<p>I also have a friend who had a perfect GPA and almost perfect SAT score rejected. However, she has no ECs whatsoever and her essay was boring and original (about her family and so on) so I assume it was that. NYU makes a big focus about being "holistic". Perhaps it must been the essay. They did say they look more than just students that study and be nerdy.</p>
<p>I'm not 100% sure but didn't they ask for an essay about a personal event? The things about Gettysburg would certainty sound like a term paper rather than a personal experience. (This is my opinion anyway.) Anyway, if you really want to go there, apply for transfer next year. But I think Yale fits you better.</p>
<p>Also, keep in mind that NYU's acceptance rate is going to drop this year because of issues with an unexpected surge in matriculation last year.</p>
<p>i find the whole "phone call" thing very hard to believe. NYU is a very large, bureaucratic school where all of its divisions are distinctly separated from one another. they are also very picky as to who they release their information to. i know this because my dad works for a very large company with many ties to NYU, including involved alums and even an adjunct professor at Tisch, and not one of them could tell me anything about the admissions committee for CAS. the "phone call" thing just seems very unlikely.</p>
<p>Everything about this story seems fishy.</p>
<p>i also have a teacher who is good friends with an adcom who has been on the admissions board for years. she jokes that she always is trying to get him to give her students favors and he never budges. the whole "phone call" situation is very unlike NYU, and i'm sure for many other universities as well.</p>
<p>well as I said before... I wasn't told by the school that I was "over qualified" it's just something a friend of mine suggested and even though I thought it was ridiculous I just wanted to know whether or not it was a credible reason... I guess not.</p>
<p>And yes... a friend of my mothers found out my decision and called to let my mother know.. how is that so hard to believe?</p>
<p>anyway.. I was just curious why I wasn't accepted but I guess that's college admissions</p>
<p>gukki5, your story is not very convincing at all. Adcom is not that loose, and they look at tens and thousands of applications. It IS very hard to believe.</p>
<p>NYU had way more applicants than they expected this year, and people applying to college know it's a school with high academic standards. From that pool of applicants, many of them are in about the same range academically as you. It sucks getting rejected, but college is so much different than high school in that the playing field is way more level.
Congrats on Yale!</p>
<p>gukki!! you like opera? what era? i love me some bel canto! nyahehehe that's what i wrote about in the short answer questions as well! :)</p>