HEOP: Columbia, NYU

Chance Me / Match Me!
1

What are my chances? And if you’ve gotten in before, what were your stats?

SAT/ CR: 700 M:640 W:790 (2130: not superscoring)

EXTRACURRICULARS:
Latin League
MSA
No “Buddy” Left Behind (Take a period or two out of free time during the week to spend time with the special education students in my school building)
Project Spirit (Did projects such as “Hope for the Homeless”)

GPA: 3.6 UW

100+ Hours of Community Service (Mosque, teaching kids at former Sunday school, tutoring kids, in-school hours)
10 Hours of Political Service

Got a gold medal on the National Latin Exam
Principal’s Honor Roll
Arista

All my classes have been either honors or APs since freshman year
Courses this year (couldn’t take the proper math and science classes I wanted because of budget cuts in my school)
Honors Principles of Computer Science
AP Latin
Humanities (College English Class)
Honors Government
AP Statistics
College course Anthropology 101
College Course Computer Science

Female
Income $35,000; 4 people

2

10% or less chance for Columbia.
50/50 for NYU.
(Given your finances, even if you got into NYU you would have a hard time paying as their financial aid situation is poor).

3

OP with your family’s low income HEOP would be a great program for you. Develop a list and be sure to look into other HEOP schools, not just ones in NYC where competition is most fierce! Here is the roster
http://heop.org/roster/

Look for schools where your stats are at the TOP of the LOWEST 25% quartile for scores and GPA.

There are other posters on this website who can help you with lots of important info so be sure to keep coming back!