<p>Im currently a sophmore and I was wondering if ED helps your chances of getting in? Everytime I go to the city (which isnt far from my house) I fall in love with it. NYU is my number one choice. Im going to be working hard this year and junior year. So I was wondering if ED helps your chances.</p>
<p>No school like to reject people who sign a contract that says they will attend if accepted. Why would a school like NYU want to increase yield rates? </p>
<p>/sarcasm</p>
<p>For some schools, ED increases your chances tremendously-at some, not so much. At a school like NYU, the adcom takes only the top applicants in their ED pool. They snatch up all the highly achieving academics so as to increase the standards of that years class. If you think you are competitve-go for it. But I encourage you to step back and gain some perspective. College is a long way off for you. Your focus should be on the actual school work that will get you in to NYU. It is a great school-but super competitive to get in. They only take the best, and if that doesn't apply to you, you are better off going the RD route and having some comfortable match schools.</p>
<p>Oh thanks for the information. Its my top school. Im joining lots of clubs and AP classes for it. =</p>
<p>See i feel that you have the wrong attitude toward colleges. You should not join lots of clubs and take AP classes just for colleges. Do it all because you want to do it. Discover a passion for something and pursue that passion. Colleges do not like to see that you have a long list of activities but you have no passion. Also try to get leadership roles in the clubs that you do join. Hope this helps!</p>
<p>theworld makes a good point. Colleges can see if you just joined a laundry list of clubs simply to play the admissions game. Its the leadership and time commitment that is important. Excelling at one or two activities looks much better than just being mediocre in 5.</p>
<p>yeah i'm totally with theworld on that one. words of wisdom from the experienced. i'm a senior now, and i see lots of my friends doing stuff just to slap on resumés, and they aren't having much fun in the process. i did astronomy club for a while when i was 9, 10th grade, but that was seriously the biggest waste of time. we didn't do anything. now i do yoga several hours per week, which is something unique, isn't even a club, and shows a certain degree of maturity, peace-of-mind, etc. find something cool like that and DO IT. whether you decide to take flying lessons, get into making your own fashion line, work at an artsy tea shop in town, volunteering at the botanical gardens if you like nature, watever you think is cool. not only will you have lots more fun and personal satisfaction, but when you apply (which is more than 2 years off for you!) colleges will be thankful that you aren't a cookie-cutter type person. so much more matters than just the letters "AP" and "i signed up for X million clubs" and such.</p>
<p>now, that doesn't mean you can't do something common. i have a friend who does tons of volunteer work, 250 hours last year, takes all them APs and such. at first glance they sound like one of those people that just does it to look good. the difference is, she actually has a passion for what she does! this comes out in teacher recommendations and essays. and if you think you can fabricate genuineness in a college essay, think again.</p>
<p>True dat!</p>
<p>I think that it is a little late to develop passions Senior year, so my advice would be to get started early in High School</p>
<p>However, that is really unfair to kids who aren't sure what interests them. College should be based on personality, not activities or awards. If a student isn't interested in anything in High School-that doesn't mean they shouldn't be allowed to attend a top College. Unfortunately the admissions process deems activities, awards, and achievements as the only quantifiable evidence to a person's personality. It sucks, but thats the real world.</p>
<p>and oh yeah, if you think NYU is your first choice now, it will most likely change. most likely being 90% chance it will. 2 years from now, you will be a much more mature person. really the best way to find out about colleges is to talk to people from your high school who go there. the princeton review book makes up their commentaries (think i'm lying? it's the truth, their student quotes are fabricated), and college visits only do good if it's when students are in session. if you decide to take home one piece of advice on choosing a college, choose a college or university BASED ON THE PEOPLE. you will be spending 4 years there, and they will be your source of inspiration! no matter how hard you resist it, you will go through a big personal change during college, and the dominant influences on you will be your classmates that you hang out with and the professors that quench your curiosity in your field(s) of interest. if you're not sure what you want to do now (which is GOOD if you ask me!) then the people you interact with will shed light on your true academic love(s).</p>
<p>How do you know you like NYU. I understand you like NYC but don't confuse acronyms. Just because you like NYC doesn't mean you'll like NYU. It is super competitive, has virtually no campus, poor housing conditions, and very difficult to make friends. Have you visited Washington Square or some of the school's buildings? If you like NYU simply because you like the city, you'll be in for quite a dissapointment. You should never let a school's location determine your choice. Don't be a scholar that is defined by a location, you should be a scholar uninfluenced by that location.</p>
<p>word.</p>
<p>except for one thing, halopeno... NYU really has poor housing conditions? the ones i saw were f'ing huge with convenient locations.</p>
<p>were you on a tour?</p>
<p>NYU has awesome housing! What kind of garbage...</p>
<p>no actually i saw pictures of freshman dorms online at a site hosted on wikipedia. i was at the site yesterday... let me get it in my history</p>
<p>here it is... </p>
<p><a href="http://nyuhousing.wikispaces.com/%5B/url%5D">http://nyuhousing.wikispaces.com/</a></p>
<p>It is not garbage, I've seen em and you don't have to take my word for it:
<a href="http://www.studentsreview.com/NY/NYU_c.html%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentsreview.com/NY/NYU_c.html</a></p>
<p>wow I didn't know there was a wikispaces.</p>
<p>Halopeno - hmm well I've always hear they were very nice...I would hope so for the price! I'll get to go see them next week, so I guess I'll see for myself. Although I have heard a lot of the rooms smell like pot...continuously.</p>
<p>So basically just join clubs that intrest me and get leadership. Like tennis and cultural club. Is CAS hard to get into like stern and my brotha knows nyu kids and their nice. Nyu is also agood law school. And you have to get straight 90s right</p>
<p>Can someone please answer my questions.</p>
<p>Tymel, what exactly are your questions? Your post on the 15th at 11:45 PM is full of run-on and incomplete sentences, and I'm not sure what you'd like to know.</p>
<p>It's hard to break down the statistics, so I'm not entirely convinced that ED helps your chances. Sure, admissions committees want the students who are passionate about the school, but the committee can afford to be choosy at this stage. Admissions rates may seem to be higher, but if more qualified students apply ED, then you're going to see a higher rate.</p>
<p>As for NYU housing, if you think it's crappy, you haven't seen much. :P I specifically did not apply to Georgetown because when I was there for NYLF, the dorms were dark and dingy. I couldn't stand it at all, so I didn't apply. Before you judge NYU's housing, see for yourself. :) If nothing else, I guarentee you'll like having a private bathroom.</p>
<p>Sorry I wasnt using a computer when I made that reply. </p>
<p>I never said NYU housing was crappy, somebody else did. Compared to my brother dorms, at Manhatten College, NYU is the god. =P</p>
<p>So i'm probally going to apply RD then, so i'll have a better chance.</p>
<p>My questions were:
1. Do I need to get straight 90's in order to go to NYU?
2. I cant take AP classes in Sophmore year, will that hurt me?</p>