Columbia College

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I just submitted my application to Columbia College, Early Decision. I want to know what my chances are.</p>

<p>Stats:
-White male
-Small parochial private school (50 in my class)</p>

<p>Tests:
-33 on ACTs (retook in October, havn't gotten back score yet)
-2230 SAT
Critical Reading - 800
Math - 730
Writing - 710
-770 Math II SAT II
-750 Chemistry I SAT II
-800 Hebrew SAT II
-212 PSAT (National Merit Semifinalist)</p>

<p>School:
-3.66 unweighted GPA (lowest grade was one B-, the rest almost all A's and A-'s)
-No ranking, but I am probably in the top 10%
-I have taken nearly the most rigorous schedule possible, and my school has a dual curriculum</p>

<p>ECs:
School musical: Supporting Role in Musical (9th) Head of stage crew (10-11)
Moot Beit Din (Jewish Moot Court): Team Captain (11)
Founder of the Meditation club and Meditation Minyan (prayer mixed with meditation)
Chief Editor of a Documentary interviewing Israeli soldiers and veterans (11-12)
Co-Captain of Robotics Team (Competing of the OCCRA robotics league) (12)</p>

<p>Volunteer:
Friendship Circle (I helped a boy with autism): 2 hours/week, 30 weeks
Yad Ezra (Volunteering at local food bank): 2-4 hours a week
Mashgiach (Kosher Supervisor) in kitchen for Cooking classes: 10 hours
Help someone in wheelchair to synagogue: 2 hours a week
Tutor students in Hebrew reading</p>

<p>Leadership
-Student Government: 11th Grade Vice President, 12th Grade President
-Gabbai of Mechitzah minyan (Led and organized the school prayer services)</p>

<p>Paid work:
Designed and formatted a grade school prayer book in Hebrew and English for a Jewish Synagogue (9th Grade)
Lifeguard (Summer)
Swimming instructor, (Summer)
Camp Stone Lifeguard and First Responder: I worked at an overnight camp for one month.
Worked on editing documentary movie (I was paid by the school to be the editor of a movie documentary, interviewing Israeli war veterans and soldiers about their experiences in the army.)</p>

<p>AP:
Chemistry (5)
US Gov't (5)
Physics C (Mechanics and E+M) (?) (taking now)
Calculus BC (?) (taking now)
Biology (?) (taking now)
Computer Science (?) (Will take next semester)</p>

<p>Recommendations:
-Two from teachers (English, Science, probably very good)
-One from principal who I have been close with since 9th grade (excellent)
-Counselor recommendation (nothing special)</p>

<p>Essay:
- Hard to explain what it was about, but it was definitely original/creative, it will probably stand out (hopefully in a good way ;) )</p>

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<p>babump. nobody likes chancing the ivies do they?</p>

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<p>a fellow moot beit din’er =]
I go to cesjds (its in rockville, md), what about you?
Ok, in regard to your chances, I would put them around 40%. Yours scores seem slightly above ar at the average for columbia and your grades seem lower than average (though did you get a B- in a judaic class or a secular class?)
Anyways, best of luck.</p>

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<p>How in the world is your GPA only 3.66 if you had all A’s except for that one B?! isn’t a 3.66 around a 91.6?</p>

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<p>ari102791: I’m from detroit. And you must be from Jeremy Liss’s school/team right? I am very good friends with him from when he was in Detroit. Tell him the Uglyoldcow says hi, he’ll know who I am. Last year was the first year my school participated, it was lots of fun. The B- was in a Hebrew class (which is unfortunate, considering I’m Israeli and quite fluent :stuck_out_tongue: ).</p>

<p>Shaheiruddin: I did not say I got all A’s, I was just implying that i never got worse than that one B-. Almost all of my B’s/B+'s were in 10th grade, it was generally a bad year (I think that my college counselor explained the circumstances in her rec). That means I basically have an A- average (which is relatively low, but not horrid, right?)</p>

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<p>Yeah I am at Jeremy’s school (turns out he lives 2 min. away from me and I go to his house every shabbat) and I’ll tell him. Also, (as you prob. now) he is applying ed to Columbia so you have some competition. ;)</p>