*****************OFFICIAL NYU CLASS OF 2019 RD DECISIONS***************************

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Pick one:
**Decision: Accepted to Tisch School of the Arts **

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2000 (660M, 630CR, 710W)
[] ACT (breakdown): N/A
[] SAT II: N/A
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.57
[] Weighted GPA (if available): N/A
[] Rank/percentile (if available): N/A
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): French Language (5), Literature (3), Macroeconomics (4)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lang, AP Euro History, Calculus, Environmental Science, Yearbook, Drama, Photography, Modern Living
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): N/A

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): N/A
[] Job/Work Experience: babysitting
[] Volunteer/Community service: student-driven project that organizes concert to raise money for Malagasy children, student council
[] Summer Activities: theater workshops in France
[] Essays: I don’t remember my NYU essay but my common app essay was great
[] Teacher Recommendation: N/A
[] Counselor Rec: N/A
[] Additional Rec: N/A

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[] Intended Major: Photography and Imaging
[] State (if domestic applicant):
[] Country (if international applicant): Madagascar
[] School Type: Private
[] Ethnicity: French and Malagasy
[] Gender: Female
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): N/A

[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: essay
[] Weaknesses: extracurriculars
[] Why you think you were accepted: my photographs were good
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: Loyola Marymount University / Rejected: Chapman University and USC

[/ul]General Comments: Didn’t really expect to be accepted! I only applied as a “why not?” and here I am! I have yet to see the financial aid that NYU will or will not give me, but I’m pretty sure I will go anyway.

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@turnuptuesday‌ Just wondering, how much FA were you able to receive? I have around the same stats and am in a similar financial situation as you and I was thinking about applying to Stern next year but, I think money is my biggest issue atm

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Decision: Accepted

Objective:
[] SAT I (breakdown): nope
[] ACT: 34C: 36E, 35R, 31M, 33S
[] SAT II: didn’t send
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.98
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 10%
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP US History
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Stats, AP Psych, AP Gov, Dual Enrollment Physics & others
[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): DECA Awards, NCWIT Aspirations in Computing National Runner-Up & Affiliate winner, Elks Student of the Year[/li]
[/list][ b]Subjective:**
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): DECA (President), Elections Committee (President, Student Government Chair), NHS (Officer), Humanitarian Advocate Leadership Council (Founder), Tutoring Center (Founding member, Coordinator)
[] Job/Work Experience: Make websites and graphics and run social media for a local not for profit org.
[] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at my local children’s museum, tutoring, and drive for CHOICE Humanitarian, various other little things
[] Summer Activities: Utah Business Week
[] Essays: NYU one was well-researched but not super well-written and a little general (6/10), Common App is probably my riskiest but I thought it was good/interesting (7/10)!
[] Teacher Recommendation: 2 from English teachers (7/10 they both like me!), 1 from Computer Science teacher (9/10 I cry every time I read it! She loves me.)
[] Counselor Rec: Probably not super insightful but she really likes me (6/10)
[] Additional Rec:
[] Interview: no
[] Supplementary Material: nope

[/list][ b]Other**
[] State (if domestic applicant): Utah
Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Female
[] Income Bracket(mention if FA candidate): 50,000 - 100,000 (applied for FA)
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Maybe girl in Computer Science?

[/list][ b]Reflection**
[] Strengths: Test scores, GPA
[] Weaknesses: could have had better ECs, had to email all my college adcoms twice due to transcript errors
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Competitive statistically, expressed interest in my essay, tried to emphasize what made me different and what I would offer
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Rejected - University of Chicago, Northwestern; Waitlisted - RPI, Barnard College; Accepted - NYU, USC Iovine & Young Academy, Tufts University, University of Utah

[/list]General Comments: Not going, but happy to have gotten in! Congrats to everyone!

