@indiahyland They sent me an email saying that the decision applies to everything, so I not don’t know what they’re trying to get at
@runzwitsiccors Did you download your admission letter? It will be very clear on there.
@runzwitsiccors I think what they meant was that your one decision on albert was made considering all of the schools you showed interest in. it certainly doesn’t mean that you got into both schools, because NYU doesn’t accept one students into more than one school of campus. but basically, if you got an acceptance letter to shanghai, it means you were rejected from Stern or wherever else you applied at the new york campus.
If you still wanna double check, you can always call them and ask if an acceptance to shanghai is the same thing as a rejection to Stern, but I’m 100% sure that is is 
do you guys know if you can double major in steinhardt and cas econ if the school you got accepted into is steinhardt?
@camwow yeah! If you got into steinhardt, you can double major at CAS for sure!
I called financial aid office like 8 days ago and they said my FA summary on albert would be updated soon… it still hasn’t been updated. anyone else on the same page? very frustrating - I thought all financial aid stuff was supposed to come out on the same day as decisions???
@indiahyland I would call again if I were you…but my friend did not get his package until like a week ago so dont worry about it too much!
if I can double major at cas, then how hard would it be to just switch majors into cas?
@camwow do you mean just drop your major at Steinhardt and switch to CAS completely? in that case, you would have to apply for an internal transfer. not sure how hard it is to make that specific change, but I would say it’s definitely easier than trying to switch to Tisch or Stern.
@camwow also is your friend an international applicant by any chance
@indiahyland nope he lives in the us
@camwow Hey!! I’m a CAS freshman and my roommate just transferred to CAS from Steinhardt for sophomore year. You’ll have to spend one year in Steinhardt and then apply, but internal transfers to CAS aren’t too difficult.
@wonderlanddd hey, thx for the info! Do you think it is harder to transfer into cas Econ than another major at cas?
this is super late but i was waitlisted at nyu lol, but i’m going to columbia in the fall
sat: 2350
class rank: 2/304
gpa: 4.85w, 3.98uw
ecs: president of nhs, concertmaster of 2 years in orch, allstate violinist, internships, 400+ hours of community service
asian female
for future applicants: just remember that one rejection/waitlist doesn’t automatically disqualify you at other schools, and try not to fall down the rabbit hole of self hatred!
@camwow I’m not 100% sure, but I wouldn’t think so, considering econ isn’t something you have to apply to or is particularly hard to get into once you’re in CAS (it’s a good and popular program, but you don’t need to apply just for it, if that makes sense).
rejected :’(
(sorry ik this is really late)
Campus Preference: Only listed nyc
Intended Major/College (in order of preference): Computer Science (Tandon), Computer Science (CAS), LSP
GPA at time of application: 3.51 (3.85 senior year)
Class Rank at time of app;: 251/638
old SAT: 1900, single sitting, first and only attempt
new SAT: 1350 superscored, 680 EBRW , 670 M
Senior Year courseload: AP English Literature & Comp, AP Biology, Spanish 3, AP Computer Science A,
Adv. Media Team, AP US Gov & Politics, AP Microeconomics, Precalculus
Courses at Community College: General/Inorganic Chemistry (summer course, equivalent to one semester)
Ethnicity: Asian (China and Malaysia family background, first Asian-American in my family)
High School: Large competitive public high school located in a upper-middle class town in Northern California
ECs:
- 100+ hours community service, organized a neighborhood food drive for an under-resourced senior center.
- Tutor at local church for kids in grades K-8, many of which are special needs. I also recruited tutors at school to help out with the program.
- High School Media Team, Director and Editor
- Haunted House Marketing Committee, Media Lead
- Cybersecurity Club, Secretary and Treasurer: Competes in cybersecurity competitions like CyberPatriot and PicoCTF.
- FIRST Robotics Team, Robot Driver and founding member of community service committee for organizing service opportunities for team members.
- Mentor for Coding Club at a local middle school teaching computer science concepts and programming to middle school students.
- Presented a lesson for Hour of Code to a middle school class
- 2016 Election Precinct Officer
Essays
- Common App: Honestly now that I think about it my commonapp essay was not that great. I only started working on it like 2 weeks before it was due lol, but basically told the story explaining that I had frequent doctor appointments for my first 2 years of high school which prevented me from pursuing extracurricular activities and exploring my interests. Also tells how finding my passion for community service opened my eyes to step outside my comfort zone and apply that into pursuing other activities that interested me while doing my best to create a positive impact in each of them.
