<p>Same, Hudsonriver. I personally think that their waitlist pool may have been larger than the accepted and rejected pools combined.</p>
<p>Quick question, do you think I can get into Macaulay at City College? (I just finished junior year, and I’m gonna be a Senior this year [yayyy!]) Stats:</p>
<p>92.04 UW
94.6 W</p>
<p>SATS:
530 - Reading
610 - Math
510 - Writing</p>
<p>SAT 2s:
510 - French
560 - Math 1
610 - Math 2</p>
<p>ACTS:
26</p>
<p>APs:
Statistics
Calculus AB
Chemistry
French</p>
<p>I also took a math honors program (I am one year ahead of my grade in math).
I have taken a language for all of high school, band for all high school, i have about 300 hours of community service, JV and Varsity Field hockey, school awards for math and science. I’ve done wayy more, but I really don’t feel like writing all of my extra curricular activities.</p>
<p>Sorry Rawr but you really have no shot with those scores and even your gpa is quite low. Do your best to raise both in the coming months and write a compelling essay and that’s all you can really do.</p>
<p>Do I have a good shot at City College or Queens? (unsure of which)</p>
<p>White male, decent catholic school
Out of a class of about 650 I’m definitely top 10%, probably 5%</p>
<p>SAT’s
CR 600, M 740, W 610
CR 590, M 760, W 690
SAT 2’s
Math 1- 670
Biology- 680
Math 2- 720
Chemistry- 680</p>
<p>Havent taken any APs yet, but some honors
freshman- english and global history honors
soph- biology and pre cal honors
junior- spanish 3, chemistry, and calculus honors
senior- AP chem, calc, psych. honors physics</p>
<p>GPA after freshman and soph= 96.917
But my GPA for junior year has been about 97-98, so it will go up</p>
<p>Boy Scouts junior assistant scoutmaster and tutoring all 4 years (LOTS of hours)
Very involved in school- peer counselor next year to the incoming freshman, lots of volunteering for the school; Greek club- president senior year; NHS, Math NHS, Science NHS, Spanish NHS</p>
<p>Ok back to what I had just said… does anyone know which campus would be best for majoring in something such as Chemistry? How about biology? </p>
<p>I was thinking City College… I always saw it as the “sciencey” school. But I am having doubts now. So many people I hear bashing City college… So which CUNY would be best to apply to for Macaulay if I wanted to major in Chem or Bio? I was thinking between City, Hunter, Brooklyn, or Queens. Queens would be great because I live right by it</p>
<p>I went to an informational meeting and the representative from City College’s Macaulay said that they have the highest GPA and such avg to get into the program (idk if that sways your decision about wanting to go there or not) oh and he said that they [city college] are more engineer/science oriented.</p>
<p>Hi, b0mb93.
I think you do have some good shots there.
Keep in minds that many great students who might have better scores and better performances in activities get rejected. Common senses are #1 good recommendation, and #2 your essays are really the final tickets to get you into MHC.</p>
<p>And for CCNY. Since we have an engineering school, most of the MHC students are actually prospective engineering / science students. There are also other majors, as well.</p>
<p>macaulay queens '14 here!
so excited!</p>
<p>I’m thinking about retaking the SAT in October because my combined CR and Math scores fall a bit short of the average admitted applicant into Macaulay (I have a 1360 combined) Do you think I should? </p>
<p>Asides from that, I have an unweighted gpa of 90%,
9th- Honors geometry, honors french 2, honors language, honors world history, honors bio
10th- Honors algebra 2, honors french 3, honors language, APUSH 1, honors chem
11th- Honors Precalc, honors french 4, AP Lang and Comp, APUSH 2, honors physics
12th- will take Honors Calc, Honors literature, AP Gov, AP Pysch, AP art history</p>
<p>Participated in Winter/Spring track, MUN, Key Club, French Honors Society, Peer Leadership and I’ve been accepted into NHS. One year work experience. I go to an average high school in NJ. </p>
<p>Also, are any of the communication programs comparable to the Media, Culture and Communication program at Steinhardt (NYU)? And the Honors seminars/classes are taken along with the courses relevant to your major, right?</p>
<p>There’s no harm in retaking the SAT because I believe Macaulay superscores anyway.
