<p>College Courses (AP's/Honors):
Fresh: Intro to Engineering
Soph: AP European, Honors English, Digital Electronics
Junior: APUSH, AP US Government, AP Eng Language
Senior: AP Macroeconomics, AP Eng Literature, AP Calc AB
other: Essentials of Marketing at NYC College of Technology (credit course) </p>
<p>Extracurriculars:
Wrestling (JV/Varsity): 4 years
Future Business Leaders of America: Junior, Senior year
Editor/Web-master: Online newspaper that is affiliated with, but not run by, the school.
Journalist: online technology magazine (soph, junior, possibly senior) </p>
<p>Personal/Misc:
White male, 17
Born in US, but family originated from Uzbekistan (on common app i would put "White:Other")
Super competitive high school in NYC
APs limited to 3 a year and most aren't offered till junior year. </p>
<p>Colleges:
Cornell
NYU (Stern and CAS)
Boston College
Boston University
SUNY Bing
SUNY Geneseo
Macaulay Honors College (in NYC)
Vanderbilt
Dartmouth (because why not?:) </p>
<p>Possible Majors (depending on college): Business Administration, Economics, Pre-law </p>
<p>Did you manage to get a rec from a NYU prof? That could really help you get in. I think BU, SUNY Bing, and SUNY Geneseo is a low match (as in easy acceptance). Macaulay is a match. NYU is a match if you got a prof rec, otherwise it may be a small stretch. Vanderbilt, Cornell, and Dartmouth are stretches.</p>
<p>Cornell: Reach
NYU Stern: High match/Reach
NYU: Match/High match
Vanderbilt: Reach
Dartmouth: Reach
BC: High match
BU: Match
Binghamton: Low match
Geneseo: Low match
Macaulay: High match (GPA a little low unless you want to attend Staten Island, Medgar Evers or York for Macaulay)</p>
<p>If you can define “super competitive,” that would be very helpful. Is it Trinity/HM/Riverdale/Fieldston competitive or otherwise. Feel free to PM me if you don’t want to post it publicly, so I can chance you better.</p>
<p>thanks everyone!
probably over-exaggerated with “super competitive” but it is a competitive public (specialized) high school in NYC (have to take a test to get in). sorry about that. </p>
<p>Additional stuff: Income is middle class, parents have degrees from former soviet union. Not too many hooks to go on really i will prob get AP scholar with honor by end of junior year, and AP scholar with distinction at the end of senior (no effect i’m guessing) and i have chance for national merit semi-finalist (cutoff was 215 last year, i received 216). my junior GPA is currently at 4.0 (uw) but due to sophomore year my overall is not that great. </p>
<p>What specialized high school you go too? Stuy, Tech, Bronx? You have a lot of reaches. But not too far of a reach. Always make sure you have colleges your 100% sure you can get into, just in case.</p>
<p>If you were memorable to your professor, shoot him/her an email saying how you want to attend NYU full time and it would mean a lot if they could voice their opinion on your character.</p>
<p>Is there any college that you really, like definitely want to go to. Because if there is then you probably will have a 85% shot at getting in for Early Decision or Early Action</p>
<p>@bluejay- my top 3 are Cornell, Stern, and BC, but i’m still conflicted which one to ED for, considering they are all basically reaches for me. out of the matches, Bing would be my favorite. does ED really increase your chances that much? (sorry, I don’t know that much about ED/EA) </p>
<p>@ PxAlaska- haha don’t worry about it buddy. i’ll definitely try that, thanks for the advice!</p>
<p>Early Decision for acceptance rates are higher for Cornell, Stern and BC:</p>
<p>Cornell - 34% ED acceptance rate
Stern - 34% ED
BC - 36% ED</p>
<p>thats higher than there usual. And most of the time if your a good candidate, they don’t reject ED applicants, you get either accepted or waitlisted. If you are waitlisted, it’s better than nothing, you just get your results at the time of regular decision.</p>
i will prob get AP scholar with honor by end of junior year, and AP scholar with distinction at the end of senior (no effect i’m guessing) and i have chance for national merit semi-finalist (cutoff was 215 last year, i received 216). my junior GPA is currently at 4.0 (uw) but due to sophomore year my overall is not that great. </p>