People told me that the content and ideas that I had for my essay was good, but looking at it again the wording just sounds bland and uninteresting, and my writing relied too much on telling rather than showing. - Why NYU? Essay: I mostly expressed my interest in cybersecurity and how I would spend time in the OSIRIS Lab if admitted, and that I wanted to minor in cybersecurity, along with mentioning NYU being NSA-accredited. I mentioned wanting to join several clubs and organizations that were consistent with my interests that I did my best to make apparent in my ECs. Also mentioned how I found NYU’s diversity and opportunities very appealing, and related it to my love of traveling and experiencing new things.
Additional Comments: I basically gave a brief background on my history of medical issues, starting with having to go through brain surgery at age 7, and the complications that wrought on my life in the subsequent years, including being hospitalized just before the start of high school and being diagnosed with a learning disability in winter of sophomore year, which was found to have been negatively impacting my grades at the time. I did, however, mention that I was able to overcome and accept my learning disability and improve in my academic performance (which created an upward trend in my grades).
Other Colleges
Accepted: UC Riverside, UC Santa Cruz, UC Merced, SFSU, Sac State, SJSU (by appeal), Chico State
Rejected: USC, UCLA, UC San Diego, UC Davis, NYU
I’m honestly not too sure why I was rejected. I’m thinking it may be a combination of my mediocre GPA and test scores (which I think were low in comparison to other Tandon applicants I’ve seen here on CC) and/or poorly-written commonapp essay. I was really hoping that my ECs, NYU essay, upward-trending grades, and complicated circumstances would help to balance those out. Maybe the admissions committee thought that my learning disability would only make me a burden for the counselors and professors to deal with if I was admitted.
NYU was my first choice, the college of my dreams, and it was the only OOS college my parents would let me apply to because they disapproved of me leaving California. I actually wanted to apply to a number of other OOS colleges, so this was really disheartening me to me. After a month of begging, they allowed me to only send in one more app, which I chose to send to NYU. After putting all my faith into that application, the news of my rejection hit me hard.
They did, however, seem less turned off at the idea of me transferring, so I may try to transfer when I get the chance. Right now I’m trying to decide between SFSU, SJSU, and UC Santa Cruz. Touring these schools has actually made me feel a lot better, and I’m looking forward to the fall.
Congratulations to those who have been admitted!
^ another late person but, an acceptance
Accepted into Tisch, as a musical theatre bfa - applied with an intention also major in international relations.
SAT: 1575 (new)
ACT: 35
GPA: 4.84 W overall
ECs: biggest commitments were to theatre + voice + dance, (both in and out of school choirs and shows and training and dance companies etc), speech team, student council, newspaper, relay for life, after school all-stars, global citizens club, feminism club, and gsa. 200+volunteer hours and a job for over two years.
APs/Honors: All honors / APs throughout all of HS minus regular geometry/alg 2 frosh and soph year
Large and vaguely competitive (only honors kids are, but we encompass about only 1/5 of our 500 person class) public HS in a richer area of Illinois. 100k income and I got a ton of local merit/community scholarships.
Mixed race (half South Asian) female. First gen college student
Audition for Tisch was the best one I’ve given EVER
Essays were a+
Other colleges: Accepted at UC Berkeley, UCLA, CMU (Accepted for Int. Relations, waitlisted for MT), Boston University, Barnard, Twin Cities. Waitlisted at Columbia, Brown, and UMich. Rejected at Wesleyan.
Hi there! I’m also a NZ student doing NCEA, I’d love to talk about it 
I know it’s really stupid of me, but I’m really stressing out these days b/c apparently everyone has a “fake” at nyu and I don’t plan on drinking. Will I find normal people who don’t have a fake to hang out with in college?
i posted a thread asking about this and nightlife/drinking in nyc so if someone could give me some insight about it on there or here that would be much appreciated!
@camwow Curious to this as well, but I’m sure it’s possible to meet people without alcohol. I don’t drink either (health reasons), and I am not too concerned with this. My plan, if I attend, is to get into a sport I enjoy, a club or two, and NYU Speaks. This way I have a wide range of people who value similar things, without the presence of alcohol. If you make friends with them before they choose to drink, they won’t kick you to the curb (generally)