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**Decision: Accepted to College of Arts & Sciences **

Objective:
-SAT I (breakdown): Not submitted
-ACT (breakdown): 33 Eng/ 26 Math/ 36 Reading/ 35 Science/ 8 Essay (33 comp.)
-SAT II: Not taken
-Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.82
-Weighted GPA (if available): 4.31/5
-Rank/percentile (if available): 11%
-AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (5), US History (5), Lang (5), Psych (4), Stats (4)
-IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
-Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Euro, PALs, Newspaper, Eco/ Gov, AP Environmental Science, Free period
-Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None. Awards mostly district/ regional, all journalism-related

Subjective:
-Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Newspaper (Co-EIC senior year), National English Honor Society (President), Gay-Straight Alliance (general officer), Girl Scouts (13 year member), For <2 years: Key Club, Theatre, Harry Potter Club
-Job/Work Experience: Worked at fall activities farm junior year, Grader and Tutor at tutoring place senior year
-Volunteer/Community service: Lol, basically nothing
-Summer Activities: Rhodes College Summer Writing Institute - took a two-week class on Expository Psychology, Trip to Europe with Girl Scout Troop
-Essays: Common app was a decent essay about moving to Texas from NJ in junior high, a bit rough but still authentic; NYU supplement was kind of sassy and focused on double major requirement for Journalism, study abroad and journalism honors programs
-Teacher Recommendation: Journalism advisor (9/10), AP Lang teacher (8/10)
-Counselor Rec: Didn’t read, but probably good, she knows me
-Additional Rec: None

Other
-Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes; receieved $40k CAS scholarship too!!
-Intended Major: Journalism
-State (if domestic applicant): TX
-Country (if international applicant):
-School Type: large public
-Ethnicity: white
-Gender: female
-Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation for bachelor’s? Is that a thing

Reflection
-Strengths: AP scores, heavy journalism involvement, possibly my essays
-Weaknesses: I only took 2 years of Spanish?? Also I am not even taking math lol
-Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I like to think my personality showed through my essays… showed that I have things to offer them in supplement
-Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to University of Houston honors w/ Tier One Scholarship, UT-Austin, Northeastern, University of Washington; Rejected to Tulane

General Comments: Was unsure about acceptance, but I definitely didn’t expect this scholarship. Congrats to everyone else accepted!!! This has been my dream school for years.

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Decision: Accepted to Gallatin
**Decision: Rejected by Tisch **

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I 2040: 750 Math, 660 Reading, 630 Writing
[] ACT 26
[] SAT II: 700 Bio, 760 Math 2
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.8
[] Weighted GPA (if available): 4.8
[] AP : US History (4), Physics (4)
[li] Senior Year Course Load: Ap Environment, AP Stats, AP Macro Economics, Virtual Animation, English IV H, Government H[/li]
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Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars: NHS, Jewish Value Club(Representative/Historian)
[] Volunteer/Community service: 320 Hours over various things like Kids in Distress and the Exceptional Theater Company
[] Summer Activities: Took College 3 Credit Course at USC Intro to Video Game Design, took no credit college course at WPI Interactive Media and Game Design
[] Essays: I thought they were decent but nothing special
[] Teacher Recommendation: US History and Calculus likely wrote great recommendations
[] Counselor Rec: I gave her a bunch of stuff to say about me so it should’ve been good

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[] Intended Major: Game Design, but didn’t get accepted into Tisch
[] State (if domestic applicant): Florida
[] School Type: Private High School that has reputation for being a great school
[] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[] Gender: Male

[/ul]Reflection[list]
[] Strengths: Previous college credits were nice
[] Weaknesses: A few weak grades
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I have no idea why I was accepted into Gallatin, but I had some issues submitting the Tisch supplement that might’ve been why I was rejected
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted to WPI, RPI, and Drexel, Wait listed by Northeastern, Rejected from USC and Georgia Tech

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Decision: Accepted to Gallatin!!

SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT (breakdown): 33 superscored (31 Composite otherwise)
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): I’m not sure :confused:
Weighted GPA (if available): 4.16
Rank/percentile (if available): 19/365
AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem (4), Calc AB (4), Lang (4), Physics B (4)
Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP Econ, AP Gov, Theatre, Choir, Swimming, other fluff

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): President of Thespian Troupe, leads in shows, musical theatre, directing shows, original scripts, select jazz choir for three years, All State Choir, and LINK Leader.
Job/Work Experience: I work at an elementary school in the after-school daycare program!
Volunteer/Community service: Payment optional restaurant volunteering
Summer Activities: Generally involved in shows/working at the school
Essays: Common App was about my coming out story in script form (my teacher cried :smile: ) and my NYU was fairly succinct, but I felt good about it!
Teacher Recommendation: One was phenomenal, the other I never got the chance to read.
Counselor Rec: I don’t know :neutral_face:

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes!
Intended Major: Individualized, but I’m sure it’ll have something to do with theatre.
State (if domestic applicant): Colorado!
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: Male

Strengths: My Common App essay and extracurriculars
Weaknesses: My testing made me nervous and my lack of any hooks.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m incredibly focused in passionate in my particular field, so I lucked out that they saw something in that!

