Hey guys! Sophomore now but applying likely as a sophomore for next year.
Currently at NYU Tisch in the Film program and, though I’m doing well, I don’t want to go into the film industry. Plus I have a lot of issues with the program and its participants and NYU as a whole, and I’d love to really LEARN about the world and not just produce projects without real guidance. Hoping to switch into an anthropology (biological focus) and public health program(s) instead 
AND TO NOT BE IN THE CITY. Blasphemous, I know… but I’m an introvert (though no one can really tell) and need a quieter, less CONSTANTLY stimulating environment… oh, and a campus.
State: NC
Income: both parents unemployed for past 4 years
College GPA: 3.85
HS (Notheast, top ranked public school) GPA: 4.07 weighted, 5 APs, honestly didn’t work to my potential in HS. the college structure suits me better.
SAT: 2150; SAT II: Bio-E 760, Math I 710, 5s on AP US AP Bio
Current courses: opical Seminar: Emerging Diseases, Calc I (took in hs but didn’t take AP), History of Western Art I, The Art of Sound (film history), Pre-Production Colloquium (1 credit film)
Recs: from bio-anthro professor and editing prof, should be good, did well in both and participated and blah blah. Drafted both of them.
Essays: had a lot to say (about changing major AND changing school) so it didn’t really have a good story / hook, I’d give it an 8.5. Supp: haven’t written yet but fairly confident about writing it.
ECs:
– Competitive Club Ultimate Frisbee Team
– Nationally Qualified 57kg weight class Powerlifter (strength sport kind of like olympic weightlifting)
– Photojournalist and Writer for The Odyssey (online newspaper, cross-college); tend to produce scientifically minded pieces i.e. the physics behind the swirls of cream in your morning coffee; exercise and the brain
– College radio host freshman year: wrote and hosted classical music show heehee
– had an internship fall semester as a production intern at a doc production company
– volunteer as an inner-city public school financial aid educator and mentor
Work: have to make money over the summer so work typical summer jobs = cashier, hostess, freelance photographer
Best of luck to all prospies! EXCITED to wait things out with y’all.