<p>I’m not like your typical NYU applicant. For one I am in my 30’s and I am not an outstanding student (3.4 GPA and 1250 SAT, with no clubs or sports or anything like that) but I do have an impressive life story. I made my first trade in the stock market when I was 12 years old. I began saving my lunch money, and started working. To make a long story short I had made $20,000 by the time I was 18 with the stock market. When I was 18 I went to my cousin who is a mortgage broker, I bought my first duplex, and quickly learned what a huge opportunity there was to make money in real estate. I attended New York University at Buffalo and majored in finance, but while I was there instead of having a part time job like most of the kids around me I laid the ground work for my business. By the time I graduated I was making over $100,000 a year and had a net worth of close to a million dollars. Shortly after graduation I began investing in apartment buildings in India, hotels in Florida, and apartment buildings in any part of America that offered a high CAP rate. I was born into a lower middle class family, and I achieved the American dream. My only problem is the American dream is not what everyone thinks it is. I spent my whole life thinking money would bring happiness; it doesn’t, although I would be lying if I said I wasn’t a little happier before the real estate bubble popped, but all markets must be corrected after huge gains. I want to go to NYU film school, because I want to do something that will change the world, and I need more than a big budget to produce ground braking films.</p>
<p>So the facts are:
3.4 GPA in college and high school
1250 SAT score
Interesting life experience</p>
<p>What are the odds of me getting in? Or more simply the odds of them even taking the time to read my essay after seeing a 3.4 GPA and a 1250 SAT score?</p>