<p>Background:
Location: California
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) American
Gender: Male
School Type: Public, sends many grads to top schools
Applying to: Stern (finance) ED</p>
<p>Stats:
GPA: 3.879 UW, 4.512 W
ACT: 31 (Plan on retaking)
SAT IIs: 790 Math Level 2, 710 Physics
Rank: 21/393</p>
<p>Extracurriculars/Volunteer/Work Experience:
Future Business Leaders of America (10-12, Secretary 11, Pres 12)
Volunteer at Chinese School (9-10)
Part-Time Job Summer of 2007
Varsity Tennis (10-12, Capt 12)
Taught English for a month in Taiwan during July 2009
Founded KIVA Club my Senior Year.
Key Club (11-12)</p>
<p>AP’s/IB’s:
AP Calc AB - 5
AP Calc BC - 5 AB Subscore - 5
AP Chinese - 4
IB Econ SL - 5</p>
<p>Senior Workload:
IB English 2 HL
IB Biology 2 HL
IB Theory of Knowledge
IB Math 4 HL
IB Global Studies HL
IB Chinese 2 SL</p>
<p>Honors/Awards:
Various awards from FBLA @ Regional and State levels.</p>
<p>Essays/Recommendations:
Essays: Will work hard on them
Teachers Recs: Will be from teachers that know me well
Guidance Counselor Rec: Generic</p>
<p>Hello. I’m an international student (from Bulgaria). I will probably apply in Stern on ED.</p>
<p>SAT I: 2090 (my first attempt) (CR:630;M:770;WR:690)</p>
<p>SAT II: I’m taking Math I,II and probably WH/physics in Oct. I will probably have 2x800 on the maths and i don’t know how on the science SAT (could i have only the 2 maths withouth science?)</p>
<p>TOEFL: I’m taking it in Sept</p>
<p>Awards: I have about 60 awards from mathematical competitions but they are from local competitions. The most important award is a 2nd place in a international mathematical festival in Kiev.
I have written 2 mathematical projects and one of them is with a special award from Ministry of Education.</p>
<p>GPA: 3.95 (I don’t know exactly - 5.80 out of 6.00 in Bulgaria - we have 12 classes)</p>
<p>Other activities:
One of the projects I mentioned above is economic.
Part of a debate club.
Part of a library club.
Part of a mathematical club.
Teaching mathematics to the mathematical team of my city and some younger students
Play piano.
A participation in a project of EU.</p>
<p>Sport: Football</p>
<p>Work:
work as an agent who sells innovative houses
voluntary work in a hospital for 200h
voluntary work in a library</p>
<p>I need a financial aid. Probably applying for Finance? Is the Business School of NYU prominent?</p>
<p>l0lin’ i just became a member of college confidential in order to discuss my potential acceptance to nyu!</p>
<p>Planning on applying ED to CAS
QUESTION: is financial aid/scholarships in the slightest bit more available to one who applies ED? i would really appreciate the ability to afford going to my dream school!</p>
<p>Major: English (would like to double major in social science such as anthropology, economics, sociology, linguistics, etc)
Minor: Spanish (maybe something cool like metropolitan studies?)</p>
<p>btwz, imma white boy from tha dirty Jersey</p>
<p>GPA: (currently being re-converted from a 4.5 scale to a 4.0 scale which will be in actuality a 4.3 scale due to the fact that the school doesn’t want to remove the weight added to honors/ap courses. yeah i really don’t get it either) ANYWAY, it will most likely be between a 3.95 and a 4.0 (94 or 95)</p>
<p>*QUESTION: regarding the SAT and ACT, does NYU prefer one over the other?</p>
<p>ACT: 32
English: 34
Math: 30
Reading: 32
Science: 33
Writing: 9</p>
<p>SAT: 2080
CR: 650
Math: 660
Writing: 770</p>
<p>Extra-curricular:
Won Euro Challenge national championship during sophomore year
Class Secretary all 4 years of high school
FBLA all 4 years (served as Membership VP during last 2 years)
Spanish Honor Society (currently serving as Vice President)
National Honor Society member
Founding member of Gay-Straight Alliance
Participate in Fed Challenge
Student Ambassador during senior year
Member of Spring Track Team
Castmember of school plays during junior year</p>
<p>Volunteer:
pre-school teacher for a week-long camp at my church during summer
tutor children at charter school once a week during school year</p>
<p>work:
work at local tennis club during summer</p>
<p>Senior year courses:
AP Spanish
SUPA Honors College English
AP Euro
AP Environmental
Calculus
Creative Writing</p>
<p>My HS is top 30 in NJ/sends a few students to NYU every year</p>
<p>Also, my teachers LUVVVV me so I best be gettin’ some good recommendations ( ;</p>
<p>P.S. I love NYU/have wanted to go there since sophomore year. W00T w00t</p>
<p>are you a US citizen studying abroad? i’m not sure if you’re considered “International” or not and that makes a big difference. are you a citizen?</p>
<p>competitive chances, just try to distinguish yourself in the essay, because on paper you kind of sound like every other Stern applicant. no offense. just rock the essay!</p>
