<p>Decision: Accepted to Gallatin (■■■■ I can’t believe I got in!!)</p>
<p>[ *] SAT I (breakdown):590 Writing, 690 Critical Reading, 670 Math
[ *] ACT (breakdown): N/A
[ *] SAT II: N/A
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): we don’t have GPA in my school, but we converted it’s around 3.67
[ *] Weighted GPA (if available): N/A
[ *] Rank/percentile (if available): 2nd in level
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: IB English A1, Geography, Business Management HL; Chinese A2, Mathematics, Physics SL. TOK and E.E on social anthropology
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Top in level in Geography and Business for 3 consecutive years; 3rd place in Japanese speech contest </p>
<p>[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Student Council secretary for 3 years, student councilor for 5, director of drama club, director and initiator of cultural awareness project
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Creative Media assistant; Head of youth department at record label
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Volunteer at Youth Olympics, Volunteer at Robocup, Peer tutoring
[ *] Summer Activities: Cultural awareness project and work; I took a gap year and did a film certificate course
[ *] Essays: Quite good I’d say?
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: Good recommendation from english teacher and recommendation from professor of NYU Tisch (I took the film course at Tisch Asia)</p>
<p>[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[ *] Intended Major: Media, Events and Entertainment Production and Management
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):N/A
[ *] Country (if international applicant):Singapore
[ *] School Type: private
[ *] Ethnicity:Asian
[ *] Gender:Female
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Gap year?</p>
<p>[ *] Strengths: Essays, resume, initiated a big project, letter from Tisch Professor
[ *] Weaknesses: Scores, my SAT scores were weak in comparison, my IB grades were not that high either
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essay really showed how utterly desperate I was to get into Gallatin and my recommendation letters definitely, especially the one from a NYU faculty member
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:Rejected by University of Tokyo; prior to gap year accepted to NU-Q, Hult, RPI, Pratt, Hofstra, IE University, Waseda, University of Melbourne, University of Sydney, RMIT; rejected by NYU AD.</p>
<p>I just want to say to people who didn’t get in, I didn’t get into NYU AD on my first year either, but I knew I wanted to get into NYU, so I took a gap year, made the efforts to improve myself and my chances. If you think this is the only place on earth for you, then keep trying you will get in, and who knows maybe you will find somewhere better during your gap year even. Sometimes school life might have screwed you up but you can make up for it with your own efforts.</p>