Please chance me for NYU!

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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Hi guys! Would any of you chance me? I’ve been rejected by 4 schools, waitlisted by 1, and only got into my safeties and one target range school, so I am kinda panicking about NYU now. It’s my top choice but I wasn’t able to ED because of money. I am hoping now that if I get in I could talk it over with my parents and we could maybe find a way to pay, I just couldn’t do the binding agreement.

Applied to CAS to major in history
white, female, middle class

GPA W 4.54 (I think UW is somewhere around 3.8)
SAT 1440
5 AP’s (scored a 5 on 3 exams and a 4 another, didn’t take the Lit exam), rest of classes honors or dual enrollment with only 2 non-honors classes
really good letters of rec
solid why NYU essay and a pretty good common app essay
top 4% of my class (rank 9/226)
took Spanish 3 years and latin 1 year
took math all 4 years (got up to calculus)

treasurer of NHS
went to Girl State
theater all 4 years
choir all 4 years
had jobs all 4 years
in 3 volunteering clubs
on a gap year now and working, was going to travel to Italy and do a cultural exchange/ volunteer type thing with a host family but had to cancel because of coronavirus

history department award (majoring in history if that helps)
gold medal on national latin exam
national AP scholar with honor
made highest honors or high honors every semester
Wellesley book award

I hope you guys all get/got into your dream schools!

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I legitimately don’t see a reason why NYU would reject you based on the rlly high stats that you have. I’m pretty sure that you can get in.

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@alphabeta12 thank you! I am getting stressed with all of this waiting, which I’m sure you can relate to!

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Good luck tomorrow! Your stats are certainly good, but that is generally not the deciding factor at NYU – it’s more about what you do and how solid/creative your LoR(s), Why NYU?, and personal essay are. For context, I got into Gallatin ED w/ 3.74 UW / 3.91 W, 32 ACT, 141/366 class rank and didn’t even submit my AP tests. What differentiated me (and you!) is what I mentioned above.

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@rtkpdx thank you! I have really good LoR’s and specific, creative essays! Do you think my Ec’s are good? I think that’s a general weak point of mine. It’s just getting stressful because this is my dream school and a last hope option!