<p>I am an upcoming junior in high school and my dream school is NYU! I did alright my freshman year with a 3.0 GPA. My first semester of sophomore year I screwed up; my second semester I got a 4.0. I am Currently enrolled to take AP Biology, AP Psychology, English 3 Honors, Chemistry Honors, Trig/precalc Honors, and US History Honors. If I get all A's until my first semester of senior year do you think I will have a chance? My calculated weighted GPA would be 4.2 and uw 3.75.</p>
<p>My extracurriculars aren't that shabby. I decided to do extremely well second semester of sophomore year, so I didn't have a chance to do many clubs.
Freshman: Key Club
Sophomore: Muralistics
Junior: plan on getting involved and I'm in the process of making a new club
Senior: same
I plan on having 200+ volunteer hours and a score of at least 1800-2000 on the SAT.</p>
<p>I plan to apply to the college of arts and sciences</p>
<p>Your grades seem to be there, but your extracurriculars are lacking. Your volunteer work is good, though, and if you make a new club and it is successful, that should be a good boost in the right direction. What do you plan on doing at NYU?</p>
<p>If you can get those kinds of grades, then you’re good. 3.5UW is generally considered the minimum to even have a chance of CAS admission. Note however that the 1800-2000 range you have listed will most likely not get you accepted. Aim 1900-2100. 1900 is near the lowest score range for CAS admissions and it ranges, on average, to around 2150/2200.</p>
<p>thenextALW: I plan on going into pre-med to become a neurologist. I feel stressed out because I did horrible sophomore year and I’m unsure if I can recover. I’m trying my best and since I got a 4.0 last semester that shows I can do it.</p>
<p>Yes. I wouldn’t be thinking about attending NYU without taking into consideration the price. I was also thinking UCSB. I am a California resident.</p>
<p>I’m just throwing this out there, why go to NYU to become a doctor? I see no upside in spending that kind of tuition to pursue a profession that is possible from an equal caliber school in-state with much lower tuition. Not to mention NYU’s notorious absence of a social life and lack of a campus community. I wouldn’t go there unless I absolutely had to (personally) for both financial and social reasons.</p>
<p>^ Notorious lack of a social life and campus community? In New York City? OK, different kind of campus but my son doesn’t feel there is a lack of life or community – not to mention an amazing array of intellectually and professionally vibrant professors, graduate students and fellow undergrads.</p>
<p>^Don’t listen to admitone’s posts. He goes around bashing NYU without any justification or actual knowledge of the school.</p>
<p>Contrary to “common” (i.e. CC) perception, NYU does have a sense of community, but you’ll have to be proactive in finding it, unlike at other more traditional schools where it’s forced upon you from day one. And social life… this is NYC… “notorious lack of social life” doesn’t belong in the same sentence as NYC.</p>
<p>I lived in NYC for years and I feel the city swallows NYU. NYC is urban to a degree that no other city is, and I think this negatively impacts the experience in a way it does not at other urban schools (USC, GW, BU, even Columbia!) I know lots and lots of NYU alums, few seem that happy with the experience and even fewer seem that loyal to it - more so than any other school I’ve ever seen. It isn’t for everyone, it certainly wouldn’t be for me.</p>
<p>just go to a local state university for premed cuz ur goal is just to have high GPA+MCAT for med-school, little else matters. U can probably get a scholarship to attend a local UC campus.</p>