What Macaulay “campus” are you looking at?
I’m pretty sure the 1360 would make you competitive at any of the campuses except Hunter and maybe Baruch/City.</p>
<p>Oh haha I was looking at Hunter and Baruch. I’ll probably retake the SAT. I know that the applications are due Dec 1st, but I was considering ED for nyu and that is due by Nov 1st. If I order the October SAT scores via Score Choice, are the scores automatically sent to the colleges I choose or does it take weeks to?</p>
<p>If you take the October SAT, both Macaulay and NYU will receive your scores in time to make the decision, so don’t worry too much about that. I would focus more of raising your Math and Critical Reading sections.
Do finances matter? Is your family ready to pay $50k+ for NYU when you could easily get the same education at Macaulay for free + a free Mac + an $8000 stipend? NYU is extremely stingy with financial aid, so I advise you that if you cannot pay the 50k easily, I would apply regular decision instead of early decision. I’m pretty sure you would make NYU even with your current scores, and especially if you raised them when you take the SAT in October, so I don’t see a reason to apply early decision.</p>
<p>Take out loans and go to NYU. Much better than Macaulay if you want to end up going to professional schools that are well known.</p>
<p>This is coming from someone who made the transition from MHC to NYU.</p>
<p>Gunnar is just bitter he wasn’t able to hack getting into Ivy League schools during High School as well as during college. All of my friends and I got into NYU during High School and we all turned it down in favor of Macaulay because its just not worth the price. In fact I know of nobody who was accepted at Macaulay Hunter who was rejected at NYU. If your idea of NYC is hanging with a bunch of Midwestern hipsters who think NYC is the coolest place on earth then go to NYU. Sure Hunter is no Harvard but at least you get a legitimate exposure to NYC. In terms of graduate school placement Macaulay (at least at Hunter which I know best) has been very successful in placing students into top Phd, Med, and Law Schools. The fact of the matter is that priority registration allows you to cherry pick the best of the best in terms of professors, not that you would need to as most of the tenured faculty is already top notch. I truly think that I am getting a better education here than at Cornell where I was given a GT. For those who don’t want to live at home the choice is simple, you apply to Hunter for the free dorms. I am biased though of course :p.</p>
<p>Yeah, I am bitter that I did not get into an ivy league school. Who wouldn’t be bitter?
But please, be fair. If you are going to bash NYU, you have a responsibility to discuss the negatives of the Macaulay Honors program at Hunter College.</p>
<p>Being in the program gives you a ton of advantages, I’ll give you that. But here is what I think people should know when considering MHC in general:
- The level of education. Even though you will be part of the MHC, you will still receive the same education as the rest of the regular college. Sure, there are core classes exclusively for the MHC kids, but those are simply core classes. So if you are a good student, expect your GPA to be high during your first year of college. Maybe even in your second year depending on your major/career pathway.
- Ok, so you get to pick the professors of your choice. And I admit, some of the professors are top notch. But don’t ever believe that you are always guaranteed a seat for a certain class. Maybe you might not be in competition for seats with the regular student body, but you still are up against your fellow honor students. This should be true especially for Hunter as their MHC student body is around a 100+ students of which 50+ are pre-med. So signing up for a higher Bio class isn’t going to be as simple as it sounds.</p>
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<li>The MHC student body is straight up vicious. Honestly, my one year at MHC Brooklyn showed me the most posers I have ever seen in my entire life. Albeit, NYU has posers too but at least you can avoid them as they aren’t bunched together into one, single body. But to say that everyone at MHC hunter is your sincere, down to earth individual is just wrong. </li>
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<p>miktau, you make Hunter sound like it <em>IS</em> Harvard. I am sorry but it is not. The MHC is a fairly new program that is starting to get attention.
