Chance me: Columbia University Class of 2021 and other universities

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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International student. I study in a CBSE (Indian curriculum) school.

Objective:
TOEFL: 113 (R 27/30, S 28/30, L 29/30, W 29/30)
ACT: Not taken yet. Will take the ACT next month.
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t give GPA. Junior year: 3A+s and 2B+s. CBSE is a pretty hard curriculum.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 25%
AP (place score in parenthesis): Indian curriculum doesn’t offer AP
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ISWEEEP USA (International finalist for own invention project), INESPO Netherlands (International Finalist), IYIPO Georgia (International direct finalist), Golden Climate Olympiad (international finalist), ACER iBT Science Distinction holder. Won a couple of awards from NASA - I am the first and only person from the Middle East to have ever won the award.

Subjective:

Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): I work on research projects. I am currently authoring a research paper which I hope to get published in the next couple of months.
Model United Nations: Attended 16 MUN conferences (either traditional or online) and chaired at 2 MUNs.

Job/Work Experience: California Institute of Technology - research student working on binary black holes.
Volunteer/Community service: Cancer society (every week for 2 hours) October 2015-Present
Received a letter of appreciation from the director of the United Nations Information Center for my efforts in promoting the post 2015 development agenda and the MY World global survey.
Current brand ambassador of the protect your mom campaign - another cancer awareness campaign.

Letters of Recommendation: I have a letter of recommendation from an executive at NASA.

Other

Applying for Financial Aid?: Yes
Intended Major: Computer Science :smiley:
State (if domestic applicant):
Country (if international applicant): Middle East (country: prefer not to say)
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian - Indian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: prefer not to say
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): anti-hook: Indian in CS :smiley:

Reflection

Strengths: TOEFL score, extracurricular activities, awards etc
Weaknesses: GPA, ethnicity.

General Comments:

I was selected among the top 5 students to represent my school (my school has 13,000+ students) in the all India CBSE group math Olympiad.

Which schools are you applying to? Columbia ED , MIT, UCLA, UIUC, GATech, Purdue, UMD, UPenn, UCSD etc.

Thank you so much!

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Sorry, your stats are no good. The only way you can get in is by donating $500,000 and traveling to Mars.
But to be honest, why are you making a chance me thread? You obviously have some confidence in yourself because of the calibre of schools you are applying to. No one can chance you because admissions is so unpredictable. I know someone who got into Stanford with 1750 on the SAT and someone who was rejected from MIT with stats not as good as yours but pretty close. I’m not trying to be mean but this is just a cheap tactic to get another person to affirm what you already believe in yourself. Your stats are great, but look at the regular decision results from schools and people’s stats. They are all excellent, just like you, but most are rejected. Your stats are good, maybe even good enough for an ivy, but nobody knows.

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Did the person above me read OP’s accomplishments?

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Did you read past his first sentence? @kiwiblossom12 did go into his accomplishments some in his comment.

Anyway OP, yeah, you have a good shot, so nice. I’m sure of the ultra-selective schools you’re applying to you’ll make it into at least one, although there’s no way to say for sure whether that’ll happen or which one it’ll be.