gigantic official RD decisions thread: 2014

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Date applied: January 1st, 2010
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: Clive Davis Recorded Music at Tisch</p>

<p>Stats:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1960 M: 690, CR: 630, WR: 640,
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Bio-E: 700, Maths IIC: 700, Literature: 660
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: N/A
[</em>] Rank: 15/126
[<em>]AP/IB classes: IB: Bio SL (6), English A2 HL (6), Spanish A1 SL (5), Art HL (5), Maths SL (6), Psychology HL (6), TOK (A), EE (A)
[/ul]Subjective:

[ul]
Essays: Really good
[</em>] Teacher Recs: Good I guess (didn’t read)
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good I guess (didn’t read)
[</em>] EC highlights: A lot of music stuff, drama, hockey, a lot of leadership positions at school, community service, etc. (I believe I have a lot of EC’s)</p>

<p>[/ul]Person:

[ul]
State or Country: Peru
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic/White
[li] Gender: Female</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other Factors, hook?: International applicant. Creative Music Portfolio sent with app.</p>

<p>General Comments, scholarship decisions, are you going to NYU? If so, why? If not, why not?: Still waiting for the package to arrive, so I’m not sure about scholarships and I’m pretty sure I’m going to NYU (unless another school offers me a huge scholarship and NYU doesn’t)</p>

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<p>Alrighty, well… in another thread everyone is raving about how the “Travel Plans” email means an official acceptance, so… here it goes!</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 620M, 780CR, 800W <a href=“one%20sitting”>2200</a>.
[</em>] SAT II (if submitted): US hist, World Hist, Lit : 720 for all of them.
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School only does Weighted, but if I had to guess I’d say 3.9
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, I believe.
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World Hist, Us Hist, Eng Lang, Psych (all 5s).
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 6 APs (German, Lit, Calc, EnvSci, Us Gov, Comp Gov) + Journalism 4.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Jack Kent Cooke Foundation Young Scholar, some sort of AP scholar thing, a medley of the usual honor society awards.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): meh, too lazy to list. prob most significant are school newspaper (layout editor) and German honor soc/club (co-president)
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: meh, too lazy to list as well. most notably big summer volunteering opportunities.
[</em>] Essays: I was happy with them!
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I can only guess that they were good…
[</em>] Counselor Rec: see above.
[<em>] Additional Rec: see above.
[</em>] Interview: Nope.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yep.
[</em>] Intended Major: Poli Sci?
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Virginia.
[</em>] School Type: Public, competitive-ish.
[<em>] Ethnicity: über white (Belarusian).
[</em>] Gender: XX
[<em>] Income Bracket: uncertain…
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): The gluttonous narcissist in me would like to say “everything,” but in actuality I can’t even guess as to what it might be. (Perhaps being an immigrant from Belarus at age 9, eh?)
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Writing & Languages.
[</em>] Weaknesses: Math. Foo!
[li] Why you think you were accepted: 42. The answer to life, the universe, and everything.[/li][/ul]General Comments: NYU/NYC is expensive. As it is now, my state U (UVa) is more appealing than NYU… Yay for No Debt! :D</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Date applied: 12/30 Regular Decision
Date decision postmarked/received: 3.19.2010
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: CAS </p>

<p>Stats:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 1940 M: 640, CR: 670, WR: 630,
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math1: 600 Lit: 650
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0/4.5
[<em>] Rank: 1/63
[</em>]AP/IB classes: AP Physics, AP Calculus AB, AP English Lit
[/ul]Subjective:
Essays: Amazing in my opinion, probably the best I have ever written. Dedicated a lot of time to it.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Awesome teachers, hopefully great recs.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I do not know her too well but she does like me.
[li] EC highlights: Varsity Soccer for 3 yrs (All County Student Athlete), Varsity Wrestler for 2 yrs, Varsity Winter Track, Editor for School Paper.</p>[/li]
<p>Person:
State or Country: NY
[<em>] School Type: Private, religious.
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[li] Gender: M</p>[/li]
<p>Other Factors, hook?: Naturalized immigrant (arrived in 2001/ 9yrs old), NHS for 3 years (Treasurer), National Spanish Honor Society (President), National Art Honor Society, National Hispanic Recognition Scholar, National Merit Scholar.</p>

