<p>I’m getting safeties and I was wondering is Dickinson is a safety…</p>
<p>GPA: 3.63 UW
School Dosen’t Rank
SAT(old): 1250 </p>
<p>In 9th grade I was in all regular classes except for math, and I was in integrated science and my GPA sucked. I worked the summers of my Freshman and Sophomore years to catch up and now I’m full IB after a lot of hard work and sweet talking my consuelor. So, I went from regular cclasses with a low GPA to full IB with a high GPA, but my overall is still somewhat low. I also moved from living with a bi-polar guardian who wasn’t on their medication and I moved out of state after I was abonded. Will these things make me stick out in my essays and such? Should I mention them?</p>
<p>EC’s:
At my old school
BPA: President
Key Club
Multi-Cultural Club</p>
<p>At my new school:
NHS (Vice President)
SNHS
Young Republicans
Young Democrats (Yes, I’m in both, I like both sides of the coin)
Quiz Bowl team</p>
<p>Here’s the list</p>
<p>NYU is my first choice and dream school and I applied EA and included all my unique “baggage” in my essays. Please evaluate my chances and be honest! I know I’m sub-par, but I think I may be extremely in my essays by talking about how it affected me academicaly and socialy and what not. What do you guys think? </p>
<p>Also, I have done a summer internship at a law firm, have over 150 hours community service at a hospital, did the Cornell Summer program and I had to skip two years of Spanish because my old school had 6 periods for the whole year, so class of language a year. Here, it’s 4x4 so you have to have 6 years. I skipped Spanish 3 and 4 and went straight to IB Spanish 1 and got an A and a B+ in IB Spnaish 2. So, in short, I skipped two years of Spanish and did very welland included it in my persoanl statement. I wrtoe the above post a long time ago so it’s in the future tense. My school dosen’t rank and I’m Full IB. Freshman year I was in all regular classes and took courses over the summer to be in IB. Thanks for any feedback at all!</p>
<p>if you applied ED to nyu wouldnt you have heard by now? what was the result?
based on your stats, it seems like dickinson would be more of a match than a safety.</p>
<p>I’d say Dickinson Regular Decision is more of a match for you than a safety. If you’re male, or will add geographic diversity, it may be a safer match, but still a match not a safe bet as your GPA and test scores are right on their medians. An example of what I would consider a safety for someone with your stats would be schools like Clark University in Mass, Goucher in Maryland, perhaps Ursinis College in PA.</p>
<p>The other issue, of course, is that Dickinson is a very different school than your “dream school” of NYU. I always recommend trying to find at least one safe bet and several match schools that are as similar as possible to your “dream” reach school. Since I don’t know what attracts you to NYU, I can’t really make strong recommendations, but if you are attracted to NYU because it is in an urban environment, I’d suggest you focus on finding safe bet schools with similar locations — some possibilities: Wagner College, American U, Temple, Drexel. But again, I’m just shooting in the dark without more information about why NYU is your dream school.</p>
<p>Dickinson is one of the several hundred schools that have made submitting SATs optional in the admissions process (you can find more at <a href=“http://www.fairtest.org)%5B/url%5D”>www.fairtest.org)</a>. That wouldn’t make it a safety for you, however, it would still be a match as your GPA is right on their median. (Most applicants still submit their SAT scores to Dickinson) As I said, Dickinson might be a safer match if you are male, add geographic diversity (outside the northeast), or are an under-represented minority. </p>
<p>Dickinson fills 62% of its class through its Early Decision and non-binding Early Action admissions options, which means by the RD round only 38% of acceptance spots are left. The ED acceptance rate last year was 69%, the Early Action rate was 52%, the Regular Decision acceptance rate was 45%.
If you’d applied ED, with a 69% acceptance rate, I’d have termed it a safe bet for you. Early Action, it would have been a safer match. But with a 45% RD acceptance rate and stats right on their median, I’d consider it a solid match not a safety. That doesn’t mean you wouldn’t get in - and if it interests you, you should definitely apply - but don’t fool yourself into thinking its a sure thing in the RD round.</p>