<p>I received my rejection letter from NYU on Monday (april 4th) and was kinda upset. Im deciding right now whether or not to appeal. I never felt like I had a guaranteed in or anything (my stats arent that great), but I get the feeling that my application wasnt thoroughly reviewed. My orchestra director got a call from admissions on Tuesday (March 29) asking for a recommendation and returned the call on Wed. Then, the rejection letter was postmarked on April 1st, which was friday. </p>
<p>The phone call had made me a little more confident and i thought that it would at least be between acceptance or waitlist, so i was pretty confused at the decision.</p>
<p>anyways, any advice on whether i should appeal or the appeal process is welcome!</p>
<p>here are my stats:</p>
<p>asian male, texas
SAT 1: 1490 (730 math 760 verb)
SAT 2's: 780 writing, 630 lit, 680 math 1c
National Merit Finalist
GPA: 4.40, rank ~60/831 (really competitive huge school)
9 ap classes, (4 senior year)
3 APUSH, 4 eng3, World Hist, 5 Psych
EC's: 4 years of orchestra, 1 year tennis, 1 year vp of service club, 1 year pres/founder of college-oriented club, 2 years school newspaper, 1 year editorials editor, 1 year newspaper internship, nhs, church involvement
my biggest one is a marketing firm internship senior year
good recs (one from the marketing exec)</p>
<p>cant hurt to call and see if they take appeals and then if you have the time and effort to do a good appeal etc.. cant hurt to try.
but frankly i think chances are slim, especially since you are asian, which it seems is over represented minority at Stern...</p>
<p>soo many spelling errors in my app cuz i had to send it i remember that day sooo well it was monday, jan 10, the monday right after winter break, and the apps were due that day, so i went home and finished the app, and then went to sleep. there were so many spelling errors and i wrote a whole bunch of crap and on top of that</p>
<p>im ASIAN and im CHINESE so what do u know? haha i thought i'd be rejected EVERYWHERE with those stats </p>
<p>i guess maybe they need a few dumb chinese people for a change so other races can feel smart too</p>
<p>If you're at all interested in appealing, you better get on the phone to the admissions office quickly. You've already wasted the week! It's rare that they would grant an appeal but if you have some new information which might change their decision, I'd call today! 212-998-4500 . They'll tell you what the process is.</p>
<p>The only appeals most colleges accept is when something was drastically wrong with your application. If nothing major was omited, don't expect success</p>