<p>SAT: 2320 superscore 2360
SAT 2s: Math 2 800, Chem 750
GPA: 4.67 Weighted on a 4 point scale
Rank: 6/278
APs: i took 2 tests but didnt send them because I got 3s lol
IBs: my school doesnt offer them
Senior Schedule: AP Stat, AP Chinese, AP English Lit, AP Calc AB, AP Biology, Honors Engineering </p>
<p>Subjective:
ECs: Chinese Club (President), Varsity Debate (secretary), EMS Club (secretary), math league, science league, peer mediation, Pencils for Promise, NHS, Foods Club, Competitive dancer (submitted a dance supplement with my app), intern at a cytogenetics lab at CUMC the past summer
Service: teachers assistant at chinese school teaching chinese knotting (submitted art supplement) , counselor at Camp Dream Street, volunteer at local hospital
Employment: freshman year summer at a musical theater camp (didnt include on common app tho, no room in activities section left)
Teacher Recs: 1 should b good, the other one is from a sophomore teacher that knows me extremely well so im hoping that turns out really good, head of cytogenetics lab at CUMC is writing me one too (saw a peek of it seems pretty generic but does convey message of good work ethic and personality)
Conselor Rec: knows me pretty well, should be good
Essays: Idk, i think it was good, not spectacular or particularly mind blowing though.
Interview: didnt get one. 3 ppl from my school applied ED to Columbia but the other 2 got called up but I didnt. bad sign?</p>
<p>Other:
State: NJ
School: Public - pretty good, sends a couple kids to ivys each year
Ethnicity: Asian (chinese)
Gender: Female
Income Bracket: around 200,000 but idk
Hook: i got nothing really. Does female majoring in engineering count? I have some legacy. My dad got his MBA, PhD and Masters degree at Columbia and then did his post doctoral research at Columbia UMC.</p>
<p>@graduatingin2015, I think that really depends on whether you’re asking for financial aid or not—Columbia is need blind for US citizens/permanent residents/refugees, but not for international applicants, because the US gov’t won’t chip in for a foreigner.
Therefore, if you can pay, your chances are as good as anybody else’s, maybe even the tiniest bit better because Columbia wants a diverse student body, so if all else is equal, you at least have that going for you.
Columbia, however, does have money allocated for international students as well, so don’t worry too much. At an info session I attended, however, the rep was discouraging an applicant from Germany from applying ED, as “we might have more resources available for international students later in the process.” Not sure of the validity of that statement.</p>
<p>Not true @dlafklm. For selective universities – which have seen an abundance of applications from internationals, regardless of ability to pay, they are in the worse applicant pool because US top colleges have soft quotas in place (percentages of admits mainly stayed the same and lagging behind recent major increases in applications). Thus the competiton is extreme.</p>
<p>At less selective US colleges, a full-pay international will likely be favored. Not at Columbia however.</p>
<p>@T26E4, that may be true for colleges that are need-blind for all applicants, but if a school claims that they take need into consideration when evaluating international applicants, as Columbia does, it would lead me to believe that those schools would prefer an international who can pay over an international who can’t. This I am sure of—schools are businesses, after all.<br>
I would believe that despite the soft quotas, the international applicants who can pay are then viewed very similarly to US applicants, as the schools no longer have to take need into consideration.</p>
<p>This is just speculation: if the international applicant is also from an underrepresented region (i.e. not places like Western Europe/Asia), I would think that he/she might also be favored slightly, all else being equal.</p>
<p>@Dream321 Mos def more than grades. An admissions officer told us one applicant last year lived, dreamed, and breathed Columbia, visited several times, chatted with and called admissions officers, was just ebullient about the prospect of attending Columbia.</p>
<p>They read his app, and it was impressive, everything was tight, stellar grades, rank, test scores, impressive recs.</p>
<p>Then for the question “What are some books you have read other than school-required?” he answered “I don’t really like to read”</p>
<p>FAIL. Rejected outright.</p>
<p>There are a lot of reasons an applicant may be rejected. </p>
<p>@Dream321 There is aways hope!! One admissions counselor from another school said that they throw away maybe 30 - 50% of apps some years, because people cut and paste the essays and forget to change the name of the school. Like “I want to go to Harvard because I think Duke has the best psychology program in the country.” Or “I want to go to Stanford because Massachusetts is a cultural center of America.” Or there will be a sentence in the middle of the essay like “(Sweetheart, don’t forget to tell them about your swim medals!! kiss-kiss!)” lol</p>
<p>These are always rejected outright. Which is sad but great for the rest of us.</p>
<p>OMG that is so relevant to me because I gathered all my supplemental essays in one google document so it was possible for me to make that mistake haha, but “Sweetheart, don’t forget to tell them about your swim medals!! kiss-kiss!)” though lol @Jimkingwood </p>
<p>I’ll be hyperventilating for the next 27 hours… I’ll be in class when decisions come out, so the real question is do I check at school or wait another half hour so I can bawl in the comfort of my own home?</p>
<p>Wow, I think you have great chance.
It is interesting that you are from Myanmar.
In fact, my sibling also went to school in Yangon (ISY)
Wish the best luck to you !</p>
<p>I’m really upset that I did not get an alumni interview, especially when someone else from my school did. I feel it could have really helped me. Here are my stats, what the hell. Fuck this game of chance.</p>
<p>White female, private prep school, cambridge ma
No financial aid
SAT superscore: 2230 highest math: 640, reading: 800, writing 790
SAT 2 french listening: 750
SAT 2 english lit: 800
AP english lit: 5
AP french: 5
ACT: 32 (my counselor told me to send it too, whatever)
GPA: 3.67. All A’s in english, languages, and history, with some B’s in math/science
Recs: hopefully good…i chose teachers that like me and are known for writing good recs…and my counselor gets paid to do this so her’s should be good
Essays: writing is my strength and passion. my common app one was more creative than the typical college essay. It answered the failure question. Maybe they will like that? Columbia supp was fine. Good writing and research but nothing spectacular
EC: newspaper senior editor and columnist, debate team, president of feminist club, arabic club member, active in writing workshop out of school, community service at local women’s shelters, ballet for 10 years, costumer for school plays, JV tennis
Work: was a cashier at a dry cleaner for a while, lots of babysitting, 2 years as a summer camp counselor
Awards: some scholastic writing awards gold and silver, french grand concours bronze, certificate of merit at school
And like I said, no interview. Am i missing anything?
What are my chances?
Feeling physically sick…</p>
<p>I remember New Year’s and thinking, “This is the year I find out if I’m going to Columbia.”
It’s crazy that it’s coming in just a couple of short hours.</p>
Thanks for giving me some hope though !!!</p>