Should I Even Apply?

Colleges & Universities New York University
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<p>I’m thinking of applying but i’m not sure. I think i’m doing ED just to give it a shot ( I know if I happen to get in I have to go, and i would def. go)
I have extra curricular but not much leadership stuff, I’m a junior at a public high school in ohio I believe it’s ranked 34th in the state</p>

<p>Gender: female
Ethnicity: Chinese
Major: International Business
Financial Aid: Yes </p>

<p>gpa: w- 4.2 uw-not sure my lowest grade was a A-
ACT: 30 / Writing: only a 8
SAT: probably not taking them didn’t do so hot on the psat (1560)
Rank: 13 out of 250ish</p>

<p>Honors English 10,11
Honors physics 11(this course is being run by kent university its basically a pseo class)
Ap US History (4 on the test)
3 years of french</p>

<p>Senior year plan: my school doesn’t offer a lot of AP courses :confused: So i’m doing PSEO
AP Gov 12
AP English
I’m taking PSEO courses in english, history, and chinese senior year</p>

<p>EC: All go up to junior year, I plan on continuing all the clubs into my senior year
National Honors Society 11,12
Student Levy Group Founder ( Our school was trying to pass a budget levy, organized student group to promote the levy)
French Club 9,10,11
Plan to - Robotics Club 12
Art Club 9,11,
Distinguished Scholar (students with 4.0+, its an award thing) 9,10,11,
CliqueBusters 10,11 (student group focused on unifying the school, i’m an original member so i was picked to be in it)
Student Senate: 9,10,11
Junior Class Council: 11
Focus Group: 11 (Group that talked with the principle about student body problems and recommendations, application based group)
plan to- yearbook class 12
plan to-DECA 12 (i’m going to take marketing at my school and this is the club that you join with it, the club participates in competition and stuff)
Academic Challenge: 9,10,11
Designed Poster for school plays (psd, competition) 11</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Blood drive worker/donor
Salvation Army Bell Ringer
Santa Shop Worker
Plan to - Hospital Volunteer this summer </p>

<p>Other info:
-First generation to attend college
-Writer for a asian american news site
-Not sure if this counts as a difficult situation type of thing but my parents don’t speak English so I translated a lot for them (going w/ my dad to his business stuff, helping them get stuff done) and so i usually do the bills and things like that for my family
-Been to China to study Chinese ( 2 summers, alone - stayed with family that i had back there)
-I speak Fujianese fluently (my families dialect) , but not Mandarin fluently
-Most of the kids at my school go to local colleges, only a few stand outs a year get into out of state big schools</p>

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<p>I’m also a prospective NYU peep (1st choice, yo), so I really can’t give you sound advice since I’m in the same boat… But I’d apply!! Sometimes, isn’t it good to get advice from someone the same as you…? I think so.</p>

<p>Your grades seem very good, but I’d branch out my ecs if I were you. None of them are outside of school! Despite the large number of clubs you’re in, it seems pretty meaningless if you don’t do something significant or noteworthy while in them. Do something that shows NYU your initiative to follow your non-school-related interests! I’d say the news site writing counts as an ec, as well. </p>

<p>Also, your volunteer work is a little limited. 2/3 are seasonal, and I’m not sure how often your blood drives happen so I can’t say anything about that one.</p>

<p>All the best of luck!</p>

<p>P.S. Fujianese? Ni chon na li lai de? Wo yie hue jian guo yi!! (Obv. my pinyin is so wrong, if you speak it aloud it might make more sense…)</p>

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<p>yes you should apply. btw i got like a 140 something on the psats and my SAT scores in the end was 1950, but your ACT score is pretty solid but anyways i digress, yes you should apply.</p>

<p>p.s. i got in steinhardt</p>

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<p>I say if you get a higher ACT score, like 33+, you should apply to Wharton =P. That being said, I think you have a pretty good shot ED.</p>

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<p>No reason not to. I vaguely remember Stern liking at least 1 SATII but I could be thinking of another school, it’s been a while.</p>

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<p>I was thinking of applying to stern for their BPE program is that better then the core business program they have there? It says that they only offer international business as a co-major but they describe BPE as a program for global minded students. </p>

<p>If I can get my ACT to like 31 or 32 would that be good enough if my gpa also stays around if not 4.0</p>

<p>I’m a little overwhelmed with the whole application process.</p>

<p>I was going to do the ED application online. How long before should I ask for my recommendations and how many is a good amount?</p>

<p>Then fill out the ED financial aid form, and the ED agreement papers which is a physical paper form?</p>

<p>Then inform my counselors to send in my transcripts, ap test scores, do the counselor recommendation, etc
Do my counselors handle the sending of the recommendations? </p>

<p>I know nyu’s aid is horrible but how much would I get if my parents make around 40,000 a year combined. 3 kids in my family 2 are over 18 only my brother is still a dependent., my parents own their own business. I read the placement for stern students is around 95% or something with a salary of 60,000 (on one website i read it was 80,000 some thousand for the recent classes) I’m hoping if going there gets me a good chance at a job right out of college it would be worth the loans.
Especially if i can find a company that helps loan payment or public service like peace corps, etc if it gets really bad.</p>

<p>ms.mussolini: my families from a small island off of China, it considered apart of the Fujian province.</p>