Chances at NYU, CMU, Tufts, Chicago....

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey, can any of you evaluate my chances for </p>

<p>NYU-CAS (first choice)
Carnegie Mellon
Tufts
UChicago
Cornell</p>

<p>Hey, here is the rundown:</p>

<p>Half-Persian/Half-Vietnamese [weird eh?] wrote a supplement essay on it (very good)
SAT I- 740m/690v
SAT II- Writing: 700/ MathIIc: 670/ Math Ic: 670/ Bio M: 620 [sucks]
unweighted GPA: 3.6/4.0 rank: 23/315 (top 6-7%)</p>

<p>will complete 8 AP classes by end of senior year including Calculus II at near-by college [dont no if this is considered most rigorous courseload?]</p>

<p>In school ECs:
-Principal's Student Advisory Board [selected by principal]
-DARE Role Model Leaders Program [selected by guidance faculty]
-President/Founder of Habitat for Humanity club
-New Jersey Science League: President of Chemistry League
-Debate Team: Secretary</p>

<p>OutofSchool ECs:
-YMCA Swim Instructor: 3 years, work 10 hours/week currently
-Improving Math Skills: President/Co-founder, tutuoring service for elemnentary schools kids
-Currently in Pre-Medical Honors Program at UMDNJ</p>

<p>Summer ECs
-YMCA Kynder-Camp Counselor: 9th and 10th summer
-Global Village Program, traveled to Alaska by myself to build homes for the needy : 11th summer
-Medical Apprenticeship, NJ Boys' State, YMCA instructor: 12th summer</p>

<p>My common app essay is about how my experience on the Alaska trip inspired to establish a club in my school (told by multiple sources that is was extremely good)</p>

<p>what do u think?</p>

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<p>NYU-CAS (first choice) - match (pretty safe one too)
Carnegie Mellon - match
Tufts - match
UChicago - hard to tell (very dependent on your essays)
Cornell - match</p>

<p>I would say NYU is probably your easiest school, and based on your credentials, you are in! Good luck. :)</p>

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<p>anyone else</p>

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<p>nice! my stats are very similar!</p>

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<p>pleaseeeee</p>

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<p>come onnnnn</p>

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<p>iim begging now</p>

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<p>...Stop bumping your topic. All of your schools are a match. But unfortunately, no one has psychic powers to correctly predict your admissions.</p>

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<p>carnegie > NYU Cas. </p>

<p>New york University CAS is not hard to get into at all. It is what brings NYU Stern down. Without stern, New York University would probably be ranked 50 or something. Right now it is ranked 32. Carnegie is ranked 22 overall and is amazing in engineering and business with other top rankings in computer related majors and drama/arts. </p>

<p>If I were you I'd make Carnegie my first choice and go there instead of College of Arts and Sciences at NYU which is crappy by comparison.</p>

<p>Just my two cents, gl and I think u have good chances at all except maybe a slight reach in Carnegie if you apply to one of their hard schools like tepper.</p>

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<p>I absolutely disagree with Duke's analysis. I went to NYU CAS, and its not something that brings NYU down. CAS's avg. SAT scores have always been above the average of the rest of NYU, and right up there with Stern's. Also, NYU would not be ranked 50 without Stern, since Stern makes up less than 20% of NYU's undergrad student body. CAS has some of the top depts. at NYU, and its a large feeder to NYU's top grad schools. Many people who study liberal arts at NYU also end up working in finance on Wall St (me among them). NYU CAS compares favorably with every single school on that list. Also, whats with Duke's Carnegie hyping...claiming a "good chance" at every school, but "slight reach" at Carnegie...which is not as hard to get into as U of C. </p>

<p>Furthermore, NYU has several undergrad schools, there are some like School of Ed, School of Social Work, and Tisch School of Arts with a "non-academic" focus, and these schools tend to have lower SAT averages than NYU in general (though the people who go there are very talented in their fields). </p>

<p>-NYU class of '00</p>

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<p>Whoa calm down NYU class of 00. </p>

<p>I'm not saying NYU CAS sucks. </p>

<p>I'm saying it SUCKS COMPARED to the other great schools on his list such as Cornell(ivy), Tufts(higher rank than NYU), Carnegie(rank 22, 7 in business, 8 in engineering), and ofcourse UChicago which is also better than NYU.</p>

<p>Not only are all 4 of these other schools higher ranked than NYU overall, YOU ARE APPLYING TO CAS. Everyone knows Stern is the BEST NYU school and overall Stern is what brings NYU to its rank of 32. WIthout stern, NYU's best school, NYU's overall would definitely drop and be like rank 50 or something.</p>

<p>Its true, dont 'deny it, those other 4 schools > NYU CAS.</p>

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<p>BTW, stern's avg is like 1450 and solid A avg. Some people accepted with 3.9's and 3.8s.</p>

<p>I asked NYU CAS cuz i applied there and they have a 1300 avg and A- avg. Friends got accepted with a 3.6.</p>

<p>Right up there with stern? ahahahahahah check your stats, stern is way > than cas and those 4 other schools > NYU cas.</p>

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<p>First off, the average SAT score of NYU ED admits this year was 1400 (every school, not just Stern). That 1300 figure is flat out wrong....I might believe you if you show me something official from NYU more than just "someone told me"...ie hard evidence. </p>

<p>Even if we take old scores, the average for all of NYU was a 1353 (higher for CAS, this figure is from NYU's alumni mag), Stern's average was a 1412....Stern still makes up less than 20% of NYU's student body. Thus, even without Stern, the average SAT score of NYU would fall around 15 pts at most....do the math. Its flat out wrong to assert schools like BU, GW, and whatever else would be ranked higher than NYU (no offense to these schools). NYU depts. in film, math, psych, and french are among the best in the country, and there are many more that are highly ranked in their field. Furthermore, you can talk until you're blue in the face about these so-called rankings, but at the end of the day, NYU is more well known than Carnegie.</p>

