Chance Me for NYU ED 1 Film and TV

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Demographics

  • Gender: female
  • Race/Ethnicity: black (ghanaian american)
  • Residence: ny
  • Income Bracket: 140k+ (idk my mom’s income)
  • Type of School: public, medium size, not really competitive but overall good-ish
  • Hooks (Recruited Athlete, URM, First-Gen, Geographic, Legacy, etc.): urm

Intended Major(s): Sociology + Film/TV, Screenwriting if they have it

Academics

  • GPA (UW/W): 95.59 weighted, no unweighted

  • Rank (or percentile): n/a

  • Number of Honors/AP/IB/Dual Enrollment/etc.: I’ve only taken honors or AP all throughout hs; I’ll have taken 10 APs by the end of hs (AP World 5, APUSH 5, AP Spanish, AP Lang, AP Physics 1, AP Euro), I also technically skipped the eighth grade, so I had a full HS course load in eighth grade and could’ve done CC for senior year but didn’t

  • Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP Chem, AP Lit, AP Gov,

Standardized Testing

List the highest scores earned and all scores that were reported.

  • SAT I: 1230, retaking in June+August aiming for at least a 1400)
  • ACT: 31 SS (30E, 27M, 36R, 30S),

Extracurriculars/Activities

List all extracurricular involvements, including leadership roles, time commitments, major achievements, etc.

  1. Competitive Dancer (10 hours of class and rehearsal a week; 3 day long comps)- Perform in all styles at ¾ competitions a year; received 3rd highest score of 881 routines, World Dance Championship golden ticket recipient (that’s a very high honor in dance)
  2. Step Team (6 hours/week, 10 games a year)- Help lead tryouts, pick new team members, we practice and learn new steps weekly, most likely will be captain (there’s pretty much no else who’s eligible) next year
  3. Church Member/Performer: participate as a member of the praise and worship team singing, dancing and acting seasonally and during holidays, attend church conventions every summer, written and directed plays for the Sunday School
  4. Debate Team member (too many hours to count)- Only compete in a regional circuit outside of the NSDA but we won our circuit last year,won 2nd place in our county circuit finals (highest level of competition), policy debater
  5. Subcommittee member and facilitator for the youth workshop of my local domestic violence shelter’s educational branch; we meet meekly to plan monthly community events and plan for the workshop which is weeklong and five hours a day; during the workshop, I lead and create presentations, panels and discussion groups with my peers
  6. Congressional Campaign intern (8 hours a week for a few months)- data entry, phonebanking, outreach, research etc.
  7. Senator’s Youth Advisory Council: provide feedback and help advise the senator on key issues and policy
  8. President of Black Culture Club: helped launch school wide and community book club of 60+ members; monthly meetings about different topics; organizing a tshirt fundraiser; helped revive the club after being dead for two years
  9. Forwarding Lives of Women Club: Vice President, helping lead a project for free sanitary products in the restrooms schoolwide, help inform our school community on period poverty
  10. President of the National Honor Society
  11. Writer/Filmmaker: I write screenplays, essays, and make films (so far I’ve made two documentaries and short edits, and will be expanding into short films), took course on Writing the Short Film taught by NYU prof (10th grade) , School of the New York Times writing for tv summer program (accepted in 10th grade but deferred to this year because of covid)
  12. School Literature magazine: critique submissions, help format magazine, select submissions for the final copy (most likely will be an editor next year)
  13. National History Day; did documentary (8th, 10th grade) and website (11th grade), won 4th place in my regional comp in 2021, qualified for New York State History Day
  14. AMC Theatres employee: it’s a job you know how it goes

Awards/Honors

List all awards and honors submitted on your application.

  1. Black Achievement Award (local)
  2. National Honor Society
  3. Richard Gilder History Prize, National Academy of American History and Civics Invitee
  4. English Honor Society (x3)
  5. World Language Honor Society

Letters of Recommendation

(Briefly describe relationships with your recommenders and estimated rating.)

Sociology/AP Gov teacher: 10/10

AP Lang Teacher: 7/10

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I can’t chance you, but Tisch Film and Television major will be a reach. Film majors are reachy at many schools, so cast a wide net.

You can calculate your unweighted GPA yourself…convert percentage grades in core courses only (E, Math, Science, FL, SS) to letter grades (As 90%+, Bs 80%+ and so on), then divide by the number of classes. What is your uwGPA?

Tisch is test optional, so I encourage you to consider if there is benefit to you studying for the SAT again…Increasing your score by 170+ is not easy and a 1400 would be equivalent to your ACT 31, so you gain nothing. It’s likely you have better ways to spend your time than studying for the SAT.

I am unsure whether you would be able to also major in sociology from Tisch, so look into that. Admissions

The closest major to screenwriting, would probably be Dramatic Writing: Rita & Burton Goldberg Department of Dramatic Writing

Lastly, what is your budget? Run NYU’s net price calculator (and the NPCs of all the schools on your list) to get a cost estimate. Note the NPC might not be accurate if your parents are divorced, own a business, or own real estate beyond a primary home. Net Price Calculator

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Submit the ACT score of 31.

Solid chance at NYU Tisch.

For screenwriting, you need to expand your list of schools. (USC has the best program in the nation.)