<p>thought this might be helpful to people interested in chances...</p>
<p>anyways, these are my stats, and i was rejected (i'm attending UCLA instead)</p>
<p>went to an inner city chicago public school (ranked 2nd or 3rd in illinois)</p>
<p>applied regular decision to CAS, thought i had a good essay...and good reccs, but my opinion so who knows...</p>
<p>GPA (w) 4.8
Rank: 6/150
APs: 6 total (the rest of my classes were honors)
ACT: 28
community service: 150 hours (biology/chemistry tutor)
ECs: drama club - 2 years (20 hours/week)
advanced band 1 year, first chair oboe (plus 4 years private lessons)
started both art club and improve club
softball- 2 years (oh and bowling but only 1 year)
NHS - 2 years
rockclimbing classes- 4 years
improv classes @ second city (2 years)
2 week intensive acting program during summer</p>
<p>Awards:</p>
<p>magazine essay of the month (1st place award)
science fair- fresh- excellent @ regionals, sohp- outstanding @ state, jun- outstanding @ city. oh and i was in science club at my school. </p>
<p>my sister went to nyu (no idea if that matters)</p>
<p>i don't believe this. honestly, if i were you i'd call and ask. i somehow got into cas with much much lower stats than you in every possible category. and i also got rejected from ucla; i'm in-state.</p>
<p>well i guess based on NYU's average, it is fair to assume, his/her score needs to go up in order to be considered a more competative applicant...however it is also important to note which program, the applicant is applying for...Stern obviously is more selective than The School of Social Work.</p>
<p>I was blown away by the GPA and ECs, but I didn't know the ACT/SAT comparison scale. I guess 1300 is on the low side. aquasocks, what was your unweighted GPA?</p>
<p>NYU cares about your test scores ALOT imo... and your test scores aren't exactly OMG! but your ecs are amazing! (i had *<strong><em>ty ecs, wrote a *</em></strong> essay, but still got into nyu with a decent test score :/)</p>
<p>ucla does not like low SAT's.... dont know where you got that from. all the UC's have a mathematical equation for who gets in and who doesnt (all california kids know this) this calculation ONLY takes into consideration gpa and test scores. you were right that a high gpa from and easy high school is favored and thats beacuse they dont even look at what high school you graduated from. so the 4.8 gpa is probably what got him into ucla.</p>
<p>on the other hand.... nyu will take your ec's into consideration along with test scores and gpa.</p>
<p>Gentleman, take what "US news" says with a grain of salt, those numbers do not match the accurate numbers, which can be found on either/both schools' website statistics.</p>
<p>Mike, that's where I got those numbers. Go onto their respective websites and look up "common data set" and you'll get the same numbers as I wrote here.</p>
<p>G&S did not use the correct numbers for NYU. He should have used traditional baccalaureate, not total undergrad, which includes bacc, associate, diploma, and certificates. The admit rate for traditional baccalaureate at NYU is 28.6%</p>
<p>Regarding GPA, NYU is 3.6 Unweighted out of 4.0
UCLA 4.12 cannot be using the same scale (4.0) and is probably weighted GPA. Hence the two numbers are incommensurate and the comparison fallacious.</p>
<p>boys and girls, the word of the day is "fallacious," which means an argument based on incorrect or misleading information. Can you say "fall-eh-tschus?" I knew you could.</p>
<p>Vercingetorix, I just used the numbers that NYU put on their site, so complain to them if you have a problem with what they use. After all, those are the numbers that USnews uses and they are the numbers that USnews uses to rank all the other schools with, so only showing the baccalaureate numbers would only work (when comparing schools) if EVERY school did so as well, which they don't. Using NYU's baccalaureate numbers to compare the with other schools who use total application numbers is a fallacious comparison.</p>