Chances at Columbia Fu School of Engineering?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Not really sure how this goes, but I'd love to have an opinion other than my mother and guidance counselor. </p>

<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: White
Grade: Junior</p>

<p>Courses
- AP Stats
- AP Chemistry
- AP English Lang
- AP US History
- AP Spanish
- Honors Pre Calc</p>

<p>Test Scores
SAT - 2230: 740M, 750W (10 essay), 740 CR
AP Human Geo - 5</p>

<p>GPA
- UW: 3.91
- W: 4.77</p>

<p>EC's
- Model UN since 9th grade (officer this year, hopefully president next year)
- Varsity Cheerleader since 9th grade (won nationals in 2012)
- NHS
- Spanish Honor Society
- Science Alliance (HS science students work with 5th graders on a science fair project)
- 200+ volunteer hours at local community center
- Mayor's Youth Commission
- Math tutor
- Intern with environmental policy/environmental engineering grad students at ASU
- Started a non-profit in AZ to equip low income housing projects with solar panels to lower energy bills
*Hopefully attending 6 week research camp at UC Davis this summer</p>

<p>I moved from the Phoenix metro area to Northern California this summer (between my sophomore and junior year), so I didn't really get a chance to develop my non-profit as much as I would have liked. However, I still maintain the accompanying website, that shares a variety of methods to lower energy usage while remaining conscious of the environment (what I was working on with ASU grad students).</p>

<p>I'm looking to major in Environmental/Alternative Energy Engineering and minor in Public Policy. </p>

<p>The schools on my list: </p>

<p>Out of State:
<strong><em>Columbia</em></strong> (the dream, Fu school of engineering and the core curriculum are everything I ever wanted)
Harvard
UChicago
Cornell (dad is alumni)
Georgetown
UNC
Vanderbilt</p>

<p>Instate:
UC Berkeley
UC San Diego
UC Davis
UC Los Angeles
UC Santa Barbara
USC</p>

<p>Am I a little too ambitious? What else can I do to secure my top choice (Columbia)? All opinions/help is necessary. Thanks!</p>

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<p>I think you have a really really good chance at most of your schools. Honestly, I can see acceptances from Columbia and Harvard.</p>

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<p>Instates are all matches/safeties.</p>

<p>Ivies + UChicago are reaches for anybody.
Columbia - reach/SEAS might be a low reach if you apply ED though.
Harvard - reach
UChicago - reach
Cornell - low reach
Georgetown - low reach</p>

<p>Keep taking the hardest courses senior year; don’t flake out.</p>

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<p>I had very similar stats and was rejected from Columbia engineering. I did get accepted to uchicago. I would recommend writing really solid essays for them. You can def get into columbia but I would say that it’s still a reach.</p>

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<p>Cornell would be low/ high match. I’m assuming Cornell engineering.</p>

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<p>@abby2229 thanks for the advice. any other suggestion as to make myself look most appealing to Columbia?</p>