I need help!!! please tell me if i am on the right track!!

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey guys, I am new to this forum. I am a junior in an extremly competitve private school. Its a jewish school so I take hebrew/jewish classes as well as secular courses. My school is farely new (5 years), but last year 19 kids got into NYU and this year so far 3 and there are only 80 kids per grade - and are school doesnt rank. My dream school is NYU Stern. I am planning to apply early, but I am scared that I dont have the credentials to get in please evaluate me and tell me if can get in. Also possible schools are Penn and Michigan.
9th grade - 88 avg
10th grade - 92
11th grade - so far 97
Aps I am taking this year - AP music theory, AP American history and Ap Biology
Next year I will be taking AP Psychology, Calculus, AP English, AP US goverment and politics and I will try to self teach Microeconomics</p>

<p>I have taken a couple practice SATs and I should be on track for somewhere in the 2100s possible 2200s</p>

<p>ECs - 40 hours of community service,
Worked with Genesis Securities for two summers and have a reccomandation from the president of operations
Model congress - grade 10,11
Guitar - Advanced 9,10,11 - ( not to be arrogant but I am the best in the school)
School Band - Lead guitar - 9,10,11
Chess Team, 9,10
Business Club - 11 ( first year it was made)
Newsday Stock Market Game - Teamleader - 11th
Managing a real stock portfolio of over 100k
Science fair winner - 9 and 10th grades
Long Island Science Congress - Honorable Mention 9 and 10
Managed my own Public Relations/Entertainment company in the Nightclub Industry I had 6 guys working for me
I also took an introductory class to economics and finance at Columbia University and I have a fantastic recomendation from the Professor.</p>

<p>For this summer I aquired an internship at a hedge fund, which will continue throughout 12th grade during work study program
I will also be attending either Wharton-Leadership in the Business World
or Columbia - Operation Enterprise as well as taking Precalculus in the summer</p>

<p>Please I need your help guys tell me where I stand with getting into NYU Stern <--( applying early) Penn and Michigan. Also please tell me what I can do to improve my chances. Thank you sooooo much guys - Mike</p>

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<p>upward trend in grades, activities average, don't see why u don't have a chance</p>

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<p>Can't really tell. Your ECs look good, especially the PR company thing. You're grades, unfortunately, look a bit sketchy - looks like you have about a 92 GPA, which is a bit weak for the top schools. What was your score on the PSATs?</p>

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<p>Hey, thanks for the reply. I dont know I thought colleges weigh 11th grade more heavily, plus the grades I mentioned are unweighted. And with 3 aps and an overall hard schedule wouldnt a 97 semester avg be good? I didnt do too well on the psat, but it was the first time I had even looked at it without any prior studying. I got a 520 in math 600 in verbal and 580 in writing, but by june they should all be in the high 6 to low 7 hundreds. Please if any one else can give their comments please do so!!!! Thank you so much in advance. Mike</p>

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<p>managed your own company huh? i think that's pretty impressive, to me anyways. as amptron said, your ECs are pretty good and centralized. I don't think you'll have a problem getting into NYU. However, I'm not sure about your grades... even if you have 3 APs.</p>

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<p>Can anyone else please evaluate me please?? Thank you!!</p>

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<p>Warren - </p>

<p>Below are the stats for the NYU class of 2009:</p>

<p>Average High School GPA: 3.63
SAT Score Range (middle 50%): 1310 – 1440
Ranked in Top 10% of High School Class: 71.9%</p>

<p>This covers all eight undergrad colleges in the university. 1310 probably translates to around a 1980 on the new test. 1440 to around a 2160. Median is around 2070. Stern, though, as one of the best business schools in the country, has a much higher SAT range. Figure the minimum you need to be competetive is around 2115 with a GPA of around 3.7. (By the way, you have roughly a 3.68.)</p>

<p>Michigan (Ann Arbor, I presume) has an SAT range similar to NYU as a whole. The schools entrance requirements are a bit stiffer for out of state residents, so figure you have to be at or above the 50th%, that is, above around 2070 to have a reasonable chance.</p>

<p>Penn, however, is a different ballgame entirely. Penn is an Ivy and Wharton is the premiere business school in the country. The competition to get in is fierce. Kids applying to Wharton regularly have 4.0 GPAs and SATs above 2300. Realistically, 2200 on the SATs would be about as low as you could go, and even that score would probably put you in the bottom third of the applicants, maybe even in the bottom quartile. A real reach, in other words. </p>

<p>What I would suggest you do is:</p>

<p>Get those SAT scores up. Take a prep course. If you can't afford that, get a workbook and practice the test. Check out Princeton Review on-line and see what they have to offer.</p>

<p>Take a look at a wider range of schools. There's lots of good schools out there with good business progams which aren't as difficult to get into as Stern, Wharton, and Michigan. Use your SAT scores as a general gage of how well you match a school academically, then choose a list of schools to investigate that range from reaches to safeties. And when you apply, apply to a reach or two, some matches and some safeties.</p>

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<p>Thanks amptron, I am taking a class and have a private tutor. I am working hard to raise the score. But are the SATs the most important thing. Both my principal and college guidance counselor know I want to attend Stern. They are the ones that helped me get the internship at the hedge fund and are going to get me into Wharton for the summer. So, I am trying to ask with all my acomplishments, decent grades and having them helping me would all of that over ride the fact that my SAT scores are that amazing?</p>

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<p>Very low SATs without some contervailing factor (athletics,for example, or some other big hook) can exclude you from many of the top schools. Granted, it's not the only thing they look at, but it would be highly unlikely, for example, for you to get into Wharton with SATs below 2200, unless you had truly amazing ECs, a spectacular talent, or some other quality Wharton or Penn was looking for.</p>

<p>All I can say is try to push your SATs as high as possible and continue doing all the other stuff. Decent SAT scores plus the good grades you have and your good ECs would make it a lot easier for the admissions people at Stern to say yes.</p>

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<p>Hey guys, sorry to bother again, but I have another question. With my P/R business, I was successful and I thought of as good leardership stuff so I wrote about it for an essay on leadership for Wharton summer program. But my gc said that it might sound like I am lying because there is no way I can prove I did this stuff. What should I do?</p>

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<p>i disagree with the previous posters:</p>

<ol>
<li><p>a 92 avg does not translate to a 3.68. the formula (%avg/25=GPA) is false. according to this scale, a kid with a 50 average would have a 2.0. In order to calculate GPA on the 4 pt scale you need to tally letter grades.</p></li>
<li><p>colleges care more about gpa and less about SATs</p></li>
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<p>buumpppp.. can anyone please ask my question?? Thanks - Mike</p>