<p>if you're not in.. theres no hope for the rest of us.</p>
<p>I would advise you to spend the $70 application fee to get yourself a Christmad present instead.</p>
<p>Your academics aren't the best around, or even average. </p>
<p>But, if your essay is good, along with lucky, you do have chance. I know kids who got into Columbia with lower scores than you, so don't worry that much. I would recommand you look into other colleges, and if you are as good at softball as you say you are, I'm sure some colleges'd be interested in recruiting you, though the colleges may not be Ivie's. Anyway, best of luck!</p>
<p>Wow, GotCollege? and I have been the only ones, in the history of this thread, to have given encouraging/positive advice. Even though his admittance is not likely, it is not impossible to give bad news so harshly. "You should look at other schools," is a suffienct method, rather than being sarcastic 90.090909% of the time. </p>
<p>(Yes, that is an accurate percentage of the number of negative relpies in relation to the total number of replies in this thread)</p>