<p>My daughter wants to know her chances of scholarships or entrance</p>
<p>Her stats are the following:</p>
<p>She has 6 classes of which 4 are AP/IB
SHE HAS ALL SOLID GRADES ALL 4 YEARS AND IS ACADEMICALLY STRONG
CURRENT GPA: 4.33</p>
<p>SAT: CR-710 M-580 W-690 11/2006</p>
<p>SAT: CR-640 M-590 W-620 06/2006</p>
<p>SAT II'S
SPANISH WITH LISTENING: 790
MATH LEVEL 2: 510
LITERATURE: 680
US HISTORY: 660</p>
<p>E/C
HOSPITAL VOLUNTEER BOARD MEMBER
LANGUAGE SCHOOL PRESIDENT OF VOLUNTEER GROUP
KIWINS 4 YEAR MEMBER
CSF, NHS-SEAL BEARER AND LIFETIME MEMBER
AP SCHOLAR, VOLUNTEER AWARD FOR OVER 300 HOURS OF SERVICE</p>
<p>No chance of scholarships. Columbia doesn't give them out period. You'll have to look for third-party scholarships if you want to go that route.</p>
<p>Maybe 6% chance of acceptance. Her standardized test scores are especially weak for this caliber of school. Is she a minority?</p>
<p>To the OP: Is your Daughter a senior or junior? Do you have a list of schools other than Brown and Columbia? What is her planned course of study? Only East Coast schools? etc. Has she applied to any schools? If so,which ones?</p>
<p>I am guessing that your daughter has URM status which combined with her good grades and activities makes her an acceptable candidate for Columbia. Scholarships will be based upon financial need not on her academics.</p>
<p>Languages1, if your daughter is a junior I would have her apply to Occidental and Whitman colleges. These are west coast schools with excellent academics, individual attention to the students and good merit aid.</p>
<p>Her intended major is premed studies. She was looking at Columbia, Yale and Washington Lee in the east coast. All 3 of these schools asked her to apply. she is a senior and has already applied.</p>
<p>The west coast schools are:
Claremont Mckenna
Scripps
USC
U of California-San Diego, Santa Barbara, Berkley and Los Angeles.</p>
<p>She is Cuban/ Latino and English was her 2nd language. Interesting that english did become her strongest subject.</p>
<p>I am not sure what URM status is? Could you explain?</p>
<p>Financially our family is struggling so I think we will get all aid. We are a family of 8 and had $ 40,000.00 She has applied for the Gates Milinium and other science based scholarships.</p>
<p>If I may ask,how did these three schools "ask" your daughter to apply? Will your daughter be the first member of your family,including you and your husband, to attend college? If so,this is an Ivy league hot button.</p>
<p>I am not sure. They just did. She had really good PSAT's and has alot of awards and honors. My husband and I both went to college. All of the schools though sent her invitations to apply etc. I assumed it was due to the SAT's or something. Her ap scores also were a 3, 4, and a 5. 3 in ap euro, 4 in AP US History and 5 in English. She took all honors placement classes in her first 2 years and then did 3 ap's last year and 4 this year. Could that have been it?</p>
<p>Financial aid and scholarships are different. It's hard to estimate what it is but I think Columbia will end up giving your daughter close to full aid in grants and loans and workstudy.</p>
<p>She's a good match now because of her URM status. URM is an acronym for underrepresentated minority. These are minorities in the United States that have a lower percentage of college graduates than the percentage for that population as a whole in the United States. So most asians are over represented minorities, which can put them at a disadvantage. Hispanics are an URM and thus get the benefit of the universities wanting to even out this imbalance. This usually translates into lower requirements for URM, although they must still be reasonably qualified.</p>
<p>The major issue will be - SAT test scores are too low
1) Math score is too low
2) For those SAT IIs, only spanish is fine.
for example, for SAT II Math IIC, if scores 790, not bad, right?
but it only stands for 89% level, for 600, that is about 30%
for 510, that is too low
3) What do you mean good PSAT, good enough to get into semi-final list?
4) A lot of colleges sent out letters to ask students to apply, but that means
NOTHING for admission</p>
<p>The only thing is URM, but that is just helpful to get in, once get in, how to stay there and get out successfully is another issue</p>
<p>In California, for the same school, the students' SAT score can have 400+ point difference. Do not let those URM students in, that is unfair, but creating such big diffence and those students are in the same classroom, . . .</p>
<p>I think Sigma's larger point is that any student who can't do better than those scores might have a tough time keeping up in a lot of classes at Columbia. GPA isn't necessarily a good signpost for that, because there are many "easy A" high schools out there.</p>
<p>I know out here alot of my daughters classmates go to UC systems and USC and our High school is considered one of the more respected ones. The course schedule that each student must take to graduate= the requirements to get into UC systems. We wanted to have a few reach schools so that she could at least try. She would love Yale and go in a heartbeat-I know that.</p>
<p>As Spanish is her first language,the Spanish SAT II is not going to help. Many URMs get invitations to attend special weekends at colleges,incl. Dartmouth,Kenyon,Davidson,etc.,with transportation and expenses paid. A simple invitation to apply without an offer with a travel grant may just be a type of marketing technique which seeks app. activity but is not refined enough to increase admission chances.</p>
<p>Yale is not even a remote possibility. UCSD & UCSB are great choices for your daughter. She may be able to get into one of the UC's honors programs. UCLA is a reach,but also a definite possibility for admittance due to your D's strong work ethic as evidenced by her high GPA. Good chance at USC and Scripps.</p>