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Excluded from GPA V Grades preceded with V are not included in GPA or totals for attempted, passed orcompleted credits Excluded from GPA * Grades followed by an (*) are excluded from GPA,but the credits are counted towards the summary of totals for passed and completed credits Excluded from GPA. NYU SAT Scores and GPA. Are NYU's average SAT scores and GPA? In this guide, we'll discuss what scores are needed for you to get admitted into NYU. You'll also get to calculate your own chances with our admissions calculator. All these combine to tell you what you scores are required to get into New York University. Average SAT: 1410. ULX-D at the NYU Abu Dhabi Arts Center Abu Dhabi, July 2016 - The Arts Center at the New York University Abu Dhabi presents distinguished professional artists from around the world, as well as student, faculty, and community productions.

Rules. Be nice. Provide Info: When you ask for advice, give as much information as possible (e.g., LSAT/GPA/URM, age, where you want to practice, ties to the area, what kind of law you want to do, total cost of attendance). On giving advice: When giving advice, answer the question first. If both options asked about are bad, you can point that out too and explain why. Advice here often seems harsh.

Here's why: For book length coverage of the dire state of America's law school market, this is required reading: And a nifty flowchart of the book: I wrote a list of factors that can help assess whether LS is a good/bad choice Retakes Retakes are a no brainer in these circumstances:. You scored at the low end of your PT average. Your scores were still increasing in the weeks up to test day. You had less than perfect on logic games If none of these are true for you, and you're clearly stalled, then make this clear. Most people posting have retake potential.

Even 2-3 points can make a large difference in admissions/scholarships. That's why so many people here post 'retake!' To a lot of situations. Most people here are US. So most advice doesn't apply. Feel free to ask questions, though, there are some Canadians. Big differences:.

Almost no scholarships. Most schools are pretty good. Go where you want to practice. Multiple LSAT takes are bad.

Minimum Gpa For Nyu

Aim for no more than 2. GPA is significantly more important. Do all you can to raise it. For god's sake don't go abroad. That's Canada's TTT. I'm in a really rough spot here and could use some help making the age-old Columbia vs. NYU decision - with a twist.

To preface, my career goals are NYC or CA biglaw (I grew up in the Bay). My interest is in Chinese corporate law, which both schools have great professors/centers for. My parents have agreed to pay 1/3 total COA because I'm graduating from undergrad a year early, and the rest will be financed with loans. That being said, I don't want to lean on my parents too much - we're definitely not upper-class and they'll be paying for my sister's undergrad in about 5 or so years.

Going into this cycle, both Columbia and NYU were my top choices. I was accepted to NYU back in January and got a $26k scholarship offer in March.

My appeal for reconsideration was rejected. I was held at Columbia in February. After being waitlisted pretty much everywhere else/getting a similar scholarship at NW, I was pretty much set on NYU. I went to the ASW at the end of March and liked the vibe, but didn't 'fall in love' with it, mostly because I'm not used to not having a campus. That being said, all the current students that I met were incredibly kind and helpful, and the other people as ASW seemed cool. My deposit at NYU to accept the scholarship is due tomorrow.

I emailed them earlier this week asking for an extension because I had yet to hear from Columbia and wanted to at least keep the option open, but they denied my request. THEN, Columbia admitted me this afternoon, which I honestly wasn't expecting this late in the game. I've never visited the law school, thought I did visit the main campus back in high school and really loved it.

My parents are obviously in love with the idea of their kid going to an Ivy, and since they're paying for part of it I want to take their opinion into account. I'll have to apply for financial aid, but the process takes awhile and I definitely won't know anything about money before tomorrow's NYU deposit deadline. I'm planning on at least calling Columbia's financial aid office tomorrow and asking them if there's money left and if I have a shot at aid.

I don't think NYU would extend their deadline since they've already denied my request. Realistically, if I knew beforehand that Columbia offered me something within 6k of NYU's offer, I know what I would choose. But $26k is a lot of money in the end, and my parents aren't paying for the difference, I am. This is one of the biggest decisions of my life and I only have 24 more hours to make it. So, give it to me straight - is foregoing the scholarship at NYU and gambling on Columbia worth it?

These aren't going to be 'TAKE NYU' or something of the sort, but throw it into the pot of considerations. 1) 26k is nothing compared to the total costs of these schools and living in NYC. Don't get hung up on that amount. Both are going to take a fairly long amount of time to repay and at that point, if you're going to spend something like 5+ years repaying law school, it's not worth a fraction extra if it's going to mean you regretting the school you picked in 10 years time. If it was a 60k difference that would be something significant, but 26k doesn't seem like enough to me if you really want Columbia (considering that you're coming out with something like 200k of debt anyways). 2) You're going to law school, not your parents.

