Chance me! Columbia U!

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<p>I'm a HS junior, here are my stats:</p>

<p>3.7 weigted cummulative GPA (expected to go up)
Class rank: 10/617 (expected to go up)</p>

<p>Courses:
9th:
PAP World Georaphy
PAP English I
PAP Biology
Geometry
Spanish II
Wind Ensemble (top band)
Tennis
Record Keeping</p>

<p>10th:
PAP World History
PAP Algebra II
PAP English II
PAP Chem
AP Spanish Lang
Wind Ensemble (1st chair)
Choir</p>

<p>11th
PAP Precalculus
PAP Physics
AP Spanish literature
AP English III
AP US Hist
French I
Business Computer Information Systems
(straight As high Bs expected)</p>

<p>Expected senior schedule:
AP Calculus
AP Gov't/Ec
AP Eng IV
AP Biology
PAP French II
(don't know what other classes to take)
(straight As high Bs expected)</p>

<p>ECs:
9th- Band
10th-Band(section leader), Choir, NHS
11th-French club, French symposium, NHS, and I tutor kids in my HS after school.
12- same as 11th^^ but with offices in the French Club and NHS, and a French Honor Society member.</p>

<p>Community service: besides tutoring at my HS, not really a whole lot, will work on it</p>

<p>Awards:
Academic Excellence Award for 9th grade.
Superior rating(highest rating) for F Horn solo, 9th grade.
Excellent rating(2nd highest rating) for Choir solo, 10th Grade.</p>

<p>Test scores:
AP Span Lang- 5
SAT- (expected 2100+)
SAT Subject Italian (Expected 650+)
SAT Sublect Math IIC (Expected 650+)
Other APs (Expected 4+)</p>

<p>I know I don't really have much on ECs and Community service, but my parents are in the middle of their divorce, I tutor my little sister who's in middle school, teach my mother English, and help raise my baby brother of one year.</p>

<p>My family emigrated from Mexico about 12 years ago, and we're upper-lower-class (don't know if that helps)</p>

<p>I live in the Houston-Area, this might hurt me.</p>

<p>◘ Will apply ED
◘ Plan to major in linguistics or poli-sci
I do plan to write a damn good essay!</p>

<p>PLEASE!
Chance me!</p>

<p>-Thanks </p>

<p>**** I quit band and choir due to financial constraints</p>

<p>*** PAP= Pre-AP (preparation for AP)</p>

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<p>its hard to say, a lot of your stuff is expected or anticipated.</p>

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<p>You’re probably in</p>

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<p>given your nationailty + financial status, youre most likely in. just get your sat scores up</p>

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<p>i dunno, pretty plain stats to me, i wouldnt count on it.</p>

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<p>The critical period for determining your “chances” has just started. Live your life to the fullest for the next year, come back with completed information, and ask again. I don’t get why a new junior would be focused on college admission.</p>

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<p>“I don’t get why a new junior would be focused on college admission.”</p>

<p>Because this student is smart and trying to position him or herself. More kids ought to be doing it, and even earlier. </p>

<p>“I quit band and choir due to financial constraints” and " know I don’t really have much on ECs and Community service, but my parents are in the middle of their divorce, I tutor my little sister who’s in middle school, teach my mother English, and help raise my baby brother of one year." </p>

<p>Work these points into your application and/or into your essay. Use the Columbia app, not the common app as you can fit more in about yourself, if you take the time to really examine it. Colleges understand that kids who have to work or help out at home often can not do other things like community service or joining clubs at school. You mention you may want to study linguistics, tutoring your mother is probably a major factor in your considering doing so. They need to know that.</p>

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<p>I do not think Columbia has a linguistics major. Best to check into things like that.</p>

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<p>indeed, no linguistics major.</p>

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<p>Yes Columbia has a linguistics major. You can do an independent linguistics major. Currently Prof.Timberlake is working on getting linguistics majors to not just go for it as an independent.</p>

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<p>Not to sound racist or anything…if anyone wants to back me up or disprove me it’s ok.
If you were Asian- you’d be like any other application and it would be a reach school</p>

<p>However, since you’re Mexican, I give that a significant better chance to get into Columbia University.</p>

<p>Anyone else’s takes?</p>

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<p>^ it’s sad, unfair, but true.</p>

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<p>Themerlion, that didn’t add much. Of course you can pursue an independent major in ANYTHING. But as it stands now, you can only do a special concentration in Linguistics (that’s listed in the Bulletin). Just an anecdote for people out there, an upperclassmen told me that Columbia tends to focus on the cognitive sides of areas such as Linguistics, Philosophy, Psychology, or even English.</p>

<p>Glad to here Linguistics might become an actual major. I have great interest in it.</p>

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<p>Too bad linguistics departments no longer go by linguistic relativity philosophy. :/. It’s all Chomskian universals these days. Blegh. But they should have something, at least.</p>