NYU Abu Dhabi Class of 2019 - Applicant thread (Post your comments & stats)

whitman33
Fri, 30 Jan 2015 18:14:13 +0000

Hey I applied RD! Sounds like a great program, but I’m not expecting to get accepted. Still I thought I might as well try!

My stats:
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (didn’t submit)
[ *] ACT: 31
[ *] SAT II: N/A
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.93
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 9/558
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
World History (5)
Psych (5)
APUSH (5)
Human geo (4)
European History (4)
Lang and Comp (5)
Environmental Science (5)
Physics B (2)
[ ] Senior Year Course Load: Independent Study Mentorship (writing a research paper on international governing bodies- UN, EU, etc.- and their policies concerning religious persecution with help of my former AP European History Teacher), Varsity Dance Team, AP Lit, Dual Credit Government, AP Macroeconomics, AP Stats, AP Chem, AP Computer Science, AP Bio
[ ] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/list][ b]Subjective: AP Scholar of Honor/Distinction,
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[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council for four years (Student Body and District President Senior Year, Parliamentarian as Junior, Committee Chair all years), extensive leadership training throughout high school through Texas Association of Student Councils, NHS (Historian), State Science Olympiad finalist, founding member of our school’s physics club, participant in a Global Leadership Summer for two years in a row, member of an award winning Varsity Competitive Dance Team (Head Social Officer), graduated from a selective youth leadership program put on by my city’s chamber of commerce,
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Worked at summer camp for children and in front desk area of resort for two years
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:Volunteer, recruiter, and donor at blood drives all four years of high school, worked at a Christmas dinner for destitute families for several years, planted/watered trees in local parks for several years, served at an inner city shelter over spring break freshman year
[ *] Summer Activities: Spent the summer before and after my freshman year volunteering with homeless communities in Seattle for several weeks, the summer before Junior year I did some summer leadership training with the Texas Association of Student Councils(TASC) and I went to New Orleans and helped host a summer camp type thing for kids in an apartment complex in the ninth ward, before my Senior year I participated in the same leadership training, was on the State Steering Committee for TASC, and went to Bluebonnet Texas Girls State (mock legislative session for girls).
[ *] Essays: Thought my Common App was very good, it was about my first time volunteering and seeing poverty in the world when I worked in an orphanage in Matamoros, Mexico when I was 10 years old and how that impacted me.
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: I have very strong relationships with my teachers, I believe they all would have said good things.
[ *] Counselor Rec: Don’t have a personal relationship, but I’d imagine it was good.
[ ] Additional Rec:
[ ] Interview:[/list][ b]Other
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[ *] State (if domestic applicant): Texas
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[ *] Gender: Female
[ ]Income Bracket: ~ $150,000
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/list][ b]Reflection
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[ *] Strengths: I’ve been told I’m a strong writer, above average ECs/volunteerism/leadership experience I guess.
[ *] Weaknesses: Test scores aren’t very good, and I’m not valedictorian or anything. ECs perhaps a bit scattered.