NYU Tandon Civil Engineering

I'm currently a junior and planning on ED-ing to Tandon for Civil Engineering

Residence: AZ (but sister lives in NYC currently)

Income: Upper middle (can pay for tuition)

School: Public, competitive (roughly 4k students)

Intended Major(s): Undergrad in Civil Engineering, Grad in Urban Planning

GPA: 4.0 UW, 4.8 W

SAT: 1420: 650 Eng, 770 Math (taking it again this may)

Background: Asian/Hispanic

APs: 13 Planned, 3 Taken/5 Concurrent

• Sophmore: AP Seminar (5), AP Human Geo (5), AP Chinese (4)
• Junior (not yet tested): APUSH, AP Lang, AP Precalc, APES, AP Research
• Senior (planned): AP Lit, Calc BC, AP Physics 1, AP Gov, AP Macro

Experience: Some GIS and CAD knowledge; spatial analysis/surveying for an urban planning paper I wrote for AP Research

Extracurricular:

• President/Founder of my schools Urbanism/Civil Engineering club, currently working with the city to get a crosswalk installed near my school
• Leader of my school's Chinese tutor program
• Other volunteer events w/ my school's Chinese Culture Club
• Model UN since freshman year
  • One award (distinguished delegate)
• Chosen for Boys State, planning on going this summer
• Worked two part-time jobs, Cashier for 4 months, and currently working at an ice cream store

Awards (not many):

• MUN distinguished delegate

• AP Scholar (and probably w/ distinction soon)

• Seal of seal of biliteracy

• AP Capstone (expected)

NYU is my dream school and I really want to end up in nyc for school (and prob for the rest of my life). All my hobbies are centered around like city planning or transit (i like to go trainspotting when im in the city and have the subway map basically memorized). I am definitely EDing and prob gonna do the 5 year combined masters program with wagner so I can get my bachelors in civil and masters in urban planning, and probably going straight into working for the city DOT or MTA. I always see all the cool advocacy projects and groups that work directly with tandon (like queenslink) and i just have to watch from afar 😭 Anyways, i really hope i do get accepted here