Chance me to NYU, Sophie Davis, Columbia, Cornell, Brown (especially Sophie Davis)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Schools I have applied or will apply to: Cornell, NYU, Columbia, Macaulay Honors, Brown, NYIT, and my main focus is Sophie Davis. (yea I put a lot of reach schools, but I have a list of safeties I can get in to.

SAT: 1460 (670RW&790M)

ACT: SS-33

Average: 86-87

ECs:

Volunteered at NY-Presbyterian Hospital

Played Piano for 5 years

1st place in a city-wide chess competition

Worked as a tutor

Volunteered as a Youth Ambassador for a museum

Writer/Editor for a teens magazine

VP of my school’s chess club (Bronx)

Volunteered at my local Hindu temple

Volunteered at an Afterschool program

Recs:

  • Honors pre-calc teacher
  • Honors physics teacher
  • President of a South Asian medicine foundation
  • TA I worked with
  • Member of the Hindu Temple

APs and Honors:

All my non-AP courses were honors

AP Bio, AP Calc, AP World, Ap English, AP Us History and College Now Biology/Genetics

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For Cornell, Columbia and Brown, your GPA makes your odds very unfavorable. Typical GPA from NYC Public HS to have any shot at those schools is 95+.

NYU is a possible, but can you afford it? NYU is notoriously stingy on fin aid and does not meet need.

McCauley Honors Admissions Profile for Fall 2018 entering students was:

Average GPA 94.4
Mean SAT 1460

GPA makes your odds very unlikely.

The Sophie Davis Admissions Profile for Fall 2018 entering students was:

Average GPA 94.0
Mean SAT 1430

Big boost for URM at SD, if you are URM, you have a shot, if ORM your GPA makes it is extremely unlikely.