<p>international student are scrutinized more. you are not eligible for financial aid. the Leonard N. Stern School of Business at NYU is very highly regarded. you need to raise your critical reading SAT score, and i would suggest submitting three SAT IIs. international students are fighting an uphill battle and i’m not quite sure how to “chance” you. :-(</p>
<p>1) yes, ED students get a little bit more aid, but not much more. our financial aid sucks. a lot. A LOT. but things get iffy with ED and financial aid. . . if you really need significant aid, i would apply regular because then you can compare financial aid with other colleges and ask for more aid.</p>
<p>2) no, NYU takes both and considers both equally because they like applicants from all over the US.</p>
<p>a) NYU will reweight your GPA according to their standards, but 94/95 is good. (New Yorker here, i hate the 100/100 grading scale now, lol.)</p>
<p>b) CAS doesn’t admit by major, so they don’t ~really~ care what the major is on your application. </p>
<p>c) your ACT is a little above average (avg is 29-31) </p>
<p>overall, i feel like you have a fighting chance. if you can, i would recommend taking another SAT II that you would do well in because that Lit score is good.</p>
<p>I am interested in applying to NYU Gallatin.</p>
<p>Stats:
Male
Suburb of Boston, MA
rising senior
my high school sends some grads to top schools (depends on what you consider “some” and what you consider "top schools). My school has sent students to Boston College, Boston University, NYU, Oberlin, Occidental College, Cornell, Tufts, Swarthmore, Wellesley, etc.
GPA: 93.3 unweighted / no weighted GPA
class rank: 47/386 = 12.2% (will most likely [if not definitely] be within the top 10% next year as I’m taking twice as many AP courses and the level of our courses is the only thing that influences our class rank)
SATs CR/M/W: 660/610/710 = 1980
I haven’t taken the SAT IIs yet, will be taking them in English and French
I have only received one rec yet and it was amazing, but it will most likely be used as an additional rec because it is from my singing teacher.
My essay is not completed, but I’ve been told the beginning I have is great</p>
<p>ECS:
Amnesty International
National Honor Society
Philosophy Club
Select Choir
Future Teachers of America</p>
<p>Outside Interests:
Regional Select Choir
Foreign exchange: 2 weeks in France
award-winning photography for Enterprise Bank
writing and photography are published in school’s literary magazine
piano lessons
peaceful protest in Boston (“The Rescue”)
Schools for Schools organization
member of a group dedicated to bringing free, safe fun to the city of Boston
personal blog
write on a Philosophy Forum with members of my Philosophy Club (Philosophy Club was discontinued, so we use this instead)</p>
<p>Scholastic Honors:
Honors Award (“summa”)
6 student recognition awards</p>
<p>Leadership:
I’m one of the most active members in my Amnesty International Club, I am a volunteer French teacher, and next year I will hopefully be Chief Editor of my school’s writing center program that helps students with their essays. Unfortunately for me, the activities that I do have little “leadership positions”. I do what I like, though.</p>
<p>Volunteer Services:
teaching French to elementary school students (80+ hours)
National Honor Society English tutor (? hours)
Writing Center program (? hours)
Community Day</p>
<p>Employment:
none so far</p>
<p>Future:
I plan on taking voice lessons senior year
I plan on volunteering at a French library in Boston
I plan on retaking the SATs at least one more time and hopefully raising my score to over 2000, but who knows
Taking the SAT IIs in the fall</p>
<p>+:
With my applications I am planning on submitting a recording of my singing, a CD with examples of my photography, and possibly ONE additional rec from my voice teacher
I’m also first generation.</p>
<p>@missamericanpie thank you! that is definitely encouraging. I have a question though: with the new standardized test policy, can I choose to only have them see my ACT scores? From what I’ve read, I thought that an applicant chooses the test scores that he or she wants to send.</p>
<p>This is a dream school of mine, I think I’m a long long long shot, so I’d like to know if I have ANY chance at all. I might apply ED if it helps. I would still be ecstatic to get into GSP.</p>
<p>Weighted GPA: 3.2
SAT I: 750 CR 750 Math 730 Writing (2230 total)
SAT II: History 690, Biology 690</p>
<p>Basically, my soph grades are mediocre (around 3.4 weighted average), then it took a complete nose-dive first sem of junior year (4 Cs, 2 Ds) and second semester I recovered some whilst still taking the same classes (4.0 Weighted average).</p>
<p>APs Taken (# is grade I got on AP test)/To Take Senior Year (S):
AP Biology (4)
AP English Comp (5)
AP U.S History (4)
AP English Lit (S)
AP Environmental Science (S)
AP Art History (S)</p>
<p>Average Extracirric/Outside Interests:</p>
<p>-Founded a charity to raise money to fund music lessons for inner city kids; hosted a fairly successful benefit concert.
