Chance Me please!! Columbia Early Decision

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>One more chance, hopefully this will get more responses :] I will make this as short and simple as I can possibly make it, and will gladly chance anyone who chances me!</p>

<p>Rising Senior from WA State
Asian Male
First Generation College Student</p>

<p>STATS:
-3.98 GPA (UW) School doesn't weighted GPA.
-Rank: Top 20/480 (~Top 5%)
-SAT: 2240 (CR:690 Math:800 Writing:750, 10 E)
-SAT II: Math IIC:800 Chemistry:770 Biology:720
-IB Scores: Chemistry SL:5, Spanish SL:5
-IB Diploma Candidate</p>

<p>SENIOR SCHEDULE:
-IB English
-IB History
-IB Biology 3/4
-IB Physics
-IB Theory of Knowledge
-AP Calculus BC</p>

<p>Chose my top 3 majors as: Chemistry, Mathematics, Undecided</p>

<p>EXTRA-CURRICULARS:
-Junior-Class President and President of Math Team. We are one of the top teams in the nation, placing 4th in nationals this year.
-President of National Honor Society
-President of FW Youth Ecology (A community service group)
-Vice-Chair of FW Youth Commissioner (starting projects)
-Math Tutor (quite a big dedication)
-Youth Basketball Coach
-Church (Sunday School teacher, Youth Group leader)</p>

<p>My top 5 are my main E.C.'s, with my main passion being in Math and leadership along with it (tutoring, etc.).</p>

<p>HONORS/AWARDS:
-Pretty much all math team awards that I'm going to put on my app.:
-3rd in State Alpha Sequences + Series
-10th in Nation Alpha Sequences and Series
-6th in Nation Alpha School Bowl
-14th in Nation Open Statistics
-9th in Nation Theta Gemini</p>

<p>Essays should be decent, Recs are solid.</p>

<p>Chance me for (in order of importance):
Columbia-ED
Duke
Brown
MIT-EA
Cal-Tech-EA
Amherst
Wash-U
UCLA
Berkeley
Georgetown
University of Washington</p>

<p>Thank you! And i will definitely chance back</p>

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<p>Columbia-ED: reach (raise that cr score!)
Duke: low reach
Brown: low/mid reach (Asian status does not help)
MIT-EA: high reach
Cal-Tech-EA: uber reach
Amherst: low/mid reach
Wash-U: low reach/highish match
UCLA: low reach (OOS very tough)
Berkeley: low reach
Georgetown: low reach
University of Washington: safety/in</p>

<p>I hate to be the bearer of bad news, but as an Asian applicant, you are held to a higher standard in the admissions process. Try to raise that SAT Cr to around 720, but your app looks relatively solid. Best of luck!</p>

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<p>I pretty much agree with noreally (except caltech should be high reach. It’s not that much harder than MIT/Columbia, especially with an 800 math)</p>

<p>Your main weakness is that you seem to be the stereotypical asian applicant - all math, not much else. Do you have any awards from other clubs/activities? For everyone but caltech, you gotta show that you’re more well rounded.</p>

<p>my chances thread:
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/769425-oh-my-god-im-senior-chance-me-computer-science-schools.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/769425-oh-my-god-im-senior-chance-me-computer-science-schools.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Yeah, I’m pretty much agreeing with kevmus.</p>

<p>As for the clubs and such do you do any more sports, even out of school, that you could use? Playing an instrument might help too.</p>

<p>Chance me?
<a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/774543-chance-me-if-you-want-will-much-appreciated.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/774543-chance-me-if-you-want-will-much-appreciated.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>WA helps as does first gen. Another 50 CR points would help a lot.</p>

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<p>Why not take the ACT? Many folks score materially higher on the ACT than the SAT.</p>

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<p>Typical applicant. Not much excitement. Just screams I like math! yay.</p>

<p>You should have done more with math, maybe talk to professors at local CC and try to get an internship, or do a project involving mathematics and relating that to something.</p>