Don't let what they want sway you that much. I personally preferred the more laid back/less business-oriented feel of NYU (also the neighborhood is definitely better), but if business and prestige ranks outstandingly high on your list of desires, go Columbia.

You're set from both. For what it's worth, I am also looking to do Chinese related law and had a $25,000 COA difference between NYU and Columbia (almost the same situation as you).

I picked Columbia for these reasons: more resources directly related to China (Both have a Peking exchange but Columbia as has a Fudan exchange which would be better than the NYU Shanghai study abroad, Center for Chinese Legal Studies vs NYU's Asia-US Law Institute), Columbia's renowned Chinese department, and the fact that nearly every Chinese person you meet in the future will see Columbia as a far better school than NYU even if it's not true. IMO, it's NYU all the way. The two schools are almost identical in stats; even for biglaw, you won't have much of a comparative (dis)advantage going to one over the other. That said, I'd focus on the schools' 'softs,' as it were. I visited both this week. The students at Columbia were generally less happy than those at NYU. The atmosphere at Columbia is more work-work-work, while there's more work-life balance at NYU.

3Ls at Columbia even told me to go to NYU without hesitation. I don't think the vague notion that CLS has more 'prestige' is worth being miserable for three years. Having a defined campus can be nice, but NYU is in the middle of Greenwich Village, which is its own brand of nice. Also, you'll be lucky get any info at all out of Columbia's financial aid department early. They'll probably just recite their 'we can't guarantee anything, and we don't work on other school's deadlines' line. (They're not the most efficient or friendly bunch.) In sum, guaranteed $ for NYU + better work-life balance make it the obvious choice.

I believe Columbia is generally the better school. Columbia carries slightly more weight, compared to NYU, at west coast law firms (they dip a bit lower into Columbia's class). But more than that, that amount of money at the end of the day shouldn't be the deciding factor. Additionally, if you'll want to work in house in the tech industry in the bay area later in your career the Columbia name is certainly an edge. Basically higher quality student body, better brand, slight advantage for jobs, plus higher general regard for columbia in the business community, seems like an easy decision. Good luck and congrats! $24K is not nothing.

And people assuming you'll be making $200K a year out of school are being presumptuous. That being said, housing at Columbia is substantially cheaper. It's all subsidized and they have an amazing housing dept that can really save you tons of money each year compared to NYU. It's nigh on impossible for you to find cheap housing downtown by nyu. So unless you commute to NYU from the outer boroughs or from way up town, you could easily pay $4K-$5K extra in housing each year at NYU compared to what you would at Columbia (assuming you stay in NYC for summers). So when you take into account COL, it's more of a $8K-$12K difference than $24K.

Module #1 (Variables, Statements, etc.). Welcome to the first online module for Introduction to Computer Programming! This module is designed to get you up and running with Python on your own computer as well as introduce you to a variety of elementary programming techniques.

You should proceed through the content below in a linear fashion. Be sure to take notes as you go on anything that might be confusing - we will go over any questions you may have on the material next week during class. Installing Python.

Note: Before you begin working with the Python programming language you will need to install it onto your computer. Note that if you don’t have your own computer you can use a lab machine in one of the computer labs outlined on the course syllabus. Directions for Microsoft Windows. Visit. Click on 'Latest Python 3 Release - Python 3.x.y'. Do not download any version of Python that begins with a 2! Python 2.7 is NOT appropriate for this class).

Note that won't actually be a Python 3.x.y version - the 'x' and 'y' could be any number. The important piece here is to ensure that you have Python 3 installed. Scroll down and click on 'Windows x86-64 executable installer' - download this file to your computer's hard drive. Once the download completes you can double-click on the file that was downloaded to begin the installation process. You will be asked if you want to run the file that was downloaded - click 'Run'.

Select 'Install for all users' and click Next. You will then be asked to specify a destination directory for Python - you can just click Next here as well. The following screen asks you to customize your version of Python - you can click Next here. The installation wizard will begin installing Python onto your computer. You may be asked to confirm this - click 'Yes' to continue.

Finally, click the Finish button once the installation is complete. You will be able to access Python by clicking on the Start button and then on All Programs-Python 3.x-IDLE (Python GUI) Directions for Macintosh. Visit.

Click on 'Latest Python 3 Release - Python 3.x.y' - Do not download any version of Python that begins with a 2! Python 2.7 is NOT appropriate for this class). Note that won't actually be a Python 3.x.y version - the 'x' and 'y' could be any number. The important piece here is to ensure that you have Python 3 installed. Scroll down and click on 'Mac OS X 64-bit/32-bit installer' - download this file to your hard drive. Once the download completes you can double-click on the file that was downloaded to begin the installation process.

