<p>Assuming you want to get into Stern, which is what NYU is most desirable for, you’d want at least a 2200 to even have a fair chance.</p>
<p>And yeah, the schools can pretty much assume that you got home from school every day at pretty much normally and wasted time playing video games (or smoking weed). No sports, nothing deep inside.</p>
<p>EDIT:I also see most schools as either an IN or NOT, I don’t really see how “50% chance of in” or “25% chance in” works. Although it makes a bit more sense for hard to tell places like ivies and top few, most cases, unless you’re on the line, it’s either an IN or OUT.</p>
<p>Example: 2000 SAT with 3.75 and decent stats: Penn state is a IN, unless you have something glaringly bad, there’s no point saying “75% in” or anything of that sort.</p>
<p>For super and hyper competitive places, it’ll be up to admission offers personal values, but if you’re really quite a bit under the line with nothing standing out for you, it’s an OUT.</p>
<p>Applying to 10 schools with a 10% chance of getting in rarely works for anyone, effectively making the schools ~0%s. </p>
<p>Reaches still make sense, but as usual, unless you have any hooks or something really nice, you’d still want to be above the 25% for each SAT section.</p>
<p>Your 590W with 610CR pretty much destroys that chance, especially since you’ve got nothing else going for you. They’re not bad stats by any means, but just not enough for places like NYU, which is why I said NYU is a 0%.</p>