Model United Nations (traveled to conference in Brazil)
Two years on JV Volleyball team</p>
<p>On a side note, I transfered schools at the end of my junior year. My old school did not have weighted GPAs, thus when I arrived at my current school my unweighted GPA dropped about 1.0 points (I don’t know why). Furthermore, my current classmates have had the advantage of weighted GPAs for 4 years while I have just received the benefits this year. For example, one of my friends has an identical GPA to mine but has a 4.4 weighted GPA. </p>
<p>My IB coordinator clarified the GPA inflation in a letter to the schools I applied to, along with a gracious letter of rec. </p>
<p>Hope this helps! I’d really appreciate it if you responded!</p>
<p>Good luck The acting and film programs are particularly renowned, so your son will have a tremendous experience if he goes to Tisch. </p>
<p>@greck4</p>
<p>I have to be honest. You’re likely on the outside looking in. I hope you didn’t send your SAT scores in, but since you only have two SAT II’s listed I’m assuming you did. Your GPA isn’t stellar, but is still in range for NYU. Unfortunately, your SAT scores just don’t make the cut for NYU CAS. Since NYU only counts CR+M scores you have a 1100/1600, which is below average. </p>
<p>The good thing for you is that CAS takes into account a lot of the other application material, such as essays, EC’s, and letters of recommendation. Hopefully your IB coordinator did an excellent job for you and your essays are great. It’ll be tough, but you still have a chance. Best of luck in April ;)</p>
<p>hey jackhammer25, could you please chance me? i got rejected from BU and really want to get into NYU</p>
<p>these are my stats:
-international student, living in germany going to an international school
-taking the IB diploma, with only honor classes
-GPA 3.4 uw, dropped a bit in senior year because the IB is exceedingly demanding and hard… the classes are harder than AP classes.
-SAT = 570 CR, 620 math, 670 Writing</p>
<p>recs are amazing, got one from my IB coordinator and she is crazy about me haha. essays were okay, but NYU questions sucked hard…
as many ECs as you can think of in all fields (volunteering, music, skaterboarding, sports, caring for the old, and many many letters for sports).</p>
<p>what are my shots? it’d be awesome if you could help me out :)</p>
<p>Phillipmartin76, congratulations on your daughter’s acceptance. My daughter will be graduating in May whoohoo!
According to my daughter she says 3rd North is the best dorm for freshman. She never dormed there but had severaL friends who were there. She was a freshman dorming in Rubin with her then roomate a Tisch ,soon to graduate, and now best friend. Good luck, this is a very exciting time for you.</p>
<p>Depends on what your daughter is looking for. If she wants to live on the park, I’d recommend Hayden. If she is ok with walking and wants to live in a slightly bigger dorm to accommodate clothes (stereotype for girls lol) I’d pick the newest NYU dorm, Founders. As milkandsugar pointed out, 3rd North is also the only apartment style dorm for freshmen, so if she wants the opportunity to cook for herself and have a common area, 3rd North would suit her. It’s really all about preference. Different people like different things. </p>
<p>@dandeelion</p>
<p>Not sure what school in NYU you applied to. It’s hard to gauge what your school is like in Germany, but with the IB it seems you have the course rigor. But your SAT’s are subpar. With stats alone, I’d say if you applied to CAS or Stern, it doesn’t look good. Hopefully you had killer application essays because interest helps a bit. It does you no justice to contemplate now. I would prepare for a rejection, but still have hope. Hopefully the admissions committee can put less emphasis on your stats.</p>
<p>jackhammer25, think you can chance me for Stern?</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 2320: 780 Math, 790 Writing, 750 Reading
• SAT II: Math II: 750, US History: 750
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Valedictorian
• AP (place score in parenthesis): Psych (5), US History (4), English Lang (4)
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Macro, AP Micro, AP Spanish, AP Physics B, AP English Lit, AP Stat, AP Calc AB</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Drama Club (President, Stage Manager), Student Government (Senior class President), Consumer Bowl (team captain), Science League, National Honor Society</p>
<p>Basically everyone in any school at NYU tries to do most of their required classes freshman year. It takes up 2-3 of your classes per semester. For CAS, the required classes are Text and Ideas, Writing the Essay, Culture and Contexts, 2 Natural Sciences, and 4 semester of foreign language if you don’t have AP credit/didn’t place out of language. There’s no win-win situation with any of these classes. If you just want an easy A, then try to find the easiest professor. It’s that simple. </p>
<p>@letsgoo</p>
<p>Seriously. You already know the answer to this.</p>
<p>What are my chances for Stern with a 3.62 UW and 4.0+ W? 2300 SAT and 2320 subscore. I’m really worried that Stern is going to be super competitive and my UW GPA is kind of low. Thanks so much!</p>
<p>I said this in another thread: Yes people probably will have some sense in their head that you got into an easier program. But generally speaking, most students won’t care.</p>
The acting and film programs are particularly renowned, so your son will have a tremendous experience if he goes to Tisch. </p>