<p>my friend (international) has the following stats</p>
<p>1540/800/800/780</p>
<p>Excellent recs/GC recs (few "best in career comments")
Decent essays (imo anyway; he showed it to me)
1/140</p>
<p>and he got rejected at CAS..</p>
<p>im really scared coz his stats are similar to mine and i still havent heard from cas..</p>
<p>If, in fact, those stats are accurate then he should probably appeal the decision. This must be done in writing, and quickly. It's sometimes more difficult for internationals to be admitted but there's got to be more to this story.</p>
<p>Maybe they (NYU) thought he was too good and wouldn't attend even if he did get admitted. I've heard stories about this. Unis want to maintain their yield rate.</p>
<p>I doubt that Liefde...NYU is not known for Tufts syndrome at all (just look at this page...SAT scores of 1600s and 1550s are mostly getting in...not waitlisted or rejected like at Tufts and Wash U).</p>
<p>Y17K, there can be several reasons for your friend's rejection despite his excellent stats. "Excellent reccs" and "decent essay" are his and yours opinion. The issue is did NYU think that? If NYU thought his essay and reccs. were horrible, that can easily mean a rejection even if your friend had stelller stats. What type of EC's did your friend have? EC's, reccs, and essays all matter a lot in admissions, getting into NYU is not solely a numbers game. Also, NYU gets more and more competitive every year, so I don't think anyone is a shoe-in.</p>
<p>Appealing the decision might be a good idea, but understand that getting the decision changed is more of an exception than the rule.</p>
<p>Good luck to your friend.</p>
<p>i think admissions have been pretty screwed up this year... I know an international applicant that got into stern with a 3.8 gpa 1170 sats combined and low 500's sat 2s. She did track for 1 year and wrote for the business news paper... but thats about all she did. Oh actually she was assistant stage manager for one play and she did the lighting for another. Her essay was about working in a group with a stock market simulator. SHe was also asian. So see anything can happen</p>
<p>You know what I'm discovering about the NYU admissions process this year? They seem to be taking people based equally on their heads and their hearts. Three people from my school who are in the IB Diploma program because "it'll look good for college", have high 90 GPAs, are in National Honor Society, and do lots of honor societies and other useless things that will "look good for college" (taking AP tests that they have no reason to take just because it "looks good", etc) applied to NYU and got rejected. Two of those applied to CAS, but one was for Stern and she had a 1540 on her SAT. The last of the three girls I mentioned is quite brilliant and I am actually very surprised at that particular decision; however, the other two girls have very bland personalities, and I can picture very bland essays reflecting this and a very bland resume that won't stand out.</p>
<p>However, there's another girl from my school who applied to NYU for Music Education. She had a fantastic audition, in which she got to show the judges her colorful personality. She is not in every honor society and is not in the IB program; she's in two honor societies for subjects that she enjoys, and in AP\IB classes solely for the subjects in which she excels and for which she has passion. She got a 1260 on the SAT and could have taken it again, but instead of studying more for a stupid test for which she'd have no practical use after high school, she settled for a 1260. Her GPA was good, but not spectacular--about a 90 UW. Her essay incorporated several important aspects of her life, was very personal and was not ordinary in any way, yet it wasn't testing any limits, either. And, perhaps one of the most important factors, she had a resume full of activities in which she'd participated in high school, but NONE of them were there "to look good on a college resume", or even, necessarily, to prepare for her future major. She participated in these things simply because she loved them, and to help to figure out who she really is in a time that should be used to do so; this was more than likely evident to college admissions officers from a combination of her resume, her essay, and her audition. This girl might have received better grades and test scores had she done less in other aspects of her high school career; but are the numbers really reflective of what you've learned?</p>
<p>Now, as a disclaimer, I just want to say that I'm not putting down anybody in particular, because, quite frankly, I don't have the right to do so--nobody does. I am, however, putting down the nonsensical way that most people are spending their high school years now. There's more to life than grades and rankings and prestige and numbers.</p>
<p>Incidentally, the girl was accepted into (and will definitely be attending) NYU for Steinhardt's Music Ed program--with a $10,000 per year scholarship. I know plenty of people who got less money than that--some got no money at all--and most of them had higher than a 90UW average and a 1260 SAT score. But I--the girl--always knew that there was more to life and to people than the numbers they can produce. Please remember this--if it's too late for you to think this way in high school, please remember it in college. You'll be much, much happier.</p>
<p>Sometimes even schools that are need blind are not so with international students. I do not know if that is the case with NYU. But if a student is very needy and international, accepting him without financial or merit aid that meets his need is a waste of an acceptance because he cannot get a visa without showing how he is going to pay for the college and his expenses in the US. Then the student generally begs the school to please, please, please, help, and the school had already made that decision that it is not going to come up with the money and does not want to hear this plea. Don't know if that is the situation with your friend. Also some colleges do have country quotas for internationals. If too many kids from that country are already accepted, that could be a reason as well.</p>