chance me please (NYU)

Transfer Students
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<p>Hello everyone. I hope you can chance me since my case is peculiar. I am a US citizen and I have always lived in Mexico. I went to a mexican High School which is 3 years long. After I completed my second year in High school I went to England as an exchange student for one year and when I came back I wanted to attend college in the USA and since I hadn't my High School Certificate, I got a GED in English. Because I was living in the border with Texas, I applied to the University of Texas Pan American (utpa) but still was going to High School in Mexico so I could finish it. After one year in college and High School I got my certificate from HS but my parents separeted indefinetely and my mother left to Mexico. I decided to go with her and because that was in late July I barely applied to one of the top mexican universities (Institute of Technology and High Studies of Monterrey, economics major) and I could not transfer any credits from UTPA, so I started as a freshman again. okok thats enough, Now I am about to start my fourth semester in Monterrey and I want to transfer to NYU and do an economics major.</p>

<p>This are my statistics:</p>

<p>High School GPA: 95/100
UTPA GPA: 3.47 (2 semesters, 10 courses, )
ITESM GPA: 90/100 (3 semesters, 19 courses, already took very strong maths ( actually, 2 calculus and linear algebra, this semester im taking math 4), 2 statistics, principles micro macro, intermediate micro macro)</p>

<p>ECs: Very few in college: Association of Creative Cinematographs Treasurer, Economics Student Society Member, National Hispanic Proffesional Organization Member. High School in Mexico: President of all Freshmen, President of all Sophomores, President of all Juniors, President of all Seniors</p>

<p>Volunteer on the Mexican Ministry of Economy in the Public Administration and organization of national events (more than 1200 hours during 2008). Community service in South Mexico tutoring pook kids maths and reading classes, college tutor in Calculus and Micro/Macro Economics.</p>

<p>Worked in a minimum wage job (Clothe Store)
I dont have any AP and IBP because they were not offered in my High School.</p>

<p>Recently I have been invited to a program called Excellency Exchange Program where the best economics major students are invited to attend Yale University, Berkeley or Georgetown for next summer 2009. The selection process is very competitive and faculty professors choose the students, I am so excited!</p>

<p>Thanks very much, hope someone can help me.</p>

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<p>What school are you applying to? I'm assuming cas but with an interest in economics i guess it could be stern as well... do you have sat's? eh, probably doesnt matter much at this point</p>

<p>your going to want to make sure nyu isnt going to accept your credits from utpa because if they do, you will be applying for senior standing and may be very close to graduation...if you already had 2 semesters under your belt when you started as a freshman at ITESM, make sure that the rigor of your classes was akin to that of a student with sophmore standing</p>

<p>trying to figure it out, i guess a 90/100 is exactly in between a B+ and an A-, so on a 4.0 scale it would work out to like a 3.5 i guess? That's a bit below the average accepted gpa for cas and probably well below it for stern...people get into cas with 3.5's however, so your gpa won't disqualify you...your ec's look pretty good...i'd say you have a shot for cas, stern however is a whole another ballgame and your gpa might make you a less competitive applicant, although perhaps having an international background might help a bit...</p>

<p>gl</p>

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<p>hey thanks very much dufflebagjesus, and yes, i am applying to CAS (economics), I am doing my SAT in January 24, not sending the results to NYU though, there is no point, I am applying for 2 more universities just in case. Thanks for the motivation.</p>