********official decisions thread for stern*********

<p>NYU- RD Stern</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 730CR 740M 800W 11 essay...maybe 10
[</em>] ACT: 35
[<em>] SAT II: 650Bio 700Math II...yeah. don't ask. 790 Eng Lit
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/~300
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc, Eng Lit, and Government; band, econ, spanish IV, Anatomy/Phys
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): NMF
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): NHS VP, Key club VP
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: cashier for a summer
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: ~150 at a hospital, 50 at various places
[<em>] Summer Activities:gov school
[</em>] Essays: average
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: don't know
[</em>] Counselor Rec: don't know
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: none
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): ND
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: 60,000 to 70,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I was told coming from ND doesn't count, so none.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: test scores? except SATIIs
[<em>] Weaknesses: average essays.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I don't know, perhaps the admins thought i'd be a good match
[/ul]General Comments: very content, especially coming off of an not so good weekend as far as college decisions go.</p>

<p>i'll post the rest later. i got in with 2060 sat, 710 and 680 satIIs, rank 8/600. i</p>

<p>'m happppy</p>

<p>ACCEPTED: NYU- Stern</p>

<p>Applied to BPE program, but the letter did not mention BPE....</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2220 (800 M, 640 CR, 780 W [11 E])
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35 E, 34 M, 36 R, 33 S, 9 E)
[<em>] SAT II: 770 MathII, 770 US History, 750 Physics
<a href="Weighted"></a> GPA: 103.5667 on 100 scale
[</em>] Rank: 1/73 in magnet program, 2/772 overall in school
[<em>] AP: 5 English Lang, 5 US History, 5 Macroecon
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Span Lang, AP Calc AB, Research/Design/Development, AP Physics B, Comp Sci II H, AP Calc BC, English 4, AP Physics C
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Coca Cola Scholar?
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Robotics, LD Debate, Extemporaneous Speaking, Student Advisory Committee to Superintendent, NHS, Physics & Calc Club...really good leadership
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Bookkeeper and office assistant at accounting office
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Animal shelter, robotics lego league, church
[<em>] Summer Activities: LEAD Wharton
[</em>] Essays: Good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Great
[<em>] Additional Rec: none provided
[</em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]
Other[ul]
[<em>] State: Texas
[</em>] School Type: Public (Magnet program within resident school)
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic (Mexican American)
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: upper middle
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM
[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: transcript was about perfect, good act score, activities
[</em>] Weaknesses: not good at writing college essays that "reflect me"
[li] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: wish adcom could tell me :)[/li][/ul]
General Comments:* awesome. congrats everyone!</p>

<p>Pick one:
NYU- RD Stern</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown):
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: 710 biology e, 700 us history, 630 math 2
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.73
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): probably top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 ap comp gov, 4 ap us history, 4 ap human geo, 4 ap euro, 3 ap bio, 3 ap english lang
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: 6 ap classes
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): mun (pres), mock trial (lawyer), various community service clubs as president, then the various honor societies
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: internships at financial advisement firms
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: about 250 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: internships
[</em>] Essays: pretty good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: decent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: decent
[<em>] Additional Rec: nope
[</em>] Interview: nope
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Pacific Islander/Spanish
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): legacy
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: strong ECs
[<em>] Weaknesses: low unweighted gpa
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>nobody who got rejected is going to post in here lol</p>

<p>NYU- RD Stern (Woot Woot!!!)</p>

<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): Math 750, Verbal 760, Writing 760
ACT: n/a
SAT II: 720 biology m, 740 world history, 790 math 2
Weighted GPA(don't know my uw GPA/ out of 4.6): 4.29
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5%, unofficially ranked 13
AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 ap world history, 5 ap us history, 4 ap spanish language, 5 ap physics B
IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
Senior Year Course Load: 4 ap classes, 1 college class
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended (don't know if this is an award)
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Concert Band (1st clarinet), Jazz Band (pianist and clarinet), Pit Orchestra (keyboardist and clarinetist), Fencing (Varsity), etc.
Job/Work Experience: Hospital work for 3 years; volunteered at NYU Medical Lab
Volunteer/Community service: ...not sure
Summer Activities: job at NYU medical lab
Essays: eh...
Teacher Recommendation: probably good
Counselor Rec: probably good
Additional Rec: n/a
Interview: n/a
Other
State (if domestic applicant): NY
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public (relatively competitive)
Ethnicity: Asian (heh...) - Chinese
Gender: F
Income Bracket: middle
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing at all<br>
Reflection
Strengths: SAT score, GPA...maybe
Weaknesses: relatively little leadership qualities, I'm asian
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
...don't really know why...its still a mystery to me...</p>

