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Your application to the Graduate School of Arts and Science (GSAS) will require you to answer certain questions and supply various supporting documents. This guide is provided to help you prepare in advance of beginning your application. For more information on deadlines and departmental-specific requirements, read the Application Requirements and Deadlines for Departments and Programs (PDF).
Questions you will be asked
- Program and term you are applying for
- Citizenship and visa status (if applicable)
- Have you previously applied to the Graduate School?
- Has any family member enrolled at NYU
- Your name (including any alternate name)
- U.S. Social Security Number (if applicable)
- Addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses
- Date of birth, gender, and ethnicity/race
- Previous colleges/universities attended
- Names of those who will be writing your letters of recommendation
- Academic honors or awards
- Research experience
- Non-English language ability
- Other schools applied to
- Names of individuals responsible for your choosing NYU
- GRE and TOEFL (if applicable) test dates, registration numbers, and scores
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Materials you will be asked to provide
- $90 application fee ($110 for Mathematics in Finance-MS and Mathematics in Finance/General Management-MS/MBA)
- Academic transcripts, with English translations if applicable
[You are strongly encouraged to scan your transcripts and upload them into your online application rather than to send paper copies.]
- Statement of purpose
[Describes past and present work as it relates to your intended field of study, educational objectives, career plans, and reasons for choosing your field. The statement should be concisely written and not exceed one to two double-spaced pages. ]
- Résumé or curriculum vitae
- Writing samples (required by many, but not all, programs)
- Letters of recommendation
- Official test score reports from ETS
- Final and official copies of academic transcripts, with English translations if applicable
[Admitted applicants only, the Graduate School will contact you if these are required.]
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Department and Program-Specific Questions
Some departments and programs have specific questions and requirements that are not asked of applicants to other programs.
Chemistry
- Scientific interests
- Research experience
- Bachelor's and/or master's theses
- Publications
- Article from recent literature of interest to you
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Computational Biology
- Program features of interest
- Background, abilities, motivation, and interests
- Long-term professional goals
- Prior training
- Research areas of interest
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Computer Science (MS and Non-Degree)
- Indicate any specific scientific interest you have or any application you have in mind for your training in computer science.
- List publications, if any
- If you have web pages of your own, please list the URLs
- Skills you have: design of distributed algorithms; determination of average complexity of algorithms; meaning of O () complexity; proving worst-case complexity of algorithms; proving the correctness of simple algorithms
- Techniques you know: recursion; induction; probability; elementary combinatorics; set notation
- Understanding and implementation of pointers, structures/objects, arrays, ques, stacks, linked lists, trees, graphs
- Use of for-loops, while-loops, case statements
- Understanding of object-oriented inheritance and operating system calls
- Have you written production (used everyday by multiple people) programs?
- What is the approximate size, in lines of code, of the largest working program you have written (counting just the part you wrote)?
- List the programming languages you prefer to use
- Do you know how to use Unix? Windows?
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Computer Science (PhD)
- Indicate any specific scientific interest you have or any application you have in mind for your training in computer science
- List publications, if any
- If you have web pages of your own, please list the URLs
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Economics (MA)
- Courses taken in principles of economics
- Courses taken in intermediate microeconomics
- Courses taken in intermediate macroeconomics
- Courses taken in mathematics
- Courses taken in statistics
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Economics (PhD)
- Interest in microeconomic theory, macroeconomic theory, econometrics
- Potential area of specialization
- Courses taken in multivariate calculus
- Courses taken in linear algebra
- Courses taken in probability and statistics
- Courses taken in real analysis
- Courses taken in other mathematics
- Any original research
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English
- What kinds (genres, styles, forms, etc.) of literature most engage you?
- What, for you, is the purpose of reading literature critically?
- Are there particular kinds of criticism/theoretical approaches/methods of literary study that you would like to work within or learn more about?
- How have your intellectual and scholarly interests been shaped by your time outside and beyond the college classroom?
- Do you have a particular reason to come to New York City: can you envision the intellectual consequences of living and working here?
- In light of the description above, do you have a particular reason for wishing to work within the Department of English at New York University?
- If you are applying for the M.A., or applying for the Ph.D. but wish to be considered for the M.A. if you cannot be offered admission to the Ph.D. program, please also address the following question: How will the M.A. degree help you to achieve your personal and/or professional goals?
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Fine Arts
- Background
- Reason for choosing field
- Critical issues in field
- Reason for choosing NYU
- Career plans
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Journalism
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Psychology
- Courses taken in behavioral science
- Courses taken in natural science
- Courses taken in social science
- Courses taken in mathematics and statistics
- Graduate psychology courses
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Postdoctoral Psychotherapy and Psychoanalysis
- Educational background
- Patients seen
- References
- Professional organizations
- Certificates and licenses
- Analysts and therapists past and present
- Expectations of program
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