chance me please

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>High school junior
female
After going to the Journalism conference at columbia I absolutely fell in love with the school, I have decent grades but I know lots of kids with perfect gpa's and sat scores get rejected so hoping to get advice and tips!</p>

<p>Orchestra- A (4.0)
Health- B+ (3.3)
P.E- A (4.0)
Honors French 2- B (3.0) (.05)
Honors Geometry- B (3.0) (.05)
Honors English 9- A (4.0) (.05)
Honors World History- A (4.0) (.05)
Honors Biology- A- (3.7) (.05)
UW GPA- 3.6
W GPA- 3.85 (3.9)</p>

<p>Orchestra- A (4.0)
P.E- A (4.0)
Honors English- A (4.0) (.05)
Honors Modern World History- B- (2.7) (.05)
Honors Civics- A (4.0)
Honors Algebra 2- B- (2.7) (.05)
Honors Chemistry- B- (2.7) (.05)
Honors French 3- A (4.0) (.05)
UW GPA- 3.5
W GPA- 3.75 (3.8)</p>

<p>Junior Year so far
Orchestra- A (4.0)
Honors French 4- A (4.0) (.05)
Honors Physics- A (4.0) (.05)
Honors Pre-Calculus- A (4.0) (.07)
A.P English 11- A (4.0) (.07)
A.P U.S History- A (4.0) (.07)
A.P Environmental Science- A (4.0) (.07)
UW GPA- 4.0
W GPA- 4.4</p>

<p>EC's
Violin since the 4th grade
Westword- Since 10th grade
Special Page Editor
Project Music- Since 9th grade
Youth Group- This year
Interact- Since 10th
Building with Books- Since 10th
National Honors Society- This year
Tri-M- This Year</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Stepping Stones Children’s Museum- 150 hrs (2006-2007)
Ferguson Library- 23 hrs (2005) 30 (2006)
Soup Kitchen- 12 hrs
Church- 6 hrs
Temple - 10hrs
Organized a toy donation for St. Luke’s Children in 2004 (Collected over 100 toys for kids)
Silver Presidents Volunteer Award for the year of 2006-2007 for volunteering over 150 hours.</p>

<p>Others:
National Youth Leadership Conference- Summery of 2008
Let’s Get Ready SAT Prep- Summer of 2007, 2008
Y.E.S I Can/A.M.B.Y.S.E.E Program at UCONN- Summer of 2007, 2008
National Soociety of High School Scholars- 2007, 2008
Columbia Journalism Conference 2007, 2008
Passions- Volunteering, Violin, Writing</p>

<p>Spanish (Puerto Rican)
Black
Fluent in French</p>

<p>I'm a strong writer so the essays should be good!</p>

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<p>by the way from s public high school in ct and theres about 600 people in my class.</p>

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<p>You look like a strong and talented candidate.</p>

<p>I would say that you have a far above average chance of receiving an acceptance letter, provided that your standardized testing is satisfactory.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Thanks kwu.</p>

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<p>Well, obviously you should try to maximize your grades and SAT scores, but aside from that, I think you should shift your focus away from a monotonous, incongruous list of EC's to a goal-oriented or passion-driven one. I mean, volunteering and leadership conferences are great, but Columbia really does not care at all how many hours you spend volunteering or the amount of conferences you go to. There's no magical conversion rate between hours of EC's and "college points."</p>

<p>What's your prospective major? Whatever that is, or even whatever your general field of interest is, pursue EC's that are a) related to that field and b) meaningful.</p>

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Let’s Get Ready SAT Prep- Summer of 2007, 2008

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<p>Wait, did you teach SAT prep or just take a prep course. If the latter, then I don't recommend putting that on your application. . . .</p>

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<p>By the way, I have no choice but to agree with the Godfather on his point,
which I did not consider after glancing over your stellar grades and minority status,
that it is not advisable to make oneself out to be a Renaissance (wo)man by propagating a laundry list of activities.</p>

<p>On the Columbia application, there is only space for your six (or was it seven?) most important extracurriculars. There is also no space for one to convey the number of hours one has spent performing an activity. Although one could risk attaching additional information, it should be substantive more than quantitative. Quality over quantity. It's not that Columbia doesn't care.</p>

<p>I would advise you get your priorities in order.</p>