<p>Can any current/incoming Macaulay students share which schools they chose Macaulay over and what major they are? Just wondering as a rising senior. </p>
<p>I’m looking into either Chemical Engineering at City, or Math or Chemistry at City or Queens. Such a tough choice choosing which college</p>
<p>Chance me?
SAT - 2260 (790 CR, 760 M, 710 W, but I’m planning to retake in the fall)
GPA - 3.6 unweighted, 4.4ish weighted
AP Scholar (10 AP’s so far, all 5’s)
260 service hours, will get more by the time I apply.
EC’s are pretty good; founder/captain econ challenge team, Co-captain math team, VP Robotics Club. Quite a few competitions and awards, i.e AIME participant, National Physics Olympiad Semi-finalist, NMSQT Semifinalist [probably -223 PSAT]
Had a summer internship at an IT Firm and next year interning at morgan stanley smith barney. I want to apply to Baruch Macaulay. I’m out of state, though (MD)</p>
<p>Also, how is job placement for finance majors at macaulay?</p>
<p>Bumpity Bump?</p>
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SAT is pretty good. You should retake your math and writing only (seriously, CR is too good, don’t waste your energy…).</p>
<p>These days you can select which scores to be sent.</p>
<p>I think it’s way too good anyway. If I were you take SAT 2, I don’t any here.</p>
<p>Great EC.</p>
<p>Develop your personal essay. Since you are interested in Baruch, and you did interning at a firm, and planning for morgan, I think you have a lot to write about.</p>
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Macaulay is just an Honors program in CUNY system. You don’t get special placement or credit because you are in Macaulay. But being a MHC student at Baruch, you may find a stronger network on top of the Baruch’s network.
So don’t view MHC as if you are in NYU Sterns or Columbia’s Business… not comparable, but Baruch is the right network and college alternative to NYU Sterns and Columbia.</p>
<p>I see… so what you’re saying is recruitment stinks, but with a bit of networking landing a job is possible?
By the way, I do have SAT II’s - 800 Math II, 790 Physics, 750 World History</p>
<p>First of all I think your SAT and SAT2 are impressive. </p>
<p>Yes. Macaulay is originally the CUNY honors program. It was renamed because Mr and Mrs. Macaulay’s big charity. With that money it was renamed, and of course addition benefits were introduced.</p>
<p>Being a MHC student you are invited to enjoy some of the special events the MHC planned for the MHC students only.</p>
<p>If you go to Baruch I’d imagine there will be special events for the Baruch students, and usually be finance, governmental…</p>
<p>The Baruch college connection is what you are relying on. The MHC student body group might have a bit extra advantage. My friends from Baruch MHC didn’t see anything special… except they received a Mac and free of tuition.</p>
<p>The regular honors at Baruch shares almost the same resource as the Baruch MHC students do.</p>
<p>If you didn’t know this already, there are two honors program at CUNY, MHC and regular honors at each specific senior CUNY school. City College has one, Baruch has one, Hunter has one, and etc.</p>
<p>Thanks for your elaboration…
I’m still confused. Some people claim that the fact that Baruch is in the heart of NYC gives it great job connections. Is this actually true? Do undergrads from Baruch easily go on to Grad?</p>
<p>Also, although I know Baruch is known for buisiness, how is it’s math/stat/comp sci?</p>
<p>Thanks :D</p>
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In the heart of NYC, that’s true. It’s located in 55 Lexington Ave.
We know there are several great schools in New York City, Columbia Business, NYU Stern, Fordham Business and Baruch Business. Because they are located in NYC, graudates and students can be found throughout the city. This means many students in the finance and business sectors could have been a student from any one of those four schools…</p>
<p>Baruch is very famous, and everyone knows Baruch College here. The resource the student and business school put together are very very good, as far as I know.</p>
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Everyone with good GRE, Recommendation, resume and experiences can get into a good graduate school, regardless where you get your undergraduate degree from. </p>
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Baruch is like NYU, no engineering. Good for public administration and affairs, and business (finance, accounting, and business). There is no computer science major in Baruch, however. If you want to get computer science, consider City College (that’s where I go). We have an engineering school there.
