Stern Chances?

<p>Hi everyone,</p>

<p>I'm a rising junior from New York. Caucasian male</p>

<p>My stats:
GPA: Freshman- 3.55 (bad, i know); Sophomore-3.76
Class Rank~20/roughly 500
SAT: practice test, no studying 1900; Writing 690 CR 660 math 550
Clubs: business and finance club(president), model u.n., model senate, and i might do general student orginization next year
EC's: Baruch Summer Leadership Academy, doing NYU precollege next year, volunteer at local hospital, have been trading stocks and currencies for 3 years
My school doesnt offer any AP courses but i might take the macro AP exam because i already know most of the information from reading books. I'm in all honors classes at my school. I'd like to double major in finance and history and then get a job at a bulge bracket bank after college. I have a legacy with NYU, if that helps.</p>

<p>Thanks so much!</p>

<p>Drop some ECs so that you can focus on your studies and increase your GPA. ECs make good essay material, but Stern doesn’t care that much about them. </p>

<p>Take an SAT class prior to taking your next SAT. Kaplan’s mostly horrible, but if you pay attention and do their huge book of practice tests, you will increase your score. You don’t have much to lose, especially since they will refund you if your score doesn’t increase. Stern doesn’t care about the writing portion, so you just need to focus on your CR and M scores. They need to be in the 700s.</p>

<p>Take the SAT2 math while you are enrolled in precalculus or calculus. Stern likes that test.</p>

<p>The legacy will help, but you have no idea how much or how little of an effect that has on your admissions decision.</p>

<p>Stern’s primary concern is CR/M, SAT2 Math, and GPA. Focus on those.</p>

<p>While it’s an admittedly small sample, you might want to take a look at the acceptance threads from the past two years and see what accepted students posted as their stats. It can only give you a glimpse, but I do think you will see that not everyone is off the charts. Some who seemed like an easy match did not make it and others who offered a different profile, even with lower stats, did. It’s so unpredictable. I actually think your ECs will be a strength as will be your demonstrated interest and to a lesser degree, the legacy. Really knowing WHY you want THIS school will help in your essays. However, that being said, the earlier poster has a good point about getting your qualitative score up. That is the one piece that may cause the greatest concern but it sounds like you are the type of s student who could really boost that with focused practice.</p>