What are my chances at getting into NYU?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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  • I know the decisions are coming out soon, but I am stressed as hell and any direction/opinion is greatly welcomed*

I am a senior coming from a competitive school in Northern Virginia. I have about a 4.071 GPA (my school only does weighted) and an SAT score of 1940. I know by SAT isn’t stellar, but I have a lot of leadership roles, internships, and extracurriculars I have written about in my application (I also plan on majoring in communications/journalism).

Some include: 1. Internship working with a local photojournalist: worked on projects for Teen Vogue and H&M
2. Job with an up and coming music production company as a creative director.
3. Internship with a local newspaper, leading me into my current job: Paid freelance writer and photographer.
4. I also founded my own company/have my own website for my photography.
5. I started a project at my school like “Humans of New York”, interviewing students at my school so they can share their unique stories. Over 1,030 likes.

Other academic credentials:

  1. Won a Spanish scholarship freshman year
  2. Member of three honors societies (Music, English, National)
  3. Varsity Scholar Athlete for 3 Years

I will graduate having taken 8 AP classes and an AP Scholar with Honor.

More extracurriculars:

  1. Section leader (bass player) of school’s highest orchestra (for three years), member of the orchestra since Freshman year (participated in a district orchestra as well). I’ve also participated in our German Exchange program all four years, traveling to Germany twice with my orchestra to perform(related this to benefits of being a global citizen in essay).
  2. Varsity track athlete Freshman to Junior Year (two time regional qualifier)
  3. I’ve played soccer from age 5 to age 17, hoping to start again in spring. I was team captain of a travel soccer team for the last couple of years.
  4. Founded photography club at school (and president)
  5. Raised over $15,000 with a few of my friends for the Leukemia and Lymphoma society.
  6. Vice President of my orchestra in 2014, Social Chair for the past 2 years
  7. Head of decorations for my school’s homecoming this year through leadership class (theme I created: Midnight in Manhattan)
  8. Student mentor of underclassmen last year (competitive to get)
  9. Social Media manager of a nonprofit organization that has now expanded to a national level (organization started by a classmate over the past year)
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^ Also, I would like to emphasize that my essay was extremely passionate (and I would argue pretty good considering I want to be a writer some day) and I would be applying to CAS

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I think you have a chance, but at this point you just need to not worry. We can’t give you any advice except to wait.

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I don’t even know if I can go to school the day they release admissions, I would probably break down crying if I didn’t get in haha