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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I think you probably got into NYU! good luck :slight_smile: Chance me back?

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You have plenty going for you. I hope you’ll be seriously looking at all the schools with good communications/journalism UG programs, including Syracuse and Northwestern. Here’s what I would encourage you to do: Put some energy behind the ECs that demonstrate some real achievement in the areas of communications and journalism. You have a huge list of ECs, which is great…but I would be way more interested in hearing you be able to tell a great story about helping your friend turn a small local nonprofit into a nationally recognized brand – you’ll be able to talk about your contribution to the overall success (as its social media manager), and what you learned along the way. Be able to talk about your mistakes (the bigger, the better) and where you really used what you learned…and share the credit with your teammates. I would also put some more time and attention to your work as a freelance photographer and writer-- not only will you have great work to show (and link to) in your applications-- you will be demonstrating some achievements that your competition will not be able to demonstrate. Bottom line: don’t worry about the laundry list, focus on the stuff that is most closely aligned with what you want to be doing…and then do some amazing stuff with it.

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@mayorshinn thank you so much for taking the time to give me some great advice! Seeing that I will receive my admission decision this week, there is little I can do in regard to changing my app now, but I do believe I emphasized (most specifically my extracurriculars) involving communications and journalism, and how they lead me to wanting to pursue the field in the future. Thank you so much again!

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@12college786 Thank you! Sure, what are your credentials?

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It’s on my page!

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@12college786 sorry I don’t see anything, can you copy paste?