<p>Crm,</p>
<p>One thing I want to stress is that the Admissions people at NYU really seemed to stress the holistic picture, at least for the MLK Scholarship. </p>
<p>S had around 2100 SAT and ACT of 32, not the highest scores. He took a very rigorous schedule with 8 APs and 2 college level courses. But the rest of his application, his ECs, community service and activism, along with superb essay/ short answers and recommendations from 4-5 people who knew him well, including the principal and asst principal certainly helped. He won honorary awards at a DC journalism conference, a French poetry recitation contest, a principals leadership award. He was also an AP Scholar with Distinction with all scores of 5s achieved except for one 4. He was commended for the National Merit Scholarship program. He also spent hours and hours representing the student body as Class President at school district board meetings, to the point that the principal gave him special recognition for his 100% attendance. He worked on building school spirit and arranged for bands (including his own) to play at school dances and fund-raisers. Moreover, he had 400 hours of community service, building school- community relations and he started a non-profit charitable organization. He was director and founder of the school TV news station. He also started an online political commentary newsletter (starting 10th grade).</p>
<p>It was unbelievable that he had time to sleep. But he loved what he did.</p>
<p>usk is right in that NYU looks at everything, not just scores.</p>