<p>I am looking to go into finance and Sterns is one of the best. Could you please chance me for this school?</p>
<p>SAT: 2230
GPA: 3.8
Sports: Varsity football 4 years (All conference senior year), 3 years track and field.
EC: Field trip to New York Stock exchange</p>
<p>My EC's are lacking due to sports requirements. Are my chances good for Stern? my counselor advised it's a match/slight reach.</p>
<p>I am also applying to Wharton, UMich, BC and Northeastern. I want to stay in the northeast. Anyways, I would appreciate any help thanks for your time.</p>
<p>not sure a field trip to NYSE is a EC. i mean, i can visit there myself as tourist. you can explain your EC problem in your application but tell them what other good things you did with your sports team or something good like volunteering together. GPA and SATs are good enough. you just need a good persuasive essay and some ECs (in business if there are any) to finish the job. internships are good but not required.</p>
<p>i think for you Wharton is a reach. Stern, UMICH, and BC are match/slight reaches. Northeastern is relatively easy for those who have good GPAs and SATs so it is a match but probably not a safety.</p>
<p>haha that is a funny EC. In all seriousness, I think you should apply to definitely more matches and safeties. I think you will get in BC and NE, but Stern Wharton and UMich is a reach.</p>
<p>Overall, your counselor is right. Numbers-wise, you have a shot at Stern, but it is by no means a guarantee. But numbers aren’t the only thing (especially when applying to NYU0, and, to be honest, playing two varsity sports isn’t really much of an excuse for not doing more extracurriculars; I played two year-round varsity sports (as in, we played in non-school leagues in the off-seasons) and still had time to do a lot of ECs. I’m not a unique case, and since you’re applying to Stern, expect to be up against people who have managed to juggle demanding schedules for years. Are you not a member of any honor societies? I would think, with your GPA, that you should be. Are there activities that you do outside of school, like a sports league, music lessons, etc.?</p>
<p>It’s a little late now to get really involved in more ECs, and Admissions will notice that you only started doing them senior year. You can try to join something like Future Business Leaders of America, but I suggest the same thing that Mathy did, which is that you should focus on writing a personal essay that shows just how committed you were to your sports teams, and how much time and effort you put into them. If you can somehow correlate that with business, even better.</p>
<p>yeah stern is a match/reach for you, but it could go either way. they’re pretty unpredictable. your numbers look ok, but nyu realllllly likes extracurriculars and leadership. umich and bc are probably between a match and a safety, but wharton is a reach.</p>