@slbeverly there have been a few people in this chat that didn’t receive interest emails but were accepted
steinhardt applied psych waitlist
did anyone here receive any email for admissions today?
@gtmsoax
SAT/ACT:2070
SAT IIs: didn’t take any
GPA (UW):3.75
GPA (W): 6.3/7
Rank: top 10%
Leadership Positions: none
Awards/Honors:Cum Laude Society, Science and French Honor Societies
Other Extra-curricular:culture club at school, vocal performance, dance, tutoring middle-schoolers
Essays: cringy but i would give it a 7/10
Teacher Recs: wasn’t too close with the teachers who wrote them so idk
Counselor Rec:really nice person, so i’m assuming she wrote something nice
Hooks (if any): nope
State or Country: New Jersey
School Type: Public with v. competitive academic record
Ethnicity: Indian
Gender: F
Financial Aid: none
Other Factors:
Why do you think you were accepted/rejected? My academics were good and my essay was mediocre…other than that i’m not too sure
General Comments: my weakness was definitely my EC’s
Good luck! 
Those of you who got in, how much scholarship did you get?
livedexperience8, we got $0.00
college of arts and sciences waitlist here, for the major cinema studies. i chose on my rsvp form that english was an interest as well and opened up my choices with the schools. still no reply from admissions… can i assume i’m not getting one? 
@livedexperience8 I received 28k total: 7k per year for the Liberal Studies Scholarship. I thought that wasn’t that great until I realized the norm is around 2-3k a year.
@SomedayIwill did you accept NYU’s offer or not? I got into the Liberal Studies Program and I didn’t receive any scholarships at all, but that’s fine cus in the end i have decided not to go to NYU, but instead to Northeastern.
I got back from stern, and I’m officially accepted … now I’m so confused though wether to go to NYU or Fordham
@lilconfused7 When did you receive an offer for Stern? and did you get the interest letter Monday?
@lilconfused7 also I have friends at both NYU stern and Fordham. You can’t go wrong with either! What do you want to study or do when you’re older though?
Yes I got The interest letter and I got the offer around two days ago… only one more day to decide lol. I’m not entirely sure what my end goal in business is and everyone at NYU seems so sure
Does anyone know how exact these 72 hours are? Cause they were rlly vague about it + didnt mention it in the email. Plus since it goes thru sunday idk if that counts…
@lilconfused7 Fordham has classes for Gabelli students to figure out what concentration they want to focus in; does NYU have the same thing?
Why would it be that some who got the interest letter has not received an offer, despite someone in the earlier part of the thread claiming interest letter is essentially an offer?
@chungho98 Have you checked your portal yet?
I have. It still shows my waitlist decision letter. No change since March.
@chungho98 I mean the interest letter is definitely a good sign, so they might just be taking time to process your application. If you don’t mind, could you please tell me what school you applied to and your stats?
I applied to U Chicago, Cooper Union, WPI, Grinnell, Reed, WashU St. Louis, CMU, Rochester, CWRU, Union College, and four UK universities (U of Bristol, U of Manchester, Imperial College London in two different majors)
Currently narrowed down to choose either Bristol or Union College, but NYU Tandon is still the top choice along with Reed (also waitlisted).
GPA: 4.2/5.0 -> In my defense, this is from one of the most competitive prep schools in my country. But I’m sure that this was the major deal breaker for most rejections/waitlists I got.
SAT: 760 Reading, 780 Math
SAT2: World History 770, Math2C 790, Physics 750
AP: Calculus BC/AB subscore 5/5, Physics1 5, Physics2 4, WH 5, Psycho 4, Chem 3, Microeconomics 4, Eng Lang 5,
Rec letters: had a bit of trouble with one of the two rec letters, so it ended up both of my letters being from math teachers. One from my PreCal teacher from 10th and another from my Calculus teacher from 11th and 12th. I was probably one of the more impressive students, but more “eccentric” than “excellent”. At least that is how one of them told me how I was like.
Essay: it was about giving up on one thing to fully achieve something else, about being not “college admission strategic” in my high school life. (#hipsteralert) It was a revised version of a top scored essay in one of my writing classes, so I assume the writing itself wasn’t the problem, but the content could have been problematic.
EC:
-(2016-now) currently running two tech startups, both still in R&D stage. Many of my interesting high school science/engineering projects are being continued here.
-korean flute player, won some competitions and was a part of a classic-modern fusion band(?)
-Founding member of the Korea Youth Society for Aerospace, a national academic society of high school students in rocketry, aviation, etc.
-president/editor of an art/literature magazine club as an illustrator.
-published a book on AI
-member of the debate club
-member of the physics club
Awards: bronze medal in iGEM (international bioengineering science fair), 1st place in Conrad Spirit of Innovation Challenge (international engineering science fair in NASA, covered in several national newspapers and national TV news if this means much), Zayed Future Energy Prize finalist (got a full ride trip to Abu Dhabi to attend the Sheik Zayed Sustainability Week), Korea Talent Award (Prime Minister medal, annually given to 100 individuals who represent Korea’s talents, or that’s what the medal said), Youth Hero Prize (given to one teenager per field each year, the award specifications are similar to KTA), World Scholar’s Cup consecutive first place (team), International History Bee and Bowl second place (individual), won a USD10,000 seed money from Yonsei University for a startup pitch, and self-proclaimed penguin specialist if this means anything.
Overall, my stats are really wordy and nothing numerical. A statistics major would be angry to call this stat.