<p>Hello all!
I am a senior attending the American school in Buenos Aires, Argentina. I am Hispanic and speak English, French and Spanish fluently, lived in Switzerland for 13 years and have Dual Nationality (US and Swiss). I also speak a bit of German. I just wanna know where I stand for Columbia ED this year!! Let me know if you're applying too :)</p>
<p>STATS-
GPA: 3.7/4.0 unweighted
Classes: full IB diploma (English A1 HL, Spanish A1 HL, History HL, Calculus SL, Economics SL, Bio SL) + plus APs (French, Economics) as electives
Rigor of school is pretty damn hard.
ECs: varsity soccer (4 years, captain), student council (senior year, treasurer), Fine Arts club that is also a nonprofit organization (all proceeds go to charity), over 150 hours in community service (1 trip within Argentina, a year of tutoring ESL kids, working in a foster home, working at an underprivileged kids daycare), 2 PR internships, 2 summer jobs
Essay: writing is my passion and probably what I'm going to study so I think my essay's one of my highlights definitely...while my GPA sucks for Columbia :(
SAT: 2060 last time around (CR: 710, M: 640, W: 710), took it again TODAY hoping it'll be better...</p>
<p>I've gone to 3 different high schools in the 4 years of high school, and I explained in my CommonApp how that's interrupted my education (cos they ask).</p>
<p>Tell me the brutal truth. Lay it out to me!</p>
<p>My classes and grades and ECs in detail (also my recs will be excellent or very good):</p>
<p>FRESHMAN YEAR - GPA: 6.0/7 IB grading system - School: international private school in Geneva, Switzerland, pretty well-known, respected
Classes: not much choice in what classes you took
-A1 pre-IB English
-Adv German
-Art, Music, Drama, PE (all required)
-Chem, Physics, Bio (all required)
-History & Global Awareness (required)
-Adv Math
ECs: soccer (no others available really…)</p>
<p>SOPHOMORE YEAR: GPA: 6.0/7 - School: still in Switzerland
-A1 English
-Adv Spanish
-History pre-IB
-Adv Math
-Biology pre-IB
-A1 Art pre-IB
ECs: soccer (same)</p>
<p>JUNIOR YEAR: GPA - 3.50/4 unweighted - School: American int’l school in Buenos Aires
Full IB diploma
IB A1 HL English and Spanish –> took AP Spanish got a 5
AP French –> got a 5/5 in AP exam
IB Math SL (Pre-Cal)
IB History HL
IB Economics SL –> got a 7/7 in IB exam
IB Bio SL –> got a 6/7 in IB exam
Journalism/School Newspaper
ECs: soccer, 2 high intensity internships in NYC (one at Stella McCartney PR and one at Diane von Furstenberg), community service, tutoring, photography club (part of fine arts club that gives proceeds to charity), debate club, yoga</p>
<p>SENIOR YEAR: GPA - 3.6/4.0 uw - same school
IB A1 HL English, Spanish
IB Math SL (Calculus)
Intro Psychology
Fitness (missing .5 PE credit)
AP Economics (micro and macro)
IB HL History
Theory of Knowledge (required IB class, philosophy basically)
ECs: soccer, debate club, fine arts club, community service, 2 summer jobs</p>
<p>You’ll get into all the schools you mentioned in the additional post…Everything looks ok to me except your SAT scores…if you can get them up over 1400 you’ll have a fair chance at Columbia ED in my opinion</p>
<p>you have a REALLY good chance. Get your SAT score up a bit more and have really good teacher recs… and you’re a shoe in. Your hispanic background will help you a lot with your ED too. woww haha. Best of luck and chance me back!</p>
<p>Columbia and Northwestern are going to be the problem. They are really unpredictable when it comes to acceptances, but with the rest you have a great chance. Try to bump up your SAT’s and take the ACT. Are you taking a rigorous schedule right now? They will look at the rigor of the classes and base off some of the decision from that.</p>
<p>Columbia by itself is a hard school for everybody, when its acceptance rate is 10%. I think that if you get a better SAT score, your chances would increase by ALOT. 2060 does not look too great. How are your SAT IIs?</p>