<p>I plan to apply to Stern. I need every advantage I can muster, my GPA is miserable and my ACT score (28) is only decent. However I believe my worldly EC's and stellar essays can give me a fighting chance. After all I have been dead set on NYU since my ventures into the stellar city from afar, and especially after learning about their world-class undergrad business program.</p>
<p>So EDII or RD?</p>
<p>The average ACT for NYU overall is 29-31. For Stern, the median ACT is 31 with the middle 80% being 29-33. </p>
<p>The average GPA for NYU overall is an A-. Stern would boast the same requirement, expect an average somewhere in the 3.7UW GPA range. </p>
<p>Given that your ACT is below the bottom 20% and your GPA is “miserable”, I wouldn’t recommend applying to Stern. NYU is highly numbers based and typically requires its students to meet quite high academic standards, this is especially true for Stern. </p>
<p>That said, if you’re dead set on applying, you should so ED II because your application needs all the help it can get.</p>
<p>Thanks for the reply, I have taken my ACT again last week and I fully expect at least a 30, so that should help.</p>
<p>Question why is EDII a better bet? I heard they are more selective with ED applicants, since they do not know what to expect of RD.</p>
<p>ED shows a very high level of interest in the school. Thus, you can see a typically larger percentage of ED applicants being accepted than RD applicants.</p>
<p>They receive ED2 and RD applications at the same time, so assuming that NYU is like every other school that preoccupies itself with maintaining high yield rates, I would guess that they would cross examine both pools of applicants and prefer the binding applicants over the equivocal ones.</p>
<p>Also I don’t understand how it would seem to make any sense why anyone would pursue EDII if it was more selective, or why a school would even offer that type of choice in the first place.</p>
<p>ED II is to get the students that have been rejected by their ED I schools. Typically these are strong students that applied to Ivy or close to Ivy schools. It is smart for schools to offer ED II to attract these students who may have NYU on their list as their #2 school after Ivy X. Sometimes students don’t actually decide on a school until the month of December - so ED II allows for that scenario as well.</p>
<p>Also - as a whole, the acceptance rate at MOST schools is higher for ED rounds than during RD rounds. It really depends on the school though. For a very few - the rate of admission is actually lower but that is not the norm.</p>