<p>That’s really weird in my opinion; since NYU and its other campuses are considered separately, admissions results should also be sent separately. The NYU email mentioned nothing about its other campuses, and nothing says that no email from a campus means rejection. I’d at least like a confirmation email about NYUSH, whether accepted/rejected/waitlisted…</p>
<p>I think that when you applied, if they gave you admission to the campus you listed as your first pick, then the idea is that if you are admitted to that campus then it doesn’t matter about the other campuses since you already said you would prefer to go to that one. </p>
<p>However, if it is bothering you, you should email and ask. I would like to officially know the answer as well :D</p>
<p>Is anyone going to the New York visit who is also from the Dallas area?</p>
<p>@thawowtso my dad told me they didn’t need the $500…I just thought it’s odd they haven’t been sending housing info etc. </p>
<p>Also does anyone know if we will be able to partipate in work-study programs? I want a job…or else I will have very little money…:/</p>
<p>@vintagerosery Oh, ok 
haha I was worried there for a second</p>
<p>And I am in the same boat! I am worried about not being able to have money over there, and I dislike the idea of being dependent upon people back home to support me in that way. And our student visas (combined with my lack of Chinese language knowledge!) probably limit our ability to get a job (not like employers actually care or check to see if you are on the right visa, but NYU might…) I should’ve asked about that when I visited, if anyone hears anything about it let us know!</p>
<p>hey guys a while back i asked about work-study opportunities especially for this year and they replied back saying none is available for now so i assume maybe since the campus is still just getting started, they haven’t yet formally designated opportunities for us to work at! Hopefully something will come up!</p>
<p>Yeah, I hope so too, i was looking forward to the work-study opportunities. But I’m sure they’ll have quite a few jobs on campus up for grabs once we get started!</p>
<p>You could probably get an informal job as an English tutor somewhere in the city.</p>
<p>Yeah, we’ll figure it out, I doubt even the administration has any idea- probably more focused on actually building the school haha</p>
<p>hey so when I was in shanghai I found out that they will have jobs available for students on campus. They said in the offices, and different building. When asked about the number of jobs available they made it soon as if anyone who wanted a job had a good shot at recieving on. They are going to send out applications in the summer for us to fill out.</p>
<p>Oh yeah that’s great! When I visited its like all of my questions just went out the window But you said they will send out applications- are those just for jobs? Or do you think that will also be for roommates? I know we are rooming with a Chinese student, but I hope there’s still a questionnaire or something so we have a roommate who’s compatible</p>
<p>Hey guys. Congrats on your acceptances to NYUSH. I’m a current graduate student at Johns Hopkins-Nanjing and just strolling through here, trying to relive the excitement of being a newly accepted student to college in a foreign country. </p>
<p>With regards to jobs, you can get an unofficial teaching tutoring English for 200+ rmb per hour without even trying hard (about $30 per hour). If you’re willing to bargain, look harder, or utilize other leverage-able skills (like actual certification for TESL) then you should be able to get at least 300 rmb per hour ($45). You’ll be on study visas, so having a job here is illegal, strictly speaking, but the grey market here for English tutoring is monstrous. Only a few of the big-brand elite English training academies (New Oriental etc.) would insist on your having a valid work visa. For the average tutoring gig, a Western face is all you need to get hired teaching English. It’s bound to pay MUCH more than your on-campus job, for a much shorter time commitment. </p>
<p>If anyone has any questions about life or studying in China feel free to message me. I study in Nanjing but I’ve got a summer internship in Suzhou (about 25 minutes from Shanghai on the high speed train). I’m actually writing from Shanghai right now, cause I was here all day for meetings… ;)</p>
<p>David</p>
<p>Nice to hear from you David! </p>
<p>If you don’t mind me asking what do you study and what do you plan to do in the future? I know John Hopkins-Nanjing is very old (as far as Sino-US collaborations go) and very reputable, but do you think job-wise studying in China was worth the hassle? Personally, even without the job possibilities from learning Chinese and having that international experience, I would make the same choice again simply because I love different cultures and travelling. But with less than a month left before I leave, my feet are getting cold hearing about how often things don’t go as planned in China.</p>
<p>thawowtso: I’m an international politics major with the intention of going into energy consulting in Asia (preferably China) after graduation. Hopkins is really emphatic about the important of economics for all graduate students, so I’ll end up with a policy/econ background that I think will be attractive for international energy consulting firms operating in Asia (think CERA, Global Insight, PFC Energy, Wood Mackenize). </p>
