Chances?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi! I'm a junior in high school, and I've started seriously looking into colleges recently. Unfortunately, all that's done is made me have a little freak out, because I don't know if I can get into my dream school.</p>

<p>My dream school is Tisch School of the Arts at NYU, for their musical theater program.</p>

<p>I'm not sure all of what needs to be known, but here's the basics:</p>

<p>GPA: My school doesn't normally give GPA's, although I am in the proccess of having mine... gotten.
Grades:
Algebra IIA: B
Environmental Science: A+
Psychology: A+
Spanish IIB: A+
Literature: A+
Honors English: A+
(I am signed up for several honors courses next semester)
(My main worry about grades is if they count previous semesters against you? I failed all but one of my classes in Freshman year - since then I have taken extra courses and made up all the credits and then some)</p>

<p>Extracurriculars:
Girl Scout for 11 years
Girl Scout Leadership Award
(In-progress of working on getting: the Gold Award, which is equivalent to the Boy Scout Eagle Award; Advocate Award)
Volunteers at inner city schools
Musical Theater and Improvisation Camp during the summer (this summer, hasn't been taken yet)</p>

<p>And (unfortunately) that's it. I'm cyberschooled (like homeschooled) so I haven't gotten the chance to be in any school plays, but I could try and be in one next year. I don't know if being a Girl Scout would help my chances, but I figure it can't hurt. I have not taken the SAT's yet, but I've scored pretty high on the practice tests I've taken (around 1900ish).</p>

<p>Any comments would be very much appreciated, as well as any reccommendations on things I should do to help my chances. Thank you!</p>

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<p>So you mean you got F’s in every class except one freshman year?
Do you have an explanation for this?</p>

<p>1900ish isn’t high for NYU</p>

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<p>Freshman year my mother was diagnosed with a fatal heart condition, so I spent most of my time ignoring school in favor of being at the hospital. It’s not the best reason to fail classes, but I tried to make it up in the next years.</p>

<p>What would be a good SAT score for NYU? I’ve seen a few people who say that the 1800’s is a good score, and others that say anything under 2200 is horrible.</p>

<p>Thank you!</p>

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<p>2000+ at our school. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>You should post in the ‘homeschooling and college’ forum. They can give you more help.</p>

<p>Also, 1900 is a low score, especially for schools like NYU. Try bringing your scores up and make your EC’s more special.</p>

<p>Message me and I can give you more ideas. </p>

<p>-fellow homeschooler trying to help</p>

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<p>Do you have any dance /voice experience? I think Tisch MT takes a very small number of students, and they have experience, audition DVDs, and a live audition.
[Apply!:</a> Tisch School of the Arts at NYU](<a href=“http://drama.tisch.nyu.edu/object/dr_apply.html]Apply!:”>http://drama.tisch.nyu.edu/object/dr_apply.html)</p>