General Comments:I reeeeeally hope that I can figure out the financial aid! I’d love to see you all in the fall :smiley:

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**Decision: Accepted to (Gallatin) **

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): Reading-800. Math-660. Writing-650
[] ACT (breakdown): 33 and 32, taken twice. 35 superscored.
[] SAT II:
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.65
[] Weighted GPA (if available): 4.20
[] Rank/percentile (if available): 61/766
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio and World:(4) Lang, APUSH, and APES: (5)
[] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[] Senior Year Course Load:
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Debate and mock trial for about 2 years. Video production. Weak ec’s :wink:
[] Job/Work Experience: naaah
[] Volunteer/Community service: none
[] Summer Activities: hang out with friends
[] Essays: I got da passion
[] Teacher Recommendation: Great.
[] Counselor Rec: Idk
[] Additional Rec:

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes! $66,330 with Gallatin Scholarship and Pell Grant.
[] Intended Major: Idk it’s Gallatin.
[] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: Asian
[] Gender: Male
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First generation, not much else.

[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths:
[] Weaknesses:
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:

[/ul]General Comments:
S/o to the admissions office they know what’s good.

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[color=green]**Decision: Accepted to Global Liberal Studies Program **/color

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2260 Composite, Reading - 800, Writing - 740, Math - 720
[] ACT (breakdown): 32 Composite, Reading - 35, Science - 30, Math - 29, English - 35
[] SAT II: Literature - 740, U.S. History - 650 (Not the best by a long shot, but I don’t think they hurt me per se)
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.5 (Health issues explained in essays)
[] Weighted GPA: 3.7
[] Rank/percentile: Top 25% is all my school provides
[] AP: AP Gov. (5) AP Lit (5) AP Lang., AP Chem., APUSH
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Language, AP Chem, AP Calculus, APUSH, Spanish IV, Varsity Forensics (Speech & Debate), World Cultures
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Commended Scholar, Northeast Nebraska Youth Philanthropy Award, National Qualifier for Speech 2 years in a row, Multiple State qualifications, awards, and championships in various activities, Academic All-American

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars: Speech (Event Captain, Class Representative, Student Coach), Debate (Policy Debate Captain), Mock Trial Team (Lead Attorney, Team Captain), GSA (Founding Member, Events Coordinator), Junior Statesmen of America (Vice President, Chapter Correspondent)
[] Job/Work Experience: Working around 10-20 hours a week as a Telephone Interviewer through Junior and Senior Year
[] Volunteer/Community service: Mostly coordinated through groups I have a leadership role in, but lots of it.
[] Summer Activities: Volunteer at YoungLife trapshooting event that helps earn money for kids to go to camp. Multiple speech and debate camps. Summer job.
[] Essays: I thought my essays were very well written, if a little generic.
[] Teacher Recommendation: I saw 2 of the 3 I was given and they were both incredible. I have very close personal relationships with all 3 teachers who provided recommendations for me.
[] Counselor Rec: I happen to be lucky enough to have a close relationship with my counselor. Her rec. was invaluable.
[] Additional Rec: Given by the attorney who coaches our Mock Trial team. It was A+++ (especially considering my endgame is law school).

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. EFC of 0 here. And received a good bit of it (60,000 in scholarships and grants)
[] Intended Major: Global Liberal Studies, CAS Gender, Women’s, Sexuality as close second choice.
[] State: Nebraska
[] School Type: Smallish (1200) student body. Public. Rural. Not very competitive. Lack of many classes/opportunities.
[] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[] Gender: Male
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Very poor. Bad childhood/family situation. First Generation to go to college. Openly gay in a VERY conservative atmosphere. Many serious health issues that have held me back (see the GPA) that I have managed to overcome.[/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: I think the non stats-based parts of my application were what really did it for me.
[] Weaknesses: My GPA and scores aren’t exactly what one might consider stellar. Additionally, many colleges may see me as a dropout risk due to ongoing health problems.
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I think I showed my specific interest in NYU very well, as well as proved that I am used to overcoming any struggles and can handle anything that can be thrown at me during my time there. Also didn’t hurt that I applied to the program most of the other people end up in as their last choice…
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: Butler, Macalaster, American University, American University of Paris
Waitlisted: Grinnell, Whitman, Kenyon, Colby, Wash U. (Lots of waitlists here :/)
Rejected: Carleton, Vanderbilt
Waiting on: Reed, Brown

