<p>desperate to know
i am currently attending a pasadena community college and i am a freshman. My high school stats is not that great at all i was just too focused on my visual/art classes and my clubs soo i neglected to study for my SATS so yeah.
GPA: 3.2
SAT:1420
I know it pretty bad and I'm hoping that maybe i could transfer to either NYU or Columbia in a year if i could get really good grade at PCC. Both of the schools are my dream schools and i am desperate to get to get in. Right now I'm taking 4 class at pcc and its only 10 credits because it was hard to get classes, however i don't know my gpa yet because i just finished my mid terms.
-Anthropology
-American History
-Early film history
-Beginning modern dance
Later on in the year I'm hoping to take more classes and hoping to get 37 credits by the end of second semester. Im really really desperate. I am looking at other schools too. </p>
<p>What is my possibility of getting in as a sophomore?
Should i take my SATs again?
What can i do?</p>
<p>Well looking that I’m trying to transfer OUT of NYU, i’ll let you on some insight. If you can somehow end up with a 3.8+, try your best to go to Columbia. I currently have around a 3.9 at NYU, and to be honest, while it seems impressive on paper, the work I do now is much easier than the work I did in high school. While I’m happy I’m getting away with a high gpa, I think you should be careful what you wish for. </p>
<p>List of people who are most successful at NYU/NYC:</p>
<p>1) Comfortable with no school spirit
2) Understand the coldness and vacuity of living in the largest metropolitan city in the world knowing the opportunity cost of not going to a campus school.
3) Have extremely clear cut goals in life
4) Don’t care for sports (I don’t)
5) Be able to have parents support them, or get a part time job to support oneself. (NYC is $$$, I budget 600 dollars a month just for going out, and I have a meal plan!)
6) Are generally outgoing, and not introverted.
7) Don’t mind huge beaurocracy, and have no need to be close to one’s professors, or academic advisor(s) as NYU is very large
8) Don’t mind bad financial aid, can deal with taking loans
9) Be able to understand that NYU is split up into colleges, and each college has it’s own complete world: there is no academic community or ability to take a class in CAS and then Steinhardt and then Stern.
10) Knowing most (I didn’t say all) sternies are indeed ivy rejects (not counting Cornell) and still have an air of elitism for no reason. They look down on the rest of NYU.
11) Knowing CAS is very poorly funded comparatively to Stern and Tisch, and all the amenities that come with Stern are far more advanced.</p>
<p>I think I will have had a good 2 years at NYU. (I’m a first semester sophomore) However, my time at NYU has not been great. I have encountered all of these problems, and whenever I tell kids in Stern I desire to work on wall street or in finance, I get smirks and looks. NYU has absolutely no community, and they do nothing trying to cultivate it either. NYU is spreading itself thin with NYU Abu Dhabi, etc. Sorry if I am ranting, however, it seems to me you don’t want to go to NYU more than you want to be in NYC.</p>
<p>ohh…thank you. the school that i really really want to get in is columbia and i do like NYU but Columbia is the school i really want to get in.</p>