<p>General Comments, scholarship decisions, are you going to NYU? If so, why? If not, why not?: Pretty excited, I am terrible at standardized test but I do very well in school. I do not want to get too excited however because I still do not know financial aid. It’s a great school though!!</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted **</p>

<p>Date applied: sometime before the deadline
Date decision postmarked/received: no idea
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: the regular one</p>

<p>Stats:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2210, M: 710, CR: 720, WR: 780
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 660 M2, 790 WR
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 4.0 junior year unweighted, not sure of all four years<br>
[<em>] Rank: no clue
[</em>]AP/IB classes: not offered at my school, but i took ap calc ab and got a 5
[/ul]Subjective:

[ul][<em>]Essays: eh haha they weren’t my best… my movie was a chick flick and i really didn’t pick a true new yorkers as my person
[</em>] Teacher Recs: not sure, but those two teachers loved me
[<em>] Counselor Rec: barely knows meee
[</em>] EC highlights: lots of volunteering/leadership positions within volunteering[/ul]</p>

<p>State or Country: maryland
** School Type:** private
** Ethnicity:** white
** Gender:** female
Other Factors, hook?: art portfolio that got me accepted to risd</p>

<p>General Comments, scholarship decisions, are you going to NYU? If so, why? If not, why not?: not sure! waiting to hear from 12 other schools!</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to NYU Stern!!</p>

<p>I got the travel plans e-mail today.</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 790 M 730 CR 770 W - 2290 Overall
[</em>] SAT II (if submitted): 800 Math II, 760 Chem, 720 Physics
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.70 UW, 4.20 W
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem 5, Enviro 4, Calc AB 5, Micro 5, Macro 4, English Lang. 3, Physics C: Mech 4 E&M 4; This year: Calc BC, Stat, Psych, Eng. Lit., USGAP
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP Stat, French IV, AP Psych, AP Eng. Lit., Gym, AP USGAP, Fundamentals of Public Speaking
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None really</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Average, no real leadership except maybe at the public library as part of a special committee
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Working at Kumon as an instructor
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: Over 100 hrs at the library
[</em>] Essays: Common App was about significant experience and I talked about obtaining my first job, NYU poem was funny I think, the others were decent
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read them but at least one of them should have been fantastic (he knew me since freshman year), the other should be pretty good too
[</em>] Counselor Rec: My counselor loves me so it should have been pretty good
[li] Interview: None</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes, let’s hope I get some
[</em>] Intended Major: Finance
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ<br>
[</em>] School Type: Public, sends about 25 to elite schools out of 680 a year
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) =]
[</em>] Gender: Male<br>
[<em>] Income Bracket: 150k-200k
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Nothing</p>

<p>[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Passion in my essays and test scores and as an overall applicant
[</em>] Weaknesses: GPA, ECs sort of, ethnicity in a way
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think they saw I really wanted to attend this school, and through that as an overall applicant I got in</p>[/li]
<p>[/ul]General Comments: NYU Stern is pretty high up on my list. Columbia is my number #1 but I’m still waiting on Duke and Cornell as well. I was accepted in the early action round for the University of Chicago, and I’m definitely majoring in business or economics.</p>

<p>Congrats to the people that got accepted! To those that were rejected, there are so many great colleges out there that you will like that will want you, so continue to enjoy our life. And remember, to all that didn’t get in that a college shouldn’t change what you are as a person, and that’s what’s most important about each and every one of us.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted
NYU GLS</p>

<p>Objective:
*SAT I: 730R,630M, 720W
*ACT: 31 (32 super)

  • SAT II:780 US History, 720 Lit, 400-something German w/ Listening (I didn’t mean to submit it and I attached a letter explaining this horrible showing)
  • Unweighted GPA:4.0
  • Rank:1
  • AP: will take Bio in May
  • IB: N/A
  • Senior Year Course Load: Physics, Calc, AP Bio, Yearbook, Dual English, Technology, Govt/Econ
  • Major Awards: Girls State delegate and Girls Nation nominee, National Merit Commended, National Honor Society</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars:Student Council (Pres, VP, and Sec), FCA (captain), Key Club, Model UN and Mock Trial (founder), Yearbook (editor), Scholars Bowl
  • Job/Work Experience: Work on Tech Team at school fixing comps over summer
  • Volunteer/Community service: mostly through school clubs - Habitat, Toys for Tots, tutoring on my own, Second Harvest, etc - I didn’t really count my hours ever so…
  • Essays: I enjoyed the NYU essays and I was proud of what I wrote. I had fun, and I tried to interpret the prompts in different ways
  • Teacher Recommendation: I thought it was so sweet! One of my fav teachers who has become a friend. Not very long, but personal, not just about my grades or what I do
  • Counselor Rec: good, but kinda generic
  • Additional Rec: N/A
  • Interview: N/A</p>

