<p>Who’s planning on applying to cuny macaulay this year? Lets make this a thread for info.</p>
<p>I am. What campus are you applying to? I still have no idea. Either City for ChemE or City/Queens for Math or Chemistry.</p>
<p>I’m really headed towards hunter but city still has a chance.</p>
<p>Hmm no one else here? What are you thinking of majoring in?</p>
<p>Macaulay frosh here who just got back from the second day of orientation. We got our free Macbook Pros which Macaulay installed Microsoft Word, Powerpoint, and Excel in.
If anyone has any questions about Macaulay, feel free to private message me.</p>
<p>Information about Macaulay Orientation for those who wish to read about it:</p>
<p>Monday, we began orientation. The “topic” of this orientation was community service through the Outward Bound Organization. My group was assigned the location of the Housing Works Used Book Shop, a not-for-profit which receives books and sells them and all profits made go to families affected by HIV. Half of our group was finding the books, cassettes and dvds that were to be sent out, while the other half was doing the actually packaging. After a few hours of work, we were given a free lunch and then we headed over to Central Park where we worked on fun activities, like trust-building and other things. Each group had to create and perform a poem, which would be judged by a panel of judges. The day ended with each group performing their poem and the judges selecting a winner.</p>
<p>Day 2 was technology day. The first part of the day was when we received our free macbook pros! and even a Macaulay bag to hold them in. Macaulay even paid for Microsoft Word/Powerpoint/Excel to be installed on everyone’s macbook pro. We played a bunch of games where we would text our answers in to a site and they would appear on this huge smartboard and prices ranged from bookmarks to t-shirts. The next part of the day was a meeting with your advisor, where you were put into groups in your specific campus, i.e. I was with the Macaulay Queens crowd and we had a discussion with our advisor about what was expected at Macaulay and all that good stuff. After the advisor meeting, we were given free lunch. After lunch, we split up into groups based on how well we knew how to use mac’s and had a two hour class to explain the basics of mac use (I was in the beginners class) and how to set up our emails. More advanced groups worked on much more advanced topics. After this, we were free to go home.</p>
<p>Wednesday was theater day, which was something I was a bit nervous for to be honest. I’m no theater geek nor am I any good at acting and I seen the first thing on the list was a three hour acting workshop. I was a bit weary at first, but my instructor was great and we had such a blast doing various acting exercises. Most people in the groups were not into acting so it made everyone else feel much more comfortable. We then received free dinner. After dinner, we watched three life performances. The first was “The Indian Meets the Bronx” by Israel Horovitz. The next was “What Strong Fences Make” and the final play was “Beirut Rocks”, both of which were also written by Horovitz. The plays in one word - Amazing. As I said before, I’m no theater geek, but I felt extremely inspired after watching them being performed. After the performances, we had a talkback session with Horovitz, the cast and the directors. It was so awesome to see Israel Horovitz right in front of me! The day concluded after this event.</p>
<p>What kind of stats do you need to get into this program?</p>
<p>It varies by school but most are around a 1400 on Math + Critical Reading and around a 94 GPA.</p>
<p>I took the ACT and scored well (35), do I need to send my SAT scores? I got 600 reading and 760 math, so I think the ACT will be fine by itself right?</p>
<p>ACT is fine by itself.</p>