Does IB help?

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>I am applying rd to nyu's school of social work. i have seen some stats from my school's website that says the chances of getting accepted by nyu doubles, and peaks around 75% if you are an IB candidate. Do you guys think this is true? </p>

<p>Also, do you guys think i can get in.......</p>

<p>Italian-American male from new jersey - fluent in Italian</p>

<p>SAT: V630 M670 ***My extended essay for IB is how standardized tests are not an applicable tool in education (I suffer from test anxiety)
SAT IIs: Scheduled to take 3 of them in January</p>

<p>Cumulative GPA: 3.89
Top 10% of class - very competitive school (will not report class rank)
IB Diploma Candidate with projected score well over 24
Hardest possible courseload at school - All IB/AP
Current classes: IB Spanish 5, AP Political Science, IB Discrete Math, AP Information Processing, IB Biology Themes, IB European History, IB English 4, IB Theory of Knowledge
Projected scores: Spanish SL-6, Math Studies SL-7, Biology HL-7, English HL-6, European History HL-6
(I have already recieved a 6 in Psychology SL)</p>

<p>EC's - National Honor Society, Spanish National Honor Society, piano lessons (1999-2003), FBLA (2001-2004), Service Club Chairman of Books for Africa project (2001-2004), Secretary of International Club, Students Against Drunk Driving (SADD) treasurer (2002-2004), American Politics Club (2003-2004), Captain Biology Team (2001, 2003), Friends and Buddies (2003), Historical Society (2002-2004), Peer tutoring (2002-2004), National Italian-American Foundation (NIAF) member (2000-2004), and Chairman of Young Italians and Future Legacy Award recipient of the Federation of Italian-American Societies of New Jersey (1999-2004). Founder of a Badminton Club, Received Varsity Letter in Tennis and Soccer, Captain Tennis Team, Coach for Intramural basketball (2001-2004), Student of the Month (2002), Four time Employee of the Year at local restaurant as waiter (2000-2003), founder of IB Peer Helping Program, and Secretary of Junior Statesmen of America Unit.</p>

<p>Very strong teacher recs and essays.</p>

<p>What do you think?</p>

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<p>SAT: V630 M670 ***My extended essay for IB is how standardized tests are not an applicable tool in education (I suffer from test anxiety)</p>

<p>0% if you write about that. Colleges HATE that, and standardized tests are the only way for colleges or anybody to have an unbiased look at your intelligence and learning.. the math is 8th grade stuff, college tests are going to be based on college level math, if you write about how the SATs cause u stress, there going to think your oging to suck ass in college, becuz college tests are like maxed out SAT's.
30-40% if you dont (kjayson had higher stats except for gpa, and he got rejected)</p>

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<p>they dont get an actual copy of the essay. the essay is 16 pages long, so i only send the abstract. the essay is actually very good if one reads it through.
Going back to the orginal question though, does IB help? i know that some1 already got rejected from this school. do you think that it was because of IB?</p>

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<p>whyd u write a 16 page essay, is it required for IB? I thougth you meant you wrote your college personal statement on SAT's being bad, thats like no-no number 1 for college essays.</p>

<p>IB doesnt hurt or help I believe, It counts the same as taking AP classes I think.</p>

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<p>no i just submitted my abstract with the rest of my application material. It is a requirement for all IB candidates to write an extended essay. the abstract is also is sent to the colleges with a generic letter from our ib coordinator at school indicating what had to be done with the wiritng of it.
i may not have made it too clear. i also wrote a personal statement on a topic of my choice. i think it is pretty good. it is an offbeat one on how people lie on applications.
thanks for the insight. .</p>

<p>what do other people think?</p>

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<p>no one is going to know, SSW is like a ghost school that only accept like 25 people a year, and no one ive talked to has ever seen acceptance data nor even met anyone who got in. So any estimates are going to be based on the average SAT,GPA of other schools... for all we know could be much different than the SSW. PM kjayson he would probably know more than I, since he applied ED.</p>

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<p>i think kjayson is banned from CC, he told me on AIM</p>