<p>I will be doing the full two years in Nanjing, but in retrospect I wish I had done the one year in Nanjing and then the second year in DC. Not only does the DC campus have a dedicated energy studies program, but I feel the quality of education would have been higher. Classes for foreign students at the Hopkins-Nanjing Center are in Chinese, (while the Chinese students take classes in English) so our professors are basically all faculty on loan from Nanjing University, while the Chinese students get their pick of the best professors Hopkins-SAIS can attract (naturally very impressive people). </p>
<p>This is a reflection of the state of our school, however, not really studying in China. I think studying in China is absolutely “worth the hassle” for getting a job in China or Asia. This is the Asian century and you’ve gotta make the moves now to be on the cutting edge of history (if I may put it slightly poetically). That being said, speaking Chinese is also very important. You should absolutely study Chinese if you aren’t proficient in it already. You’re in Shanghai, which is very open to foreigners and many people speak English, but this is 2013, not 1813 or 1913, and colonialism isn’t fashionable anymore, so definitely make the effort to learn Chinese. Try not to get sucked into the expat bubble, which is populated by people who really do think like neo-colonists. </p>
<p>China is indeed very difficult to adjust to, but Shanghai is probably the easiest place to move into China. Think of it as China-lite. You could live there for years and never even know you’re in China. After you’ve spent some time there, it’s worth spending some time in a smaller Chinese city, where you’ll really be challenged into integrating (and improve your Chinese much faster).</p>
<p>Hey guys so I have been reading the discussions on here for quite sometime. I am definitely applying to NYU and NYU Abu Dhabi. But I am on the fence about NYU Shanghai. Any new information on Shanghai? I guess my biggest question would be is it like the Abu Dhabi campus… very selective, impeccable financial aid, candidate weekends? Thanks so much and congrats to those accepted! It must feel great being the first ever students to attend there. You guys will be the ones to lay the foundation for other students. Starting clubs and everything! </p>
<p>By the way, I am from the US (Kentucky to be more specific) but will be in Ghana at the time I will be applying (I’m doing a gap year there).</p>
<p>Hi GyasiAfua!</p>
<p>Since NYU Shanghai is so new, its hard to tell what the admissions will look like next year. Some things are changing, like the NYUSH campus moving to the new center in Pudong. However, I found over NYU Stream (which is a media service for NYU) a video with Mike Devlin, the assistant dean of admissions, going over what the admissions looked like for the inaugural class:</p>
<p>There was a 10% acceptance rate this year, with over 5000 applications. The average GPA was 3.7 and the average SAT was a 1430 out of 1600 (for your comparison means, the first year NYUAD was open their SAT was 1470), I hate comparing like this but just looking at the numbers, NYUSH is more competitive than NYUNY but less competitive than NYUAD. Only 21% of the non-Chinese student body only speaks English (which makes me feel bad haha), with most of the students knowing several languages, and many students up to five languages fluently. </p>
<p>You obviously have a passion for travel and different cultures by your gap year in Ghana, so its worth mentioning that the most unique thing about NYUSH is that over 36 different nationalities are represented in the class. Keep in mind, that is a class of 300 students, with 149 coming from outside China. So 36 different countries within 149 students- its makes for an extremely diverse and exciting student body! For me, this was the most thrilling piece of information because I wanted a college experience that was very global in nature- a chance to meet a bunch of different people! However the class size is small enough to have a strong community with all the benefits of being in the largest city in the world. In fact, of the students hailing from the US (about 60% of the 149 non-Chinese students) 20% of those students are considered underrepresented minorities. So the socioeconomic diversity is strong as well.</p>
<p>Which brings me to financial aid… I really don’t wanna promise anything because the moment I say the financial aid was great this year is the moment that they cut the funding lol, but just based off what I have read and talked to other students attending NYUSH, a ton of people got full rides. And that includes people’s whos FAFSAs said that they did not need any financial aid to attend. It seems, from the people I have spoken to, that those who didn’t get full rides (which totaled around $56,650 USD, and includes tuition and fees, room and board, meals, insurance, books and travel and personal expenses; so literally everything) either got nothing or around the 20k-30k marks.</p>
<p>I don’t know if this generosity, that seems to me very similar to the financial aid awarded at NYUAD, will last, however NYUSH sent this comment out with the financial aid awards:</p>
<p>“The same amount of scholarship will be provided in all 4 academic years so long as you meet the following criteria:
You enroll full time at NYU Shanghai (or attend another NYU study away site)
You are in good academic standing
If you filled out the CSS PROFILE this year, you do so next year as well, by the designated deadline”</p>