-2 years Academic Decathalon
-Played guitar in a band for 4 years, played at venues like the Whisky Agogo in Hollywood
-About 50-75 hours of volunteer
-Employed in Retail for a few months
-Did two sports freshman/sophomore year (don’t think this counts for anything because I was on JV both sports both years)</p>
<p>If I apply, I’m applying ED to College of Arts and Sciences. I’ll probably major in international relations.</p>
<p>SAT: 2030- 690CR, 690M, 650W
Sat II: Math 2, English (have not completed yet)
AP: (Only available senior yr) US Government and Politics, English, Calculus (have not taken yet)</p>
<p>GPA: 3.91/4.0
Rank: 8 of 148</p>
<p>ECs:
Drama Club- 9, 10, 11, 12 (very committed- lead role this past year, at least 10 hrs per/wk)
R.E.B.E.L.- 10, 11, 12 (county representative yr 11, hopefully 12)
National Honors Society- 11, 12
Jam Sessions- (music club-im a music production major in high school)-10, 12
Academic Challenge Team- 10, 11, 12
community college courses- sociology= A, microeconomic=s A, macroeconomics (not complete)</p>
<p>Awards:
Cape Assist Award- Anti-Drinking Public Service Announcement
School Counts
First and Second Honor Roll
Congressional Student Leadership Conference- acceptance, didn’t attend because of fee</p>
<p>Other:
American Red Cross- volunteer
currently work 35 hr/wk</p>
<p>Senior Year Schedule:
Entertainment Production 3
AP English
Physical Education
AP US Government and Politics
Spanish 4
AP Calculus
Drama </p>
<p>your stats are solid (SATs are a little low? what’s the 610 in?).</p>
<p>Gallatin’s number one concern is that your concentration is something you are PASSIONATE IN. hit the essay out of the park. seriously. they want to see that you are driven (and on paper, you do seem driven) but they also want to see that you are academically independent.</p>
<p>stats look really good. but you can’t apply as an IR major right off the bat. it’s an Honors major. you need to major in something else. but CAS doesn’t admit by major anyway. you would have to major in Politics.</p>
<p>what’s your unweighted? NYU reweights the grades of applicants before they go in front of the committee. if it’s below 3.0. . . :-/.</p>
<p>the rest of your application looks solid, and the SATs are great, but the fact that you got those grades the first semester junior year is kind of worrying.</p>
<p>i don’t know what the current stats of people who get LSP’d are, honestly.</p>
<p>does NYU put a lot of weight on course load? because i skipped 2 grades of math and will be submitting a 5 on BC calc (taken junior year). will that help my application a lot, or is it still the same as every other stern applicant?</p>
<p>SAT II: Doing Math II and Bio expecting 800 and 750</p>
<p>Work experience: 100 hours internship studying how managers manage efficiency of workers at a factory and then a 50 hour job as a cashier at a large food convention</p>
<p>ECs: 8 years of cricket, Elected student council member, Prefect (runnning for headboy), Gavell club (toastmasters), GYLC, MUN, volunteer at an organisation that helps and offers advice to teens and children with problems, and a few other small things here and there like math tutoring</p>
<p>So what do you guys think? any opinions would be greatly appreciated</p>
<p>I am a white female from a good private school in FL. 4 graduates from the class of 2009 are going to NYU this year. I want to apply ED to CAS. I will not be requesting financial aid if that makes any difference. </p>
<p>GPA (UW): 3.8
GPA (W): I have no idea, but it must be higher. I thought the 3.8 was my weighted GPA, but my councilor told me recently that was actually UW
ACT: 31 C (30 S, 30 R, 34 V, 29 M, 9 essay)
SAT: 1340/2040 (690 M, 650 CR, 700 W)
Rank: School does not rank</p>
<p>Senior courses:
AP Environmental Science
AP Calc AB
AP Mod. Euro
AP Eng. Lit
H Statistics
Religion in pop culture</p>
<p>Clubs: (weak area)
3 years French club- no position held
3 years Writing tutor- director of tutor training
2 years student government- elected rep.
1 year diversity club- only club I did freshman year, idk if I will include
80 hours community service- most at animal shelter and tutoring papers </p>
<p>Recs- 1 teacher will be amazing, 1 good but may be more impersonal, great councilor rec</p>
<p>Employment- worked 2 summers as a file clerk</p>
<p>Other- I have an upward trend through high school. No honors classes fresh. year, 1 sophmore, and 3 junior year. I could not take APs until senior year. I also have one C from spanish 3.</p>
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