[/ul]General Comments: Knowing NYU’s perceived reputation, I was rather shocked that I was accepted and offered such a nice package when compared to schools with what are perceived as much more “holistic” admissions (Carleton) rejecting me. Goes to show that admissions really is just a lottery in many senses, especially when applying with prominent factors such as health.

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Decision: Accepted.

Objective:

SAT I (breakdown): didn’t send
ACT (breakdown): 31
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 5/182
AP (place score in parenthesis): Micro (4) Macro (5) Lang (5) Euro (4) US History (5)
IB (place score in parenthesis):
Senior Year Course Load: AP Psych, AP Gov, AP Music Theory, AP Lit, Sociology, Orchestra, Japanese
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Mostly school-wide awards, some music awards

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Job/Work Experience: worked as a counselor for a summer esl program for international students for 4 years
Volunteer/Community service: a bunch of cultural clubs (chinese, japanese, taiwanese), SCCUP (students for cross cultural understanding program), speaking partner for foreign students to improve english, tutoring, counselor at a summer ESL program for international students, volunteer to an orphanage in mexico, president and founder of a foundation to raise money for the kids at my school to pay their tuition if their families are affected by cancer, track manager. All very consistent, done for at least 3 or 4 years.
Essays: 9/10…wrote about my empathy and experience in what I want to major in. talked more about others than myself
Teacher Recommendation: pretty great, they came from my japanese teacher and the dean of humanities
Counselor Rec: N/A
Additional Rec: One from my employer at the summer job. Probably good
Other

Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Global Liberal Studies
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: private, small, christian school
Ethnicity: Chinese
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: low-mid $80,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none

Reflection

Strengths:
What you tried to focus on in your application - any hooks you tried to make for yourself: All of my EC’s supplemented my major well.
Weaknesses: test scores
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: GPA + EC’s
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: Accepted (UCLA, UCSD, UCSB, Cornell, King’s College London, Bard College Berlin, University of the Pacific, Clark University, Brandeis, Colby) Waitlisted (Uchicago) Rejected (Wustl, Duke, Brown)

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**Decision: Accepted to CAS **

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): N/A
[] ACT (breakdown): 32 (E -34, M -31, R -31, S -32, W -7)
[] SAT II: Math II - 680, Lit -660, USH -650, Chem -620
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): lol
[] Weighted GPA (if available): lol
[] Rank/percentile (if available): N/A
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio- 4
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[] Senior Year Course Load: stuff.
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none.

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): It was really just Church, Art, Music, Writing. (lead worship at church - 3yrs, taught kids drawing - 16wks, piano 10+ yrs, guitar 5+ yrs self taught, etc.) Most of them were hobbies and personal projects. I did put a lot of time into each of them though.
[] Job/Work Experience: Absolutely none.
[] Volunteer/Community service: Some of the stuff above. VBS (350 hours)
[] Summer Activities: Edited a webcomic for someone, hosted/judged a storytelling competition, VBS (9th, 10th), stuff like that, also my school is basically year round.
[] Essays: They were…pretty bad. The commonapp one was about being homeschooled. The supplement was pretty bad too…
[] Teacher Recommendation: I think she knew me quite well.
[] Counselor Rec: Eh…don’t know.
[] Additional Rec: none.

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[] Intended Major: Undeclared
[] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[] Country (if international applicant): N/A
[] School Type: Homeschooled.
[] Ethnicity: Asian - Korean
[] Gender: F
[] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First Gen, Low Income, Homeschooled

[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Not much really.
[] Weaknesses: Bad essays. Not so great extracurriculars. Average scores. Everything?
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea, a miracle? Not complaining, lol.
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted: UCSD, UCI, CSUF Rejected: UCLA, Stanford, Brown, Hamilton.

[/ul]General Comments: Would love to attend. Don’t know if I’ll be able to afford it. sigh Is it bad that I haven’t received my financial aid offer yet?