<p>The bottom line, NYU beats Carnegie anyday...and in many catagories. Location, male/female ratio, the number of companies that recruit there, and a place for just flat out having fun.</p>

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<p>"NYU is more well known than Carnegie"</p>

<p>if that's the only reason you would want to go to NYU then you got a problem.</p>

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<p>well i think both NYU and Carnegie are awesome schools, otherwise they wouldnt be on my list. But overall i like NYU because of other factors than its rep and academics. People generally tell that both are about the same in prestige but when it comes down to location, girls, social atmosphere, NYU tops them all.</p>

<p>by the way, Carnegie CAS has a 53% acceptance rate according to their site so i thought my chances were better than a 'slight reach.' just my opinion.</p>

<p>keep em coming</p>

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<p>razorsharp, I think you're most likely in at NYU, CMU esp if you applied to their H&SS (like CAS), and Tufts. Maybe 50-50 at Chicago and a little less for Cornell, just my hunch.
I think NYU CAS is very strong. Comparing NYU to CMU is like comparing apples to oranges. In my opinion CMU wins for engineering and computer science, both are renowned in business and fine arts, and NYU wins in your area (CAS).</p>

<p><em>when it comes down to location, girls, social atmosphere, NYU tops them all</em>
...may be true enough for you and plenty others but not everyone is ready at age 17 or 18 for that kind of city life and no real campus to speak of. </p>

<p><em>NYU beats Carnegie any day...the number of companies that recruit there</em>...May people would take issue with the first part, as for the second, I know I know this is OLD data but I think the overall trend probably is still valid: from Peterson"s 4 Year Colleges 2000 edition which I have here, under the category "After College" they list the number of companies that recruit on campus. For NYU: 400 companies recruited on campus (p.627 in that guide, sorry I don't have an online link. For CMU: 945 companies recruited on campus (p.772).</p>

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<p>"The bottom line, NYU beats Carnegie anyday...and in many catagories. Location, male/female ratio, the number of companies that recruit there, and a place for just flat out having fun."</p>

<p>LoL, i love it when people don't use stats cuz they know they're wrong. Ooooh its a great place for having fun. Ooooh its a good male/female ratio and u have fun. ahahhhah grow up dude u lost ur argument.</p>

<p>Carnegie ranked 7 and 8 in business and engineering respectively. Only stern can compete. Carnegie ranked 22 while NYU is 32. NYU CAS has horrible jobs, sry only stern's good. Carnegie has one of the best drama/arts departments. Carnegie ranked 2, 2, and 3 in management info systems, quanti anal, and somethign else under usnews undergrad business. </p>

<p>Carnegie and Uchicago and Cornell and Tufts > NYU College of Arts and Sciences, what a loser.. male/female ratio? Place to have fun? Gimee a break. U went to a bad school just get over it.</p>

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<p>Also thx to 2331clk for helping distribute some truth and facts instead of biased opinions and ranting. </p>

<p>PS: if ur applying to carnegie HSS, yea that's crap just like NYU CAS is crap. Go to tepper or CIT or something. </p>

<p>I actually think Tepper would be a reach for you. 3.8s and 1400+ can be rejected from Tepper regular decision since they are ED lovers and take ALOT of people ED (like me).</p>

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<p>stop being so ridiculous duke
CAS is a great school
first of all, rankings mean nothing...why would you choose a school solely based on rankings
second, congrats on getting into carnegie but that doesnt mean you have to go around telling everyone your school is superior to others to make yourself feel better
also "Carnegie has one of the best drama/arts departments"
ever heard of tisch?</p>

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<p>Spd, my "well known" assertion was in response to Duke's argument. Duke is sprouting complete BS, and I'm calling him out on it. I will say that if you want to do engineering or tech, take Carnegie, anything else, take NYU. </p>

<p>Example, Duke says of NYU CAS: "they have a 1300 avg and A- avg. Friends got accepted with a 3.6."</p>

<p>This 1300, 3.6 figure is either misinformation, or a straight up lie. </p>

<p>Average CAS SAT scores:
<a href="http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.nyu.edu/fas/GAP/GeneralInfo/CASGPAandSAT.pdf&lt;/a&gt;.&lt;/p>

<p>As this shows, as of fall 2001, the CAS average was 1371, and 3.8....and this was 3 years ago....NYU as a whole and CAS have gotten much more competitive since (record apps last year, and record ED this year). I know for a fact the CAS SAT avg. is over 1400 right now, and NYU ED admits as a whole averaged 1400 this year. CAS has always had higher SAT scores than NYU as a whole, and does not in any "bring down" NYU as Dukey implies. </p>

<p>Even more laughable however, is Dukey's implication that NYU is a top 50 school ONLY because of Stern. While Stern is an amazing undergrad B-school only matched by Wharton, Duke is completely wrong as NYU has a bevy of top departments outside of Stern. Duke's assertion is akin to saying Penn is a great school only because of Wharton or U of C is only great becuase of the econ. dept....thats looney, great research universities like NYU, Penn, and Chicago can't be defined by one program or department. </p>

<p>Other things Dukey fails to consider:
*CAS and Stern share the same undergrad econ dept..same profs., same classes.
*Stern kids take their liberal arts requirements in CAS, can have CAS minors, and CAS kids can have pre-business minors in Stern. </p>

<p>CAS is a top feeder school to both NYU Law and NYU Med school....I have plenty of friends at both.</p>