Rejected from NYU, Accepted at Georgetown

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Fri, 27 Jun 2014 19:21:45 +0000

So… I’ll be going to Georgetown University’s SFS this August. I am very excited, but I was just wondering - what do you think might have been the reason that I got rejected from NYU Gallatin? I hadn’t been counting on SFS but was really in love with NYU Gallatin so it was kind of a shock when the results came out.

Thanks

SCORES
SAT I (breakdown): 720 M, 800 CR, 780 W. 2300
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92
Weighted GPA: 3.42
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/270
AP (place score in parenthesis): I took every AP offered at my school (only 3) and then some online.
AP Literature
AP Government
AP U.S. History
AP European History

Senior Year Course Load:
AP gov,
AP lit,
AP ush,
Sociology,
Advanced Environmental Science
Theater.

Community College Courseload (A’s in all classes)
Sociology 200
Macroeconomics 200
French 101
History of Modern Society 212
College Composition 111

Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
accepted into federal language academy for Russian and Korean.
Accepted into UVA summer language program for Chinese.
Scholarship from ASSE to study in Korea

Academic Awards:
Honor roll,
first place in Korean culture project contest,
third place in video contest.
Several awards from drama

EXTRACURRICULARS

Exchange student in South Korea for one year- 2013 (Started a video blog about Korean culture that is now #1 in its category)
Chorus in Korea (competed at national competition)
Drama- participated in every single show there was (3 musicals, 2 plays,2 competition one acts) and got leads in three.
Swim Team (Coach in Training)
Church band- lead singer
Quiz bowl team member- Competed on television twice, won once
Taekwondo- black belt. Also worked part time at the studio
Beta club - club historian
Dance (jazz, musical theater, tumbling)
Selected for NHS but could not participate because I graduated weeks later.
Summer governors school for two years

Job/Work Experience:
Taekwondo instructor
Waitress at Thai restaurant

Volunteer/Community service:
Church VBS
Coach in Training for Swim Team
Taekwondo Summer Camp volunteer

Essays (rating 1-10, details):
General essay -9/10. Worked my butt off. Four people reviewed it and all said it was great.
Why NYU - 8/10 - Talked about how much I loved the Gallatin program and went into detail

Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):
Teacher Rec #1: English teacher, she said I was the best student she had ever had.
Teacher Rec #2: Korean English teacher wrote three pages in broken English about how much she thought i could do well in an IR focus and how hard I work to do everything the Korean kids do even though its ridiculously hard for the native kids. She was so proud to show it to me afterward, it was adorable. (10/10)
Teacher Rec #3: Spanish teacher who encouraged me to do study abroad in the first place (10/10)
Counselor Rec #4: Known me since I was 8, encouraged me to apply at Columbia and UPenn (I didn’t) (8/10)

Other
State (if domestic applicant): VA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: female
Income Bracket: 78,000 ish?There are 4 kids in my family

Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
neither of my parents went to college.
Yearlong exchange in Korea.
I graduated from high school when I was fifteen.