But there is Computer Information System degree offered at undergraduate level at BC. </p>
<p>You may like it… if you want to consider that. Computer science is not software engineering, by the way. If you need to know more about computer science, computer engineering, feel free to ask me.</p>
<p>Math, stat I’d imagine very good. I don’t attend Baruch College, however :)</p>
<p>Thanks again. I thought that there was a comp sci degree, as seen here: [College</a> Search - City University of New York: Baruch College - Majors](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)
Perhaps this is outdated…</p>
<p>And thanks for your offer, but I know the difference between comp sci and software engineering… I work as an intern dev right now and my father is a programmer ;)</p>
<p>[BBA</a> in Computer Information Systems — Zicklin School Of Business - Baruch College - CUNY](<a href=“http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/cis/programs/bba-cis/]BBA”>http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/faculty/cis/programs/bba-cis/)
[Majors</a> — Zicklin School Of Business - Baruch College - CUNY](<a href=“http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/degrees]Majors”>http://zicklin.baruch.cuny.edu/programs/undergrad/degrees)
The Collegeboard is not always correct. It may refers to the course structure - CIS is not computer science, but shares some similarity.</p>
<p>But Baruch is composed of more than just the zicklin school of business…
Or can you not major across schools? (I was thinking of double majoring)</p>
<p>Let’s make sure we have the right context. The Zicklin is part of Baruch College, and let’s count that as a division. There are three main divisions in Baruch, one for public affairs, one for art and science, and last is business.</p>
<p>There are 23 CUNY schools. You may register a class at a different CUNY school that is appropriate substitution for the same course at Baruch College (you have to visit your consoler and department advisor to get the permit). This is allowed.</p>
<p>Double major at two different schools? I am afraid you cannot. I never heard of this. I could be wrong. It is probably impossible due to the time constraint. To do cross school registration (e-Permit) you have to fight against other students at that school for spots, and I think only one course is allowed.</p>
<p>Time conflict is another issue. You would probably spend another 3 years just to complete the second major using e-Permit.
Do it within Baruch, and pursue a graduate degree in CS if you really want to.</p>
<p>I meant double major across divisions.
That is, Zicklin and something else (in Baruch)</p>
<p>Does anyone know if this is possible…</p>
<p>I know at Macaulay you are allowed to take i think 1 class per summer, or was it 2? Anyways, if I go to Macaulay at City College and I go home for the summer (Queens) will I be able to take a class at Queens College?</p>
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Yes, of course, 99%.</p>
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Yes and No. I am not sure which one are you referring to. I know this MHC guy took two summer courses this summer. One for Honors and one calculus 3.</p>
<p>I could ask him if the free-tuition in summer only cover one course…</p>
<p>to tb0mb93:
If you are asking the free tuition, here is the answer from a MHC student that I knew.
But he’s not sure about the cross register. I can get an answer this Friday. I am going back to school for an event. Are you the class 2014??</p>
<p>MHC covers up to 18 in the Fall / Spring.</p>
<p>Thanks, and yeah I just checked the website and saw that you can take up to two 4 credit classes in the summer.</p>
<p>I am class of 2014 and am trying to decide which to apply to- City or Queens. and if I can cross register (go to city and take a class or 2 in the summer at Queens) that would be pretty amazing.</p>
<p>Woops, scratch that 2015* don’t know what I was thinking lol (obviously wasn’t)</p>
<p>I asked the lady today, and she said the aid package also covers e-permit during summer.
But note that you should always contact the department advisor whether the substitution is permitted. Course curriculum varies from school to school.</p>
<p>Information about Macaulay Orientation for those who wish to read about it:</p>
<p>Monday, we began orientation. The “topic” of this orientation was community service through the Outward Bound Organization. My group was assigned the location of the Housing Works Used Book Shop, a not-for-profit which receives books and sells them and all profits made go to families affected by HIV. Half of our group was finding the books, cassettes and dvds that were to be sent out, while the other half was doing the actually packaging. After a few hours of work, we were given a free lunch and then we headed over to Central Park where we worked on fun activities, like trust-building and other things. Each group had to create and perform a poem, which would be judged by a panel of judges. The day ended with each group performing their poem and the judges selecting a winner.</p>
<p>Day 2 was technology day. The first part of the day was when we received our free macbook pros! and even a Macaulay bag to hold them in. Macaulay even paid for Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel to be installed on everyone’s macbook pro. We played a bunch of games where we would text our answers in to a site and they would appear on this huge smartboard and prices ranged from bookmarks to t-shirts. The next part of the day was a meeting with your advisor, where you were put into groups in your specific campus, i.e. I was with the Macaulay Queens crowd and we had a discussion with our advisor about what was expected at Macaulay and all that good stuff. After the advisor meeting, we were given free lunch. After lunch, we split up into groups based on how well we knew how to use mac’s and had a two hour class to explain the basics of mac use (I was in the beginners class) and how to set up our emails. More advanced groups worked on much more advanced topics. After this, we were free to go home.</p>
<p>Wednesday was theater day, which was something I was a bit nervous for to be honest. I’m no theater geek nor am I any good at acting and I seen the first thing on the list was a three hour acting workshop. I was a bit weary at first, but my instructor was great and we had such a blast doing various acting exercises. Most people in the groups were not into acting so it made everyone else feel much more comfortable. We then received free dinner. After dinner, we watched three life performances. The first was “The Indian Meets the Bronx” by Israel Horovitz. The next was “What Strong Fences Make” and the final play was “Beirut Rocks”, both of which were also written by Horovitz. The plays in one word - Amazing. As I said before, I’m no theater geek, but I felt extremely inspired after watching them being performed. After the performances, we had a talkback session with Horovitz, the cast and the directors. It was so awesome to see Israel Horovitz right in front of me! The day concluded after this event.</p>