<p>I'm female chinese; going to apply columbia engineering Regular decision</p>
<p>GPA: 4.0 unweighted
took 8 APs during sophomore and junior year, with six 5's and two 4's
5 in calculus ab/bc, biology, psychology, chemistry, us govt
taking 6 APs senior year.
Rank 2/650</p>
<p>SAT:
math 800
Verbal 700
Writing 750</p>
<p>SAT IIs:
Math 800
Chinese 800
Biology 760
Chemistry 740</p>
<p>ECs</p>
<p>2 varsity sports ( 1 of them is captain)
president and founder of 1 club
vice president of 2 clubs
10 years of piano
250 hrs community service
Summer Intern at electrical engineering dept of local college
Summer at UPenn. </p>
<p>Awards:
National merit semifinalist
NCTE writing achievement award
kodak young leaders
Nat'l music federation piano advanced level superior rating
sports district championship awards
some other local awards</p>
<p>If you were nt asian, I would say you are definetly in. Have you already taken AP physics? If so, why didnt you take the physics SATII. If not, that may hurt your chances.</p>
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If so, why didnt you take the physics SATII. If not, that may hurt your chances.
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<p>I disagree with this</p>
<p>...otherwise I'd say you have a very good chance. You are a girl who has shown interest in engineering and isnt just using the engineering school as a backdoor to columbia (as some girls do)...the only thing holding you back is that you are chinese but it probably won't be a problem.</p>
<p>I think OP has a great shot and is almost guaranteed in. Show some interest in CU and don't half-@ss the application/essays --- don't give them a reason to reject you.</p>
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Why does she have a better chance because she's female?
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<p>Girls are way underrepresented in engineering.</p>
<p>my school didn't offer ap physics in the last few years; this year we finally managed to get a class of ppl who want to take ap physics. But it's ap physics B. I want to take physics C w/ calculus so i can carry it to college. So I'm going to take ap physics C at a local community college</p>
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your race cancels out your gender. so you're pretty much a white male applying from ...ohio
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<p>This is asinine, saying that there's some harm for being asian for SEAS vis-a-vis being white. It doesn't matter if you're white, asian, indian, or middle eastern. None are underrepresented in SEAS.</p>
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i dun agree with that</p>
<p>my race cancels my gender? i think an asian female is still better than an asian male or white male. female still plays a part.
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<p>Correct. Don't listen to that. A white female isn't going to have different results than an asian female.</p>
<p>"If you were nt asian, I would say you are definetly in. "
When I said that I meant that if she was a URM it would be as close to in as you can be for Columbia. She has a great chance, but being asian doesnt help in admissions to any top college.</p>
<p>"Have you already taken AP physics? If so, why didnt you take the physics SATII. If not, that may hurt your chances. "
And when I said that, I asked if she had taken AP physics. If she had taken it, but no SATII, it may raise a question or two because she is applying to engineering. The Chem and MathIIC SATII are good enough for all engineering programs, but I would assume annother 700+ on the Physics SATII can't hurt. Because she is taking it as a senior, she does not need to take the SATII. If she had taken it junior year, I would have strongly recommended taking the Physics SATII last June. Also, there is no need for the op to take Physics C at CC because she is still taking the hardest schedual offered by her school in terms of math/science, and that should be good enough.</p>
<p>"It doesn't matter if you're white, asian, indian, or middle eastern. None are underrepresented in SEAS."
Um, if you are talking about South Asian Indians, they are considred Asian for the census. They have the same chances as Chineese and Japanese applicants. Also, wouldnt one or two of those ethnic groups be in danger of being over represented at either Columbia or SEAS?</p>
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If she had taken it, but no SATII, it may raise a question or two because she is applying to engineering. The Chem and MathIIC SATII are good enough for all engineering programs, but I would assume annother 700+ on the Physics SATII can't hurt.
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<p>As the saying goes, when you assume, you make an @ss out of you and me. You're totally wrong and have no clue what you're talking about. It doesn't raise any questions at all. By your logic, someone applying to SEAS who took AP chemistry and didn't take the SAT2 in chem would raise a question or two. That's also absurd.</p>
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"It doesn't matter if you're white, asian, indian, or middle eastern. None are underrepresented in SEAS."
Um, if you are talking about South Asian Indians, they are considred Asian for the census. They have the same chances as Chineese and Japanese applicants. Also, wouldnt one or two of those ethnic groups be in danger of being over represented at either Columbia or SEAS?
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<p>And they have the same chances as South Asian Pakistanis or Koreans or Vietnamese or whites or middle easterners. Whatever "danger of being over represented" you've concocted to mean that it is somehow harder for one non-URM ethnicity vis-a-vis another non-URM ethnicity is a figment of your imagination. You simply don't get any racial preferences if you're of any of those backgrounds, and it doesn't matter which one of those you fall into.</p>
<p>You’ll be fine… Your SAT scores are EXACTLY waht i had hoped for… well could you also take a look at my stats im also applying to RD engineering (just look for the only post under my username) :)</p>