<p>I'm a CT resident, white male, with 1450/2170 SAT(I'm hopeful I can increase this to about 2300 next fall.), 3.6 UW 3.8 W GPA and a small handful of ECs. (2 varsity sports, music). I'll have 6 APs, and a few courses at the local community college completed by graduation. </p>
<p>I'll be majoring in neural science.</p>
<p>NYU wasn't really a school I was considering, but the more I've looked at it the more it seems like somewhere I'd like to be.</p>
<p>Chances?</p>
<p>50/50, skewing towards acceptance.</p>
<p>Bring your GPA up. Your normal SAT (without writing) is perfectly fine, but if you can bring it up, try to do so to off-set your lower GPA.</p>
<p>I think your GPA is fine since you took a rigorous course load. Also, your SAT is a little bit higher than average. ( 2150 I have heard.) Since you are applying to a competitive major I think NYU would be a high match for you. Are you applying ED or RD?</p>
<p>What are CAS’s most competitive majors?</p>
<p>What do you mean by “most competitive?”</p>
<p>I think he means which Majors in CAS are hardest to obtain admission for.</p>
<p>You don’t “obtain admission for” majors. You’re not actually held to your intended major, otherwise they wouldn’t allow CAS applicants to choose “Undecided” ([NYU</a> > Undergraduate Admissions > Applying for Admission > Freshman Applicants > Selecting a Major](<a href=“http://admissions.nyu.edu/applying.for.admissions/freshman/selecting.major.html]NYU”>http://admissions.nyu.edu/applying.for.admissions/freshman/selecting.major.html)). And even if they did admit people based on their intended major, people would just completely game the system by putting down, say, Irish Studies, which few people major in, just to get admitted. Just be truthful about the major you expect to declare and hope for the best. I put down Journalism as my expected major, and even though it’s definitely a competitive major, I still got in then my advisor told me to change it to “undecided” just so I wouldn’t accidentally be taken out of the overall CAS system and assigned a departmental advisor.</p>
<p>There are, however, some majors, like International Relations, that require a separate application once you have already completed a certain amount of your studies at NYU.</p>
<p>Yeah I was referring to NuclearPakistan1’s comment about the OP “applying to a competitive major.” Maybe I should’ve worded it as…which majors are most often selected when applying for admission?</p>
<p>Also, I know NYU doesn’t hold applicants to the major they select during admission. However, nowhere on NYU’s website do I see that NYU doesn’t take the selected major into consideration during admissions. In other words, the major you select matters somewhat in admissions.</p>
<p>I don’t know for sure, but just going off anecdotal evidence, I would say: bio/chem/physics (basically the pre-med kids), psych, politics, history, English, journalism, econ, fine arts, and maybe neural science, sociology, and anthro. Oh, and of course, undecided.</p>
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