anti-hook

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>hey guys,
i was just surfing around on some threads on some of the other colleges' forums. some kid on the harvard thread started the "anti-hook" thread, in which people posted factors that may hurt their chances of getting in (as opposed to listing accomplishments). based on what these kids had to say, its a huge anxiety reliever, knowing that other people are in the same boat as you are.
anyway, im applying ED to columbia and have been really nervous.
ill start us off: </p>

<p>my SAT score in math falls far below columbia standards: 650.
i took three SAT II's, and my SAT score in history was a 690.</p>

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<p>International NEEDING AID, and my November SAT scores haven't been received.</p>

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<p>Also an international needing aid.. :(</p>

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<p>My GPA is 3.6.</p>

<p>I'm thinking that's going to do me in. :/</p>

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<p>being Asian American...</p>

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<p>570 in German w/ Listening + international asking for aid</p>

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<p>im a white jewish female from new jersey.</p>

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<p>also, i forgot to submit my appication.</p>

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<p>White male and my SAT is a 1400/1600! (Applied ED)</p>

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<p>Not too good ECs; procrastinated too much on writing application essay.</p>

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<p>I have a 3.4 gpa</p>

<p>yeahhhhhhhhhhh</p>

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<p>650 on math also actually. and strangely enough, i also got a 690 on my World History SAT II and a 690 on the Bio - M Sat II. </p>

<p>applied ED as well. i'm freaking out though - we either find out next week (apparently) or a little after next.</p>

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<p>a minor grammar thing in personal essay (yay for overediting/proofreading)</p>

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<p>620 and 640 on sat II's. only a 1430 on the real deal.</p>

<p>white.</p>

<p>ahh</p>

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<p>An 1850 out of a 2400 on the SAT I.</p>

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<p>Middle-class South Asian dude from New York with low SAT scores and with the biggest "EC" being a job even though a job isn't an EC and who is not in honor society and whose greatest award was a varsity excellence award even though he is not nearly good enough to play a sport in college and whose second biggest award is the high honor roll, even though that is not even an award, and whose third biggest award is AP scholar, even though he did miserably on the AP exams. </p>

<p>BEAT THAT!</p>

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<p>Heh. Nothing can beat my 1850 SAT score. That just kills. =/</p>

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<p>590 Spanish
640 Math I</p>

<p>1420 SAT
2130 with Writing</p>

<p>3.6 UW GPA
4.83 W GPA
48/626 rank</p>

<p>Wow the more I look at this the more I think I wasted my money.</p>

<p>Hook: Studied Greek/Latin extensively in school.
Bahhh</p>

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<p>640 math on SAT I
Didn't take Calculus.
White.</p>

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<p>Well, my statistics aren't too shabby; however, I did have a discipline incident that I had to report :&lt;/p>

<p>Thankfully, it wasn't academic-related (cheating, failing, etc.) nor did it happen in my own high school yet I'm worried about how it would be detrimental to my overall app</p>