<p>@dearsayuri That’s great! I’m an international applicant too. I’m from India.
Mine changed this Monday. I don’t know what to make of it. Anyway, we’re going to know about the decisions in less than 24 hours.</p>
<p>@anuragr Right!
Tomorrow is Friday 13th.</p>
<p>Ugh! I’m not one of those but I hate the date.</p>
<p>Coincidences! Anyway, I hope we will be lucky enough tomorrow!:)</p>
<p>I am accepted guys!</p>
<p>Got accepted into NYU Shanghai :D</p>
<p>Me too! :D</p>
<p>would you guys kindly post your stats? and how does the financial package this year look like? :D</p>
<p>Accepted to NYU Shanghai early decision. At first I thought that I wanted to attend a large school, but I’m becoming more and more enthusiastic about the small class size (which is even smaller than my high school class). The intimacy of the group fosters this friendly enthusiasm that I doubt I could find elsewhere. </p>
<p>As for my stats, I was not in the top 10% of my class and my super score on the SAT was a 2010. </p>
<p>I think whats most important about NYUSH is for the applicant to show enthusiasm and the potential to thrive in a college enviornment completely unlike anything else. Because it is a new school, I believe admissions are looking for people who have the potential to really develop and improve the school. </p>
<p>Hope this helps! If anyone has any questions, feel free to email me.</p>
<p>Does anyone know if they are sending ED recipients to Candidate Weekend this year?</p>
<p>ah, i am already a part of the freshman class here and I just hate it here.
Humanities is the only good stream to take here; i can vouch for that. If you want to take science or math stream, NYUSH is not the place for you. i kid you not; it is the most inflexible courses ever. (read about Foundations of Science). many of my friends have already changed streams from STEM to humanities.
Quick facts: a majority of Internationals are just miserable here.
3-4 have already dropped out of school midway first semester.
some are not coming back next semester.
a really vast majority is transferring next wall. </p>
<p>take your pick…</p>
<p>well, that is interesting to read after all the fuss going on about the new campus in Shanghai. If you dont mind, I would like to ask you several questions.
You talked about the inflexibity of Foundation of Science…is it a hard cource in general or what? what about the prefessors?
Besides academics, what can you tell about the student life there and activities? Dorms? How about the smog in Shanghai? Do you have to wear masks all the time? </p>
<p>sure, ask away. </p>
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<li><p>Some professors are really good here. like, the econ professor, he almost got the noble prize for econ last year. all my humanities professors were really good. One of my classes was so interesting and our professor was so interactive. We had to make short films for that class, and go explore the city and i absolutely loved it. i loved my writing class professor. she was the head of the witing department, so maybe that’s why she was so good. the math professors were absolutely terrible. i have a 5 in AP calculus BC, but the way they taught the course in NYUSH is so pathetic! for STEM, so many people were complaining how they had a chinglish professor for chemistry and didn’t know how to teach at all, and the lab classes were plain terrible as they were not doing the actual science stuff, but “dry lab”, how NYUSH like to call it, where they spent an entire semester learning to excel and write research paper without really doing any actual lab work. </p></li>
<li><p>foundation of science is something i just hear about from the STEM people as i dont follow the track, but i asked one of the Americans following the track, and I quote, “classes are really hard, but not for the chinese students who always ace those science classes (chinese students comprise 60-70% of FOS class) and so the grade curve doesn’t changes at all and you end up getting a really bad grade. they literally wasted one of our semester doing no real research stuff in the lab classes. we will have chem lab next semester, but we have already wasted one semester. looking forward to med school entrance, i am pretty sure this will seem like a big blot on my application. hardly any non-chinese student in FOS got a 3+ GPA, and if you know about med school admissions, you know they need near-perfect GPA, or atleast 3.7+. so, I am in possible way getting into a medical school. even in the next three semester of FOS, we wont be able to raise our GPA to 3.7+. The physics professor in the beginning was pretty bad, but the second one (yes, they changed professor midway through a semester!) , was really good. chemistry professor was so bad that i cannot even… all he did was to read out powerpoints that he copied from other college’s notes on their website. the course is so inflexible and you hardly have any general elective. plus, next semester we have physics, chem, bio, and labs; all the science courses together! NO COLLEGE DOES THAT! along with Chinese class and GPS (compulsory class for freshmen). I am for sure looking into transferring, but with my GPA no college back home would accept me. its the stupid FOS”</p></li>
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<p>The student life is amazing though. the city is so vibrant and full of life. its so exciting through the day and night.
dorms are not the ones you would imagine in a college dorm. the twin-sharing is pretty decent, but the triple-sharing is so small and stuffed; but hopefully we might have a better accommodation next academic year when we move to pudong campus. the pollution is really bad, yes; i mean, i live in a town which might have less than 15 AQI, but here, its always above 200 (and also gets above 400, when you cannot see beyond 50 yards… but then again, its not that bad once you start living here.
do you really think these masks would help though? all those toxic gasses in the air?</p>
<p>hey everyone!!
so does the NYUSH interview appear on the Albert page of NYU?
and how many of you are studing at NYUSH, and how do you find it (i am an applicant)</p>
<p>quoting from NYU Shanghai’s wikipedia page:
“The inaugural class of 2017 moved in on August 11, 2013, and classes began in September of 2013. Of the class of 294 students, 51% came from The People’s Republic, while 49% came internationally. During the 2013-2014 academic year the inaugural class, and any students studying abroad at NYU Shanghai, will be staying at East China Normal University while the official campus in Pudong is being built.[5] The Pudong campus is to be completed in the Summer of 2014, at which point students will move into the new building.”
adding to that, around 50% of the total internationals are US citizens.</p>
<p>@hammerhead101, no the interview info does not appear anywhere on Albert. If you get invited, you receive an email from an interviewer</p>
<p>@Anonetudiant, thanks a lot for the comprehensive answers! I am sorry for your poor experience…Are you transfering, too?
Also, did you have any field trips with your class like students at NYUAD? Are there any on-campus jobs?</p>
<p>@anonetudiant @moonriver95 I’m also currently a freshman at NYUSH. I came on College Confidential due to boredom and curiosity–I wanted to see what the ED students were saying. I’m not sure who this “anonetudiant” is, but my name is Enrique Menendez. This anonymous student is entitled to his or her opinion but is not entitled to make the rash generalizations he/she made and speak on behalf of the class in the manner that he or she did. I don’t see how statements such as “a majority of Internationals are just miserable here” and “a really vast majority is transferring next wall” have any support.</p>
<p>I personally greatly enjoyed my first semester in Shanghai. No one was led to go here under the illusion that it was going to be an easy ride. The reality is that you are going to be living in China and that requires thick skin or openness to add some layers to your skin. If you are open to it however, coming here may very well be the best experience you’ve ever had and the best decision you’ve ever made–as it has been for me.</p>
<p>so those guys who did get interviewed…what sort of questions did wilkins ask?..
and members of class of 2017, how do you generally find NYU SH??..specially any head ups on the new campus to be completed this summer…is it any good?? </p>
<p>I had my interview 2 weeks ago…it0went well…i guess… She asked me cute general things about my life and academics… but there were 2 awkward questions to test intelligence or idk… and they locked me a little. But all in all we had a great convo. I’m from Bucharest,Romania. I chose NYUAD as my primary campus of interest but i havent been invited to the candidate weekend yet… I guess they may offer me a place in NYUSH because of the interview…</p>
<p>Do you think that they may take me to NYUAD after an interview at NYUSH? Or they have already chosen my school…like they decided im a better asset for Shanghai?!</p>