Syracuse Newhouse Chances and $$$$$$

Chance Me / Match Me!
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Applying to Newhouse… Chances WITH possible scholarship amount… the money is crucial to me.

GPA: Above 4.0 UW, 4.5 Weighted. No B’s in high school

SAT:
760 Math
740 Writing
640 Reading
Total: 2140

SAT Subject:
Math 2: 750
US History: 750
Latin: 700

Classes: 2 honors- Freshman (no APs available), probably should have taken the other 2 honors offered… But, it’s Freshman year and everyone is still finding themselves

3 honors and AP US1 - Sophomore (1 AP available),

AP Lit, AP US2, AP Environmental Science, AP Macro, AP Psych, Honors Latin (and Academic Calc, but not interested in math and already a year ahead of most kids) -Junior

AP Lit, AP Physics , AP Micro, AP Prob/stat , AP Gov/Pol, AP Computer Science, Honors Latin - Senior

Took 3 classes over the summer over my high school years.

ECs- Habitat for Humanity 4 years, Television station 4 year (Freshman year-technical director and control room worker for 3 shows a week in our high school, Soph/Junior/Senior sports anchor), Newspaper (Contributer 4 years, sports editor Sophomore, Editor in Chief Junior and Senior), National Honors Society, Latin Honors Society, History Honors society, (leadership position all 3), started a tutoring program to help kids in elementary schools with their work (founder/president) Visited the school every week to help out. Technical director and editor of all school plays/musicals.

Independent coverage for SB Nation, major sports journalism website, and covered college and high school basketball in NY area… Press passes to major events and interviews with notable figures

Attended advanced sports broadcasting camp for 5 years and at the camp hosted own 10-minute sports show. Ran by two leading figures in broadcasting industry

Interest in school: Summer program and Medill, tour at the campus, great interview

Recommendations: From 1 outside of school- big figure in the broadcasting industry- 11/10, Lit/Newspaper- 11/10, TV station media teacher- 9/10

Volunteered in the Dominican Republic the summer before junior year to help the locals rebuild home, create better living arrangements, and integrate the English language and American culture to the underprivileged locals. Took suitcases worth of baseball equipment and school supplies I collected down to them.

Two-Week Summer Video Journalism Class at Harvard, limited to 15 kids from across the world, recommendation from the professor who won a Pulitzer for work in South Africa covering Apartheid (He was shot 4 times!!)

Intern at National Swim meet freshman year, published on the biggest swimming website in the world.

Contacted by Cartoon Network for some of my broadcasting work

Awards- National Latin Exam highest possible award all four years. Best Original Screenplay at NJ State High School Film Contest Challenge.

White, from Public school in NJ. No financial aid requested.

Essay- 10/10. Writing has always been what I do best.

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Your qualifications are excellent for gaining admittance but you need to show demonstrated interest by visiting Syracuse or interviewing in NYC at Syracuse’s Lubin House. Syracuse and Newhouse like when you show interest in the school and that is factored into the admissions decision. Problem is that $12,000 (Chancellor scholarship) is the maximum merit aid that Newhouse school offers. Tuition is $42,000 plus $14,000 for room and board makes the school still too expensive for the middle class families who don’t qualify for merit aid. $12,000 merit aid is just not enough of an offset to make the school affordable. You would be better off applying to Whitman school of business because the maximum scholarship that Whitman offers is $20,000 for merit aid to high stat students with demonstrated interest and extracurruculars. Syracuse’s liberal arts and science school offers free tuition “Coronat” scholarship for students who commit to majoring in the arts and sciences, but it is a very competitive process to be selected for that.

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@trackmbe3 I have 8 family members who went the syracuse and visited sophomore year… Will that lock my chances of getting in?

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My son (he had similar stats to you) went through the process last year and the two things they said he should do was visit the Newhouse school AND interview with an admissions rep. at Lubin House, so he did both. And you need to write a good common app essay and “Why Newhouse” supplemental essay. I believe Syracuse had 2 supplemental essays. If you do those well and show the interest, then i believe you’re in! The only question is affordability.

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Hi!! I was admitted last year and am entering my freshman year this month in Newhouse. I was accepted early decision with an average amount of scholarship, and my stats were much lower than yours. One thing I learned from visiting the school and from my in person interview on campus is that they really look at your extracurriculars and your writing pieces on the application. SHOW INTEREST. My supplemental pieces were very short and to the point about how Newhouse had been my dream school since freshman year. You have the stats, and the ec’s so just show your interest:)