Need Help in NYU Supplemental Essays

Applying to College Common and Coalition Application
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<p>Just click on the link below and confirm with me if this is the right link for the NYU supplemental essays for the fall of 2012. </p>

<p><a href=“http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/ugAdmissions/documents/common-app-paper-supplement2.pdf[/url]”>http://www.nyu.edu/content/dam/nyu/ugAdmissions/documents/common-app-paper-supplement2.pdf&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

<p>If it is the right link, I really need help! can someone please send me their essay for the essay prompt lettered C. The one that says what piece of work is significant to you. I really don’t know where to start or even how to do it. I’m scared becuase i know you have to be unique in your style and topic. can someone please share their’s or tell me how to start it.</p>

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<p>and do you guys think that getting over 2000 in SAT is sufficient for NYU CAS with a 93 GPA and a lot of extra curriculars?</p>

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<p>I sure hope that’s enough to get in, my qualifications are similar. And yes this is the right link. I started prompt C. This is my rough draft, I haven’t finished yet (and personally I think it’s a bit too long, I’m gonna try to trim it down. Feel free to comment on it):</p>

<p>Wake up, work, go back to sleep. This is the typical schedule of a villager in rural Bangladesh. In this South Asian third-world country, poverty-stricken individuals are abundant. They must work day in and day out in order to provide for themselves and their families. I have had the opportunity to visit Munshiganj, a village in central Bangladesh. It was one of the most eye-opening experiences of my life. I’m used to iPhones, laptops, and four bedroom houses, but this village was a whole new world. There was no technology in sight; not even street lamps. And the only automobile I saw, was the rundown taxi I used to get there. I am truly curious and intrigued as to how, in the 21st century, there are parts of the world that are still this underdeveloped. </p>

<p>Bangladesh is one of the poorest countries in the world. Corruption, poverty, and disease plague the citizens; and there’s nothing they can do about it. It’s the sad and unfortunate truth. Every time I visit, the place seems to be getting worse and worse. Then why do I keep coming back to this place? Just one simple reason; roots. My family traditions, culture, and heritage all originated from this overpopulated and</p>

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<p>Your “eye opening” experience suggests that you haven’t been to that village more than once. Bangladesh may be poor but I don’t see that you are poor.
In short, you are gonna reap advantages from someone else’s and your country’s poverty while all you gonna do is get a degree from US and work elsewhere than to come back and serve Bangladesh.</p>

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<p>That’s what I’m planning to do. I address that in the rest of the essay.</p>