<p>Transfer Student, Sophomore Standing</p>
<p>GPA: 3.976 out of a 4.0 scale (All A's except for one A- in English Comp 1)
Current School: CUNY-City Tech (currently Electrical Engineering Tech major)
Applying for: MechE into the Polytechnic School of Engineering
E.C.s: Two research projects, one in thermodynamics and one in chaos theory (total hours of research-96), in two research programs and one of those programs is an honors program. No other ECs to report of though...
Recommendations: Eh... I think they are average, one rec is from one of the professors I've done research with though.
Hooks: URM? (Black/African American) Does that even count for transfers?
Transfer Essay: Really good.
Writing Supplement: Really good.
SATs: Not submitting
ACTs: Never took
High School gpa: 3.2, I did badly in high school. I started showing signs of improvement in Jr year and Sr year. I took some AP courses though. More specifically ap economics and ap physics (algebra based).
Credit amount: Currently 39 credits, At the end of the fall 2014 semester I will have 56</p>
<p>Classes taken at my current school:
Gen Chem 1
Gen Physics 1
Calc 1
Calc 2
Linear Alg
English Comp 1
Macroeconomics
Intro to Philosophy
Some alg based engineering courses and one algebra based physics course. These don't hold weight in my admissions so I Won't bother listing them.</p>
<p>I have all As in my classes except for English Comp 1 which has a grade of A-. :p</p>
<p>Current courses:
Gen Physics 2
Calc 3
Differential Equations
English Comp 2
Engineering Drawing 1 (an intro course to using autocad)</p>
<p>Do I have a shot at NYU? </p>