2011-2012 NYU Application Thread

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I am really stuck on the last prompt where you're supposed to pick one out of the three available. Can you guys critique my choices?

1. What is the most personal non-academic accomplishment?
- I was going to talk about my musical involvement, which is something I'm really passionate about. But I've talked about in my PS, in the earlier NYU prompt about Why NYU? and as a most meaningful activity. Overkill if I do it here too?

2. When have you had difficulty maintaining respect?
Geez. The best scenario I can think of is when my close friend became a stripper. Is this too risque?

Thanks for you advice.
 
zamzee said:
2. When have you had difficulty maintaining respect?
Geez. The best scenario I can think of is when my close friend became a stripper. Is this too risque?
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Hey Zamzee! My two cents: Avoid the stripper story. I like to think I have a high tolerance for "risque," and one of my secondary essays actually had strippers in it, believe it or not. The implied question here, as far as I see it, is "Will you be able to maintain respect for your patients when they have made questionable health or life decisions?" Even if you ultimately found it in yourself to respect this friend of yours, it might bring up questions of severity/degree (e.g. if you were able to respect your friend because s/he desperately needed the money, what about someone who was doing it for fun?; what if s/he had become an adult film star?).

I chose the first prompt and wrote about something that wasn't in my personal statement. This doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't talk about music. But if you can find a particular instance when you handled something particularly well, or learned something particularly useful about yourself, you might bring to light some new aspect of your personality. My topic was something a lot of people don't even know about. I'm not sure I'd call it my most significant non-academic accomplishment (but that's not quite what they're asking for, anyway), but I erred on the side of introducing new information to shed new light on the old.

Either way, do what you feel most comfortable doing, and it'll show on your application. Good luck!
 
percy said:
Hey Zamzee! My two cents: Avoid the stripper story. I like to think I have a high tolerance for "risque," and one of my secondary essays actually had strippers in it, believe it or not. The implied question here, as far as I see it, is "Will you be able to maintain respect for your patients when they have made questionable health or life decisions?" Even if you ultimately found it in yourself to respect this friend of yours, it might bring up questions of severity/degree (e.g. if you were able to respect your friend because s/he desperately needed the money, what about someone who was doing it for fun?; what if s/he had become an adult film star?).

I chose the first prompt and wrote about something that wasn't in my personal statement. This doesn't mean you can't/shouldn't talk about music. But if you can find a particular instance when you handled something particularly well, or learned something particularly useful about yourself, you might bring to light some new aspect of your personality. My topic was something a lot of people don't even know about. I'm not sure I'd call it my most significant non-academic accomplishment (but that's not quite what they're asking for, anyway), but I erred on the side of introducing new information to shed new light on the old.

Either way, do what you feel most comfortable doing, and it'll show on your application. Good luck!
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Thanks Percy! We're applying to so many of the same schools 🙂 I'll brainstorm a less problematic topic for this one for sure..
 
zamzee said:
Thanks Percy! We're applying to so many of the same schools 🙂 I'll brainstorm a less problematic topic for this one for sure..
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Yezzir! *tips hat* Seeya on the interview trail... 😀
 
is "Your current application status is: Application in Process- You should hear from our office within 4-6 weeks.." the complete status and i'm under review? or am i still being processed?
 
citrusguy2010 said:
is "Your current application status is: Application in Process- You should hear from our office within 4-6 weeks.." the complete status and i'm under review? or am i still being processed?
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Mine is: "Application Complete - Under Review." It's been like that ever since I was marked complete in late July.
 
alpinebrook said:
Verified 8/16, but still haven't gotten the secondary... should I be concerned? I'm not aware that they screen.
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They don't screen. I'm in the same boat though I was verified a week before you. I'm just going to pre-write and if they don't get it to me by the month mark, I'mma call up and be like "WTF mates?!"

I'm a reapplicant and I remember them taking forever last year too.

On a completely random note, this and UCSF are the only secondaries I haven't gotten yet.
32/36 recieved (2 schools don't give secnodaries until interview invite)
27/32 complete! Yay.
 
Hm so has anyone who submitted their application in mid/late August been marked as "complete" yet? It seems that even up until late July, people's status changed from "in process" to "complete, under review" within a few days... is NYU that backlogged already?
 
luckyducky87 said:
Hm so has anyone who submitted their application in mid/late August been marked as "complete" yet? It seems that even up until late July, people's status changed from "in process" to "complete, under review" within a few days... is NYU that backlogged already?
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I submitted my application August 21st and received a complete email September 2nd.

I doubt I will get a response this month, but its still exciting how fast September 15th is coming up. Good luck everyone!
 
luckyducky87 said:
Hm so has anyone who submitted their application in mid/late August been marked as "complete" yet? It seems that even up until late July, people's status changed from "in process" to "complete, under review" within a few days... is NYU that backlogged already?
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I submitted on 8/18 and received the complete email on 8/22.
 
i submitted 8/16 and wasnt marked complete till 8/30....it takes time
 
My secondary invite was in the spam folder, since basically the day I got verified! I've read about emails going into the spam folder, but for whatever reason I had the attitude that "it won't happen to me". IT HAPPENED! So check your spam folder.
 