<p>Other

  • Applied for Financial Aid?: No
  • Intended Major: GLS
  • State: TN
  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: White
  • Gender: F
  • Income Bracket: well, I’m not applying for financial aid…but we’re not millionaires or anything
  • Hooks: I didn’t think I had anything! Maybe bc I’m from TN…</p>

<p>Reflection

  • Strengths: Essays, Recs, Transcript (I took THE HARDEST classes at my school even if they don’t compare much to others)
  • Weaknesses: Test scores, I’m from TN!, my school - almost NO ONE goes out of state or even out of town…like maybe 60-70% go to college and maybe 60% of those go to community college.
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I REALLY wanted it! I know I haven’t had the opportunities (even though financially my family is fine and I’m not a minority) that some/maybe most applicants have, so I really tried to show who I was and that I was more than a reflection of my test scores or grades in my essays. I pushed myself to the limit in school doing everything I could, not bc it would get me into college, but bc I wanted to.
    General Comments: Go for your dreams! There’s no reason you can’t try!</p>
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<p>@jpdreamer, I read your post and cracked up laughing because so many of my stats are like yours. We even applied to a bunch of the same schools.</p>

<p>Decision: Accepted - Stern School of Business</p>

<p>I also got the email asking us to make travel plans to visit NYU for accepted students’ weekend. Not an ‘official’ acceptance per se, but I heard that some people called the admissions office and received confirmation that it was an acceptance.</p>

<p>Objective:
* SAT I (breakdown): 800 M 730 CR 730 W - 2260 overall
* SAT II (if submitted): 800 Math II, 770 Molecular Biology, 800 Chinese, 730 U.S. History
* Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.04 W (can’t be bothered to calculate UW. also at my school you get a 4.5 for an A in an AP or Honors class, and we generally aren’t allowed to take those until junior year)
* Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): School doesn’t rank, although my counselor says I’m in the top 5-10%
* AP (place score in parenthesis): English Language and Composition (5), Spanish Language (5), Biology (5), Chemistry (5), U.S. History (5), Macroeconomics (5). I plan on taking European History, Statistics, Calculus BC, and Environmental Science this year.
* Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, Psychology, AP Environmental Science, AP Statistics, AP European History, Modern Literature (Honors English)
* Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A</p>

<p>Subjective:
* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity swimming for all four years, Habitat for Humanity (President), NHS
* Job/Work Experience: Lifeguarding (various hours throughout the year), bus monitoring (most people live about an hour away from school, so we have to keep an eye on the elementary school students), worked as a swim instructor at a summer camp
* Volunteer/Community service: About 60 hours of Habitat builds, plus various fundraisers for the same club
* Essays: Wrote about Harry Potter for the Common App and I liked my famous New Yorker short answer
* Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t read them. My AP U.S. teacher and Advanced Composition teacher both know me really well and are eloquent writers as far as I’ve seen - so they’re bound to be pretty good
* Counselor Rec: I know my counselor really well and he writes good recs from what I’ve heard. Didn’t read this either
* Interview: None</p>

<p>Other
* Applied for Financial Aid?: No
* Intended Major: Economics
* State (if domestic applicant): N/A
* School Type: Private, international school (we’re still on an American curriculum)
* Ethnicity: Chinese
* Gender: Female
* Income Bracket: I’d rather not say. I’m not even sure - I don’t talk to my parents about their income
* Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Dad got a Ph.D. in astrophysics from NYU (fat lot of good that degree turned out to be :P)</p>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: I think I wrote a good common app essay, took a very rigorous courseload last year (all of my AP scores are from junior year because we’re not allowed to take them before then), good test scores, well-rounded in the absence of any phenomenal talents :slight_smile:

