<p>hehe, maybe they think you are applying for NYU as a safety and you really don’t want to go there with your high SAT score.</p>
<p>hmm. oh well.
still, comedie noire.</p>
<p>it might be due to money
because he is a international student, he has to show he has the ability to pay full tuition</p>
<p>no he doesn’t…im international and i got into Stern…they didn’t ask for proof of finances</p>
<p>They didn’t ask that of anyone. It says on their website not to send in copies of tax forms or anything.</p>
<p>I wonder why?</p>
<p>Because, if you say that you can pay, and cannot really, so you have to take out massive loans, that isn’t their problem.</p>
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<p>Nobody, and I mean nobody who put in an appropriate effort into their application would get rejected by any school because the school thinks they may be a safety for you. People choose to go to a particular school for a variety of reasons, varying from finances to family situation, to climate preferences, to where GF/BF got accepted. People who get rejected do so for one of two reasons — they did not make the cut in “by the numbers” schools, or their application was lacking in some respect, usually recs or essays. Penn State is a “by the numbers” school with rolling admission, I highly doubt that they rejected you because they thought it is your safety.</p>
<p>For example, D got deferred EA from BC, and may get rejected RD despite her application being in line with that of accepted students. However, she was never particularly excited about BC, and it shows — she never made contact with the admissions office or sent in any supplementary materials after getting deferred. BC is obviously low on her desirability list, her application shows it, and I would not fault the adcom if they decided that they will reject her on those grounds.</p>
<p>Not true Groovy, schools have been known to reject students they feel are overqualified to improve their yield. Also, I’d like the OP to post where he actually does get in as a good barometer.</p>
<p>I’m still curious about my class rank and course selection questions. I ask because there is a big, prestigious Catholic school that a lot of kids from my town attend. One of my friends kept telling everyone that he didn’t get in here and there with a 1440/1600 SAT and a 92 average. Later I learned that a 92 average at this school means that about 35% of the class has a higher average. I know several of examples of kids with high SATs and grades relatively lower being rejected from a lot of school, including NYU.</p>
<p>Nobody gets rejected because they are “too qualified”. That is a yth created by people who don’t get accepted at a school they thought they should be accepted at. It’s NOT about statistics for schools like NYU. They fill a class to meet certain characteristics and demographics. And they can do it because of the high quality of applicants. many many people with very high statistics get rejected from schools every year. Not comical at all…difficult for them to understand, but a part of the process.</p>
<p>That’s not true. It does happen because some schools don’t like being a “satety” for kids, so if the kid doesn’t show a high amount of interest, they reject them.</p>
<p>alright guys, my class rank was probably like 20/150</p>
<p>and i think a point has to be made that NYU is particularly unfriendly in some respects. whereas as USC Marshall (which for all intents and purposes is a peer school) accepts basically everyone from my school who apply (me included), most of those folks don’t make it to NYU Stern, which is ludicrous, because the job prospects aren’t that terribly different. I suspect it has something to do with the culture: my school is known to be among the most conservative, athletic, and misogynistic (it’s an all-male school) in Canada, which works fine for USC, but maybe not so much for NYU. Past years seem to corroborate this.</p>
<p>and my essays were from the Common App, so there is no particular quality difference i would think. the NYU essay was fairly decently written.</p>
<p>In case anyone wondered why i brought up the school question, this should illustrate: it is modeled on the great British public schools, and basically intended to be cross between St. Paul’s and Gordonstoun.</p>
<p>Xenon, ask any admissions counselor that question. They will laugh at the thought. They have every reason to accept top students to make their school stats look better. Good kids get rejected all the time, and it isn’t because they were too good. It’s because they didn’t fit whatever the school was looking for that year. If it were just based on grades and test scores, this would be a very easy and quick process. But if that makes you feel better, then that is ok.</p>
<p>No, it doesn’t apply in some cases. Nickel’s right.</p>
<p>WashU is particurarly notorious for this.</p>
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<p>a perfect SAT score is amazing and you should be very proud of achieving that, it’s an extremely impressive thing, however, your GPA is more than a bit on the low side. There are many students who apply to stern with equally high SAT scores (though maybe not 2400s, but close) and 3.8-4.0 UW GPAs.<br>
Just remember that getting into college is an entirely subejctive competition, but good luck with your other admissions, I’m sure there will be many!</p>
<p>also, the point of standardized tests is to confirm that an applicant is deserving of his/her GPA. a 2400 is unique, and a great achievement, but it doesn’t really accomplish more than a 2250 would have.</p>
<p>4mygurl: your thoughts are idealistic, but incorrect.<br>
“They have every reason to accept top students to make their school stats look better.” Your logic here is flawed, and proves exactly the point you are trying to refute. That is, schools don’t post their “accepted students” scores (some schools like hamilton and bucknell do, but only to dupe the reader into believing those are the actual scores of their students), but their “enrolled students” scores. If a prototypical safety school such as skidmore were to post their accepted scores (as opposed to enrolled), the av. sat and gpa of each incoming class would be deceptively bloated.</p>