**Official NYU ED II Class of 2017 Decisions Thread**

JamesBrownn
Sat, 16 Feb 2013 02:44:08 +0000

**Decision: Accepted **
**Admitted School: CAS Econ **

Stats:[ul]

[] SAT/ACT: 2160 (650M) (780CR) (730W)
[] SAT IIs: 800 US Hist
[] GPA (UW): 3.7
[] GPA (W): 3.75
[] Rank: Top 25%
[] Leadership Positions: Leader of 8 member funk band, organized charity music show
[] Awards/Honors: High Honor Roll/Honor Roll some years
[] Other Extra-curricular: NYU summer music program, home music producer, learned multipul instruments (guitar, vocals, bass, drums) with private lessons, took private music production lessons, Jazz band bassist/percussionist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Essays: Great essays. Wrote a very strong college essay about “why I’m funk music” (edited a great deal by AP english teacher and SAT english tutor), for the “what intrigues you” I wrote about the power of simplicity and talked about an old blues song called “Grinnin’ In Your Face” by Son House, for “why NYU campus” question I wrote about how Washington Square is the quad and there are so many different types of people in the city who you can learn from
[] Teacher Recs: APUSH teacher gave me an amazing recommendation, got rec from math teacher (I got an 84 in her class junior year, and now have her again for senior year and have a 95, so she wrote about my improvement)
[] Counselor Rec: Very good, wrote about some family problems I had that made my GPA not as high as it should have been sophomore and junior year
[] Hooks (if any): didn’t apply for financial aid, took a class there already and met some of the faculty
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[] State or Country: New York
[] School Type:
[] Ethnicity: White (Italian/jewish)
[] Gender: male
[li] Financial Aid information (see description): didn’t apply [/li]
[/ul]Other Statements:[ul]
[] Other Factors: Took AP Econ, AP Euro, AP English Language, AP English Lit, AP US History and did well on all of them. 5 on AP US/English Language exams
[] Why do you think you were accepted/rejected? Strong SATs, good course rigor, didn’t apply for fin aid, unique essays/extracurriculars that NYU would like… I REALLY WANTED TO GO!!!
[li] General Comments: My grades definitely weren’t amazing and many people say you need high grades to get in here. If you have lower grades, but you’re a cool person and you can show it, you have a great chance! I support anyone who wants to apply and think it’s an AMAZING school, so excited to attend. [/li][/ul]