<p>• ACT (breakdown): 35
• ACT superscore (breakdown):
• SAT II (subject, score): Math II (800), Physics (800)
• Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.96
• Weighted GPA: 4.67
• Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): Top 1%
• AP (place score in parentheses): Chem (4), Euro (4), Comp Sci (3)
• IB (place score in parentheses):
• Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc BC, AP French, AP Gov/Econ, AP Lit, AP Bio, Self Studying Physics E&M
• Number of other EA applicants in your school: 2
• Major Awards (USAMO, Intel, etc.): None
• Common Awards (AP Scholar, honor roll, NM things, etc.): AMC 12 94, AP Scholar with Distinction, Honor Roll </p>
<p>Subjective: </p>
<p>• Extracurriculars (name, grade levels, leadership, description): Hockey (11 years, Captain of my team), Golf, NHS, CSF, Science Club (Co-founder and VP), Mu Alpha Theta (Treasurer), Core Values Club (Officer), FIRST Robotics (Programmer, team has won many awards), Surfrider Foundation, Investing
• Job/Work Experience: Hockey Referee
• Volunteer/Community Service: NHS, CSF, Surfrider beach cleanups
• Summer Experience: Working</p>
<p>• U.S. State/Territory or Country: CA
• School Type: Large Public
• Ethnicity: White
• Gender: M
• Income Bracket Range: ~70k
• Hooks (URM, first generation, recruited athelete, development): none</p>
<p>You’ll get a lot of aid with that income bracket given you don’t have large assets. You have great stats, you have a pretty good chance but nobody has any guarantees. That said, you may feel more at home at Cornell given the hockey background.</p>
<p>^ I second that, since Columbia’s FA policy guarantees significantly reduced contributions for household incomes under 100k, including typical assets and regardless of your race. ;p also, if you’re applying to the College, being a male will not give you a leg down or whatever.
I think your stats are in line with most applicants’, I would just say to stay involved in your ECs.
Apparently Columbia has club hockey, but not a varsity team.</p>
<p>FA has nothing to do with an applicant’s race. It’s based on family income.</p>
<p>Regarding your application, your grades and test scores put you in the range (although leave out the AP scores, at least for computer science). </p>
<p>It will be key to write compelling essays that show something interesting about yourself and to have strong letters of recommendation. Make sure it comes across why you want to go to Columbia - and don’t say that it’s because it’s in NY and it’s an Ivy.</p>
<p>@rhg3rd: you need to heed the correctives that others have posted here. Your knowledge of private college Fin Aid policies is seriously deficient.</p>
<p>Wow. @rdh3rd: Your extrapolation of that one data point of the class profile equals Columbia having race based Fin Aid is mind-boggling.</p>
<p>May I suggest you air out your assumption with some of your trusted friends who have strong analytical strengths? You seem to have difficulty listening to internet strangers. Maybe some quantitative friends IRL might give you some insight.</p>
<p>@T26E4 FYI, Columbia isn’t wealthy. It’s 29,000 students with an endowment of $8.2B as of 2013. CU doesn’t have the money for FA of many of its peers where endowment income is largest source of FA funding. It’s not as well endowed for its size as many less well-known universities and typical LAC’s. </p>
<p>Despite claims otherwise, Columbia is not genuinely “need blind” in admissions. It needs full-paying students whose families can foot the bill for its exorbitant NYC price tag to cover its high infrastructural expenses. That leaves a strong preference for full-paying students. If CU had Yale or Princeton’s money, things would be different.</p>
<p>So good luck to the white OP in winning the FA lucky lottery at CU. Most well-qualified white kids who need substantial FA are more likely to get it from better university anyway.</p>
<p>“May I suggest you air out your assumption with some of your trusted friends who have strong analytical strengths? You seem to have difficulty listening to internet strangers. Maybe some quantitative friends IRL might give you some insight.”</p>
<p>I didn’t listen to strangers sitting in mid-Broadway during my years at CU either. Further, I don’t have any simpleton friends like some of those who post on the internet.</p>
<p>@rhd3rd: What a ridiculous thing to say. DS is a white kid getting substantial financial aid from CC and he knows other white kids in the same situation.</p>
<p>And, frankly, the idea that CU isn’t a wealthy school is absurd. It’s an outstanding university with immense resources and excellent financial aid for all.</p>
<p>I am begging to think you’re simply a ■■■■■ who is trying to stir up controversy.</p>
<p>The best thing to do with people that just like to cause trouble is to ignore them. The outlandishness of their statements is usually obvious to everyone. If one feels they have to, refute their statement with some data, don’t do any name calling, and just move on to what the OP really asked. If the person continues to try and derail the thread, then report them.</p>
<p>I deleted some obvious oversimplifications and generalizations from the post that were borderline racist. But like I said, just move on from people you think are trolls or just troublemakers, even if they believe what they are saying.</p>