Chances for a desperate applicant?

fossetapper4848
Sun, 02 Apr 2006 21:06:27 +0000

Hi all. I’ve been watching this forum for a few weeks now, but only recently decided to post. I was wondering if any of you could look at my stats and see what you think is in store for me tomorrow or Tuesday (as I haven’t recieved my decision yet). I applied to Yale EA and was deferred, and finally rejected. I applied to 9 schools RD and have been rejected from all of them, except for NYU. I know I am not the typical applicant, but if anyone could look over my info and give thoughts, I’d be appreciative. I’m curious to see what ccer’s think of my chances. Thank you!

Stats:[ul]
[]SAT: Didn’t take.
[]SAT IIs: 510 EBio, 530 US History, 600 Lit
[] ACT: 20
[] GPA: 3.669
[] Rank: 13 out of 40
[] Other stats:
Extracirrics:
-President of Interact Service Club, (10, 11)
-International Service Chair for Interact (9, 12)
-President and Co-Founder of Free Speech (12)
-Freshman Class VP (9th) and Student Body Treasurer (11th) on Student Executive Council
-Science Club Chairman of the Board (10)
-Member of audition-only Dance Company and Madrigal Choir (11, 12)
-Used to dance at a local studio every night and taught tap dance to kids during after school extension dance classes.
-Clubs: Science Club, National Honor Society, participated in every school musical since my 9th grade and have performed lead roles in many of them.

-Winner of many school awards (Senior Year-- recently became the winner of one of Utah’s most prestigious awards: the Sterling Scholar in English for my high school (winners go on to compete at a regional level and win full rides to any college in Utah); Junior year-- Student Leadership Award, Overall Student Scholarship Award, Varsity Letter in Dance, Excellence in Leading Award; Sophomore year-- School Award for English, School Award for Social Scienes; Freshman year-- Student Leadership Award, School Award for Dramatic Performance, Excellence in English Language Award, a few debate awards)

-Published in Teen Ink magazine in 10th grade

-Accepted to Simon’s Rock College of Bard in 10th grade.

-Finalist for Telluride Association’s Sophomore Seminar (TASS) for African American Studies at Indiana University in 2004.

-A lot of community service (as Pres. of Interact: organized Tibetan Awareness Week with actual Tibetan Buddhist monks, made blankets to donate to local homeless shelter, organized and taught a curriculum on Tibetan culture to 100 elementary school students, organized money to pay for one year of a young girl’s education in India, organized a school dance to donate to a children’s hospital; on my own I have participated in the annual school canned food drive for Thanksgiving, volunteered at nursing homes and tapped dance/sang, volunteered a as camp counselor for at-risk urban youth overnight camps twice, organized, directed, and participated in a 2 weeks performing arts workshop where my peers and I taught Musical Theatre, Creative Writing, Creative Artwork, and Dance/Movement to 1st-5th graders for 2 weeks at a local elementary school (3 years). I also organized an AIDS Awareness Day that the admin of my school didn’t let happen because it was too “controversial” to talk about AIDS)

[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: I was told they were amazing. I used the common app and I wrote about meeting the co-anchor of Gay Usa News (produced by local Manhattan television), a veteran NYC gay rights activist for the supplement. For essay, I wrote about growing up gay in Southern Utah and overcoming the hardships I was presented with.
[] Teacher Recs: Amazing
[] Counselor Rec: Excellent.
[] Hook (if any): Participated in the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP) at Washington University in St. Louis 2005. Gay male from conservative Mormon Southern Utah who has overcome many obstacles. First generation college student.

[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country: Utah
[] School Type: Public Charter school for the Performing Arts
[] Ethnicity: White
[] Gender: Male
[] major strength/weakness: My school is very new (opened in 1999) and test scores are very low. There is no test prep because the majority of graduates (90%) attend the local community college or no college at all. I took both the ACT and SAT II’s only once.
[] Likely? If so, which (Sunday at the Square, University Day, etc): No invites/no anything.
[/ul]Other Factors: I’ve wanted NYU since 9th grade. In the Fall they sent me stuff literally every single day, but I did tried logging onto NYU Home before it became a fiasco and it said “only current students may login”. I hope that isn’t a bad sign. I should have waited like everyone else. I’m really scared. NYU is my last hope.

Thanks!