One week until NYU unleashes its first golden tickets. Oh, I would run home as Charlie did if I found one in my inbox or candy bar wrapper.
 
yeah I would pee my pants if I got an interview invite from NYU
 
TheGloaming said:
One week until NYU unleashes its first golden tickets. Oh, I would run home as Charlie did if I found one in my inbox or candy bar wrapper.
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:laugh: I am going to buy a candy bar next Thursday, just in case my invite is in there. I am excited!! Good luck!
 
Nakita said:
:laugh: I am going to buy a candy bar next Thursday, just in case my invite is in there. I am excited!! Good luck!
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I am totally doing this too. Hmm, I haven't bought a Hershey's candy bar for awhile... Perhaps that's why I haven't gotten an invite from Penn State. If NYU was a candy bar which one would it be and why? (This needs to be a secondary question)
 
TheGloaming said:
I am totally doing this too. Hmm, I haven't bought a Hershey's candy bar for awhile... Perhaps that's why I haven't gotten an invite from Penn State. If NYU was a candy bar which one would it be and why? (This needs to be a secondary question)
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A York Peppermint Patty... because it is SO COOL! Next question.
 
Alrighttt so how does this work? Are we looking at the first interview invites going out at 12am or more during the day?
 
Prateek said:
Alrighttt so how does this work? Are we looking at the first interview invites going out at 12am or more during the day?
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Who knows. This my absolute dream school so I'm going to flip if I get that ticket 🙂
 
What?? The golden tickets were originally going out on the 15th, but of course patience is the theme of this process.
 
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haha and it's the start of the weekend too... sooo, naturally they probably won't come out till monday. 😛
 
HulaHippos said:
haha and it's the start of the weekend too... sooo, naturally they probably won't come out till monday. 😛
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Releasing the first wave of invites on a Friday @ 5pm is pretty common and strategic; the influx of calls that invariably follows will be spread out over the following week.
 
Ohhh boy if I got me one of them golden tickets it would be the best weekend ever.
 
TheGloaming said:
Ohhh boy if I got me one of them golden tickets it would be the best weekend ever.
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We have almost identical numbers!

The good thing about this school is that it would not be expensive to interview at - just a train ride away.

All the other ones are too expensive now...Im almost at the point where I turn down interviews eek!
 
raltima07 said:
We have almost identical numbers!

The good thing about this school is that it would not be expensive to interview at - just a train ride away.

All the other ones are too expensive now...Im almost at the point where I turn down interviews eek!
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Not expensive for you... I'm from Minnesota so for me its: "I'm goin', I'm goin', I'm goin' on a trip. Train, plane or taxi cab-all the choices hip". That was either from Arthur or Bobby's World. Either way awesome song from an awesome show.
 
TheGloaming said:
Not expensive for you... I'm from Minnesota so for me its: "I'm goin', I'm goin', I'm goin' on a trip. Train, plane or taxi cab-all the choices hip". That was either from Arthur or Bobby's World. Either way awesome song from an awesome show.
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Haha, I am going to Minnesota soon for an interview, and your coming to NY 😎

We are trading spots
 
Re-applicant here. Wait listed at NYU last year, really hoping for another invite here as well! :xf:
 
raltima07 said:
I hope we are in the first batch!
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Only one thing's for sure, Raltima: We may not be in the first batch, but we'll most certainly be in the best one! :highfive:

iPhone better push that e-mail if it comes.
 
percy said:
Only one thing's for sure, Raltima: We may not be in the first batch, but we'll most certainly be in the best one! :highfive:

iPhone better push that e-mail if it comes.
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Ain't that the truth!

And yea, I better get that email ASAP. My owl better not be late with the letter....
 
Out of 7200 apps, 956 are given interviews, and 419 accepted.

If you change that to instate, 1671 apply and 211 are given interviews, with 92 acceptances.

My chances to get one of those 211 interviews are ehhh...considering im facing percy.

Ah well....
 
TheGloaming said:
Nope actually 9 hours -

Start Date:
Fri, 2011-09-16 21:00
Event Type:
Admissions Event

They must have changed it since yesterday.
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Hmm...I mean, we have to trust it since it's the official word. However, for the other event listed today, the Dean's appearance on Sirius radio at 3 PM, it lists the start time as being "19:00," even though it specifically says 3 PM in the event title. Guess I'll just compulsively check my email starting at 5 to be safe...
 
doctorSOX said:
Hmm...I mean, we have to trust it since it's the official word. However, for the other event listed today, the Dean's appearance on Sirius radio at 3 PM, it lists the start time as being "19:00," even though it specifically says 3 PM in the event title. Guess I'll just compulsively check my email starting at 5 to be safe...
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the plot thickens...

doctorSOX said:
My chances to get one of those 211 interviews are ehhh...considering im facing percy.
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Pshaw. I know youre winning this cycle, Raltima! Also, Percy is dyslexic; I totally read, "considering im facing pregnancy."

Kick @ss and don't get preggerz (unless you really want to, of course)!
 
doctorSOX said:
Hmm...I mean, we have to trust it since it's the official word. However, for the other event listed today, the Dean's appearance on Sirius radio at 3 PM, it lists the start time as being "19:00," even though it specifically says 3 PM in the event title. Guess I'll just compulsively check my email starting at 5 to be safe...
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3 PM EDT is the same as 1900 UTC
 
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