<p>Hey everyone. Can anyone tell me how NYU looks at your high school freshman year grades in terms of admission? In the 1st semester of freshman year I had straight C's (two 78's and two 77's) but ever since then and even in the 2nd sem. of fresh. year I have gotten 2 A's and 2 B's each semester. I'm really asking this because that 1st semester of my 1st year of high school is killing my GPA. Anyone get in with low freshman year grades?</p>
<p>Thanks for any help.</p>
<p>in my case, i had great start in the freshman year, and scored all A's and all the way on to my sophomore year. But after that, it kind of went downhill... i recieved one C and a B in my junior year, but I've managed to improve as a senior, but not as great as my freshman/soph grades.
so, considering that i've gotten accepted with this downhill trend, i think it'll be a good shot if you show a considerable improvement. Colleges, especially selective ones, look for some sort of academic growth. I hope that helps!</p>
<p>Thanks for your help. </p>
<p>Anyone else?</p>
<p>it holistic prospective
NYU is not that hard to get itno</p>
<p>24% acceptance rate...average SAT combined 2040, average GPA 3.7 (4.25 weighted) </p>
<p>Two 3.5's and a 2.0...that's what a 3.0 unweighted?</p>
<p>It aint that easy.</p>
<p>^ i think most people on CC have those stats or better</p>
<p>yeah I don't know what the hell he's talking about. </p>
<p>@salem - I hope you're not referring to me because that's not what I have.</p>
<p>but NYU gets harder every year, especially schools like Stern and Tisch. Stern's acceptance rate this year was 14%</p>
<p>Good thing I wouldn't be going to Stern. (would apply CAS)</p>
<p>p.s. does your chosen major when you apply to CAS generally have any effect on admissions?</p>
<p>Hmm to be honest I got the impression that NYU CAS was really hard to get into but realistically it's a very big dream school among students across the board, maybe not so much for the ivy-driven people but very much so for others. Schools like Stern and Tisch are without a doubt the hardest to get into but CAS has such a low acceptance rate because of the sheer number of applicants.</p>
<p>Outside of this forum, I got the impression from people who applied to NYU that they had this romanticized idea of what living in NYC would be like - shopping in between classes, spontaneous fun, etc. - when they've never visited the place. That's not to say every applicant is like that but really, I don't think CAS is highly highly selective in the sense that tons of very qualified students apply there. Just alot of students in general.</p>
<p>^ Plus, the hidden land mine of NYU is that many who get in can't afford to go. Crappy aid + no merit scholarships (at least I don't think so anymore) means it's very tough for many to stay 4 years, if at all.</p>
<p>^ There is merit aid but it's awarded to very few people, I think top 5%, many of whom might choose to go to a better school. Speaking for CAS</p>
<p>SORRY buzzards...what is your GPA? I wasn't reading close I saw Straight C's and "freshman". Good news if it's a ballpark GPA, your tests are great (and EC's) can write a great essay...you've got a shot (but you have to be on the radar). </p>
<p>All schools love to see an upward trend in grades, and if it were only one semester...I might compose a little paragraph for that "other information" section of the application (not for just NYU) explaining the one bad semester. It's impossible to check out anyway. Stay away from "I was depressed" that would spook them, but you can say a parent had heath issues. I think you have to acknowledge it and use the space to resell the strong upward trend.</p>
<p>These guys on CC can chance you and most are pretty darn accurate. Post your weighted (another thing...were you taking a tough courseload?) andunweighted GPA's, EC's and tests. They can give you that more "holistic" picture.</p>
<p>It's true there's a trend for top level schools NOT to look at freshman grades at all (supposedly) Univ of Michigan doesn't. Seems crazy to get into a school like that on just sophmore/junior grades, but then have a 3-year GPA that won't get you into lesser schools.</p>
<p>Good Luck</p>
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<p>I know quite a lot of "ivy-driven" people who use NYU as a safety school to fall back on. Ironically, I know a few people who turn down ivies like brown, dartmouth, cornell etc to go to NYU, especially for Tisch and Stern.</p>
<p>Ah ok then it must've been a stern-only elimination of merit money.</p>
<p>@salem - thanks for the advice about the "other info" section of the app. The summer before I started high school ( it was that 1st sem. fresh year that I did horrible in) I had a big surgery. Probably no one on here has heard of pectus excavatum but it's basically when your chest has a "dent" in it and so the surgery was me getting a bar in my chest to "pop" it out. It hurt like **** and I was on all these pain med narcotics for a while and I STILL have the bar in - getting it out next summer. So anyway I honestly think that was a cause of the bad grades. </p>
<p>p.s. how bad exactly is NYU with fin. aid?</p>
<p>depends
stern tends to be more generous than the other school since it has more cash
i didnt really qualify for any money but my friend did
she got about 8k more per year from BC and BU than she did from NYU CAS</p>
<p>nyu is extrememly bad with fin aid. i don't agree about stern being more generous. all the schools are pretty stingy so don't expect a lot whichever school you decide to go to. the only people who get good scholarships are urm's with extremeley low income. people who are very smart may only get a few grand in merit scholarship, and if i am not mistaken i believe that nyu has decided to drastically decrease their merit aid for the following years.</p>
<p>perfect buzzards...I knew a kid who had that surgery...same time too. He was very self concious BEFORE it and probably more right after. He couldn't carry heavy text books or play sports for a long time.</p>
<p>So there's your angle, here you are starting a new school "high" school. Your self concious, not physically feeling right, it's all you could do to sit through a day of classes, maybe a little depressed about not being able to play sports...meet new kids. Then you felt dramatically physcically better after a long Christmas break and the results were obvious not only with your grades but overall outlook. Then point out the upward trend and how you plan on keeping it up through college and grad school.</p>
<p>"As you can see on my transcript, my grades improved dramitcally with each passing semester. I am a focused and motivated student, who plans on maintaining this upward trend at NYU (insert school here) and eventually throughout graduate school."</p>
<p>salem - thanks again for that advice. I honestly wouldn't have thought of putting that there. Do all college apps have a spot for something like "other information"?</p>