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<p>i dunno but i kinda see Columbia as the best school in the world... :P</p>

<p>UCLA
UC San Diego
UC Davis
Georgetown
Columbia
Stanford
northwestern-common app
brown
Princeton-Common APP
U of Chicago
Cornell-COMMON APP
Harvard-Common APP
Yale- Common App
Upenn-COMMON APP
USC
Rice-common app
Duke-common app</p>

<p>ED: Columbia
EA: Georgetown, University of Chicago,stanford...?
ID: Rice</p>

<p>gpa 9-12 grade RD decisions? 3.68 uw 4.25 weighted
gpa 10-11 grade EA/ID/ED decisions and UC's stanford princeton 3.65 uw and 4.2 weighted</p>

<p>Rank:
9-12 15/566 ( VERY BAD FRESHMAN YEAR!)
10-11 1/566 ( hopefully) prolly top 1 percent for sure though</p>

<p>VERY BAD FRESHMAN YEAR BUT VERY HIGH UPWARD TREND!!!NOTE THAT MY GPA INVOLVES WEIGHTING COMMUNITY COLLEGE COURSES </p>

<p>UC GPA: 4.04 CAPPED</p>

<p>SAT1 : 2200
SAT 2 : 800,800,760</p>

<p>AP scores all 4's and 5's</p>

<p>I have some uncles working at stanford and columbia, but i have no other connections at other schools... : /</p>

<p>EC'S:</p>

<p>Bridge club ( Vice President,Treasurer)
MCC ( Director of Fundraising and Public Relations)
NHS ( Life member status, organizer of community service events)
CSF (Life member status)
Finance ( treasurer), ( founder) (Co-founder)
JNS ( Founder, President) OFF CAMPUS
Debate ( Secretary, Public Relations)
Sikh Student association-founder-secretary</p>

<p>Volunteer at open heart kitchen and red cross and everywhere ( 1200 hours total)
Eagle Scout ( 25 merit badges?)
- Senior patrol leader
- -Troop guide ( describe)
- quartermaster
- official troop 943 recruiter</p>

<p>Academic Letter for five semesters of academic achievement</p>

<p>MVP award tennis
Undefeated tennis seasons award
Soccer trophies
JV Tennis captain freshman and sophomore year
Var tennis</p>

<p>taught poli sci merit badge/class and communications?tie back to troop guide</p>

<p>businesses=stringing rackets and co-found chef India and get league</p>

<p>Dance-Volunteer-10 years ( many competitions and awards)? organized dance functions and danced for concerts for children support. Dhol 4 dole? Show videos as well?
Peer mediator-President-2 years (child helper) describe! Resolve conflicts? resolve disputes?</p>

<p>Jazz band/Orchestra-Section Alto Sax-8 years ( describe)- holiday concerts and spring concerts with mr aubel? play frank Sinatra and 50?s music.because they were the best time.. 50?s through the 70?s
Football Summer weight training and conditioning (cornerback and Wide </p>

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<p>1st Place-School Science Fair-School
Community Service Award granted by the City
Gold Community Service Award
25 Boy Scout Merit Badges and many hiking awards
Eagle Scout and previous ranks- 10 years
Boy Scout positions- Senior leader and troop guide, quartermaster
Undefeated Tennis Award -City and local Community and parts of north california</p>

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<h2>Also pertaining to my majors Poli sci and econ i did many things including starting many business and one online business hosts leagues for sports via Xbox and is estimated to make 2k -10k a month i only get 50 percent of commision though i'm hoping! Business is risky</h2>

<p>I am in the youth commission which means i represent my community with 70,000 people. I also am in charge of 15,000 dollars that i grant loans to agencies around the city to help benefit the low income of my city. I work directly with the mayor, city government. : ) I might get a recommendation from the mayor</p>

<p>With regards to courseload... I 've taken the hardest coureload at anyone at my school</p>

<p>Junior year: 6 ap's ( max)
senior year: 6 ap's( max)
summer: 5 college courses one summer and 3 another summer</p>

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<p>First of all, you can't apply EA to Gtown and Stanford if you apply to Columbia. Stanford is SCEA, meaning you cannot apply to any other school early if you apply, and Gtown is semi-restrictive EA, meaning you can apply to any other EA schools but no ED or SCEA school early. UChicago is fine, you can do that with a Columbia ED, and I strongly recommend it.</p>

<p>Next, how bad was your freshman year? If it's mostly B's, it won't kill you, however, if there's a C on there, that severely hurts your chances.
Try to get your SAT up 100 or so points as well, although the 2200 is fine.</p>

<p>Make sure you write a killer essay and a killer "Why Columbia?" short answer, it's a biggy for the school, although no one tells you that ahead of time.</p>

<p>You're a very strong applicant, and a great ED candidate. If you apply ED, you have as good of a chance as anyone (except legacies, URM's, and recruited athletes, of course). Columbia will love that you have the hardest schedule at your school.</p>

<p>All that said, you have a good chance, but with Columbia's plummeting acceptance rate, you never know.</p>

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<p>how much money are you spending applying to schools? O_o</p>

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<p>Well that was some damn good advice! Thanks! yeah I had a 2.9 for the first semester of freshman year... and of course there's a VERY VERY valid reason for this... and i'm sure this reason will be taken into account. Huge HUGE UPWARD trend and the 2nd semester freshman year was a 3.7... so essentially only one semester really hurt me. Thing is my rank is so high because I've taken approx 20+ college courses in high school and that's the most out of my school and hopefully everywhere( hopefully! ). GPA is MEDIOCRE : /</p>

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<p>one piece of advice: do not emphasize or even mention your tough time freshman year, anywhere. reading your profile, the admissions committee will "get the hint" and can make those interpretations themselves. don't draw unnecessary attention to it like you're embarassed, you'll be spending their attention time on negatives rather than positives.</p>

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<p>are you sure? I'll just write a little note and maybe have my uncle ( who works at stanford) to write a note saying what happened. It's pretty valid I think and they will definetely excuse it I hope.</p>

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<p>you don't need to excuse it. it's not a big enough issue. Strategically speaking, you'd rather spend your admission officer's reading time having them think about how cool you are, not about whether they buy your excuse for freshman-year grades. It's a minor issue that doesn't bring down the overall profile you're presenting.</p>