Hey guys! Sophomore now but applying likely as a sophomore for next year.
Currently at NYU Tisch in the Film program and, though I’m doing well, I don’t want to go into the film industry. Plus I have a lot of issues with the program and its participants and NYU as a whole, and I’d love to really LEARN about the world and not just produce projects without real guidance. Minoring in an interdisciplinary program called Science and Society and I LOVE IT. Very interested in health and society and the life sciences in general and approaching them with an interdisciplinary and creative mindset. I do a lot of research in that area in my spare time and, as I said, really love it and finally made the decision to completely switch my career path.
State: NC
Income: both parents unemployed for past 4 years
College GPA: 3.85
HS (Notheast, top ranked public school) GPA: 4.07 weighted, 5 APs, honestly didn’t work to my potential in HS. the college structure suits me better.
SAT: 2150; SAT II: Bio-E 760, Math I 710, 5s on AP US AP Bio
Current courses: opical Seminar: Emerging Diseases, Calc I (took in hs but didn’t take AP), History of Western Art I, The Art of Sound (film history), Pre-Production Colloquium (1 credit film)
Recs: from bio-anthro professor and editing prof, should be good, did well in both and participated and blah blah
Essays: I’m a decent/ intuitive writer so I’m pretty confident bout dat
ECs:
– Competitive Club Ultimate Frisbee Team
– Nationally Qualified 57kg weight class Powerlifter (strength sport kind of like olympic weightlifting)
– Photojournalist and Writer for The Odyssey (online newspaper, cross-college); tend to produce scientifically minded pieces i.e. the physics behind the swirls of cream in your morning coffee; exercise and the brain
– College radio host freshman year: wrote and hosted classical music show heehee
– had an internship fall semester as a production intern at a doc production company
– volunteer as an inner-city public school financial aid educator and mentor
Work: have to make money over the summer so work typical summer jobs = cashier, hostess, freelance photographer
kinda embarrassed to admit but my family is pretty tied in to Cornell; both grandparents went, uncle and cousins went, dad went grad school, and there’s a building named after my great grandpa… I’m pretty sure.
VERY CONCERNED that the film program is going to hurt me a lot… it’s very intensive and really doesn’t allow for more than one course to be taken outside Tisch per semester… I’ve taken hard, interesting courses that I;ve gotten all As in, but only have 3 real non-film courses to show (intro to sociology, Classics & Cognitive Theory, Global Biocultures: Anthropological Perspectives on Public Health)… the rest are freshman writing, film production + craft + scriptwriting + film history courses.
chances s’il vous plait.
