What are my chances?

Colleges and Universities A-Z New York University
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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 1,020 likes.

Other academic credentials:

  1. Won a Spanish scholarship freshman year
  2. Member of three honors societies
  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.
  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
  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 have a sort of solid chance, NYU has an holistic admission process… the low-isn sat score shouldn’t penalize you too much. If your essays and recs are good…
Good luck!

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I think u might be put into LSP because of your low sat score but u could definitely get into nyu

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thank you