Chance an actual average student for top schools!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>So, I am applying to the following schools for business:</p>

<p>NYU Stern, EDII
CMU
Emory
RPI
Northeastern
Boston U
UPitt
Penn State
Drexel</p>

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<p>GPA: ~85% UW, not including my 4.0 and 5 senior APs, UW. Reason for ED2.</p>

<p>SAT: 2100/1400</p>

<p>SAT2: 750 M2, 700 Chem, 610 Lit</p>

<p>Recs: All excellent, GC describing situation below in her Rec.</p>

<p>School does not weigh honors classes. </p>

<p>Past AP tests, not including APs this year (5).</p>

<p>-Compsci - 5
-Stat - 5
-Calc - 4</p>

<p>Math up to Calc II currently at a com. College. may take Calc III in spring.</p>

<p>Sciences including AP Bio and AP Chem, Honors Physics.</p>

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<p>Situation: Father died very unexpectedly (10 hours after being released as healthy from a hospital) and this was before my freshman year. My mother went into severe depression. My freshman year was bad, 80% average, and it's been going up 3-4 % per year.</p>

<p>I own a profitable five figure business, two patent pending apps, and I manage all taxes, legal, fiscal, and credit related matters along with some programming. I have a business partner. Company has merchant accounts, is registered, etc. Don't really want to go too deep to bore people, but any questions can be PMed.</p>

<p>My essay is about overcoming my fathers death and opening a business, what I learned and how this shaped my personality. </p>

<p>Please excuse any errors in my writing, submitting via iPhone app.</p>

<p>:) Thanks!</p>

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<p>Family death essay won’t be a big hook, but the business is nice.</p>

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<p>Sounds like you have an amazing story to tell! GPA is the one bottleneck, but you seem to have obviously overcome the circumstances.</p>

<p>Write a great essay, and the numbers aside from the GPA will speak for themselves. I’d say nearly shoe-in for all except NYU and Emory (those are a toss up, but you’re definitely in the top quartile of applicants). </p>

<p>Your business will work wonders for you. I would appreciate a PM w/ more detail, it sounds very interesting.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

<p>EDIT: Really though, you could aim higher. Just saying, have some reaches.</p>

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<p>Thanks :)</p>

<p>Sure, what kind of details? PM me.</p>

<p>Any feedback is appreciated.</p>

<p>Also, I know the death thing isn’t a good topic/hook, it’s just a sentence or two about my “background”, per se.</p>

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<p>Bump 10char</p>

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<p>Bump. Anything :)?</p>

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<p>Something…please :(?</p>

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<p>Your GPA is a little low for some of the schools on your list, but you have a very reasonable explaination for it in my opinion … You look well qualified otherwise! Good luck!!</p>

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<p>I agree - if your essays are thoughtful and well done, you should be able to express the perseverance you’ve had through what sounds like a terrible trial. Let me know if you want an extra pair of eyes to see if you’re hitting the right tone.</p>

<p>Also, can you arrange interviews at these schools? An admissions counselor is really the person you want to tell your story to, face-to-face. That would go a long way in mitigating the GPA factor.</p>

<p>Good luck! (Though it sounds like you don’t need it)</p>

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<p>The only thing I can say is to avoid the “woe Is me” essay and focus on how your father’s death influenced your outlook on the future.</p>

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<p>Thanks guys :)</p>

<p>@EsotericalApp- not planning to do this, no. More mentioning how I overcame a tragedy in my life.</p>

<p>@Galavantian - NYU doesn’t do interviews. I’ll do the rest/schedule. I will let you know about my essay for sure</p>

<p>:)</p>

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<p>Bump :)----</p>

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<p>Bump again :)—</p>

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<p>Anyone?:(-</p>