Chances at Emerson, Boston U, Northeastern, Fordham for NYU reject

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>Well I had my sights a little too set on NYU, so I just wanted to see if anyone had any opinions for the above schools.</p>

<p>School Type: Public
Location: Delaware
Race/Gender: White/Female…bisexual (if it makes a difference)
Prospective Major: Advertising or Communications
Unweighted GPA: 3.387
Weighted GPA: 3.973
Class rank: 26 of 379</p>

<p>SAT I Math: 620
SAT I Verbal: 600
SAT II Writing: 620
SAT II Literature: 550
SAT II U.S. History: 580</p>

<p>Volunteer: Around 600 service hours including coaching youth soccer (240 hours), Relay For Life (captain), SPCA, teacher’s assistant, watershed awareness projects, helping a dance group (music coordinator), tutoring, and various community activities.</p>

<p>Activities: Governor’s School of Excellence (Academics), National Honor Society (Historian), SADD (Secretary), Field Hockey (JV captain, 3 years varsity), Soccer (high school, club, and indoor), Watershed Community Action Team, Interact Club, Rocket Club, Travel Club, Business Professionals of America, Environmental Club </p>

<p>Awards: DNREC Young Environmentalist of the Year, Five-Star Service (from work), 1st place at French culture competition (team captain), 3rd place at state rocket competition, academic all-conference </p>

<p>Employment: 3000+ hours working at Acme in the produce department</p>

<p>Essay: <a href=“http://www.deadjournal.com/users/jackie05/57496.html[/url]”>http://www.deadjournal.com/users/jackie05/57496.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>Courses: All honors courses besides electives and such, AP psych (5) and AP bio (2) junior year </p>

<p>Senior schedule: AP US History, AP English, AP Stats, AP Environmental, Business Law</p>

<p>I’ll also be sending in some creative work in advertising and photography to Emerson. Thanks.</p>

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<p>Your stats are basically similar to mine…except I haven’t taken any of the SAT IIs yet, I also don’t have as many ECs as you do…but I have the same amount of AP classes that you’re taking, and my SAT is a 1350 (it all kinda evens out). So…here’s what I say, don’t take my word completely, but you’re a good candidate :
Emerson: match
Boston University: reach/match-not quite sure, looking into that school also…you’ll probably make it in
Northeaster: Safety probably/match
No idea about Fordham. Sorry about NYU.</p>

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<p>That essay is terrible. Absolutely. Positively.</p>

<p>I’m 99.9% sure that’s what cost you admission to NYU.</p>

<p>Rewrite it.</p>

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<p>Thaaaanks. What’s wrong with it?</p>

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<p>Yea, that essay was kind’ve…not good.</p>

<p>It sounded like you wrote an essay, and then used a thesaurus to find abstract words that sounded intellectual. It was like a chore to read, not fun at all. That’s just me though.</p>

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<p>Actually, the topic was wonderful and could really tell a lot about your life. I’m afraid you’ve misused many words. You appear to try too hard to use a sophisticated vocabulary. Just tell your story as you would speak it. Good luck!</p>

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<p>The topic seemed completely buried beneath a mountain of superfluous and misused verbiage. It might be a swell idea, but you’re trying to hard and it shows – painfully.</p>

<p>ex: “The alleviation of my eyes”?
<a href=“http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alleviation%20[/url]”>http://dictionary.reference.com/search?q=alleviation%20&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>ex: “However, I feel that I’ve accelerated my maturity in the hands of the fourteen entities I work with.” </p>

<p>Entities?</p>

<p>Try “people” or “individuals” or “men and women.”</p>

<p>Kirmum’s right, ultimately. Just tell the story as you’d speak it.</p>

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<p>Okay. I wasn’t trying to sound like a smartass. Guess it came off that way.</p>

<p>Thank y’all.</p>