<p>I'm worried about my daughter so seeking some advice here. My daughter currently a junior has a bad GPA of 3.0. She messed up her freshman year and had a 2.5 and 3.3 sophmore year. But now my daughter has realized its almost too late and working very hard and has a 4.0 upto now. 2 more quarters to go and quite confident she will stay at 4.0 or better. She has taken a few honors classes throughout. She is varsity cross country first 2 years but dropped it junior year because it was taking her time from studies. She is an amazing writer. Interned at local newspaper and infact wrote several articles regularly. She is Editor of 3 literary magazines at school and probably will be editor in chief next year.She writes amazing essays.</p>
<p>She will take SAT in March but hopefully do well because all her practice ones get 650-700. PSAT was 175. Recommendations will be very good. Wants to major in Journalism</p>
<p>Will pay retail tuition not looking for FA. Please chance her for NYU and BU. She really wants to go to NYU or she will be very disappointed. She is planning to do ED at either. Please tell me where she has a better chance at ED. How do we let them know we will pay full price?</p>
<p>The second question is easy: You simply don’t check the box on the Common App that asks if you are applying of FA.</p>
<p>My advice concerning the first question is to meet with her GC and, if your school has Naviance, check that out. That will give you the best idea of how her scores/grades do. Obviously and upward trend is better than the reverse, and it sounds like she’s got a lot going for her. Good luck.</p>
<p>Hi! The upward trend / improvement will not be lost on college admissions. I would probably apply ED for NYU (very selective) and if that doesn’t work out (though hopefully it will!) also apply for BU. Both great schools.
Good luck, don’t worry :)</p>
<p>I do not think she will get into NYU.I hear BU has some sort of general studies program that she may be able to go to if she keep up her GPA there…check that out</p>
<p>She’d have a better chance at BU, but if NYU is her dream school, then go for it. It sounds like she wants a city school. Has she looked at GWU? They have a very good journalism school, and they have EDII. If things didn’t work out with NYU, she could apply there, and to Syracuse/Newhouse and BU RD.</p>
<p>Seriously, she might love GW- Wash DC is great, and there are many opportunities for journalists. Maybe try to go and see it.</p>
<p>Thanks Schmohawk, my older daughter is now a Sophmore at GWU so you know how that is, no DC for her. My husband is an Alumni at NYU but is not active nor has given any money to it so that hook might not work. She likes both NYU and BU but hate to say this we are trying to play the safe card where is better chance of getting via ED.</p>
<p>I have heard getting into BU is better at RD because they have waitlists but ED they do not deffer you. So RD better chance than ED even though you are not looking for FA. Anyone can clarify if that is true?</p>
<p>Both BU and NYU are need-blind, so not-applying for FA will not give you an edge at either school.</p>
<p>I think the fact that her GPA has been on an upward trend will help – wait out and see what her SAT scores are. If she can break 700 on each section, I think that NYU and BU might not be worth wasting your one ED. (although both are fine schools). I’m not so sure how much applying ED at really large schools such as these actually help. After filling up the ED slots, they still have <em>thousands</em> of spots to fill from RD – not the case for many smaller schools.</p>