<p>Yep...congrats to those who got accepted!!!</p>

<p>^ That's because rejection notifications aren't out yet.</p>

<p>I have a 33 ACT, almost 4.0 (1 B in freshman year, not really sure what my unweighted GPA is), bad ECs with one secretarial position. I'm truly SHOCKED (but delighted) I was accepted.</p>

<p>I don't feel like filling out the form, but if you want more info feel free to PM me.</p>

<p>This HTML crap is too long and hackneyed, so forget that.</p>

<p>ACT: 31
GPA: 4.0
SATII: 790/750/680
Race: Asian
School: Public
Rest of the APP: Good</p>

<p>How the crap did I get in? I have no idea</p>

<p>ACCEPTED!</p>

<p>SAT: 1530/2260
GPA: 3.62 W
EC's: part time job, some volunteer stuff, a couple of other clubs, nothing special
good essay and recs
other: hispanic male, born in Colombia but raised a few miles north of downtown Boston</p>

<p>ACT: 30
GPA: 3.83 uw
Rank: 13 outta 223
Hooks: first gen/hispanic male/One of only a few people from my HS to ever get accepted into anywhere prestigious
AP: like 2? but all honors classes (school doesnt have too many AP's)
Reccomendation: Both teachers loved me to death, so i assumed pretty good plus my LEAD america program director took a great liking to me (economist for greece/works with UN)
Essay: Well i thought it was pretty epic, and i usually call all my work crap (if u wanna read it PM me..)
Leadership : VP of FBLA, CEO of Virtual Enterprise International, Cpt of Wrestling team 10th/11th grade, Vp of virtual business at business conference, </p>

<p>honestly, they must have seen something I didnt see....</p>

<p>I kinda feel dumb compared to you guys...</p>

<p>Accepted NYU Stern</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2250; CR: 770 M: 800 W: 680
[</em>] ACT:34
[<em>] SAT II: Math 2C: 800 USH: 800 Bio-M: 780 Chem: 770 Physics: 720
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.78UW , 4.53 W
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 5% in class of 635
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Calc BC (5), AB Subscore(4), USH(5), Bio(5), Eng. Lang(5), Comp Sci AB(5), Euro (3), Comp Sci A(4)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): SL Physics (5), SL Math(6) Full IB Diploma Candidate
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP French, AP Eng Lit, AP Gov, AP Macro Econ, IB SL Philosophy, AP Stats, AP Chem; Most rigorous course load
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Siemens Regional Semifinalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Red Cross Volunteer (Vice President), FBLA, Key Club
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 200+ @ Red Cross, 150+ @ Hospital
[<em>] Summer Activities: Biochemical research/ Red Cross leadership camp
[</em>] Essays: Average
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Average, she barely knew who I was
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket:<50,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Academics
[<em>] Weaknesses: Recs, Essays
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>NYU- RD Stern School of Business</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2280 790M, 690CR, 800W
[</em>] ACT: 31
[<em>] SAT II: 710 Math II, 630 Math I (not a type-o), 590 Biology-M, 640 U.S.History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.7-3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): at least top 10%
[</em>]AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. History (4), Lit and Comp, Calc AB, Bio
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Bio, AP Lit and Comp, Political and Legal Education (honors), Spanish IV (honors), Finance, Web Design
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit commendation
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[<em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[</em>] Job/Work Experience: 2 1/2 yrs as a cashier at uncle's store
[<em>] Volunteer/Community service: hospital, local soup kitchen
[</em>] Summer Activities: camp counselor, job, travel, reading
[<em>] Essays: Excellent
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent
[<em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[</em>] Additional Rec: Excellent
[<em>] Interview: N/A
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Indian-American
[</em>] Gender: M
[<em>] Income Bracket: $150K+
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): first generation college
[/ul]Reflection[list]
[<em>] Strengths: Testing, essays, recommendations
[</em>] Weaknesses: Community Service
[*] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Crap shoot</p>

<p>Here's the template: (remove all spaces between brackets, red if rejected, green accepted)</p>

<p>Pick one:
*NYU- RD Stern School of Business *</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2090-800M 630 CR 660 W
[</em>] ACT:31
[<em>] SAT II: 760 Math 2 710 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 140/660
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Physics B(5), World History(4), Calculus AB(4), Eng. Lang(3)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Micro/Macro, AP Comp Gov., AP Calc. BC, AP Physics C, Organic Chemistry Honors, Joint Enrollment English
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Bunch of Cello/Orchestra stuff. Bunch of Baseball stuff
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: None
[<em>] Summer Activities: Physics Camp
[</em>] Essays: Long essay was good. Short Responses were average
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Pretty good i think.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Barely know him, talked to him 6 times in four years. Probably very average
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview:
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):GA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Competitive Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: Didn't apply for financial aid
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):none
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: 10 AP's
[<em>] Weaknesses: Rank, SAT score etc etc...I dont see how they accepted me
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:
[/ul]General Comments: I'm definitely going :D it was my number one choice and I'm really excited! I got the acceptance a week ago.</p>