<p>So it makes me hopeful that not only my financial aid will be renewed, but that other classes entering in the years to come will receive the same generosity that we did.</p>
<p>So, all in all, I would definitely say to apply!!! It was a risk applying this year, everything was so unsure because it was the first class, however I am so happy that I did. The class is very competitive, great financial aid, and its truly the experience of a life time! Just be aware when you apply that you really will want to do your research. You’ll want to know exactly what it means to be an NYUSH student, like that speaking Mandarin conversationally is a condition for graduation, there are not all the majors that NYUNY offers, and that half the class will be native Chinese, so there will be challenging cultural barriers that have to be worked through. </p>
<p>However, John Sexton really hit the nail on the head when he said that NYU Shanghai is not for the faint of heart. It will be hard, but if you like to be challenged, you can really succeed at this school. </p>
<p>Oh! And I forgot to talk about the candidate weekends haha. I’ll try to make this short because this post is already ridiculously long… This year there were no Candidate Weekends for international students (I believe because it couldn’t be planned fast enough to accommodate the quickly approaching US deadlines— Chinese deadlines are much later than those in the States) However, all the Chinese students went to a Candidate Weekend this year, to compensate for the lack of a candidate weekend, NYUSH flew the international students out to Shanghai and we got to see the campus and meet the Chinese students while they were at their candidate weekends.</p>
<p>NYUSH does plan to have candidate weekends for their students next year (It’ll probably be easier because they will have their own campus by then) including all the Chinese and International students; so when you apply it should be exactly like the NYUAD experience as far as that goes.
Also, check out NYU Shanghais website at: [NYU</a> Shanghai](<a href=“http://shanghai.nyu.edu/en]NYU”>http://shanghai.nyu.edu/en) There is a great video on the left of the home page, you should watch it! </p>
<p>Good luck in Ghana and applying to college!!! I hope you get into your favorite school, but I hope that school is NYU Shanghai :D</p>
<p>Hi guys! I’m planning on applying to NYU Shanghai this year, but my dad doesn’t want me to. He’s concerned that they might just hire some local lecturers or professors to teach the class, and pay a lot for just a Chinese education, such as one that you might get if you went to Beijing University. Do any of you guys know what the professors will be like? Are they going to be from the New York campus, and are they going to be teaching full time there? Thanks! :)</p>
<p>Hey! I love that question, mostly because it has a great answer right here: </p>
<p>[Faculty</a> Members | NYU Shanghai](<a href=“http://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty-members]Faculty”>http://shanghai.nyu.edu/academics/faculty-members)</p>
<p>That is an overview of the faculty members of NYU Shanghai- and they are all highly reputable. There are lots of permanent members that are coming from NYU New York to teach at Shanghai, and there are many others coming from other schools, like Yale and Northwestern U (just to drop a few names haha). From what I have been told, there will also be temporary professors from NYU that may come and teach a specific class for a semester or such, but those listed above are permanent. So this is not a Chinese university, and this is not being taught as such. The professors are all filled on the same lines as NYU New York and NYU Abu Dhabi, so the quality of education you are receiving is top notch.</p>
<p>Remember, this is the first Sino-American university, however when you graduate you do not get a Chinese degree like you would at Beijing University or such, you get an American degree that every person who graduates from NYU (any campus) receives :)</p>
<p>With college applications being started, I think this thread is a little too dead! So heres an interesting article for anyone interested in applying to NYU Shanghai:</p>
<p>[For</a> Some NYU Students, A Sweet Deal To Study … In Shanghai : Parallels : NPR](<a href=“For Some NYU Students, A Sweet Deal To Study ... In Shanghai : Parallels : NPR”>For Some NYU Students, A Sweet Deal To Study ... In Shanghai : Parallels : NPR)</p>
<p>On a side note, theres been spreading news that the Free Trade Zone of Shanghai (a 28 kilometer area in which NYU Shanghai’s campus will be in 2014) is having Facebook, Twitter, and The New York Times unblocked from the Great Firewall of China. You can read more about that here: </p>
<p>[China</a> to lift ban on Facebook ? but only within Shanghai free-trade zone | South China Morning Post](<a href=“http://www.scmp.com/news/china/article/1316598/exclusive-china-lift-ban-facebook-only-within-shanghai-free-trade-zone]China”>Exclusive: China to lift ban on Facebook – but only within Shanghai free-trade zone | South China Morning Post)</p>
<p>Actually, NYU Shanghai is a Chinese degree granting university and its degree is recognized the same way as any Chinese university like Beijing University. A NYU-Shanghai gradute will tehrefore receive 2 separate degrees. One Chinese (NYU-Shanghai) and the other from New York (New York University) and you can use them on your resume as you like.</p>