Look, I earnestly do not care where anyone ultimately decides to go to college. My entire argument is that a degree from MHC Hunter College is going to be a degree from Hunter College. And a degree from NYU will be a degree from NYU. Sure, MHC Hunter graduates have gone to fine institutions in the past and will do so in the future. However, it would be a bad lie to tell you that if you do great at a school like NYU and have a good MCAT/GRE/LSAT score, you couldn’t get into the best programs in the City or in any other place.</p>
<p>Off I go. No more words from me as I really despise tit-for-tat discussions. Good luck to all who are in the application process.</p>
<p>Gunnar I commend you for responding so tactfully. I certainly didn’t mean to bash NYU, merely express my opinion that spending over 200k on an NYU education is in most circumstances ludicrous if one has the option of MHC. You are right however that at the end of the day we still get degrees from our home colleges. I do admit that Hunter is far, far away from any semblance of Harvard. For example Hunter’s attrition rate is utterly abysmal. Our 6-year graduation rate is just under 40%. Harvard’s 4-year graduation rate on the other hand is around 97%. It’s true that in certain intro classes there are kids who can barely read. The upside of this is that once you get past these courses the student body becomes much more focused and motivated. I am taking Calc II for example and the drive I see in many non-honor’s students far exceeds my own and I personally feel like I push myself quite hard. </p>
<p>Nevertheless you are right, CUNY is CUNY, and if you don’t make the effort then you are probably not going to get as much out of it as you can. One thing that should not be bashed however is the faculty. I have an excellent rapport with many of my professors who are often graduates of top ivy’s and the like. Not a single one of my friends attending a tier one has similar relationships with their professors. As to registration the only competition, at least for Hunter, between honors students is really for the seminars. Getting into any regular class is all but assured.</p>
<p>In terms of doing well there are plenty of kids who graduate summa cum laude (3.9+), including premed kids. Just by virtue of making it through the program you must have at least a 3.5 and have honors in your major, which means writing an honors thesis to be presented to departmental faculty. </p>
<p>As to Macaulay students being vicious I think you are confusing drive and motivation with “viciousness”. I really don’t know what you mean by “poser” either. Most MHC students are either first or second-generation immigrants. From my personal experiences although everyone will stop at nothing to achieve what it is they desire at the same time everyone is pretty laid back and willing to help out. However, everyone is entitled to his or her own opinion and if you think that NYU has fewer posers so be it. </p>
<p>To wrap things up, you’re right Hunter is no Harvard. If someone told me they got a full scholarship to NYU I would tell them to go there in a heartbeat over MHC. But as you probably know NYU is extremely stingy with aid and for good reason. Their endowment per student is only $66,000 and as such they simply don’t have the money to be generous with aid. NYU is now creeping up on $60,000 a year. Spending $240,000 (and that’s just principal never mind interest) on a college education is ridiculous even if you plan to be the next Lloyd Blankfein. I’m sorry that you had such a negative experience at Brooklyn, you’re certainly not alone. Not everyone at MHC is happy but then again I’d imagine that many students at every school from CC all the way to Harvard feel this way as well.</p>
<p>To make a point quickly: Macaulay honors is a program that provides free tuition for 4 years, a laptop (Mac), cultural passport, and $7500 study abroad fund. Certainly there are other good commitments which MHC students have to fulfill, such as exploring New York City in their first semester. Some includes community services and student events.</p>
<p>So beyond the money part, MHC and regular Honors @ a particular CUNY school, let say CCNY Honors are about the same.</p>
<p>MHC is NOT a new program. It was originally called CUNY Honors Program. It was named after Macaulay because Mr and Mrs. Macaulay gave in a very large number of donation to CUNY Honors. Then the program was revised. </p>
<p>Just to clarify that.</p>
<p>Anyone wanna chance me for Macaulay at Hunter?
SAT: 1470
M: 710 CR: 760
ACT: 35
English: 35 Reading: 36 Math: 34 Science 33 Essay: 6</p>
<p>Gpa: 95 uw, 99 w
Decent EC’s, mostly music stuff.</p>
<p>Also, does anyone know how good Hunter’s Computer Science program is?</p>
<p>720math
690verbal
2020total sat
gpa 3.4 have taken almost all AP classes with plenty of 3’s 4’s and 5’s
out of state (VA), white male
weak EC’s aside from 2 varsity sports
any chance at getting macauley honors at city college in new york?</p>
<p>Shaedow- I’m pretty sure you would make it.</p>
<p>Thawill- Your GPA is hurting you along with your lack of EC’s. It could fall either way.</p>