Chances for ivies especially Columbia

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Background: I am just finishing up jr year. My school is a top public school in NC. We have the IB program and many opportunities. I come from an upper middle class family, both my parents went to uchicago and I have wanted to go to Columbia since I was very young. My other top choices are Yale, UPenn, vanderbilt, Emory, uchicago (legacy), carnegie Mellon, duke or stanford. I will probably apply to Columbia early decision. </p>

<p>Sat: 2370
Math: 800
Critical reading: 790
Writing: 780</p>

<p>Sat 2:
Math 2: 800
Chemistry: 790
Us history: 790</p>

<p>Schedule:</p>

<p>Freshman: (no Ap's offered)
Honors algebra 2- 97
Honors English 1- 98
Honors world history- 97
Honors biology- 94
Honors chemistry- 97
Honors precal- 95
French 1- 99
Gym- 100 (lol)
Honors civics an economics (online)- 99</p>

<p>Sophomore:
Ap statistics- 96 (4)
Ap chemistry- 99 (5)
Ap environmental science- 98 (5)
Ap psychology- 95 (5)
Ap macroeconomics- 95 (5)
Honors English 2- 99
Ap computer science (online)- 97 (4)</p>

<p>Junior (haven't gotten exam results back but these were my grades before exams. They should be around the same)
IB math HL- 94
IB physics HL- 98
IB English HL- 97
IB US history SL- 98
IB French ab initio SL- 97
IB technology in a modern world- 96
Ap european history- 97
Ap music theory (online) - 99
Ap world (self study)</p>

<p>Senior
IB math HL
IB physics HL
IB English HL
IB US history SL
IB French ab initio SL
IB technology in a modern world
Ap calc BC</p>

<p>Extra curriculars:
Varsity tennis 4 years. Captain junior and hopefully sr year</p>

<p>FBLA officer jr and sr year. 2 at states and 3 at nationals in business math.</p>

<p>Speech and debate- officer jr an sr year. 3 in states went to nationals but didn't place</p>

<p>Caring for kids- icc rep sophomore, vp junior, president senior. Club that goes to hospitals to cheer up sick kids</p>

<p>Fashion club- vp sophomore year president jr-sr</p>

<p>Deca- 1rst at regional competition. Representative jr year. </p>

<p>Drama club- elphaba in wicked, cossette in les mis, Anita west side story</p>

<p>Work
Worked at chickfila for a summer before sophomore year
Worked at Kumon sophomore-junior year.</p>

<p>Volunteer
200 hours working with an organization that teaches underprivileged kids how to play tennis
150 accumulated from caring for kids </p>

<p>I'm getting a recommendation from my IB physics teacher who I also had for ap chem, my us history teacher who was awesome and should write I good one and my IB technology in a global world teacher because he also was the teacher soonest for FBLA and deca which I was very involved in.</p>

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<p>Completely forgot to add that I have played piano since I was 5 years old and won competitions for it.</p>

<p>Also forgot to add my race and that stuff</p>

<p>Race: multiracial (Indian/American)
Income: upper middle class</p>

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<p>Wow. Wow. You definitely have a great shot! Make sure your essays are awesome too! Thing is with the Ivies noones a match, but you seem to be on your way to giving yourself the best possible shot :D</p>

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<p>Wow I’m completely spacing today. Completely forgot to say 1/378 and uw gpa 4.0 weighted 5.46.</p>

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<p>I almost never do chance threads, but for some reason I opened yours. You look like a VERY strong applicant. HYPS seem almost a crapshoot for for uberqualifed unhooked applicants, and Columbia is getting that way too. I predict you’ll get in to most of your choices except for Yale, Stanford, and Columbia. ED at Columbia will make a difference, though, so go for it if that’s your dream.</p>

<p>Good luck!</p>

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<p>Definitely in at Chicago.</p>

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<p>Out of those schools which do you think are reaches and which are matches. Unc chapel hill is my safety school.</p>

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<p>Yale: Low Reach
UPenn: Low Reach
Vandy: High Match
Emory: High Match
Duke: Low Reach
Stanford: Low Reach
CMU: Match
Columbia EA: High to Mid Match (I’d say like 70% chance with EA)
Chicago:Match becuase you’re really good grades/ec’s/scores and you’re a legacy.</p>

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<p>Bump (10 characters)</p>

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<p>How do you get to take like 9 classes per year?</p>

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<p>We have 8 classes in school and I take a few online each year to boost my gpa or get ahead</p>

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<p>Bump!!!</p>

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<p>Desperate bump. Please answer</p>

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<p>Got into Columbia Ed with very similar scores and grades and I played a sport too. Good luck!</p>

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<p>hey so i dont even compare to you guys but i wanted to know what i should do because columbia is literally my dream school. im going to be a senior next year and i wanted to know what i could do this summer (because it’s like my last chance). my second choice would be a medical program (the 7 year programs) so let me know what i can do for either and be brutally honest because i’ll work my butt off this summer if i know what i can do. if you guys think me getting into columbia or a 7 year medical program is completely out of reach, would you mind setting me straight on which colleges or programs would be okay for me?</p>

<p>GPA: probably about an 85/3.4 (unweighted), weighted is about a 95
Rank: not in the top 20 so i wouldnt include this
Courses: always honors or AP, sophomore: AP Euro (3), AP Human Geography (3)
junior: AP Physics B (?), AP Language (?), AP Biology (?), AP US History (?)
senior: normal courseload</p>

<p>ECs: a lot of clubs that i’ve been in since freshman and sophomore year that i now have positions in
i’ve had a job for a while and i volunteer at 2-3 places
SAT: average
ACT: average
i dont really have a hook and no awards</p>

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<p>Acceptmeplz: what you should do is get YOUR OWN chance thread. It is considered extremely rude on CC to crash someone else’e thread like this.</p>

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<p>Tennischick97. Unlike another poster, I think it is inappropriate to say you are “in” at any particular school. Anyone who says things like this is less sophisticated about admissions than he or she thinks he or she is. Really, you just never know!</p>

<p>However, I would agree that you should give Columbia ED a shot! You can’t be accepted if you don’t apply! A family member who was accepted by Columbia during this admissions cycle did tell me: of all the 11 schools to which she applied, Columbia’s supplement for her was the most “involved.” She spent a GREAT DEAL of time on her Columbia supplement, because that school WAS ALWAYS her first choice. Though she was certainly qualified, her adcom wrote after admissions to say he LOVED her application. So, I do think the GREAT DEAL of time she spent on the Columbia essays --four shorter ones, I believe – was very very productive in the long run. Keep that in mind.</p>

<p>UChicago also prizes the essays. The questions have already been released – interesting as usual – so that is another supplement on which you will want to spend some time. But, hey, I think you can get great advice on Chicago from your parents. I attended Chicago as an undergrad and loved it. It wouldn’t be a horrible consolation prize for you, if that is the way admissions turns out. But I will say this. Chicago has kind of watered down the Core and made it less prescriptive than it was when I was a student. So, at this juncture, I actually prefer the rigor of Columbia’s Core to Chicago’s!</p>

<p>Good luck!!!</p>

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<p>No hook + high GPA = crapshoot at any Ivy.</p>