  • Weaknesses: Being Chinese, haha. Also I feel as though I should have given my short answers more thought - that was around the time that I just got tired of college apps
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m really interested in economics and wrote a cool story for that short answer. I think as an applicant, I have pretty good standing overall.
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments: I’m not even 100% sure that the travel plans email constitutes an acceptance, but NYU is only the second school I’ve heard back from so I haven’t made many concrete plans yet. I got into UNC Chapel Hill earlier this morning as well. Still waiting on nine other schools, but particularly Duke, UChicago, Northwestern, Cornell, and Princeton. Best of luck to everyone who is still waiting for decisions, from NYU or anywhere else.</p>

<p>Congratulations to all the other admitted students. Is everyone planning to go to Admit Weekend? It’s a bit of a long trip for me :P</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted to Stern Business School **</p>

<p>Date applied: 12/26
Date decision postmarked/received: Got the travel plans email today
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: Leonard N. Stern School of Business</p>

<p>Stats:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2250 M: 720, CR: 760, WR: 770,
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT Subject Tests: 710 US History, 690 Math II
[</em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.76/4.16
[<em>] Rank: School doesnt rank
[</em>]AP/IB classes: Calc AB (4), US History (5), Macroeconomics, Microeconomics, Statistics, Physics B, US Government
[/ul]</p>

<p>Person:</p>

<p>State or Country: San Diego, California
School Type: Private
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male</p>

<p>Other Factors, hook?: none</p>

<p>General Comments, scholarship decisions, are you going to NYU? If so, why? If not, why not?: depends on financial aid</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted - got the “make plans” email today</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2190 (2 sittings) - Cr:740 M:710 W:740
SAT II (if submitted): 710- mathI 740- literature
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8 of 4.2
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): none
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 AP US history and 5 AP English composition - taking 5 this year
IB (place score in parenthesis): not offered
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Commended national merit</p>

<p>Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Horseback riding, Youth movement (a lot of leadership roles including a near full time job as national director of PR), a ton of school clubs (including many with leadership roles), highly selective journalism program
Job/Work Experience: retail and marketing intern
Volunteer/Community service: worked with disabled children and adults in therapeutic horseback riding, mentor for younger students, tutored without pay
Essays: really good
Teacher Recommendation: didn’t read
Counselor Rec: didn’t read</p>

<p>Other
Applied for Financial Aid?: No
Intended Major: GLS!
School Type: Small Jewish day school
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Female
Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none really</p>

<p>Reflection
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: all around general fit -I really wanted to go to a school that was specialized and was not a generic classroom feel- I am a really out of the box thinker and so gallitan appealed to me and i think i let that shine through</p>

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<p>Decision:Accepted to CAS
Objective:[ul]
[<em>]SATI(breakdown): 800 CR 770 M 700 W (11 Essay) 2270
[</em>]ACT:
[<em>]SATII(ifsubmitted): 750 Math II, 740 US, 720 Lit
[</em>]UnweightedGPA(outof4.0): 3.98 (4.75 Weighted)
[<em>]Rank(percentileifrankisunavailable): Reported as Top 5%
[</em>]AP(placescoreinparenthesis): 5 Lang, 5 US Hist., 4 Chem
[<em>]IB(placescoreinparenthesis):
[</em>]SeniorYearCourseLoad: 5 APs, hardest possible
[<em>]MajorAwards(USAMO,Inteletc.): Merit scholar, book award, school award, nothing actually major
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>]Extracurriculars(leadership): The usual
[<em>]Job/WorkExperience: Three jobs
[</em>]Volunteer/Communityservice:
[<em>]Essays: Decent
[</em>]TeacherRecommendation: Good
[<em>]CounselorRec: Average
[</em>]AdditionalRec:
[<em>]Interview: Nope
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>]AppliedforFinancialAid?: YES!
[<em>]IntendedMajor: Political Science / English / Biology?
[</em>]State(ifdomesticapplicant): CT
[<em>]Country(ifinternationalapplicant):
[</em>]SchoolType: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: White
[</em>]Gender: Male
[<em>]IncomeBracket: I won’t be getting much aid, not matter how needed…
[</em>]Hooks(URM,firstgenerationcollege,research,etc.): Nothing
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>]Strengths: Test scores, GPA, rank
[</em>]Weaknesses: Average in about everything else
[li]Whyyouthinkyouwereaccepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test scores[/li][/ul]**GeneralComments:**GoodLuck!! Congrats to everyone who has been accepted!</p>

