<p>Hi, I applied ED to Columbia, but I haven't had a sense of how good of a chance I had. Tomorrow's the day, and I'm at the edge right now. Look me over and tell me my chances please?</p>
<p>Gender: M
Race: Asian (Korean)
High school: PA #114 in nation according to Daily Beast, about 300 in my class
GPA (UW): 3.88
Ranking: N/A
Course strength: all honors & AP
Senior year: AP Chem, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB&BC, AP Micro, College-level social science seminar
AP's: APUSH, AP World, AP Euro, AP Spanish (all 5's)
SAT: 2320 (800 CR, 770 Eng, 750 Math)
SAT IIs: 800s in US History and World, 790 in Spanish and 730 in Math</p>
<p>Extracurriculars
Hi-Q 9-12 (academic bowl, made all-county team 11th grade and future captain)
Mock Trial 9-12 (attorney and witness, won Best Witness in a tournament)
Diversity Trainers (diversity/awareness group, couple hundred strong- one of several leaders)
Asian Club 11-12 (president)
student government leader (treasurer)
school newspaper writer (9-12, seldom actually wrote anything though)
NHS
Moot Court(10th grade, mock Supreme Court cases)
Ultimate Frisbee (competitive team, one of the founders)
Part of two school choirs- regular and "elite"
Chess club member
Volunteering: I went on several mission trips with my church: 2012 and 2013 in Over-the-Rhine, Ohio (ten days each), working in the inner city and running an overnight children's camp in the country
2013 I went to Vietnam (two weeks) where I helped run a VBS
2014 I went to Guatemala (10 days), where I was an interpreter for our medical team
Also spent a month (3 hrs a day, 3 days a week), volunteering at a local hospital in 2013, and a month (5 hours a day, 4 days a week) in 2014 at a nursing home</p>
<p>Awards: Honor roll, National Merit Semifinalist, AP scholar
Recs: AP Euro- smartest teacher I've ever had, he really like me, should be solid
Spanish- Also likes me, should also be very solid
Guidance Counselor: whenever I spoke with her she always spoke highly of me, encouraged me to apply to Columbia
CA Essay: so I was somewhat worried about this. I actually rewrote this the night of, so I didn't have too much time to edit it. I wrote about my move from Mexico to the states and how I adjusted. Sounds cliche, but I made it unique and "humbling" according to my English major sister, who liked it, so there's that
Columbia supplements: didn't really know what to do about the lists, whether I should expand on each individual thing, so I just listed.
Why Columbia: Talked about how, as a "gadfly" I would contribute to the seminar-style Core, also talked about the diversity of opinions on campus and freedom of expression, talked about the mattress protests and Mahmoud Ahmadinejad</p>
<p>Thanks for your input, the only one who will listen to my rants now is my dog, and she's getting pretty tired of it too.</p>