Hold down the Control key on your keyboard and double-click on the 'Python.mpkg' file. Click the 'Open' button to continue. An installation wizard will appear - click the Continue button three times. You will then be prompted to agree to a software license - click Agree. Click the Install button.

You may need to provide your administrator password to complete the installation process. You will be able to access Python by navigating to your Applications folder and finding the 'Python 3.x folder' - inside of this folder you will find a file labeled 'IDLE.app' - double click on this file to launch the program Using IDLE & Writing your first program. IDLE stands for 'Integrated DeveLopment Environment' - it's designed to make it easy for you to both write and run Python programs. IDLE has two modes – interactive mode and script mode.

Interactive mode functions a lot like a calculator – you issue a command to the program, the command is executed and the result is immediately displayed. Script mode allows you to compose your code in a separate window and save it as a new text document on your computer. This document can then be read by IDLE at a later time and executed. You can run code written in Script mode by clicking on Run-Run Module It’s important to note that code is executed in sequential order – statements that appear at the top of your documents will run before statements that appear later.

Functions & Function Calls. A 'function' is a pre-written block of computer code that will perform a specific action or set of actions. Python comes with a number of built-in functions, and you can also write your own (more on that later in the semester) Functions always begin with a keyword followed by a series of parenthesis. For example: print You can 'pass' one or more 'arguments' into a function by placing data inside the parenthesis. For example: print ('Hello World!' ) Different functions expect different arguments. The print function, for example, expects zero or more arguments (multiple arguments are separated by commas) that will be printed to the screen.

When you ask Python to run a function we say that you have 'called' the function. Sample Program: The following program shows how you can call the print function by sending it no arguments. When you do this you are asking Python to print nothing to the screen, but recall that the default behavior of the print function is to print whatever arguments are provided followed by a line break. So calling the print function without any arguments will essentially print out a single line break. Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action. Source Code print ('This will print out on the 1st line') print ('This will print out on the 2nd line') print print ('This will print out on the 4th line') Run.

Sample Program: The following program shows how to call the print function with multiple arguments. Note how the arguments are separated by the 'comma' character inside of the open and closed parenthesis characters. Also note how Python automatically adds a 'space' character between each argument. We will talk about how to override this behavior later in this module.

In addition, notice how Python ignores blank lines - lines 5 and 6 have nothing on them, but this doesn't impact the output of the program at all (i.e. Two extra linebreaks are not generated because of these blank lines). Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action. Source Code print ('One!'

) print ('Two!' ) print print ('Four!' ) print('Seven') Run. In a programming language data that is textual in nature (i.e. The phrase 'Hello, World!' ) is called a 'string'. Strings can contain 0 or more printed characters.

A string with zero characters is called an 'empty string'. 'String Literals' are strings that you define inside your program. They are 'hard coded' values and must be 'delimited' using a special character so that Python knows that the text you’ve typed in should be treated as printed text (and not a function call). For Example: print ('hello, world!' ) Python supports four different delimiters:. The single apostrophe ( ' ). The quotation mark ( ' ).

The triple quote ( ' ). The triple apostrophe ( ' ) String literals must use the same delimiter at the beginning of the string as well as at the end of the string. Sample Program: This program shows how you can use the delimiter characters within a string. In the first call to the print function we are passing it an argument that is delimited by the double quote character, which means we can use the single quote character inside of the string since that character does not mean that the we have reached the end of the string. In the second call to the print function we are using the double quote delmiter - this lets us use both the single and double quote characters inside of the string as needed. Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action. Source Code print ('This is a 'Python' program.'

) print ('We can use 'both' types of 'quotes' in this String!' Output appears below: Basic Formatting using the print Function Note: the techniques discussed in this section will not run using the web-based Python code editor. Please use IDLE to run the code samples discussed in this section. The print function has two default behaviors:. It will always print a 'line break' character at the end of a line.

It will always print a 'space' character between multiple arguments For example, given this program: print ('Hello', 'there') print ('everybody!' ) We would expect to see the output: Hello there everybody! However, we can override this default behavior using a special set of 'keyword' arguments. These arguments are called 'sep' for 'separator' and 'end' for 'line ending'.

Each of these arguments expects a String. For example, let's say you had a program where you wanted to print '.' characters instead of spaces between each item. You could do the following to make this happen: print ('a', 'b', 'c', sep='.' ) Note how the 'sep' keyword is used here in conjunction with the equal sign - this is essentially telling Python to use the '.' character as the separator between each item. Likewise, you can override the default behavior of the print function to print a linebreak at the end of a line by using the 'end' keyword argument, like this: print ('a', 'b', 'c', end='#') print ('d', 'e', 'f') This will generate the following output: a b c#d e f.

