Chances for an Early Graduate with a Twist? (NYC Schools)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I'm apologizing in advance for the lame title.</p>

<p>Schools: Barnard, NYU, Columbia, Fordham</p>

<p>Here's the deal...
As a current high school sophomore, I am in the works of finalizing my early graduation (Class of '09). My reasoning behind this decision involves a job that takes up a lot of my time away from public school in Maryland. Okay, here is the tricky part...
I work in New York quite often, missing a few days to a month of school for modeling. I have a mother agency in NY and agencies in Europe and Tokyo. During fashion week it can be quite difficult to manage school and work in two different states, causing a lot of frustration. Therefore, I have decided to pursue early graduation in hopes of attending school in the city.
However, I am worried that this job in addition to my early graduation could affect my chances at admissions to colleges. What are your thoughts?</p>

<p>STATS:</p>

<p>ethnicity: white
gender: female
public school sends many grads to top schools</p>

<p>SAT I cr: 730
SAT I m: 610*
SAT I w: 590*</p>

<p>*I am working on bringing these scores up.</p>

<p>class rank: 71/445
(top 20%)</p>

<p>GPA: 3.85 (unweighted)
GPA: 4.4 (weighted)</p>

<p>AP Art History: 5</p>

<p>AP Human Geo*
AP Lang & Comp*
AP US*
AP Stat*</p>

<p>*I am taking these my 11th grade (senior) year</p>

<p>EMPLOYMENT:
Modeling in NYC, Tokyo, Europe 8, 9, 10, 11
Summer '07 working/living in Tokyo
Summer '08 working/living in Paris</p>

<p>ACADEMIC:
School Newspaper 10, 11</p>

<p>LANGUAGE STUDY:
Russian Language and Lit Self-Study 10, 11</p>

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<p>You should definitely put all your modeling work on your application, makes you a standout for sure. They might go easier on you because you graduated early, but you know you're lucky because if you don't get in this year, you have an established job to fall back on. And reapply to NYU the next year, and you'll still be at the right age!</p>

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<p>Thanks! I was also wondering about chances for specific colleges. Does anyone else have any ideas?</p>

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<p>I have very little idea of your chances as an early grad, but I'd say you have solid chances at all of them (great for Fordham and NYU) with higher SAT scores.</p>

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<p>Any more suggestions?</p>

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<p>I just brought this book called The Princeton Review: SAT Workout for MATH</p>

<p>Or something like that. It's a pretty big book, has red borders. It teaches you every topic on the Math section, with little quizzes and explains why. It's so good, dumbs everything down for you. I use to get 500s on Math at my SAT Prep class but now I'm in the 600 zone. I might even break 700! </p>

<p>That's how good the book is. You can probably find it in barnes and nobles or online. </p>

<p>I'll see ya in NYU, hopefully, lol. Are you going for CAS?</p>

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<p>try Gallatin. I bet they'll love you.</p>