<p>Hello everyone,</p>
<p>I’m currently in my senior year of dual diploma program. Next summer I will be receiving two diplomas from SUNY New Paltz and Istanbul Technical University (One of the top colleges in Turkey.) My ITU GPA is around 2.7 and my SUNY New Paltz GPA is 3.3.
I want to earn a MSC degree in marketing area.
NYU Integrated Marketing program seems like a good choice for me but I have no simple idea about applying there and the requirements. So I have some questions for the community here before I visit an advisor. </p>
<p>1) Since I’ll be getting two diplomas, can I use JUST one of them for my application. (Since my SUNY NP GPA is much better than my ITU GPA)</p>
<p>2)About the recommendation letters. I have one from my professor in SUNY New Paltz, one from a Finance Director working at Telia-Sonera (A multinational company, active in 7 countries) and one from a professor outside my colleges (She’s Industrial Engineering professor). Should I continue to collect recommendation letters, or two academic and one finance professional letters will be enough?</p>
<p>3)People keep telling me that I need working experience to get in good schools such as NYU, is it really necessary. I really don’t want to get back to school after leaving it for a couple of years. </p>
<p>4) Are there any required tests that I should take? If so what are they?</p>
<p>Thank you so much in advance,
Gokhan</p>
<p>1) I’m not sure how this would work when it comes to filling out GPA on the application, but graduate schools typically require transcripts from every university that you’ve attended or taken classes at (some only require it if you’ve attended that university for more than a year). I don’t think it’s an option to use one degree and never mention the other one, but I’ve also never encountered this situation before.</p>
<p>2) If you’re letters are strong and relevant to your field, I would suspect that this would be fine.</p>
<p>3) I’m not in your field, so I don’t know how important work experience is to the admissions process. You may want to ask people or professors in your field. When I was applying to graduate school, I didn’t have very much direct exposure to the field, and this was a definite flaw in my application. I probably would have been a very competitive candidate if I had taken time off to strengthen my application, but at the same time, I was ready to go to school now and didn’t want to wait. The advice I got was that if I knew this was what I wanted to do, I should just apply. My application wouldn’t have changed significantly from the spring that I graduated to the fall that I would apply in the next cycle, and I didn’t really have any definite plans for the gap period. I ended up applying in my senior year, and got into a handful of programs. Could I have gotten into a better program if I had waited? Possibly, but I’m happy with how it all turned out. If you would really like to start on your program now, I would recommend applying.</p>
<p>4) The only way to find out the answer to this is to check the programs that you are planning to applying to. The GRE is a common test for graduate schools, but your programs may not require it or they may require other standardized tests.</p>