<p>The schools you listed will see your interest, but they don’t see the passion.</p>

<p>Interest vs. Passion are two very different things. You demonstrate interest, but no real passion for math except awards, and while they are great, they are useless.</p>

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<p>Freefork: Unfortunately, the main sport I play is basketball and my school team is too good to make the team. i played C-team a JV summer, but I will most likely not mention that on my app., and I only play in a church league which isnt worth mentioning.</p>

<p>hmom5: thanks! I am trying to raise my CR score by the time october rolls around.</p>

<p>pbr: I am signed up for the ACT, but the only scores that will really help me are a 35 or a 36 as a 34 is equivalent to a 2250. Therefore, since I have not studied at all, I am considering not taking it.</p>

<p>ChristianWu: I understand what you are saying. It’s been tough to do all that kind of stuff since my class workload was very difficult junior and this year as a senior. My main time dedication was to my math team and volunteer projects.</p>

<p>More opinions please!</p>

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<p>bumpppppppp</p>

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<p>bump…</p>

<p>ill chance you back!!</p>

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<p>i’d say you have a fairly solid chance of getting into columbia. i would also recommend taking the ACT’s to see if you get a better score than your SAT’s, even though they’re good too.</p>

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<p>You have a decent chance of getting into Columbia, pretty much a coin flip. </p>

<p>A lot of slots at Columbia are taken by international students… And as someone else already stated, unfortunately being an Asian Male doesn’t help with admissions :(</p>

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<p>You could be worse off, being an Asian female.</p>

<p>Anyways, I think you have a decent chance. I think Cal Tech and MIT would be high reaches though. </p>

<p>It is true that you fit the Asian stereotype, all math, but I think that the first generation college student status might help. UCLA wants out of state students who can pay full tuition, so you have an advantage there.</p>

<p>Best of luck in the application process.</p>

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<p>Wow I’m jealous of students like you with those perfect SAT II scores :P. But I think your extra curriculars are good, you’ve got your leadership roles and some diversity with the basketball coaching + church activities. Class rank is pretty good, class rigor is excellent, and gpa is very good (however with that high of a GPA and your rank being 20, this shows heavy grade inflation to colleges). Also being a first generation college student is a plus from my view point. I think you’ve got a pretty good shot at Columbia ED but remember there are others like you as well so knock it out of the park with those essays and you should be good. :)</p>

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<p>Thanks for the positive responses guys!! It gives me glimmers of hope :]. It’s true I do fit the stereo type, but Im hoping I can show I’m good at math but also well balanced with my full IB schedule and recommendation letters. Regarding my rank: It is not exactly 20, but more like 10-15, just wanted to be extra cautious. </p>

<p>I’ll try to knock out those essays and more opinions are appreciated!!</p>

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<p>people keep saying raising your CR score. in my opinion, at some point, the SAT scores are all the same. basically 2200+ is fine. the SAT is simple a measure of how well you can take a standardized test. people these days seem to forget about that. i think you have a pretty decent shot @ columbia. by decent i mean like 30% or so. keep in mind there’s about 15% that are simply in already and 15% that are simply unqualified. that being said, 30/70, is almost 50%! good luck!</p>

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<p>thanks! do you feel so? a 690 IS a little low… i may study and retake it. thanks for the response though! more opinions plz…</p>

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<p>I’d say you have a pretty solid chance at Columbia (its usually a reach for most everyone, though). I’d say you’re fairly good for the majority of your schools, MIT and Cal-Tech being highest reaches :)</p>

<p><a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/775406-being-recruited-but-chance-me.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/775406-being-recruited-but-chance-me.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p&gt;

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<p>Haha thanks!! chanced bak</p>

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<p>It’s essential to look at the facts because myths like this one abound.</p>

<p>A quick look at any college common data set will show you this is far from true.</p>

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<p>HUH??!!**@@!</p>