<p>^ No and No. But i did include an essay with my resume in the “additional info” section, which is strongly discouraged by the admission committee.
I deliberated over that for a long time, but ultimately i felt that the 2nd essay provides another angle in my personality (was completely, utterly different from my 1st - only wrote 2 whole season). I couldn’t NOT send it.
I guess it helped, but on the other hand when you do something they’ve specifically asked you not to, you risk making them hate you (annoying kid sends 2 boring unbearable essays instead of 1? Rrrrrr!). So do it at your own peril.</p>
<p>Wait, it’s really called the FU School?</p>
<p>FU Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science, yeah.</p>
<p>HAhahahahahahahahahaha! Why do people want to go there? I only pick my schools based on how the name sounds and what it looks like on the sweatshirt.</p>
<p>its Fu not FU. [Foo not Eff You]</p>
<p>Either way…</p>
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<p>something’s not quite right here…</p>
<p>grats to the new wave of likelies :D</p>
<p>Stats:
• SAT: CR: 730, M: 800, W: 760
• SAT II: Math II C: 800, Korean (with Listening): 800, Latin: 740 , Biology (M): 790, U.S. History: 760
• ACT: N/A
• GPA: UW: 4.0, W: 4.36
• Rank: 1/ 350
• Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): AP/IB [5]: U.S. History [5], Biology <a href=“Self%20Study:%20Psychology%20and%20English%20Language,%20will%20take%20in%20May%202009”>5</a>
• Senior Course Load: AP English Literature, Physics CP (Don’t offer any other level), Orchestra, AP Micro-economics (semester), AP-Macroeconomics (semester), AP-Government (semester)
• College courses: Pre-Calculus, Calculus I, Calculus II, Calculus III, Tennis I, Tennis II, Microeconomics, Macroeconomics, Latin I, Latin II, Latin III, Latin IV, Chemistry (101), Philosophy, Psychology, Physical Anthropology, Physics III (Total 65 Credit Units)</p>
<p>I’m taking Physics III and Latin IV right now, so I didn’t send that info yet…</p>
<p>Subjective
• Essays: I thought they were good. For Columbia, I don’t quite remember which ones I sent.
• Teacher Recs: One was really short (only one page), and the other was basically a list of all the things that were in my application already.
• Counselor Rec: Really really good. My counselor told them I was the best student he had ever seen in his whole 25 years of teaching and how I would be such a great addition to the school, and all that other good stuff about my sociability, etc.
• Supplement Information (Y/N): Y—a recommendation from a former Texan Representative to the House of Representatives (who was under consideration for Navy Secretary and is an alumnus of my high school).
• Interview: Haven’t received any information or contact…figures, since I live in the middle of nowhere.
• Hook (recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Nobel Prize? lol not that far, but I am low income.</p>
<p>Personal
• Location: Ridgecrest (a small desert town near Death Valley)
• High School Type: Public
• Ethnicity: Asian
• Gender: Female
• Applied for Financial Aid: Yes</p>
<p>Other
• Extracurricular: Simultaneous Translator [4]
Varsity Tennis (first singles) [2]
Key Club (secretary for two years) [4]
Church Orchestra (Concert Mistress for all four years) [4]
Master Pianist at Church [4]
Associated Student Body (Student Government Class Vice President) [1]
Orchestra [4]
Newswriting (News Editor for three years, Copy Editor one year) [4]</p>
<p>• Awards:
National Merit Finalist, Honor Roll (awarded by Key Club International), Who’s Who Among High School Students, National Honor Society member, Rotary Youth Leadership Awards (2007), California Interscholastic Federation Qualification Award in the sport of Tennis (2007,2008), Solo/Ensemble Festival Superior Rating (on violin), Gates Millennium Scholars Program Nominee, Gary Haugen Tournament 1st Place in Women’s Singles, Girls State Nominee</p>
<p>I posted this in the Harvard forum, so sorry if it has “Harvard” in a few spots. Columbia is still a great school that I’d be more than happy to go to!!!</p>
<p>i promised myself not to look at CC till 3/31, but i can’t help myself.</p>
<p>they should send UNLIKELY letters too. </p>
<p>this waiting is simply wasting my time. too much thinking about myself getting in, too much CC, too much columbia.edu!</p>
<p>congrats! a likely letter form columbia. you must be so excited!</p>
<p>sorry if this has been answered already but I don’t feel like reading through 17 pages…but approx how many kids receive a likely?</p>
<p>okay so what if i have stats similar to/better than the people posting here? does that mean the fact i didn’t get a likely letter probably mean they’ve already ruled me out?</p>
<p>do you think people coming from areas where a lot of applications are coming from don’t get them as often?</p>
<p>i hear around 100 students? O.o</p>
<p>^^^^^^can you confirm this because it sounds like a lot just here on CC have received one </p>
<p>and basically I highly doubt I am one of their top 100 (even considering urm status)</p>
<p>ok so I just counted approximately 42 kids on this thread that got likelies. </p>
<p>so if 100 are sent out then 42% of those kids are cc posters. hmmm</p>
<p>Maybe not 100, but closer to 200? Idk, but definitely not as many as Dartmouth’s.</p>
<p>after putting a gun to my head, here’s my take:</p>
<p>they don’t give out likely’s to only the top 100 or 200 applicants. they’d give them out to anyone they are sure of early on, that’s a function of your application being seen early and there being no doubt in their mind that you wouldn’t be edged out by later competition. </p>
<p>Given that 42 people got likely letters on here (some might have lied) they’ve probably given likely letters to 300-400 people, there’s no way that 30-50% of the accepted pool is on CC. Last year there were ~15 people on here who said they got in after being wait listed and Columbia eventually took off exactly 150 from the wait list. so a sensible estimate is that 1/10 of kids getting into columbia and deeply interested in the place(such as likelys and wait listees) will post on here.</p>
<p>300~400 is way too many. I think a sensible estimation would be ~200. Remember that the Columbia pool is extremely strong, so i don’t think that many people are so outstanding that they surely won’t be edged out by the later competition.</p>
<p>People love posting good news more than the not so good ones. Someone i know lurked on CC and has only posted once - an acceptance.</p>
<p>doesn’t columbia publish any info on this. I feel like dartmouth or yale (?) released info about their likelies</p>
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here’s another suggestion… If you got a letter in march… well they’ve probably made most of their decisions at that point in time, so maybe once they know what the competition looks like, they can send out more letters with confidence (since they already know the strength of the pool)</p>
<p>Likelies are reserved for the top.</p>
<p>And it may only seem like there are many people on CC who have received it, but we do not actually know who really received one and who just said so to feel good. Plus, we also do not know how many people who received likelies are actually on CC.</p>