official CHANCES thread for 2014

[missamericanpie]

(omg, i can't believe it's the class of 2014 already!)

i've been seeing a lot of individual chances threads lately, so i think one giant massive thread of doom is in order.

for the new people to the forum:

i'm Miss American Pie, a rising senior at NYU who works in the Student Resource Center. i'm a Steinhardt communications major. i transferred here in '08, but i'm pretty well versed in NYU. i started contributing to this board because i was bored in class, but i really just love NYU and i like helping people.

standard disclaimer: we're not admissions committees, we're not psychics, we're students with too much time on our hands.

to maintain some order, please @ reply to the person you're talking to.

all schools are welcome here, from Sternies to Tischies to CASer to SCPS, those kooky Gallatin students and my fellow Steinhardts.

everyone knows the drill.

PLEASE make sure to put all pertinent information, INCLUDING what school -and- major you intend on applying to.

good luck to everyone!

- Miss A

[GanDhIizRiPpiN]

I must add to Miss A's post that if you are posting your SAT scores, post math and reading only as NYU does not look at the writing score.

[stephennn]

they do look at writing, they just don't give it an equal weight.

[GanDhIizRiPpiN]

no it doesn't I called and asked an admission counselor myself

[letsgo2college]

Background:
Location: New Jersey
Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese) American
Gender: Male
School Type: Public, sends many grads to top schools (Montgomery High School)
Applying to: Stern (finance)

Stats:
GPA: 3.49 UW, 3.98 W (downward trend with a C junior year)
SAT: 1490/2220 (800 math, 690 critical reading, 730 writing)
SAT IIs: 800 Math Level 2, 660 Physics
No Class Rank or Percentile

Extracurriculars/Volunteer/Work Experience:
1. Future Business Leaders of America (10-12)
2. Debate Club (10-12)
3. Games Club (9-12) - Secretary, President
4. Economics Club (10-12) - Secretary
5. Volunteer at library (Summers 2006-2009), Volunteer at Chinese School (10-12)
6. Business Internship (Summer 2009)
7. Teaching and Counselling at an orphanage in China (Summer 2009)
8. Part-time employment as a lifeguard (10-12)
9. Music - Piano (9-12), Trumpet for school band (9-12)

Honors/Awards:
National Merit Commended (217 PSAT)

Essays/Recommendations:
Essays: Will work hard on them
Teachers Recs: Will be from teachers that know me well
Guidance Counselor Rec: Generic

[derrickli978]

SAT I:670 math 660 writing 630 critical reading
SAT II:800 chinese 630 united states history
GPA: weighted 3.8 top 15 public high school in massachusets, tough classes honors, aps
grades had risen significantly every year.
ethnicity: chinese, moved to america when i was 9 yeas old

EC:
-football
-crew
-started my own company, found investors, one of Boston's best venture capalist firms, patents, and the others, and prototype, in the middle of a deal with a large super market chain, help from Babson College.
-founder/president of the environmental club
-founder/president of the business club
-did a couple of fundrasisers for charity
-DECA
-debate club
-junior achievment

Volunteering/jobs:
-like 200 hours senior center
-10 hours library
-internship at law firm

Leadership:
environmental club president/founder
business club president/founder
my own business
JA academy vice president of marketing

Awards/Honors:
3 time gold metal chinese speech contest
Honor Roll
Alexander Hamilton Award
Outstanding Young Business Person of the Year(#1 out of 200 kids eligible)
Junior Achievment Boston Business Hall of Fame
Junior Achievment Company of the Year North America Finalist (one of 23 teams selected in North America)
Invited to attend the Ernst and Young New England Entrepuernship Award Ceremony

if i apply ED i want to apply to Stern, if i apply RD i will do CAS economics. thank you.

[bdl108]

^I know you'd rather do Stern ED, but if you do CAS Econ ED I'd say you're pretty much in.

With the way you're planning to apply, I'd say you're a low reach.

[stephennn]

no it doesn't I called and asked an admission counselor myself

well i've been to a couple NYU open houses/events and every time they said they do look at writing but don't give it an equal weight.

How much weight does NYU place on the writing score?

Some, but not much. Even though we have writing scores for the last few entering classes, we don't have as much information as we would like to have before we start using the writing scores in our evaluations. Once we have some experience with this part of the SAT Reasoning Test, we will have a better idea of how we will use it in our selection process. But for the coming year, we do not plan to place significant emphasis on the writing score.

But will a poor score on the writing section hurt my chances for admission?

Admission to NYU is highly selective, and a poor score will hurt your chances for admission, just as poor grades in your high school courses will hurt your chances for admission. However, as indicated above, we will not be placing a great deal of emphasis on the writing section, and exactly how much a poor writing score would impact the admissions decision in your particular case would depend on all of the other information in your file. Keep in mind that the score on the writing section is simply a single score on a single examination that is considered in a review process that considers many other factors. No student applying for admission in 2010 will be denied admission solely on the basis of the score on the writing section of the SAT.

