Ed2 here for NYU
SAT: 1510 (21 writing)
GPA: 3.45 on the 4 scale (Low grades in freshman and sophomore years with major upwards trend junior and senior)
English Major
4 APs in the past (AP lit, AP Lang, APUSH, AP World History), 2 scores submitted, 2 taken this year (AP Art History and AP Chinese): - AP World: 4 - AP Lit: 4
Extra Curriculars: - 3 poetry publications from reputable teen magazines - worked as a journalist at a startup music website submitting and publishing lots of articles reporting about concerts and reviewing albums and doing in depth song analysis - 6 years of tennis (usually out of school so no varsity) - Accepted into the Stanford Young Writer’s Program and the Kenyon Young Writer’s Workshop (numbers 3 and 2 in the country respectively for literary summer programs) - Percussionist in band for 6 years - 2 summers spent doing research at a medical lab down at UPenn with graduate students - winter track and field for 4 years - foreign exchange trip to China (I take ap Chinese at my school) - worked in a writing group with college kids down at UPenn’s Kelly Writer’s House
Essays (out of 10): - Personal Statement: 10 (my counselor used it as an example for other kids to work off of. Follows a loose timeline of me writing a story but I wind up talking about my dreams as a writer and how our generation could one day change the world) - WhyNYU: 8
Recs (out of 10): - writing mentor (9.5): my mentor is a published author and has watched and helped me grow and become the writer I am today. - 11th grade English teacher (8.5) - 11th grade math teacher (9): I started out w a C in the class and ended up with an A-. She’s talking all about my journey to getting my grade on track and all that fun stuff.
Relatives: - My cousin went to nyu but besides for that nothing
Other Important Info:
I sent in a short writing portfolio to NYU along with my application with pieces approved by a reasonably famous poet who taught me at Stanford
I wouldn’t need any financial aid.
Admissions officer knows i wanted to go ed1 but couldn’t because of certain conditions (my counselor called and put in a good word)