Hello! Decided to start a thread. I submitted my application yesterday.
im freshman at a t50 state school and i applied with a 3.9 gpa for philosophy. i had As / Bs / Cs (mostly Bs) in high school. Im international, have pretty good ECs, full pay, 2 recs from my professors here and uh that’s it. I hope i get in. what do you think my chances are?
Generally speaking “mostly B’s in high school” and “NYU” do not tend to go together. Also, given that you apparently only have one single semester as a university student, your high school grades will matter for a transfer application.
However, your high school grades will be interpreted in the context of the high school and grading system that you were studying in.
Why do you want to transfer? It sounds like you are already at a very good university.
And what do you intend to do with a degree in philosophy?
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I know that yes, that’s why I got rejected when I applied as a first year. can’t change my past grades now. I was given hope by the fact I did good in my first semester here. Also, that was within a British curriculum, which I feel makes it slightly less worse idk.
It is a good school but I’d rather be in New York City.
Im doing philosophy because I like it and I’d like to go into academia.
It’s unlikely that you get into a school that rejected you with one semester of grades. Since you are full pay, if your goal in NYC, you have other schools you can apply to as well.
Perhaps waiting another year would be a better strategy. I don’t know if you can reapply if you don’t get in.
Good luck
I took a gap year since that rejection and have had a decent amount of growth outside academia.
Why wouldn’t I be able to reapply if I don’t get in this time around? Is there a limit..?
I took a gap year since that rejection and have had a decent amount of growth outside academia.
Why wouldn’t I be able to reapply if I don’t get in this time around? Is there a limit..?
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Im not very hopeful either, im applying very hesitantly, but I hope nyu is able to contextualize my passable high school performance ( i was really reeling from losing my father) . Upward performance or something idk!
Don’t know their transfer rules. Maybe you can.
Again, you said you want to be in NYC. Why not apply to other schools too ? NYU isn’t the only.
It’s my only option (my external scholarship would only cover nyu and the school im currently at) and it’s where ive always wanted to go anyhow.
Well good luck but worst case graduate where you are and go live in nyc.
thank you. I have the tendency to catastrophize but yeah it wouldn’t be too bad to wait a couple more years. I am holding on to just a little bit of hope, enough to get me to June, and whatever happens then will happen. I can at least say i tried.
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This is true, and may be part of why you are already studying at a very good university.
You can expect that the same result is most likely, even with one good semester at university.
“Into academia” to me suggests some form of graduate study is likely at some point in your future.
I am not familiar with Phd programs in philosophy. I do have some familiarity with admissions for PhD programs in a few other fields (from siblings, children, and a personal application for a PhD program), and also with master’s degree admissions.
At least in my experience, students at highly ranked graduate programs come from a huge range of different undergraduate universities. To improve your chances for doing well in graduate admissions, doing very well at the university that you are currently attending is very important. Transferring as an undergraduate student to a higher ranked university is not important. Also, when you are applying to graduate programs, what you did in high school will not matter. They will not ask about high school and you will not tell them about high school. What you did as a university student will matter a lot, as will your reasons for wanting to go on to study in a graduate program.
You of course can apply to NYU. Maybe you might get in. My personal guess is that you are likely to be rejected again, and stay where you are. However, it sounds like you are already at a very good university, so I think that this is already an okay result that can get you where you want to be.
This might sound vain but im not thinking that much of future prospects. I am simply unhappy here, it’s not at all my crowd (perhaps partly of my own fault), it’s geographically debilitating, and I just find it hard to visualize myself here properly. Yes, the prospects are very good, academically and otherwise, it’s ranked (practically minus the ‘prestige’) equivalently, and I very much could do very well in ‘ future’ hypotheticals if I hone in on my studies and accept the position im in. The idea of years(!!) horrifies me. I go to college out of pragmatic reasons, I’d like to pretend to live as well! Can’t help but grieve what could’ve been had I done well in the one year of schooling that killed my every chance.
One thing about ending high school and starting at university: You get to start over. Once you graduate university no one will care what you did in high school.
What you do over the next 3 1/2 years will create the opportunities that you might have available to you in the future. Doing consistently well over a full 4 years of university is not easy, but it is a path to open up opportunities in the future.
i understand that, and i hope i am able to drill that into my head. the core of it is my shallowness, i feel ive been deprived of a normal childhood and a normal high school experience and now i am being deprived of a decent ‘college experience’. ‘opportunities’ doesn’t sound like that exciting of a prospect because i’m just in that constant state of grief, i could get a job maybe but ill never be in college again. i am not where i wanted to be and i am ageing. Would getting into nyu save me or fix any of that? maybe not, but at least i can acknowledge that it’s just me at that point. i hope they show me mercy, some internet testimonies make me optimistic but i also recognize the reality of the situation.
forget my previous ramblings i was going through it. anyhow, they just asked for my a levels on the portal, does that mean anything?
Lots of folks got in yesterday, apparently. Why is this thread not active?
Likely only a very small percentage of kids for any school are on this website. Many colleges have threads with no one responding.
Good luck wherever you decide to attend.
Thank you. Just wanna do some portal astrology
tomorrow. fingers crossed.