Chance me ED2: NYU Stern, Boston C, or Boston U (NYC Resident, 4.0 GPA, top 10%)

Chance Me / Match Me
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Demographics

  • US Citizen
  • New York
  • Private Catholic School
  • Asian Female
  • Senior in High school

Cost Constraints / Budget
None

Intended Major(s)

Business - Somewhere in Finance or Marketing

GPA, Rank, and Test Scores

  • Unweighted HS GPA: None - Only weighted
  • Weighted HS GPA: (3.96/4.0) ~ school classifies all 95-100 as 4.0s
  • Class Rank: top 10% out of graduating class ~ around 600
  • ACT/SAT Scores: 1330 SAT but will not submit

List your HS coursework

All Senior courses are in progress

  • English: Regular (Frosh.), Honors English 10 (Soph.), AP Lang (Junior), AP Lit (Senior)
  • Math: Geometry (Frosh.), Honors Algebra 2 (Soph.), Math Analysis Honors/Pre-Calc. (Junior), AP Calc BC (Senior)
  • Science: Biology (Frosh.), AP Biology (Soph.), AP Chemistry (Junior), Honors Physics (Senior)
  • History and social studies: Global History I (Frosh.), Honors Global History II (Soph.), AP Human Geography (Junior), AP Macroeconomics (Senior)
  • Language other than English: Taken up to Spanish 3 Honors
  • Visual or performing arts: Percussion Ensemble (Soph.), Honors Percussion Ensemble (Junior & Senior), Concert Band (Junior & Senior)
  • Other academic courses: Science Research Honors (Soph.), AP Computer Science Principles (Junior), Forensic Science (Senior), Health (Senior), & required religion and gym classes for all 4 years

Awards

AP Scholar, College Board NRP, NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Rho Kappa, Computer Science Honor Society, NYS Science Honor Society, Tri-M

Extracurriculars
Internship at doctor’s office (4 years), Altar Server (9 years), TA for religious ed. (2 years), run a TikTok Page w/ 3K+ followers and 33K+ likes (6 months), worked at golfcourse and as a summer camp counselor (2 years), key club treasurer (1 year) and committee president (1 year), science olympiad member (3 years), peer tutor (4 years)

Essays/LORs/Other
I have letters from my counselor and 4 teachers (AP Bio, AP Chem, AP Lang, & Forensic Science/SciOly/Research). I think/hope they’re pretty good because I have a good relationship with majority of them, I just spread the letters out to different schools based on major and/or safety.

I think my personal statement is very good, it’s about my sexuality and indifference from my ethnicity, etc.

Schools

ED2 to either: NYU Stern, Boston U, or Boston C

Reaches: Barnard, Smith, UMich, Notre Dame

Already EA’d: Northeastern, Villanova, UVA, Rutgers - New Brunswick, Binghamton, & Stonybrook

Acceptances: Fordham Dean’s Scholarship (25K), St. John’s Honors Program (42K), Hofstra Honors Program (37K), Adelphi Presidential Award (37K), Rutgers Newark & Camden (20K), UBuffalo Pride of NY (18K), Pace (37K)

Guidance counselor is telling me to do BU or NYU because it’ll be easier to get in, Mom is telling me to do BC. Scattergrams from previous years on Naviance show that in the past, 30-60 kids apply to BC but only 1-2 get accepted from my school w/ BU and NYU having much higher rates.

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Personally I would not apply ED or ED2 anywhere unless it is clearly your top number 1 choice. In terms of figuring out that your top choice is, I would recommend that you think about which school is a good fit for you, and ignore rankings (particularly when deciding between three very good universities such as the ones that you are considering).

Also I wouldn’t apply ED nor ED2 unless the cost of four years of university really does not matter to you and your family. It also looks like you are in a major where an MBA is at least possible, and this could imply additional expense.

You already have multiple very good and IMHO well-earned acceptances. Congratulations! Hopefully this is reducing the stress that often comes along with this process.

To me it looks like you are doing very well. I think that you are a strong candidate for any of the schools that you are still considering, even being test-optional (although I will admit that I have not checked what percent of students accepted to these particular schools have submitted test scores).

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Thank you so much!! Honestly I don’t really have a top choice as at the end of the day it will be up to my parents… but I just hope for a good school where I can be a little free.

Is it worth it to obtain? I honestly hate school but I do not want not having it to disrupt my future job opportunities.

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So the first thing is, you need an unweighted GPA. A weighted GPA is meaningless because every school weights differently. The schools will likely recalculate you so you need to.

It’s quite easy. Take each academic class (so no PE) and give yourself:

4 points for an A, 3 for a B, 2 for a C, 1 for a D. Add up the points and divide by the # of classes.

It would be impossible to assess you otherwise.

Did you ED1 anywhere?

Thanks

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Is there any way of knowing how many of these were specifically into Stern? (Seeing as people being admitted into second choice majors would still show up as admits on these)