Chance me for Columbia University?

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Hi, I’m an international student applying from the UK but I have American citizenship. Columbia is my top school, couldn’t apply ED because of financial aid.

White female
Prospective major: Physics
GPA: Don’t have GPA because I’m doing A levels but would be a 4.0
A Levels - Maths, Further Maths, Physics and Economics
Class Rank: no class rank
ACT - 33
ACT Essay - 10

ECs:
Co-founder and President of School Sci magazine, physics editor and have interviewed many famous scientists through it
Started my own company with my peers focuses on the selling on multi use and reusable stationary sets
Independently pursuing rocketry as part of this Project Qualification the UK does.
Started a tutoring initiative for maths and physics in my community.
Have done 2 weeks of volunteering in a german kindergarten for the past three summers (because I’m german)
Mathematics Prefect, organise maths events for low-income students in the local area and run maths events in my schools

I have a couple more EC’s but felt like those were my main ones.

Honors:
Have received awards in the Maths and Physics Olympiads in the UK, in Maths progressed to next round.

Recs:
All my Recs were pretty genuine, probably quite strong as my school known for writing pretty good recs for students applying to US universities.

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What are your predictions?

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A* for Maths and Physics, A for Econ and Further Maths. Got 9 A*s and two As in my GCSE’s.

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Great predictions! So you are well qualified academically- which puts you in with a ‘typical’ chance. But they turn down 30+ THOUSAND applicants each year, so it still has to be seen as a very long shot. Are you applying anywhere else in the US?

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I’m also applying to NYU, Brown, UPenn, Harvard, Barnard, BostonU and Northwestern. My safety unis are the ones in the UK as I already have offers from them.

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I will be interested to see where you land, @sukikam :slight_smile: those are some interesting schools and a few of them seem like pretty reasonable bets (assuming affordability is not an issue).