<p>How will applicants for the Class of 2015 be notified of their ED acceptance/rejection this year, e-mail or mail?</p>
<p>By email. “All of our communications will be sent to you by email – including your decision letter – so be sure to open any emails we send you.” - NYU application acknowledgement email</p>
<p>thanks! :D</p>
<p>…and acceptance packages will come in the mail following the email decisions.</p>
<p>thank god. I would be so paranoid knowing that I would know my fate based on the size of an envelope…</p>
<p>But now I’ll be checking my email every few minutes until I get my decision letter… at least the mail only comes once a day :D</p>
<p>Hey,
I was ED last year, and they told us the same thing about email notifications, but the decision came by mail only. By email communication (unless they’ve changed things), they mean that info about your application status and your University ID will be sent via email. For RD applicants, they send out vague emails in March and early April that advise you to “keep your travel plans open” so that you can attend orientation, which is basically an unofficial way of telling you that you’re in. No such luxury for ED, however.
That said, I’ve heard that NYU changes it up every year, so there’s no way to guarantee anything.
Also, you should be looking at getting decisions in about a month - at this point, not all the applications have even been processed yet.</p>
<p>Last year my son applied early decision and heard back by mail the monday after Thanksgiving. He was LSPed from CAS, The LSP kids hear back before the other early decision applicants. Lsp is not binding, so this gives kids time to think it over.</p>
<p>Well it says they will communicate our decisions by email. </p>
<p>winniehuang - Me too. I will refresh my email every minute haha. And I’ll probably have an ambulance on call just in case I have a heart attack while reading the rejection letter :(</p>
<p>Positive thinking! heart attack while reading the acceptance letter? :D</p>
<p>hi, so i have a question, if im from jersey and im asian, and i applied ed to nyu steinhardt and my sats and gpa are all average, do you think i might have a shot? and does nyu send acceptance letters before?</p>
<p>you must provide your specific stats for ex, your sat scores & gpa.</p>
<p>3.74 weighted gpa
1990 sats
chinese 800
math 1c- 680</p>
<p>i dont think their that good…but ahhh</p>
<p>those are average NYU stats, all about the essays, course load, and ECsn for you</p>
<p>whats ECsn?
but what if i have a lot of extra curricular? is that a plus?</p>
<p>xton,</p>
<p>I think jjohn meant ECs (extracurricular activities), which is what you responded with.</p>
<p>ECs are generally a plus if you show true passion, commitment and preferably leadership ability in the EC(s). Of course, your other admission criteria have to be strong since strong ECs do not replace poor grades, standardized test scores, etc. (Though I would not say never, because sometimes a person’s ECs can be so striking, they may make up for slightly sub-par grades, for instance, or weakness in another area).</p>
<p>I believe it was my son’s extremely strong ECs with proven leadership ability and awards in the ECs that got him from a regular admission to admission as a scholar with a nice financial merit award.</p>
<p>Will my working with developmentally disabled adults for the past year look nice? I wrote the small essay on one of the ECs on it.</p>
<p>You should be doing that because you genuinely want to, not because you think it “looks nice”.</p>
<p>Kelryry,</p>
<p>Any volunteer work can be a positive, if it is seen as something you are truly committed to based on your personality, compassion, well-intentioned motivations, etc. I personally believe work with the developmentally disabled takes a special kind of person who can be very patient, kind, and non-judgmental of people with differentness.</p>
<p>So I am assuming this work does come from your interest and personality, humanity, etc. Now the problem is that many people have noble interests and service contributions. So you need to stand out in some way. Either with a history of dedicated service (maybe volunteer work in other capacities before working with the DD population), so it is not seen as something you got into in time for college applications. Or you need to show initiative or leadership in the way you work with this specific population.</p>
<p>Now one year is good but it does not stand out by itself without some more information about your history with volunteer service, the type of work you have performed with the DD population or other groups. If you hold no significant leadership positions, then you have to work especially hard to tie this work to some deeper meaning and purpose the work has for you (that hopefully would allow admissions counselors to see a deeper side, a positive side to you as a candidate that will stand out).</p>
<p>You know, it really is not a level playing field. I know for a fact that guidance counselors in private schools advise their students as early as eighth nor ninth grade to start positioning themselves to get into significant activities and positions to ready themselves for college applications.</p>
<p>So, in the absence of this advice or knowledge from reading the CC forums, some students really do not realize that early and meaningful ECs really can make a difference in college applications.</p>
<p>Anyway enough of my pre-holiday stream of thought, at this point, Kelry, just play up and present what you really like and feel committed to in the best light possible.</p>