Chance me please :)

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Hello, may you please chance me for columbia?

I’m currently in the class of 2017. Current classes:
IB Computer Science HL, IB Math SL(finished AP Calculus in 10th grade with B+) IB Lit, Spanish 3, IB Biology, IB History of the Americas.
Current Cumulative GPA: 3.9(Hopefully going to rise to 3.95 by Senior year)
10th grade classes: Honors Language Arts, Honors History, AP Calculus, AP Chem, Spanish 2, AP Computer Science
9th: Honors Language Arts, Honors Geometry(took Algebra 2 in the summer, got a B- :o) Honors Chem(9th grade), Spanish 1, Honors World History, Web Design

GPA 11th: 3.7
GPA 10th: 4.0
GPA 9th: 4.0

EC’s: Paid Internship with Microsoft, 40 hours a week, doing software Engineering
TEAM READ(helping kids read)
President of Robotics
Varsity Captain of the Basketball Team
Co-founded an online learning source for kids. 250,000 current users in the last 6 months
Part-time Food Bank Chef

Higher Accomplishments: PSAT: 1550/1600
Got invited to Join the top 6th computer science programs in the nation(U-Washington)

Other Schools I’ll be applying to: CalTech, MIT, Stanford, Harvard, C-Mellon, UW, Boston College

My major: Computer Science
Minor: Business or communications

Hopefully I’ll write a good essay and get good SAT Scores next year. :slight_smile:

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You are an accomplished young person with too much time to worry.

You are certainly taking the most challenging courses, and doing fairly well at them - but the big drop in GPA for the current year has probably made you a bit nervous.

You do not have perfect test scores, but the reality is that most accepted students don’t either.

Your EC’s sound impressive, but some of them could be interpreted as fluff or filler. It is hard to tell how much effort/time these have consumed. How much of them did you really enjoy vs. doing because you thought they’d look good on an application?

I would be shocked if you got into all of the schools on your list, but your grades indicate you have the analytical ability to chance yourself, and if you are honest you would probably admit that your chances of a clean sweep are remote. But the good news is that you still have a good amount of time, and a couple rounds at the SAT to go.

Best of luck to you.

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@3puppies I have 40 hours completed total is what I meant to say. And for my EC’s, 3/6 were related to my field and the others were there because I really enjoy helping people.