Ask & Tell All of NYU--Current Student

<p>@Dreamer2012: So glad I can help. Look, in terms of people not taking you seriously if you’re a communications major simply remind them that you go to NYU and thus there’s nothing ‘un-impressive’ about it. At NYU there is no blatant stigmas for specific majors/schools…honestly people are usually all so into their own major and sometimes bragging about it that they frankly don’t care. Or at least the people who do care, I’m not friends with haha. Steinhardt is actually considered one of the hardest schools to get into so I’m not sure where you got that from that it’s considered an easy major. I have a lot of friends in the Media, Culture, and Communications major and they ALWAYS have work…more so than some of my friends at Stern. But to be in that major really means you have an interest in that field which makes the work less painful. Technically, you don’t have to declare a major until your a junior but I know people who did it their freshman year…although those are the people who come in as undeclared. You have to have a certain amount of credits to double major (although I’m not sure what amount is but I’m 100% positive it’s on the website)…to do a double major plus a minor is something you can’t do until your senior year…the thought is you probably (even with AP credits) won’t be able to hit both of those requirements before senior year…or at the earliest second semester junior year. You’ll find though that college is a lot different than high school in a sense that in high school one might say “I love history, english, and math but hate science”…thus it carries over for a lot of people that I’ll double major in an english and history major and a minor in a math major. I will tell you now that it will take A LOT of hardwork to do all of that. You will have to hit the requirements for both majors as well as the requirements for a minor which for me would be WAY too much to handle. On a personal level, I would suggest either double majoring or a major and a minor…the hope is after you graduate college that you can get a great job in the field you’re interested in. Employers like to see that you made a true commitment to a certain field of study (which then has turned into a field of job) as opposed to bouncing all over the place. If you have a lot of interest in 2 subjects then double major and maybe consider taking some electives in what you would of minored in (NYU has a TON of electives)…also another route is double majoring/or single majoring and joining clubs based off of your other interests. This is a subtle way of putting on your resume that not only are you interested in the major you chose but also decided to join clubs in those other two fields in your free time. Hope that helps :)</p>