<p>I'm a Junior, and my dream has been to go to NYU all my life.
I do want to go into business, but I feel my stats are not up to par to get admitted+get decent financial aid (which I critically need) </p>
<p>Should I apply to CAS or Stern? Could I transfer to Stern later?</p>
<p>SAT: W: 800 M:780 CR: 710
SAT II: Math IIC: 710 (am taking lit, history, Math IIB and Chem in the next two testing sessions, expecting 700+ on all)
GPA: 3.6 uw (low, I know, but Im working VERY hard on bringing it up) 4.3 w
Top 5% of school class of about 1300 in a decently competitive public school</p>
<p>AP Lit and Comp: 5</p>
<p>EC:
-Founder and President of Hope for Haiti, a nonprofit group that through my personally directed fund raising has raised over 7K to send to Port-au-Prince
-President of Journalism Club
-Anchor for high school news show, on every day on all the local channels
-Chief editor and layout editor of the HS newspaper
-Teacher's assistant for Journalism+Teach class on occasion
-UU Youth Group (includes large scale fundraising for New Orleans and housing project in NY)</p>
<p>ECs for Senior Year
-National Historic Society Internship
-2 Capstone projects, one in pre-law, one in business
-working as a waitress at the Meat House
-tutoring 5+ hrs a week, all levels of students</p>
<p>Classes for Senior year:
-AP Psych, AP Euro (our school offers minimal AP courses), H stat, H Multimedia Production, H Creative Writing, H French III</p>
<p>Awards:
-National Economic Summit Geography Award
-National Economic Summit Middle-Income Country Award
-Ruth Berrian Fox Poetry Award
-All those gold/silver presidential awards
-Some specific class recognitions
-Mediation poster award (something I drew has been circulated as a professionally printed poster)
And some minor ones I cant remember</p>
<p>Community Service Hours: 150+</p>