please chance an impatient sophomore!!!!

Colleges & Universities A-Z New York University
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<p>Here are my stats (freshman year kind of sucked because i just moved to a very competative high ranked school district from an inner city)</p>

<p>Freshman Year
English Honors:B+
History Honors:A-
French 1: A
Latin 1:A-
Math Level 2:B
Physics Honors:C
Physical Education:A-</p>

<p>Sophomore Year
Math Level 3: A
Economics Honors:A
World Religions Honors:A+
History Honors:A+
French II Honors:A+
Latin II:A-
Chemistry Honors:B-
Physical Education:A+
English Honors:B+/A-(not sure yet)</p>

<p>My Schedule Next year is going to be:
AP U.S. History
AP English Language
AP Biology
Ap Macro-economics
Pre Calculus
French III Honors
(and one more elective on which I have not decided yet)</p>

<p>Here are my EC's
Freshman Year: Vice President of Class, Treasurer of Latin Club, Literary Magazine, STAND
Sophomore Year: Vice President of Class, Treasurer of Latin Club, Member of Amnesty International, Model UN(my delegation won second place), Principal's Advisory Council, I started a club called Islam Awareness. IMO, my most impressive EC is the reporting which I do for my school news show where I come up with my own stories, make them relevant to my school, interview people for them, and broadcast them every week. I also learn Chinese outside of school.
I plan on continuing all of my activities next year
Honors and Awards
9th grade: Multilingual student award
10Th grade: excellence in a language award for french and multilingual student award
Latin Honor Society
Volunteer Work: For the past two summers I have been volunteering over 30 hours at the local library. During the school year I give up my lunch period to work with special needs students.
Additional: I am of middle-eastern origin, I speak 3 addtional languages to the ones I learn in school. English is not my first language. </p>

<p>I Know it would be difficult without my projected scores but assuming they were around a 2000/2100 do you think I stand a chance </p>

<p>Also,I do realize the few B's and a C does decrease my chances significantly( I would do anything to change them but I can't) but my school is very competative and does not rank. As far as standing out here's what I was hoping would catch thier eye:
I managed to be elected vice president even though I was new and running against a very competative candidate</p>

<p>Languages are kind of my forte, I take two in school, learn one outside of school, and speak three other at home</p>

<p>My passion for journalism and my initiative to give up my one free period during the day and report on stories that I think are important, relavent, and need to be heard.
What I've done with my school's news show is basically transform it from the reading of a couple of school announcements to making it a show with actual content based stories</p>

<p>That's kind of what I wanted to focus on in my essay; my passion for journalism and braking the styreotype that good, South-east asian women are supposed to have "stable" jobs where they can look after their home, husband, and children. ( I want to be a war correspondent)</p>

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<p>If you continue trending the way you are, you definitely stand more than just a chance. And don’t focus on the lower grades; pretty much everyone has at least one lower grade (I had a C in physics as well, and it was only by the mercy of my teacher that I had that C), and since yours seem to be concentrated mostly in the sciences, I don’t think it’ll hurt you as much as you may think, particularly since those lower grades are grossly outweighed by several other things.</p>

<p>As for your essay topic, I think writing about “breaking the stereotype” is a fantastic idea. I’m sure someone else will say it’s cliche, but, when they are written well, essays like that can be incredibly inspiring and/or really reflective of your personality. Honestly, I would find an essay about your desire to be a war correspondent juxtaposed against sociocultural stereotypes infinitely more interesting than how you got to be Vice President of your class. But that’s just my two cents.</p>

<p>Also, considering how heavy your schedule is going to be next year, I suggest you take a fun elective! I swear, it won’t completely bar you from admission to NYU.</p>

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<p>aww…thanks so much, your advice was really positive and uplifting(completely the opposite of what my guidance counsler has been telling me) and the only reason I even bother to mention the VP thing is because for me as a new student from the inner city, it was really challenging for me to build up the courage to run for VP in a prodominantly rich, white, stuck up town and give a speech in front of an entire grade of students who I didn’t even know! Winning was just the icing on the cake(I beat this really pompous blond girl who so had it coming LOL) thanks again!</p>

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<p>What has your guidance counselor been telling you? I tend not to trust guidance counselors after mine, who was specifically the counselor for JUST the top 10% of the class, advised me to take Parenting and/or Home Ec instead of Trigonometry or Econ. Of course, then he also told me that I would never get into a good school if I didn’t take an AP science, but what was the point of taking one and getting a C when I could have taken a rigorous elective and got an A? Anyway, he was completely wrong.</p>

<p>If it’s about taking an elective, if you look on NYU’s site (or at least CAS’s), they pretty much recommend taking the core groups (English, math, science, and history) for at least 3 years each (English is 4) at least, stressing that most people exceed these minimums. I don’t doubt that you will, too, but of course, that leaves room in your schedule to take some electives. Seriously, I took photography, two years of drama, and three years of journalism as my electives, and I know a lot of my friends took drama or band or creative writing and still got into NYU. Obviously, the more rigorous your schedule, the better, but at the same time, your schedule is already rigorous, and since high school isn’t meant to be super stressful, give yourself a bit of a break. NYU is a great school, sure, but it’s no Harvard, Yale, or Princeton. ;)</p>

<p>And, also, obviously, your transcript would look better without those Bs and that C. But, like you said, there’s nothing you can do about them now, so just accept them and move on. Focusing on the negative will just bring you down and affect your grades in your subsequent courses, and seriously, your other grades are very good. Just make sure you really prepare for the SAT and definitely apply.</p>

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<p>well, my guidance counsler has basically been telling me that NYU is a pretty big reach for me and that I should look at other schools like Syracuse or Northeastern. She says that my low science grades are bringing down my chances because competative schools like NYU look for students who have straight A’s across the board. Also, she says that my schedule next year is way too rigourous for me and she keeps on telling me to drop an AP but I have talked to many of my teachers and they all say that I can handle the schedule so I am going to stick with it. I consider my electives which I have taken this year to be very interesting and fun actually, I loved World Religions because it was so interesting and I had an amazing teacher. I also really like Latin and Economics which are my two other electives.</p>

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<p>Oh, I definitely thought your electives looked interesting, it’s just that I saw that you were taking almost exclusively APs next year and was trying to suggest you not take on another one, haha. I took Econ during high school as well, and I absolutely loved it. It also definitely helped in my politics classes.</p>

<p>I don’t think NYU is a big reach for you; at worst, it’ll be a reach, unless you completely bomb your classes and get a terrible SAT score. Looking at other schools is never a bad idea, as admissions tends to be a crapshoot anyway, but don’t let her discourage you from applying to NYU. The fee to apply isn’t that bad, but if you don’t apply, you’ll question your decision for years to come (trust me, I ended up at exactly the same law school I had originally wanted to attend, but I still regret not having applied to certain schools).</p>

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<p>Believe me, I think I would be classified as mentally insane if i took on another AP haha, anyways congratulations on making it to law school! Thats a really exciting thing to accomplish and I’m sure it must have taken a lot of hard work! Thanks for all of your advice and I will be sure to apply to NYU and a bunch of other schools when the time comes around. Wish me luck!</p>

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<p>Thank you! It was a lot of work, but at the same time, I’ve wanted to go to law school for years, so it was pretty much all worth it. Even after the hell that is 1L, I still think it was worth it.</p>

<p>And good luck! If you have any more specific questions about NYU at any point, don’t hesitate to PM me.</p>