What are my chances @ NYU :)

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hi!
i recently discovered this forum and wanted to see what you think of my chances at admission to NYU are! I want to major in journalism

Background
Ethnicity - pacific islander
State - Tampa, Florida
Fluent in English, Russian and Spanish
First generation immigrant

GPA:
4.7 weighted
3.88 unweighted

~Note~
Math always came super hard for me and I always spent the majority of my time focusing on those grades and tests, throughout highschool i took geometry honors, algebra 2 honors, Trig Honors and college freshman algebra all with B’s and a C in 3rd quarter algebra as well as a B in chemistry. Math has always been something I struggle with.

SAT/ACT
sat- 1380
act- 30

extracurriculars

  • Member of Best Buddies program (helping students with disabilities) for 4 years, officer of club for 2 and president for 1 year
  • President of cycling club for 3 years
  • Varsity Track 3 years
    -Varsity cross country 3 years
  • photographer for running
  • Member of yoga club for 3 years, officer for one year
    -Member of school newspaper for 3 years, editor for 1
    -YMCA lifeguard

Other Interests

~over 100 volunteer hours working with children and special needs students

~Had my work published by several magazines

~ My art has been in galleries in florida

~ Won several state and national writing and art contests

~ Painted murals around the city

~ I run a blog

~ A part of a local youth journalists organization that covered local events

~ printed my artwork on stickers and donated proceeds to cancer research

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Can you afford NYU? I know too many students who have been accepted & had to turn down their place b/c it is so expensive & the FinAid is not great. They do not promise to meet need. Journalism is not a career that you want to start with debt…

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NYU is one of those places that are great for the extreme parts of the socioeconomic ladder.

Rich people love NYU aid- well because money isn’t a problem at all.

Really poor people (sub 35k income) love NYU aid- recently 50k scholarships were handed out like there’s no tomorrow. Part does involve merit (SAT score >1450).

Middle class people- unfortunately don’t get much aid. 30k scholarship is still 20k required for tuition and more for housing.

You’re absolutely right, they don’t meet need at all.

As for the original post: Your sat is on the lower side, but you do have really good everything else. I’d say NYU is a target school for you.