<p>Hello, I'm currently a high school junior who's really interested in applying ED to Columbia University. What are my chances? I'm also interested in UChicago, Johns Hopkins, Brown, and Wesleyan.
Intended major: English or Creative Writing.
GPA: 4.29 w, 3.68 uw (I should add that my private school is super competitive and there's only around 95 girls in my grade. I think I fall within at least the top 1/3 or 1/4 of the grade)
Ranking: none
SAT Score: 2240 (780 reading, 800 writing, 660 math) (probably will retake for math score)
Subject test: 760 US, and I'm currently studying for the Spanish and English Lit tests
APs: 5 on APUSH
Schedule: three honors ninth grade, two honors and one AP (US) tenth grade, three APs (Spanish, English, and World) and two honors this year, and I'm planning on taking one AP and four honors senior year
also, I'm the only person in my grade to have pursued a research class program for both my junior and senior year. This year I studied 1950s American cinema in Cold War context and next year I'll be studying religious subtext in the works of Samuel Beckett.
Extracurriculars:
-reporter and editor on my school newspaper since tenth grade, a columnist this year, and will be Head Copy Editor next year.
-on the staff of the school literary magazine since ninth grade and may be Editor-in-Chief next year/some sort of head editor
-intern and writer at Ms. Magazine, the feminist publication founded by Gloria Steinem
-Editor of the newsletter for a nonprofit literary organization
-Secretary of a nonprofit club at my school that assists children with cancer
-avid writer on my own time (I've written five book manuscripts, a few novellas, three screenplays, and multiple short stories)
-in ninth grade worked with a production company and International Creative Management on developing a young adult series of books in the vein of Nancy Drew
-tutored underprivileged children in the local elementary school during tenth grade
-took an improv class at the Groundlings, a famed theatre troupe
Awards:
-two silver keys from the Scholastic Art and Writing Awards
-multiples honors from the Center of Talented Youth
-regional spelling bee participant in middle school
-given entry into a local literary conference in which only 1/3 of applicants were accepted
Summers:
-attended CTY for five years
-took a six-week Advanced Screenwriting class at USC School of Cinematic Arts as the only high schooler among college and graduate students
-Kenyon Review Young Writers Workshop
-Barnard Young Women's Leadership Institute</p>
<p>Your GPA is slightly low, but despite that I think you have decent chances. </p>
<p>ugh I know. Thanks, though!</p>
<p>Yeah, despite the low GPA, maybe a high match. Just make sure your recs, Essay, and interview are great.</p>
<p>Chance me
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