Columbia Chance!

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<p>I've only just finished my freshman year (I'll be the class of 2016) and I really want to go to Columbia for econ and go into the business management special concentration.</p>

<p>-Ethnicity: Burmese/Chinese (Burmese is a southeast Asian minority, so would that help my chances?)
-Money: low-income
-SAT'S: 1980 -- CR640 M650 W690
-GPA: 4.3 weighted (school doesn't do unweighted or rank)
-Extra currics: High School Senate (fresh), Freshman class Secretary, High School Senate (soph), Sophomore class secretary, school acapella group, winter track (I was out this season due to knee injuries but I'll be back, and I'm pretty much guaranteed varsity junior year if I don't get it this year), concert band/marching band (I play bassoon and mallet percussion), DECA, Student Ambassador's club, band librarian (stupid name, but it's a leadership position!), German Club
-Work experience: Intern with the Daily Front Row at Mercedes Benz Fashion week in February, (I'd don't really know if this even counts, but) fashion blogger on personal site (poshandcircumstance.com) with over 1,000 followers to date.</p>

<p>My volunteer work I only have about 50 hours of volunteer work so far (and it's kind of scattered, not really with one single person/program yet), but I'm starting to look for more opportunities to change that. Even though I'll only be a sophomore I'll be taking all honors and an AP class (AP US History).</p>

<p>The reason I really want to go to Columbia is because I'm super interested in fashion and the interning opportunities are endless in the big city. (This is also why NYU is my second choice, even though it's unreasonably pricey in my opinion). PLEASE HELP! If there's anything you think I should be doing, let me know!!!</p>

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<p>no offence but having <2000 sat is pretty risky, especially when applying to Ivy leagues. Your EC’s are solid but not amazing and you don’t really have any ‘stand-out’ material.</p>

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<p>Well actually Columbia despises applicants who want to attend solely because of location. You have to want to attend Columbia because of something inside of Columbia, whether it be a professor, a certain undergrad program, etc.</p>

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<p>You already took the SAT as a rising sophomore?</p>

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<p>Hi! I’m not trying to come off rude at all, but I think since you’re only about to be a sophomore you should just slow down a little bit. Your SAT scores aren’t up to Columbia levels quite yet, which makes sense because you should probably wait until junior year to really take the tests (or end of sophomore year). You will be much more prepared then, and colleges don’t want to see that you’ve you’ve taken tests over and over. Don’t stress yourself out yet! High school will be miserable if you are comparing yourself to the stats already. Don’t take any more tests yet and keep working on GPA and activities for now. Enjoy high school! I have way too many friends and peers who wasted high school stressing about college. Just take it easy for a year with Columbia in the back of your mind and revisit this in a year or more. I wish you the best of luck and keep it up!! :)</p>

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<p>I would recommend improving your SAT score.</p>