Hi, so I’m a rising senior and I was wondering if anyone could chance me as an education major for Columbia and/or Brown.
Here are my stats
-3.81 unweighted gpa (note-I received 4 Bs in my second semester of junior year, but prior to that had a 3.9)
-34 ACT
-heavily involved in theater and choir, will be volunteering as a tutor in my senior year, attend a highly selective public school in a big city.
-part of my reason for my down slope in grades is because of my untreated ADHD (which I have written a “beautiful” essay about according to a teacher)
Also note, in my junior year I took 3 AP classes (although only one of my second semester Bs was actually in my AP classes) and will be taking 4 as a senior. My weighted GPA is somewhere around 4.7-4.8
I was in both my school’s play and musical this year, in women’s Acapella, treasurer in choir council, I was on student government for my freshman and sophomore year, I take private voice lessons, was on a dance competition team my sophomore year, and am a founding member of my school’s ACLU club.
Columbia and Brown are not matches – they are reaches for nearly everyone, yourself included.
These schools are in very different environments and they have different social and academic vibes. In addition, one offers a strong core curriculum while the other’s is open. What common link, aside from Ivy prestige, draws you to them?
Regardless of that answer – and in answering it, hopefully you can tell us what you are looking for in a school – make sure you add some matches and at least one safety that fit you well and you can afford.
I have plenty of reaches and safeties (university of Illinois, umich, washU, etc) but I’m mostly just wondering if I’m competitive for these schools-I promise that this is not the extent of my application list.
I like Brown because of its strong humanities foundation and its really strong extracurricular theater program. I like Columbia because of their urban location as well as its urban studies concentration in its education major.
It seems like everyone has given you great advice, so I’m not just going to repeat what they said. Your GPA and ACT are strong, as are your extracurriculars.
Columbia is obviously a bit tougher than Brown, but I think you are competitive for both. One thing you should try to do is really express that you will continue theater in college. Keep this in mind when you are applying for other schools too because most of your EC’s involve theater, but you are looking to be an education major – you need to demonstrate that theater is a passion you wish to further pursue while also providing reasons for why you are choosing education.
If you have any other questions, I’d be happy to answer those as well. I don’t really like to simply copy & paste other people’s replies (as many people do to get a “chance me back”, though you didn’t).