CHANCES FOR A DUMB KID applying to COLUMBIA?

<p>What are my chances for Columbia......</p>

<p>My parents are from India, and I live in Houston, Texas...........</p>

<p>Sat Scores
Math -720
Reading -750
Writing-700
(Reading and Math Total) - 1470
(Total) - 2170</p>

<p>Sat Subject Tests
Math-730
U.S. History-750</p>

<p>Gpa - 3.8 Unweighted
93.8 /100
Rank-89/450 kids
^^^^ I know this is bad, but my school is very competitive, my teachers and counselors have mentioned in my letters of recommendations that at surrounding schools I would have had a higher rank.</p>

<p>Activities
Won Science Fairs
Karate for all four years, got my black belt
Youth Club all four years
In 3 clubs in school
Volunteered at a hospital for 50 hours
Volunteered at Doctors' offices for 340 hours
Volunteered at a Community Center for 4 years, 100 hours approx.</p>

<p>suguarland or bellaire?</p>

<p>The false modesty is unbecoming</p>

<p>ECs seem alright (although I think you could probably play up the volunteering, since you've done a lot), scores/grades are a little below average for CU.</p>

<p>ECs seem alright (although I think you could probably play up the volunteering, since you've done a lot), scores/grades are a little below average for CU.</p>

<p>ECs seem alright (although I think you could probably play up the volunteering, since you've done a lot), scores/grades are a little below average for CU.</p>

<p>ya 2170 and 3.8gpa unweighted....clearly retarted.</p>

<p>thebeef -- scores and grades are not below the average. </p>

<p>--he has to play up his EC's, his grades (3.8unweighted translates into a nice 4.25+) and SAT scores are definitely satisfactory.</p>

<p>@CrookedI</p>

<p>Actually I think he is dumb for thinking that he is dumb :P</p>

<p>What is your weighted GPA? Your rank should be higher if you were taking more challenging courses. If your school doesn't offer them that is a different story.</p>

<p>our class rank is determined by weighted gpa, I have taken the majority of my classes as honors/AP, 10 APs by the time I graduate, however, my grades in those classes sophmore and junior year were in the following range: 85-89 for most of them, and the rest were 90-95. Other kids in my school try really hard, I am just lazy, could have done so much better, but got lazy my sophmore and junior year.......lol probably why I think I am dumb compared to some of my classmates lol</p>

<p>Thanks for not calling me out on posting this on most of the ivy leauge forums...I don't know a lot about college admissions, and was looking for help, sorry.....
Sorry for my bland description from about my Ec's, heres an updated version from my college resume, I have letters of recommendation from all of my community serivce and doctor offices.</p>

<p>Honors Awards
2008 - Busido Karate-Black Belt
2008 -AP Scholar with Honor
2007 – Hosa Concepts of Health Care Area Competition- 2nd Place
2007- High School Science Fair -2nd Place Environmental Sciences
2006- County Science Fair- 1st Place Overall Ninth Grade Division
2006- County Science Fair –2nd Place Environmental Sciences
2006- High School Science Fair – 4th Place Ninth Grade Division</p>

<p>Extracurricular Activities
(2005 – 2009) – Busido Karate (4 hours a week)--Got my black belt
(2005 – 2009) – Youth Club (5 Hours a week)
(2006 – 2009) – Hosa ( 1 hour every 2 weeks)
(2007 – 2009) - National Technical Honor Society ( 1 hour every 2 weeks)
(2008 - 2009) – National Honor Society (1 hour every 2 weeks)</p>

<p>Community Service
2006- Southeast Hospital – 50 Hours
2007- 129 Hours at Neurologist Office
2008- 78 Hours at Neurologist Office
2008- 83 Hours at Internal Medicine Office
2005-2009 - Youth Club Volunteer (5 Hours a week)
Total- 340+ Hours</p>

<p>The Youth Club volunteer thing was where I went in and taught kids why not to do drugs, peer presure, and the negative infulences to be aware of on TV, and Movies.... Did it every suday for five hours....</p>

<p>Interesting Thoughts, Any other opionons would be greatly appreciated.....</p>

<p>really....DUMB??!! you are a worthless, dramatic, ignoramus and pompous individual. i cant BELIEVE with your test-scores you would use that word to describe yourself as....that really does make me sick, im sorry but i cant believe no one else commented on that...UGH</p>

<p>Uh......I just did that to get peoples attention so they would read my post.......Sorry if I made you mad.......</p>

<p>nice EC
scores are pretty average
and what school in houston do you go to
are you doing ED? applying for CC or SEAS?</p>

<p>you see, the fact that you employed a technique like that for attention makes you a wanker flat out</p>