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<p>Pick one:
Decision: Accepted, Stern </p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):2220 (710 CR, 750 M, 760 WR)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 740 Math II, 650 USH, 600 French w/ Listening.
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.88
[<em>] Weighted GPA: 4.02
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 5%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): USH (5), Psych (Self-study 5), World History (3), Microecon (3 Self study), English Literature (3), Statistics to be taken, Macroecon to be taken.
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): Econ SL (5), Physics HL, English HL, Mathematics SL, History of Americas HL, French SL
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: 6 IB classes, 1 AP class
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar w/ Distinction, lower end congressional awards, nothing too serious.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 3 sports, a few clubs, captain math league
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: tutoring, ice cream scoopin’
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: various things
[</em>] Essays: Good, but kinda cliche.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good, I think. Not amazing.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty good, I think. Not amazing or anything.
[<em>] Additional Rec: N/A
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yeah
[</em>] Intended Major: Econ/Finance
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY ftw
[</em>] School Type: top public
[<em>] Ethnicity: A-Z-N
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: moderate
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): n/a
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: SAT I scores, GPA, I dunno.
[</em>] Weaknesses: SAT II’s, not particularly impressive EC’s
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My scores.[/li][/ul]General Comments: Probably won’t attend, too expensive. Congrats everyone else</p>

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<p>Wait, so are we assuming that the invitation email today is an automatic acceptance?</p>

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<p>Several people have called the Admissions Office to ask, and apparently they’ve said it’s an acceptance. (I hesitate to trust this 100% only because I haven’t confirmed for myself yet)</p>

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<p>^ Exactly why I refuse to post my status as accepted, and why I refuse to tell friends/family. Haha. That’d be the worst thing ever: to go celebrating and telling everyone you were accepted only to later have to inform them all of your rejection.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR 700 M 800 W 780 superscored
[</em>] ACT: n/a
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Lit 700 Math IIC 780
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): took 4 so far: one 4 and the rest 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: all ap’s
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): a couple of music ones
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): viola, flute, a couple of clubs
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: tutoring
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: outreach program at orphanage, mission trips
[<em>] Essays: spent A LOT of time.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: haven’t read, but pretty sure they were good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: great
[</em>] Additional Rec: none
[<em>] Interview: n/a
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[<em>] Intended Major: undeclared CAS
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: public
[<em>] Ethnicity: japanese
[</em>] Gender: female
[<em>] Income Bracket: around 22000
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: rigorous course loads, essay, test scores
[</em>] Weaknesses: gpa
[li] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][/ul]General Comments: feels so good haha good luck to you all. and even if you don’t make it to nyu, i’m pretty sure you’ll all end up somewhere great and end up loving it :)</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted, Stern - BPE **</p>

<p>Date applied: 12/31/09
Date decision postmarked/received: received email “book your travel” - 3/19/10
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: Stern/BPE</p>

<p>Stats:

[ul]
[<em>] SAT Total: 2130 M: 670, CR: 710, WR: 750,
[</em>] SAT Subject Tests: Math I - 730, Spanish - 720, English Lit. - 700
[<em>] GPA-UW/W: 3.6 / 3.9
[</em>] Rank: NR - top 10%
[li]AP/IB classes: English Lit -4; Calculus B/C, Government, Economics[/li][/ul]</p>

<p>Subjective:

[ul]
[<em>] Essays: Very strong
[</em>] Teacher Recs: very good
[<em>] Counselor Rec: good
[</em>] EC highlights: 10 yrs fencing w national rating (20 hr/wk training x 48 wks/yr last 3)
[/ul]</p>

<p>Person:

[ul]
[<em>]State or Country: TX
[</em>] School Type: Catholic HS
[<em>] Ethnicity: Mexican-American
[</em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]</p>

<p>Other Factors, hook?: National Merit Commended Scholar / National Hispanic Scholar</p>

<p>General Comments: waiting for the decision/financial aid packet … dreaming about the NY/London/Shanghai BPE program!!!</p>

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<p>[ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted, Stern **[/color]</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<pre><code>* SAT I (breakdown): 2020 640C 720M 660W

