chance me for NYU?

kaymarc
Sun, 29 Jan 2012 01:33:53 +0000

for those of you who are to busy to read my previous post. I shortened it as much as possible. However I wod really appreciate if I could get a response for the long one…

Ethnicity: black
Gender: female

I have lived in NY my whole life

I went to a private school in NYC from k-10 grade. i’m finishing hs in a public school because I moved.

HS GPA: 3.6 as of right now. it will be at least a 3.8 by june. my
Junior year gpa is a 3.8. i switched from an extremely challenging/rigorous private school to a public school for junior and senior year. my worst grades are in math and chemistry.

SAT: spring 2012 with three SAT II. Only a 181 on the PSAT (perfect scores on everything, but low on math)

AP: none yet, at least four next year.

SPORTS: competitively figure skating since age three (hope to coach during college), soccer, lacrosse, track, tennis, had ballet since age four to help with my skating.

Music: 8+ years of the cello, decent at piano

jobs: will be a counselor at my old sleep away summer camp

community service: 150+ hours of generally children oriented community sevice i.e. Children’s Program at the New York Botanical Gardens, tutor at a girls orphanage in panama (where I also did an exchange/cultural immersion program during the summer) Carnivals for Children with Special Needs, Special Olympics, teachers assistant in local inner city schools. Riverside Language Program (helped tutor adults who spoke Spanish as their first language learn English)

selected to be a part of the Junior Scholars Program at the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture (the largest/oldest collection of information for people of african descent in the world) where I was a member for six years. Through this program i was able to print two books (photo anthology, im a photographer) that has now been recognized by the library of congress.