<p>Hello fellow CC members, I am wondering if I would possibly have a chance . I'm finalizing my college application list and am wondering whether or not I should even bother with such selective institutions such as Columbia. </p>
<p>GPA (UW): 3.92
SAT superscore
Composite:2400
Math:800
CR: 800
Writing: 800</p>
<p>SAT single test best score (taken twice)
Composite 2360
Math:800
Writing:800
Reading: 760</p>
<p>SAT II physics: 800, SAT II MATH 2: 800, SAT chem: 800, SAT II biology: 780</p>
<p>AP's
Calculus AB: 5
Calculus BC: 5
Physics C: 5
Physics BL 4
Biology: 5
US history: 4
Chemistry: 4
English Language: 5
English Literature and comp: 5
US Government: 5</p>
<p>To be taken senior year:
Computer science
macro/micro economics
Stats</p>
<p>IB diploma score: 38</p>
<p>7's in HL physics and SL biology
6's in HL English and HL History
5 in HL math and SL Spanish (ouch...)</p>
<p>Class rank: top 5%</p>
<p>Schedule: </p>
<p>9: Pre-calculus -A, A
Symphonic (lower) orchestra- A, A
honor's chemistry (took online course for AP chem and test) A, A
AP World History- B, A
honor's English A, A
Intro to comp prog/Computer Visual Arts A, B
PE A, A</p>
<p>10:
AP B/IB SL physics -A, A
Chamber Orchestra/IB music -A,A
Theory of Knowledge (IB class), Health- A, A
AP Lang/IB SL English- B,B (ugh never figured that teacher out)
AP Calc AB/IB SL Math- A, A
AP US history/IB SL History - A, A
Spanish 1(transferred out of district, had to switch from Japanese for IB) -A , A</p>
<p>11: IB SL Spanish Ab Initio 2- A, A
AP Gov/IB HL History - A,A
AP Lit/IB HL English - A, A
AP Biology/IB SL Bio- A, A
AP Calc BC/IB HL Math- A,A
Tok/Personal fitness- A, A
AP C Physics/IB HL physics, - A, A </p>
<p>12: 2 periods of Internship (special program at my High School)
AP Computer Science
College Creative Writing/College Psychology(hired professor)
College Social Studies (hired professor)
IB SL further Math (akin to creative problem solving, some diff eq/linear algebra)
IB Spanish 3 </p>
<pre><code> Plan to take econ college course and self-study AP Statistics test)
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<p>Multi-lingual: English, Bengali (Indian dialect), took courses in Japanese and 2 years of Spanish</p>
<p>Extracurriculars: Part of chess team top 2 in state (won in 2009) 3 years in a row
Dedicated member (officer) of school robotics club (400+ hours past 3 years)
won FRC seattle regional 2010-->robot featured in popular science; won Vex robotics cleansweep jumpstart competition--> attended nationals for both; team won vex world robotics championships in 2011; part of biorobotics engineering team at University--> featured in popular science for raven surgical robot (helped collect data analysis and do work for). </p>
<p>Currently interning at University of Washington Applied Physics Lab and Michael Dickinson's (former Caltech professor/MacArthur award winner) lab. President and founder of school Physics club that had students Participate in International Physics Olympiad for first time as well as did hands on experiments with rockets (hope to do team rocketry america challenge TARC next year), standing wave generators and vandagraphs</p>
<p>Redcross youth volunteer--> instructor's aide, certified cpr instructor
Volunteered over 100+ hours at University of Washington Medical Center
~ volunteer hours around 250</p>
<p>Work experience: Taught chess for 13 weeks as part of chess4life program(for $50/hour! pretty nice)</p>
<p>Part of great math club at school, win various math competition state/regional awards
2 time American math competition (AMC) participant and American invational math examination(AIME) qualifier. </p>
<p>Part of Science Bowl for 1 year, won state division before being eliminated </p>
<p>Personal: Love watching sports and competitions, shooting rockets, and building things especially. I have recently become fascinated with creating computer GUI models, and being more of a opensource programmer in linux environments. </p>
<p>I also played piano for ~5 years and was in my school orchestra for freshman and sophmore year although not sure if its relevant or worth mentioning</p>
<p>I took Intro to C++, AP Chem and Advanced Java programming as online JHU courses.</p>
<p>Thanks for reading this tedious thread and any help that you may give. I'll help anyone to the best of my limited knowledge as well.</p>