  • ACT: 33
  • SAT II (if submitted): 720WH 750M2 750BioM
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
  • AP (place score in parenthesis): None
  • IB (place score in parenthesis): Full Diploma, IB math2- 6, IB Econ 6
  • Senior Year Course Load: Calc AB, Full IB course load
  • Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
    </code></pre>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<pre><code>* Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Basketball (captain all 4 years) Coaching, created mentoring program, FBLA, S+D

  • Job/Work Experience:
  • Volunteer/Community service: about 150 hours of various work
  • Essays: Pretty good I think
  • Teacher Recommendation: Great
  • Counselor Rec: Good
  • Additional Rec:
  • Interview:
    </code></pre>

<p>Other</p>

<pre><code>* Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes

  • Intended Major: Marketing
  • State (if domestic applicant): CA
  • Country (if international applicant):
  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Japanese
  • Gender: M
  • Income Bracket: Middle class
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): none really
    </code></pre>

<p>Reflection</p>

<pre><code>* Strengths: essays, leadership positions

  • Weaknesses: rank and gpa
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
    </code></pre>

<p>General Comments:</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted (CAS)</p>

<p>Objective:
• SAT I : CR 690 M 640 W 600
• ACT: n/a
• SAT II (if submitted): Lit 610 Math I 640 US History 670
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 16/565
• AP (place score in parenthesis): US History (4) Eng. Lang. (5) Stats (3)
• IB (place score in parenthesis):n/a
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Eng Lit AP Bio AP Physics AP Art History AP Macro AP Govt. AP World History
Subjective:
• Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 7 different organizations of which I hold positions in four and co-founded 1
• Job/Work Experience: n/a
• Volunteer/Community service: over 120 hours
• Essays: a lot of effort went into them
• Teacher Recommendation(s): One was okay the other SPECTACULAR
• Counselor Rec: Good
• Additional Rec: n/a
• Interview: n/a
Other
• Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
• Intended Major: International Relations
• State (if domestic applicant): Texas
• Country (if international applicant):n/a
• School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Hispanic
• Gender: Male
• Income Bracket: AGI 130,000
• Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): Second Generation American and first generation college on my dad’s side
Reflection
• Strengths: rigorous course loads, essay,
• Weaknesses: test scores/rank
• Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Because I’m a Hispanic male from the south</p>

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<p>I used a slightly different header.</p>

<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (RD)</p>

<p>School: Stern School of Business
Major: Marketing</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): Didn’t send.
[</em>] ACT (breakdown): Composite 32 E 35 M 33 R 27 S 31 (This is a SUPERSCORE)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): Math Level I - 720, Math Level II - 750
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.75
[<em>] Weighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/108
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH - 3
[</em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: College Calculus, College Physics, College/AP English, Political Science, Economics H, E-Commerce, Theology 12, Health, Presentations
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none MAJOR, just a couple of local/regional honors for academics and sports
[/ul][ b]Subjective:**[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Young Actors Guild (Apprentice Trainee), School Newspaper (Editor-in-chief), FBLA (Team Captain), Key Club, Indoor Track and Field, Outdoor Track and Field, Science and Technology Entry Program,
Student Council (Representative), NYS Math League, RPI PREFACE [Summer], UAlbany COAP <a href=“most%20of%20the%20school-year%20ones%20have%20long-term%20commitment”>Summer</a>
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: Intern at local supermarket (had to propose a marketing strategy, Cashier at same supermarket
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: about 44 hours
[</em>] Essays: My Common App essay was about my indirect experience with Hurricane Katrina, and the Common App short answer was about my 5 years in Young Actors Guild. My NYU short answers may not have been the most creative (they were somewhat creative), but they were very true to me.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Very good.
[<em>] Additional Rec: Excellent. Very personal. (from a business contact that I have known since I was little)
[</em>] Interview: Nope.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes.
[</em>] Intended Major: Marketing.
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): New York.
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[<em>] School Type: Catholic high school.
[</em>] Ethnicity: African American and Native American.
[<em>] Gender: Male.
[</em>] Income Bracket: Low middle class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): URM.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: EC’s, leadership courseload, essays,
[<em>] Weaknesses: Volunteer experience, AP scores (listed on Common App), GPA?, idk.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[/ul]General Comments: I’m so excited!! After 4 years of obsession, I can’t believe I’ve actually been accepted.</p>

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<p>Where do you all live? I can’t wait until my decision!!! I’m just in NJ too.</p>