NYU full tution vs Duke

jazzcatastrophe
Sat, 05 Apr 2014 13:59:45 +0000

Honestly, the main perks of scholars are the winter break trip freshman year, the spring break trip sophomore year, and getting to put it on your resume. Everything else that scholars do, anyone else can do also. The quick run down is that you have to take a biweekly class freshman and sophomore year, maintain a 3.65 GPA, do volunteer work every semester, study abroad at some point, apply for a Dean’s Undergraduate Research Fund grant, and complete the honors track in your chosen major. A lot of people end up dropping it after the first two years because there are so many requirements and not all that many obvious perks after years 1 and 2.

Also, I’ve only taken intro classes in the physics department, but it’s my opinion that the physics department couldn’t care less about their undergrad students. The classes I had were disorganized, unclear, and the “tests” consisted of a grand total of 14 multiple choice questions because the professors were too lazy to create and grade real tests, meaning that one question wrong drops your average substantially (for perspective, the chemistry department gives normal problem-based exams and hand grades them for all 800 students in general chemistry and another 800 in organic, and the biology department gives multiple choice tests, but with 50-70 questions on each). I don’t have experience with upper-level physics classes, so I can’t speak to those. NYU does have a department of astrophysics and cosmology, so you would likely be able to do research if you wanted to.

Also I would 0% recommend driving to campus every because there’s no where to park ever :P