And if you don't want to print ANYTHING at the end of a line or between a character you can use an 'empty string', like this: print ('a', 'b', 'c', sep=') Which will generate: abc You can combine these two techniques as well! Print ('a', 'b', 'c', sep='.' , end='#') Variables. You can create a variable by using the following syntax (similar to punctuation in a natural language): variablename = somedata The = symbol is called the 'assignment operator' and will cause Python to store the data on the right side of the statement into the variable name printed on the left side When creating a variable you need to follow these naming rules:. Variables can’t contain spaces (though you can use the underscore character (') in place of a space). The first character of a variable name must be a letter or the underscore character.

No characters are allowed in a variable name besides alphanumeric (alphabet or numeric) characters and the underscore (') character (no special characters like &,!, +, $, etc.). Python is case sensitive, so two variables with the same name but different case (i.e.

Craig vs craig) are two different variables. You can't use any of Python's built in 'reserved words' (i.e. You can't create a variable called 'print' because that would conflict with the print function) You can print the contents of a variable by simply printing the variable name, like this: name = 'John Smith' print (name) Output: John Smith Variables can 'vary' over time, meaning that you can re-assign the value of a variable in your program and change the data that is being stored in that variable You also need to make sure that your variables have been created before you use them.

The following program will not run because the variable 'foo' is not available when we attempt to access it in our program (it is declared AFTER we attempt to use it) print (foo) foo = 'Hello, world!' Output: NameError: name 'foo' is not defined. Sometimes you want to ask a user a question while your program is running. One of the simplest ways to do this is to request information from the keyboard using the input function. Input is a built-in function in Python. It accepts a single string as an argument. It then prompts the user with that string and waits for them to type in a series of characters.

Your program will resume when the user hits the ENTER key. Whatever the user typed in during that time is sent back to your program as a string which can be stored in a variable. For example: userage = input('How old are you?' ) The input function always 'returns' a string. This means that when the function finishes running it will produce a string which can be assigned to a variable (using the assignment operator =)and used in your program. Sample Program: The following program asks the user for their name via the input function. The input function takes one argument - a string - which is a question that you want to ask the user.

The function then waits for the user to respond and hit the ENTER key. When the user does respond the function 'returns' a string which is captured using the assignment statement and stored in a variable. Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action. Source Code username = input('What is your name?

') print ('Welcome to my program', username) Run. When you want to store a number in a variable you can do so by placing the number on the right side of the assignment operator in the same way you would if you were storing a String. Numberofitems = 10 Note that you do not delimit numeric literals with quotation marks as you would with a string - simply type the number 'as-is' and Python will interpret it as a numeric value as opposed to a sequence of characters. We call numbers that are explicitly stated in your program a 'numeric literal' - you literally are storing the numeric value specified. Python supports two numeric data types - integers and floating point numbers. To create an integer literal simply type the integer, like so: speedoflight = 300000 To create a floating point literal you can type the number with its decimal point, like this: costpercarrot = 1.99 Note that you cannot place formatting characters into a numeric literal (no $ or, characters should be used when defining a numeric literal) Math Operators.

All programming languages have tools for manipulating numeric data which we call 'math operators'. Here is a list of some of the basic math operators that exist in Python: + Addition - Subtraction. Multiplication / Division (floating point division - fractional results included) // Division (integer division - fractional results truncated) We use operators along with numeric data to create 'math expressions' that Python can evaluate on our behalf.

Python can output the result of a math expression using the print function, like this: print (5+2) print (100. 5 – 12) We can also store the result of a math expression in a variable, like this: answer = 5 + 2 print (‘the answer to 5 + 2 is’, answer) Variables can also be used in a math expression in place of a numeric literal, like this: price = 100.00 salestax = 0.07 total = price + salestax.price. Sample Program: The following program computes a series of discounts on an item. The program begins by asking the user for their name using the input function. It then uses a series of math expressions to compute some discounted price values which are outputted to the user. Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action.

Source Code name = input('Welcome to our store! What is your name? ') itemprice = 30 tenpercent = itemprice. 0.1 twentypercent = itemprice. 0.2 thirtypercent = itemprice. 0.3 print ('Full price of item:', itemprice) print ('10% off:', itemprice-tenpercent, '- you save', tenpercent, 'dollars') print ('20% off:', itemprice-twentypercent, '- you save', twentypercent, 'dollars') print ('30% off:', itemprice-thirtypercent, '- you save', thirtypercent, 'dollars') Run. Programming Challenge: Using the code editor below, write a program that asks the user for their first name and their last name.

Next, compute how much the user should leave as a tip at a restaurant for a $150.00 bill. Assume a tip rate of 15%. Then have your program produce the following output (assume the user entered 'John Smith' as their full name): Welcome to the restaurant John Smith! For a bill of $150.00 you should leave 22.5 for your server With this tip your total bill will be 172.5Click the 'Run' button to see the program in action.

Source Code Run.