(taken off of NYU's website)

i think it's safe to say that you shouldn't bomb the writing section.

[NuclearPakistan1]

I am applying ED to CAS as a Mathematics major! Courant for the win!

GPA: UW 3.5 W-??
SAT II's: 1520/1600 US-740 Mathematics level 2- 780 Spanish w/ listening- pending until fall, will be higher than a 750
ACT: 32
SAT I- Will be from 2100 to 2200
AP scores: Euro-4 Psychology-4 English-4 Rigorous Frosh, Soph, Junior courseload.

Senior Schedule:

AP Micro Econ
AP Macro Econ
AP Calculus BC
AP Eng literature
AP Spanish Language
AP Biology
AP Government and Politics, Comp.

Most Significant EC's:

1) Medical Club President ( 9,10,11,12)
2) Will be a national representative of Operation Fly inc.
3) Student Government VP ( 9,10,11,12)
4) Co-founded Students for Improving Healthcare (SIHC) (9,10,11,12)
5) Gay-Straight Alliance member (11,12)
6) Hospital Volunteering, Hospice volunteering, and local Mosque volunteering ( 500+ hours)
7) Citibank "Internship" under my cousin's supervisor, a hook according to my supervisor.

Sports:

1) Varsity Wrestling, Journeymen Wrestling club (9,10,11,12) ( This takes up an immeasurable amount of time. We practice 6 days a week.)
2) Travel Soccer (Summers, 9,10,11)
3) Track and Field ( 9,10,11,12)
4) Jui-Jitsu ( 10 years) Go to tournaments, and I have a beautiful trophy collection my father brags about :P

Recs: Very good, the teachers know my personal life etc, etc.
Counselor: Visit him once or twice a week, knows me very well.
School type: Public ~500 students
Region: I live in the Mid-Atlantic
Ethnicity: You can tell from my username lol, Pakistani
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60K to 80K, Don't need too much FA since I have a trust fund.

[stephennn]

^ good stats. i think you're pretty much in... even though i thought you were a 2013 like me.

[GanDhIizRiPpiN]

@ stephennn

Yeah you must be right, my apologies.

However, I would like to say I was misinformed. I was LSP'd (but now I am luckily in CAS thanks to extra spaces) and I thought I was a decent applicant so I called and spoke to the admissions counselor with my file to find out why I was placed in LSP and not CAS.The counselor said my 2020 wasn't counted and it was only my 1310 that was looked at. He said on quote that the writing section does not count in the admissions process. surprised I said, "Really?" and he said "yes."

but regardless your right.

[nyu_times_two]

I think what he probably meant was that, although they do consider the writing section, they won't look at the SAT as an "out of 2400" test but rather an "out of 1600" test treating the writing section like an SAT II. That's pretty much in line with how NYU was admitting students before the new SAT, so it makes sense.

[iamawesome]

Hey, thank you.
So I go to a really good prep school, sends like 40 percent of students to ivys + stanford and such every year. Not many ap classes, very low grade inflation, no ranking.

So: gpa = 3.44, with upward trend, my jr gpa was a 3.6
Sats: 1470/2200 (740,730,730)
Sat ii: Math 1 - 690, US History - 710

Extras - generally solid. 3 sport varsity athlete, 2 club leader, paid (yeahh) internship at local nj hospital during the summer, and an editor of the newspaper are the highlights.

I should have solid recs.

Can you chance me for rd stern and rd cas. Thanks a lot.

[confusedjunior23]

I'm thinking about applying to Stern RD or CAS RD. I want to do something with international business and Spanish.

GPA: 4.0/4.0 UW 5.65/6 W
Rank: 3/550
Classes all Honors or AP except for required dance
ACT: 32
APS: Chem 5, English Lang & US History 4s, waiting on spanish
SAT: definitely retaking..640 math, 640 cr, 610 writing
SAT IIs: 720 chem, 700 us history, 690 literature

ECS: -dance team/dance program (9-12, captain 12), takes up majority of time no offseason whatsoever
-studio dance group, outside of school (9-12)
-NHS (11-12)
-Spanish NHS (10-12, treasurer 10-11, 12-?)
-Spanish Club (9 historian, 10-12)
-Community Service club (completed 100+ hours)
-Tutor
-Going to install recycling bins at school
-Link Crew, help freshman adjust program (11)
work: -babysit on weekly basis (9-12)
-getting online job b/c no one in town will hire me b/c of being on dance team

-and I'm a white middle class female so...

[missamericanpie]

bumping because there's going to be a truckload of chances posts popping up because august is approaching.

i'm going to try to keep this thread bumped.