Chance me for NYU Tisch Film

College Search & Selection
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<p>-GPA: My school doesn't give us a GPA but my average is 92 (which i assume is about a 3.7)
-SAT: 1520 (Planning on retaking it)
-Top 5% of my class
-AP courses taken: AP World History (10th)
AP US History, AP Lang, AP Calculus (11th)
AP Lit/Comp, AP Statistics (12th)</p>

<p><em>Awards</em>
-Super Honor Roll: 9th, 10th, 11th and 12th grade
-Excellence in Honors Literature
-Most Outstanding TV Production Underclassmen for my 9th and 10th grade years.
-Highest GPA in TV Production for my 9th, 10th, and 11th grade years.
-Most Outstanding TV Production Upperclassmen for my 11th grade year.
-1st place at the State Technology Fair for digital video editing.
-2nd place at the Regional Technology Fair for Animated Graphic Design.
-Most Outstanding Career Tech Student for my 9th and 11th grade year.
-1st place in Media Festival.
-Short story was published in the school's magazine.</p>

<p><em>Summer Programs</em>
-Full Scholarship to NYU's 2011 Tisch Summer High School Program for film. I will be getting a letter of recommendation from one of the professors. </p>

<p><em>EC</em>
-DECA: 2 years; Vice President of Special Events
-National Honors Society: 2 years
-National Math Honors Society: 1 year
-Tillman Encore (Anti-Bullying Club): 1 of the first 10 members in the nation.
-Literary Magazine: 2 years; Prose Editor
-Beta Club: 1 year
-SADD (Student's Against Destructive Decisions) : 2 years; Vice President
-Homecoming court: Elected as "Mr. Pensive Mind".
-Culinary Club: 1 year
-Chosen to be an Ambassador of the School
-Film Club: 1 year; President and Founder
-Book Club: 2 years.</p>

<p><em>Volunteer</em>
-I mentor a sophomore who is an aspiring filmmaker at least once a week.
-I give editing tutorials to beginning TV Production students.
-I film events (Football games, Pep Rallies, Functions, plays etc.) for the school.
-With the teacher's permission, I edit other student's film projects that they have shot and directed.
-I assist other students while filming and offer direction advice.
-I was put in charge of making a behind the scenes documentary of my school's production of West Side Story.</p>

<p><em>Significant grades</em>
Honors Literature: 107
Honors World Lit: 99
Creative Writing: 100
TV Production: 95-100 (All four years)</p>

<p>Senior classes: Computer Programming, Creative Writing 2, AP Lit/Comp, TV Production, Honors Human Anatomy, Economics, Honors Spanish 3, AP Statistics.</p>

<p>~ I've shot, directed, written, and edited many short films and productions - some of which that won the awards previously listed.</p>

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<p>Reply please!</p>

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<p>Is that a 1520 out of 2400? If so, unless you have an outstanding and I’m mean literally outstanding portfolio that you submit, it’s going to be a huge reach.</p>

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<p>Do you need a lot of financial aid?</p>

<p>If so, NYU is either a reach or out of reach – it has a reputation of usually offering poor financial aid, so that accepted students who need a lot of financial aid are often not able to attend, or would need to take excessively large amounts of student loans to attend. Acceptance with insufficient financial aid is as good as a rejection.</p>

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<p>Oh lol trust me I know about the SAT score… some stuff happened that day but it will improve. But hypothetically, if I had a higher score what are my chances?</p>

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<p>Your SAT would need to be 1900+ </p>

<p>And it’s hard to chance Tisch applicants, as they care just as much about your portfolio as they do about your grades. So you’ll first need to meet NYU academic standards (meaning in this case, a 25th percentile SAT score of around 1900) then Tisch will consider your portfolio, which is what will make or break your application.</p>