Safety/Match/Reach These Schools Pleasee

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hi guys! I am a rising senior and want to go to a good business school studying finance. I'm wondering if its really possible to make it into NYU Stern with my stats. Thank you!!
I am a white, male suburban jew in 11th grade that attends a high ranking public school near Boston.</p>

<p>GPA UW (Graduation EST): 3.84
SAT (after 2 attempts): 2230 Super Score: 2260</p>

<p>(CR: 730) (Writing: 730) (Math: 760)</p>

<p>SAT II (US History): 760
SAT II (Math II): 770</p>

<p>Sports:</p>

<p>Freshman Soccer</p>

<p>Clubs:</p>

<p>FBLA - 10th, 11th (finance manager), 12th (President)
Model UN - 11th, 12th
Community Service Club - 11th, 12th
School Newspaper Writer - 11th, 12th
1Bounce (founder and President) - 9th, 10th, 11th ,12th
Mock Trial - 11th 12th
Ping Pong Club - 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th</p>

<p>EC's:</p>

<p>Junior Achievement Business Program: 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Junior Achievement Financial Literacy School 11th
Charlie Baker for Governor 10th
Intern at family's real estate Co 11th
Busboy (9th), Cashier (10th) Waiter (11th, 12th) at restaurant downtown
Started Parking Business for BC football games 9th, 10th, 11th, 12th
Wall Street 101 (Stock trading 'camp') 11th
Consistently Maintained Honor Roll and Occasionally High Honors 9th, 10th 11th, 12th
Business Class Teacher's Assistant 11th
VP of FBLA state chapter 12th
Mentor for young children 11th, 12th</p>

<p>Competitions:</p>

<p>Junior Achievement Stock Market Challenge 11th, (probably 12th)
UPenn Investment Competition 10th, 11th, 12th
Fraser Essay Contest Winner 11th
School Spelling Bee Semi-Finalist 10th
Winner of Class Stock Market Investment Competition 9th</p>

<p>Volunteering:</p>

<p>-Over 100 hours of various volunteering types
(picking up trash near rivers, soup kitchens, helping homeless/elderly etc.)
-Started Hunger fundraiser at school</p>

<p>Course Rigor:</p>

<p>9th grade: ADV Math, Reg English english, Reg physics, Reg spanish, Reg history (no honors or AP offered in 1st year)</p>

<p>10th grade: ADV math, Honors Spanish, Honors History, Reg English, Reg Chem (no APs offered to sophomores either)</p>

<p>11th grade: ADV Senior Math, Honors Spanish, Honors English, AP US History, Reg Biology</p>

<p>12th grade: AP Calc, AP Physics, AP Gov, Honors Spanish, Honors English</p>

<p>I will get all 4s and 5s on APs.</p>

<p>IMPORTANT: I also self studied AP Macro, Micro and got 5 and 4 respectively. I also studied over the summer twice to skip math courses and get to AP Calc. And plan to self study one more AP not sure which yet. I self studied APs to make up for an average course rigor and demonstrate hard work, ambition etc.</p>

<p>Hooks:
First Generation College Student
Income > 250k
Been trading stocks since 7th grade, options since 11th
Jewish (if that helps?)</p>

<p>Chance me for:
NYU Stern (Early Desicion)
UPenn Wharton (Early Action)
Carengie Mellon Tepper
UMass Isenberg
Virginia McIntire
BC Carroll</p>

<p>I want to work on Wall St.
Does anyone know anymore east coast business schools that are decent and could act as low matches or safeties?</p>

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<p>Wharton: Reach
Carnegie: Reach
Virginia: Reach
Stern: High Match/ low reach
BC: High Match/ low reach
UMass: safety/low match</p>

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<p>yayyyyy youre first useful comment!</p>

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<p>I recant. All super reaches.</p>

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<p>Wharton is a really high reach, don’t waste your EA on it. try EA’ing to NYU Stern</p>

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<p>You have way too many EC’s… Either you 1. aren’t truly invested in any of them or you 2. are exaggerating. </p>

<p>No one can really chance you, actually. Honestly, no one cares about your laundry list of EC’s. What’s important is your CONTRIBUTION and ACCOMPLISHMENTS. You haven’t told us any of that. And from the looks of the list, I doubt you’ll have both contribution and accomplishment in every single activity.</p>

<p>I don’t know much about business schools, but most of those schools look like reaches.</p>

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<p>@noel597‌ wow thats really rude. apparently i cant have that many ECs, sounds like someones a bit jealous! i have plenty of accomplishments and dont need some keyboard warrior to insult my ECs. ive seen plenty of people on here that have more ECs than me!</p>

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<p>You shouldn’t list all your activities. It doesn’t look good… I’m trying to help you lol. But if you’re so headstrong that you can’t take advice, that’s fine.
I’m not jealous, as I’m already college bound.
So if you don’t have any interest in my advice, that’s fine. Don’t be so defensive. Calm down…</p>

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<p>Plus, do you have two accounts…?</p>

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<p>@collegebound2566‌ </p>

<p>What @noel597 said is completely true and in my opinion not rude at all.</p>

<p>You are right, you shouldn’t have a lot of extracurricular activities because it shows you haven’t invested a lot of time in them. Having 1 EC where you spend 5 hours a day on is better than 10 when you spend 1 hour a week on them. </p>

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<p>@wannabefeynman rich Feynman>>>>> everything</p>

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<p>They won’t let you on wall street with your attitude.</p>

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<p>I believe Wharton only does Early Decision, so I’m not sure you’ll be able to do that along with Stern.</p>

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<p>@collegebound2566‌ - It is true that the list of EC’s is longer than most schools like to see because it indicates lack of depth in any of them, and schools like it better when the ones that people are most involved in are the only ones listed. Especially highlighting leadership positions. Also, I am not sure employment counts as an EC. I could be wrong, maybe that is where people tend to list it, but I think it should be its own line. That’s only important if you are submitting a separate resume. Otherwise I imagine the applications themselves will indicate the right place to put that.</p>