washington
U Chicago
Duke
Wash U St Louis
UCLA
U Michigan
Cornell
U Penn
Purdue
Indiana U
UNC Chapel Hill
U Utah
Johns Hopkins
Northwestern
Princeton
UC Irvine
Notre Dame
UC Santa Barbara
UVA
Brown
U Illinois Urbana Champaign
U Pittsburgh
Vanderbilt
U Oregon
SUNY Stony Brook
U Rochester
Tufts
U Minnesota
SUNY Buffalo
U Texas Austin
Florida State
Michigan State
USC
U Connecticut
UC Riverside
Rice
Iowa State
SUNY Albany
Case Western
Boston U
Ohio State
NYU
U Iowa
Penn State
Emory
Brandeis
U Kansas
Rutgers New Brunswick
Tulane
US Air Force Academy
U Missouri Columbia</p>
<p>The Gourman Report is over 10 years old and has never been updated. Since Gourman refused to reveal his methodology, there is no basis to take his rankings seriously.</p>
<p>Strongest majors are known to be philosophy, mathematics, economics, international relations, and journalism. I don't know much about the sciences, but I'm sure they are top-notch. I've also heard very good things about the psychology department.</p>
<p>matth, I know I just called today. I guess I could do one year at tisch.
Uhhhh. Psychology and Journalism sound good. The only bad thing about it is that i have to double major for journalism, right? I just don't want to transfer and then have to do like a 5 year plan or something.</p>
<p>mackie, just take the classes you'd need to in CAS during your first year at tisch. There will be nothing on albert that will prevent you (to my knowledge, unless maybe if you're in theatre?),just be prepared that if you do this, you will pretty much be forced to transfer, but you will be able to graduate in 4 years.</p>