Chances for Stern?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi, I was just wondering about my chances for NYU Stern.
Every comment would be greatly appriciated.</p>

<p>Here is my stat.</p>

<p>Korean-American Male student
Competitive New Jersey High school, (School ranked 5th place in NJ)
Legal Permanent Resident: Came to US 3 years ago</p>

<p>9th grade (Different School from now; School in GA):
All As except in English (B-)
No Honors
GPA: 3.73</p>

<p>10th Grade (Different School from now; School in NC)
All As INCLUDING English
4 Honors
GPA: 4.2</p>

<p>11th Grade (Current School)
4 As - US History H, Band, Spanish 1, PE
2 Bs - English H, Precalculus H
1 C - Chemistry H
4 Honors, No AP
GPA: 4.17</p>

<p>12th Grade (Anticipated)
AP CAL AB
AP World History
AP US history 2
AP Statistics
English 4 Regular
Spanish 2 Honors
Band
PE</p>

<p>ECs
200+ Volunteer works at Local hospital (11, 12)
Summer community work at local library (10)
Marching band (10,11,12) - Marching Captain (12th)
Jazz Band (10,11,12) - Second Saxophone, First Tenor
Represented School in African-American Heritige Knowledge bowl (10th)
Represented school in Math competition in Eastern Carolina University (10th)
Represented school in FBLA regional competition event (11th)</p>

<p>Clubs: (All of them are 11th / 12th grade clubs)
Asian Culture Society (President)
FBLA (Vice President)
Taekwondo Club (President)
Chess Club
Tri-M Music Honor Society
Math Club
Library Aid
NHS</p>

<p>SATs
SAT 1: 1950 (CR 610 M 750 W 590) June 2006
Definitely retaking in October: Expecting 2100+ composite</p>

<p>I'm also taking TOEFL in September. That might will compensate those low scores of English-related subjects</p>

<p>SAT 2s: Math IIC 760
US HIS 660
Korean 800
Biology 590</p>

<p>I do realize that this is not a splendid resume. My EC's are weak since I went to different high schools throughout my high school career,(9th in GA, 10th in NC, 11th and 12th in NJ) and my grades, GPA, and SATs are not that great. </p>

<p>My Guidance counselor said I have 50/50 shot on Stern. I would like to know whether it is true or not through CC.</p>

<p>I have decided my career path in Accounting / Finance. My career goal will be working with one of large financial corperations such as Goldman Sach's, Merryll Lynch, Citigroup, or one of the Big-4 accounting firms.(KPMG, Pricewaterhousecoopers, Deloitte & Touche, Ernest and Young) </p>

<p>My college choices are as following.</p>

<p>NYU Stern - ED - I'm planning on commuting since NYU is near from my home
Emory<br>
Boston College
Carnegie Mellon
Umich
Pennstate
Fordham
Rutgers
UIUC</p>

<p>I do not plan on applying to Babson or Bryant, although they would be good match schools for me.</p>

<p>Any comment, good or bad, is appriciated.</p>

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<p>Well, I agree with your high school counselor. The problem is, while you took honors, you have taken no AP courses prior to your senior year, your ECs are a bit weak, and your SAT I CR score is low for Stern (Stern's average SAT I CR + M score is 1422). Also, NYU is unlikely to give you much credit for that SAT II in Korean--since you just moved to the US from Korea, they'd expect you to have an 800.</p>

<p>On the other hand, your U/W GPA is around 3.62 (NYU averages 3.6, Stern slightly higher), and you have taken 8 year-long honors courses. Also, you are attempting a bunch of APs your senior year. I think they will also take into account that your family moved around a lot, which had to be tough on you (changing high schools a lot).</p>

<p>If I were NYU, I'd be waiting to see how you did on your first semester's grades, and how you do on your retake of the SAT (as well as your TOEFL score).</p>

<p>As far as the other schools:
Emory-reach (average U/W GPA is 3.8 and SATs are 680/700/710)
Boston College-slight reach (average GPA is 3.65 and SATs 650/667/670)
Carnegie Mellon-slight reach (average U/W GPA is 3.6 U/W and SATs 657/715/700)
Umich-slight reach (average U/W GPA is 3.72 and SATs 630/675/650)
Pennstate-match
Fordham-match
Rutgers-match
UIUC-match</p>

<p>P.S. I'm a CPA myself and I work with people from the Big 4 on a daily basis--maybe I'll end up working with you someday soon.</p>

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<p>don't look at gpa too much as they factor in stuff like drama majors. look at % rank and SATs</p>

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<p>Stern is the business school at NYU. Why would they factor in stuff like drama majors? I think you are confusing Stern with Tisch, although I wonder based upon your handle (futurewhartonman).</p>

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<p>Thanks Calcruzer and Futurewhartonman</p>

<p>bump?</p>

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<p>And Calcruzer, Does your "slight Reach" mean if I bring up my SATs, those schools will become match ones?</p>

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<p>I think you have a good shot at Stern. I'm applying to Stern ED too (finance/management major-if everything goes as I want it to, I would end up at Citigroup Corporate and Investment Banking or Credit Suisse)...I hope to see you at Stern in fall 07. You should raise your SAT to at least 2000 then you'll probably be in.</p>

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<p>Calcruzer :</p>

<p>i was referring to your misinformed Carnegie Mellon analysis. You didn't realize the GPA can't be counted upon as it includes the CFA school and the HSS school and Mr. Op here wants to apply to Tepper which has around a 20% acceptance rate and has a really high rank % with the 50% SAT being 1210-1530.</p>

<p>I'm also appling to Stern so yes I know Tisch is a different school.</p>

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<p>Do you have a hot tasty korean gf? if you do, then your in.</p>

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<p>futurewhartonman--taking the numbers you posted; 1210-1530; this means the average would be 1370--right around the average (actually just slightly lower) than for all of Carnegie-Mellon.</p>

<p>(Princeton Review 2006 edition of "The Best 361 Colleges" says the average SAT score for all of Carnegie Mellon is 657/715 (old)--which is 1372--and is what I posted above. </p>

<p>Since Carnegie-Mellon does not post the average GPA of the incoming students attending Tepper business school, the only way to figure where the GPA average is would be to compare the SAT scores of the various schools (which it does post). </p>

<p>You are not going to convince me or anyone else that it is more likely that the GPA is much higher for the business school than any other school at Carnegie-Mellon when the SAT scores for the business school are in-fact lower than for the rest of the university.</p>

<p>And no, you can't go strictly by the acceptance rates. Acceptance rates have to take into account the fact that business is a much more preferred major nationwide than almost any other--especially when you consider that there are a limited number of high-quality business schools across the country.</p>

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<p>P.S. To okfelix:</p>

<p>yes, that is what I was referring to--that you need better SAT scores to get into the "slight reach" schools.</p>