Chance me New York University 2024

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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Applied RD as a psychology major with intended pre-med track.

GPA: 3.9/4.0 (UW - my school doesn’t weight)
SAT: 1270 (reading and writing 690; math 580)
White female from MA/middle class
Roman Catholic
Top 2% of class out of 109
AP Classes: Physics 1, biology, psychology (school only allows 2 AP each year for juniors and seniors)
Taken the most rigorous and heavy course load that my school offers

Awards

-11th grade won the award for top student in humanities at my school

Extra curriculars:

-Service Learning (9-12): established a homeless shelter in my community that provides basic necessities + mental health resources to +100 individuals a week
-NHS (11-12) president, 350+ volunteer hours at various nonprofits; tutors local migrant children in English
-MUN (10-12) president
-founded journalism club + started school newspaper (Chief Editor)
-Creative writing (9-12) publishes original pieces to website I designed
-Summer@brown
-internship for State Senator
-Varsity Soccer (9-12) captain
-Varsity Lacrosse (9-12) captain
-study abroad program in Nantes, France (10th grade) stayed with host family and attended classes at high school
-Student government (9-12) class rep and treasurer

Resume:

-extensive service learning resume: started class on mental health and addiction at my school, hosted speaker series in my town with famous athletes who struggled with addiction, and other projects on that scale
-interned with my town’s police department
-extensive independent research in the field of my intended major

Recs and essays were all very solid

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Your SAT is pretty low for NYU, it’s in the bottom 25%. Your ECs are great, as is your GPA. You’re applying for a pretty popular program though, so I’d say NYU is a reach. And just for future reference, religion isn’t considered in admissions.

3

You have a fantastic resume and ECs and a really good GPA. Your SAT, however, is a red flag. Since NYU is test optional I hope that you didn’t submit your score. They might be able to overlook the SAT score if you did but let’s see. I hope you get in!

4

@razj446 a bit of a correction, NYU is test flexible, not test optional. Looks like OP would not have had enough AP scores to submit in lieu by time of application. No indication that had other options to submit. Top awards/ranking at school will help well as ECs. Whether it is enough to offset the SAT score, especially for RD, I don’t know.

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@razj446 NYU is not test-optional. Instead, applicants can submit an IB Diploma, 3 Subject Test scores, or 3 AP Exam scores. There is no indication from OP that they are IB, took subject tests, or have enough AP Exams to submit.

6

Sorry, my bad. Thanks for correcting me!

7

NYU would be a reach. Try to apply HEOP.

8

If you’re looking for psych/premed, there are a lot better options out there that don’t cost $70,000 a year.

9

@00nahcw OP isn’t a NY resident, therefore is disqualified from HEOP. They also already applied RD.