yeah, current students at NYU aren’t adcoms. They have no clue.
And your GC is not doing you any favor by telling you you “deserve it”. You don’t have the proper schedule, the SAT score, or the GPA… Admissions aren’t based on “deserving”. You have to meet a basic baseline in terms of grades, rigor, and scores. Then, they want to see if you meet an institutional need.
You CAN go to college in a US big city or a cool college town but you have to recalibrate.
Right now, focus on
1° improving your senior year schedule.
2° getting a Princeton Review’s Best Colleges. Find good colleges for B/B+ students.
3° go to the thread “colleges for the C/B students” and “B/B+ students” (while this isn’t your current GPA, your cumulative schedule will make it more likely that these will be likelies and matches.)
4° don’t think about medical school. It’s at least 6 years away. Before you can get to med school, you have to get into college. Don’t take that for granted. Develop a list from the ground up: 2 colleges you like, are 100% sure you can get into, and can afford. These would be colleges where you’re among the top 25% students for GPA and test scores.
Then, add about 5 colleges where your GPA and test scores are between the 50% and the 75% mark.
Once you have these, you can add any college you want and can afford.
5° Talk to your parents: would they be okay with your doing a PG year at a US boarding school?
To start with, read the websites for and run the NPC on…
Fordham
Goucher
Simmons
Pace
SUNY New Paltz
West Chester U
Chatham
Juniata
Capital OH
Hamline
St Thomas (St Paul)
University of Iowa
Montclair State
St Michael’s College
UVermont
Penn State
UMass Amherst
University of Alabama
Christopher Newport College
College of Charleston
After reading about each of the above, list your 10 favorite colleges. What do you like about them?