gigantic official RD decisions thread: 2014

sanxie
Tue, 30 Mar 2010 10:56:32 +0000

**Decision: Accepted **

Date applied: 1/1/10
Date decision postmarked/received: Received “travel plans” email on… i dunno… 3/17? whenever it came out in the first wave? and just got my admissions packet 3/29
Accepted to which school/major at NYU?: CAS

Stats:

[] SAT Total: 2380 M: 800, CR: 800, WR: 780,
[] ACT: didn’t take it.
[] SAT Subject Tests: 760 bio, 790 literature
[] GPA-UW/W: 3.56 UW, 3.91 W
[] Rank: school doesn’t rank.
[]AP/IB classes: bio, french, and calc. my school doesn’t offer many AP classes, though.
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[]Essays: I don’t know… I thought my common app essay was pretty good, but my supplements were kind of cheeky and really could have gone either way.
[] Teacher Recs: one of them was very complimentary and tied in well with my interest in biology. um… i only submitted one teacher rec, though. >.<
[] Counselor Rec: nice, but pretty bland and vague. it was obvious that she didn’t know me very well.
[] EC highlights: lots of jobs, interned at a research lab at Tufts, volunteered. nothing too spectacular, though, and i wasn’t in that many school clubs.[/ul]

Person:[ul]
[]State or Country: MA
[] School Type: medium public (~1200 kids)
[] Ethnicity: white
[] Gender: female

Other Factors, hook?: ermm… none that i can think of. my only real positive is my SAT score.

General Comments, scholarship decisions, are you going to NYU? If so, why? If not, why not?: no clue if i’m going or not. i got my FA and had some scholarships in there, but i’m waiting to get my parents’ feedback (both are away on vacation and don’t even know that i got in yet)