oh...

Feeling: achy
We've gotten to the last week of my first semester of college, and I've achieved stereotypical college panic mode, in which finals are brutal and there are all these books I haven't read and all these tests I haven't studied for and all of these papers I haven't even begun to write until now. And now I realize wow, I just did the normal thing in screwing up my first try. Scholarships aren't assessed until the end of the year, so I'll be fine. It's just time to change a few things around. So that's what I must do. Clark University, here I come...again.
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"They call Silva 'the Maniac'."
"Why?"
"Because he's from Maine."
well, I just happen to work for admissions at NYU, so when I see your file I'll sneakily slip it into the accepted file cabinet!*

seriously, though, my advice is to make it clear in the application how much you love NYU and why you'd rather come there. We have to be very important to you for you to be important for us. And make yourself sound awesome! Some people forget that in the process of getting in all the requirements.
*there is no actual "accepted file cabinet"