Transferring out of NYU!

j6curran
Sun, 09 Dec 2012 02:07:26 +0000

Hey,

So I am a freshman at NYU, I really just want to get out. I came here because it was the best school I got into, I got into Villanova and northeastern as well, but I chose NYU for obvious reasons. I was wondering if someone could help me evaluate my chances as transferring up, I was hoping to maybe Columbia, Harvard, Stanford, notre dame, princeton, because I do has a kind of unusual app.
P.S. I do have contacts at all these schools if that helps, mostly just strong alumni, small donors

I go to Gallatin at NYU, which is the school for individualized study, so basically you take any classes you want at any school at nyu, and name your own major, kind of cool. My major is ‘The Business of Social Media and E-commerce’ with a minor in Poly-sci. At NYU, I just finished my first semester with a 3.5 about. It isn’t amazing but being a freshman and just getting adjusted to the school made it hard, I will most likely be up to 3.7 next semester, God be with me.

The unique part of my app is that I had a very success website I created when I was in 7th grade that I still run today and earns me enough money to pay for college. The site has received over 70 million hits and has almost 150,000 daily followers. Not bad I think. I have used my website to gain sponsors from every company from Dove Soap, to the new James Bond movie. I also use my website to promote my charity to build a school for the illiterate in the slums of Kenya. It is a good cause and I love to do it!

I wrote my college essay when I was in high school on being sued by Warner Music Group for copyright, and defending myself as a 16 year old against this billion dollar company, knowing nothing about the law. And I came out on top. It didn’t end up going to court, but I presented my case to their lawyers and after 3 months of hard research I found a way to argue fair use, and Warner accepted it. NYU found interest in this I guess, but I don’t know if I should reuse it.

Anyway, here is my High School grades, not that great. NYU mainly accepted me I think because of my website, and my GPA went down a lot due some large family problem I had my senior year. Something I still deal with, which is my Father who was diagnosed with ALS my senior years, a terminal illness. He really wants me to do well, which is why I write this to hopefully leave NYU.

HighSchool

GPA: 3.55
AP’s: Ap Lang, APUSH, AP Euro, AP Gov

Honors: Honors Chinese 3, Honors Chinese 4 (Im white, irish), Honors Humanities

Extra: 4 years of varsity track, 3 seasons per year so all year. A lot of volunteer work, both for my church and separate from my church. website.

SAT: 1900

NYU

GPA: 3.5

Extra: Grown my site to 70 million hits, and used my influence to help raise money to build a a school in the slums on Kenya.

Let me know what you guys think! Thanks so much!