<p>Pick one:
Accepted NYU Stern</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 740r 740m 770w (2250)
[</em>] SAT II: Chem:770 Bio:730 U*<em>ory: 690
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5 / 603
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): ABCalc: 5 Gov: 5 USH:5 Bio:4
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Stats, AP BC Calc, AP Psych, Physics Honors, AP Lit
[/ul]
Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President Senior Class, President NHS, bunch of other stuff. NO BUSINESS RELATED EC'S. NONE
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Small job, 8 hours a week.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: About 600 hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: Volunteering, working out for football
[</em>] Essays: Strong; not perfect by any means, but strong.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One good, the other excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Haven't read it.
[<em>] Interview: Didn't have one
[/ul]
Other*[ul]
[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): NJ
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Indian (not native american)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: Middle-Upper Class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None that I can think of. I have really good leadership positions?
[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Leadership positions.
[<em>] Weaknesses: Ironically enough, my math grades. Never had a final year average with an A in math. I guess I compensated in other areas.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: I couldn't tell you. I think I am an overall strong applicant. High rank, strong SAT's, lotta top leadership ecs. I also have an internship with my local government, and teach an ap gov class.
[/ul]
General Comments:* You don't need to live high school as a businessmen to get into Stern. Do what you're good at, do what you're passionate about, and things will work out. I received my letter of acceptance roughly a week ago.</p>

<p>Accepted - STERN</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 35
[</em>] SAT II: 800/Math, 790/Chem, 780/Bio
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 10%
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): CalcBC/5, Chem/5, Bio/5, EngLang/5, USHist/4
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: High school: AP Eng, AP Music Theory, AP Phys, AP Latin. Comm. College: Calc III, Intro to Marketing, World Music, Microecon
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar of some sort, some leadership award.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 14 piano trophies [seven 1st place]
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: N/a
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: N/a
[<em>] Summer Activities: Comm. college: PoliSci, Intro to Logic, Speech/Debate; travel; invented a bunch of stuff (will get patent for once I have the money too)
[</em>] Essays: Lengthy one about experience being a piano accompanist for elementary school orchestra… a strong one, I believe.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Good, but nothing unique/outstanding.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Spectacular!
[<em>] Additional Rec: Great one from music teacher.
[</em>] Interview: None
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Cali
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public, about 2.5K students
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: 90K-120K
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Music all the way! And 1st generation.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: The short takes by far. I think that’s what got me in :wink: and some previous experience w/advertising+marketing. Plus a lot of community college courses.
[<em>] Weaknesses: No volunteer experience to speak of.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: Who knows? Probably because of my extracurriculars/non-academic talents rather than GPA/AP/ACT scores.
[/ul]General Comments: Nice being accepted :)</p>

<p>So is stern didnt reply to you, its basically a rejection?</p>

<p>^ Not necessarily…(I hope). I’m still waiting for mine. :(</p>

<p>NYU- RD Stern</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2310- M790 CR & W 760
[</em>] ACT:nope
[<em>] SAT II: U.S. His 760 Span 720 M2 710
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.86
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):top 5% (800 kid class)
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):Calc AB(4) Bio, US. his, English Language all 5s
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):nope
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP-Stats, Physics, Euro, Spanish. Honors-English, Foreign Policy, Modern European History
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):National Merit Finalist. 3rd in State national spanish exam, academic team regional champs, national honors society
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):Cross Country(Manager/assistant coach this year b/c of injury, winter track, track, community basketball, academic team, national honor society volunteering
[<em>] Job/Work Experience:Mcdonalds 12hr/week freshman sophomore year, lifeguard summer soph-junior. Hollister 16 hrs/week junior and senior year
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service:30 mostly at church
[<em>] Summer Activities:full time work(i spend money like there’s no tomorrow)
[</em>] Essays:really good (i’m a quadruplet, wrote about how it made me competitive
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation:didn’t read them? but based on the teachers i’d say great and good
[</em>] Counselor Rec:hopefully awesome, he’s my dad’s good friend i’d be mad if it wasn’t haha
[<em>] Additional Rec:no
[</em>] Interview:no
[/ul][ b]Other**[ul]
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type:well-ranked suburban school
[</em>] Ethnicity:White
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] Income Bracket:250k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):quadruplet? idk not anything else obviously since i’m an upper middle class white male with no good alumni relatives… basically it sucks
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths:general well roundedness? i guess lots of sports activities, still heavy course load and grades
[<em>] Weaknesses:i guess leadership somewhat but only officially i’m a great leader in reality haha
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected:i guess i pretty much had all the stats
[/ul]General Comments:</p>

<p>No one has been rejected so far right?</p>