Columbia ED (URM)

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Intended focus: Physics (CC for Columbia)
SAT I (breakdown): N/A
ACT: 33 (35 S, 34 W, 33 R, 31 M) [Retaking this in September]
SAT II: N/A
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2%
AP (place score in parenthesis):
AP Calc AB (5)
AP Lang (5)
APUSH (5)
AP World (4)
AP Chem (4)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load:
AP Gov
AP Micro
AP Calc BC
AP Stats
AP Lit
AP Macro (Self Study)
AP Physics C: Mech (Self Study)
AP Comp Gov (Self Study)
Academic Decathlon
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Dozens of medals for AcDec (national, state, and regional level), highest scorer on team at 2014 nationals
Minor Awards: NHRP, AP Scholar, Recognized as student of the month in regional district</p>

<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Academic Decathlon (Team captain 10,11,12) [First time any school in our district has placed 1st at regionals and state, qualified for nationals and placed 6th in the nation, had lots of media coverage since our team really came out of nowhere. I've spent hundreds of hours studying for it]
Physics Club (Founder/President, 12)
Calculus Club (VP, 11,12)
Job/Work Experience: Builds and fixes computers for friends and random people
Volunteer/Community service: Not much, I organized fundraisers to send our team to Nationals for AcDec and have organized an entire district scrimmage for our school
I also tutor math and physics </p>

<p>Summer Activities: Boys State, studying for next year AcDec
Essays: Hopefully should be unique. Going to talk about how I skateboarded for around 7 years and how it really shaped my personality and then how I really started to care about school around my sophomore year. Also going to talk a lot about how AcDec catalysed that process
Teacher Recommendation: From AcDec coach who I have had as a teacher for 3 years, very very close, should be amazing
Counselor Rec: I go to a large public, so it should be pretty generic as I've only spoken to her a couple of times
Additional Rec: not sure yet
Interview: Not yet</p>

<p>State (if domestic applicant): AZ
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: Middle class, large public (2400 kids)
Ethnicity: Hispanic/Mexican
Gender: M
Income Bracket: $120,000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM</p>

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<p>Will chance back!</p>

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<p>pretty good chance</p>

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<p>Bump</p>

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<p>Anyone ?</p>

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<p>I think ur in a good spot academically… my friend got into Columbia and got straight Bs basically. :wink: But just keep in mind that there are thousands of equally qualified Columbia applicants as u… so its gonna be a crapshot tbh </p>

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<p>@cottonkk Was there anything special about them? Surely there must have been something that made someone see them as more qualified than another </p>

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<p>OH YES! I knew u would ask! U see my friend and I (well Im a rising sophmore so lol) both study music at one of the most prestigious music schools in the world (the acceptance rate is actually LOWER than Harvard… ik but yeah)! We also go to the same high school, which FYI is one of the top private schools in the country (well i mean its almost 60k/year to go there so yeah). The school sends about 40-50% of the students to Ivy leagues… and I believe my friend was barely top 25%… maybe it was top 30%?</p>

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<p>@cottonkk Ah I see. Well then hopefully my attendance at a relatively insignificant public school will be made up for by my class ranking </p>

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<p>Bump, will chance back!</p>

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<p>Decent shot. Try to improve math score on ACT. Good luck</p>

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<p>Bump!</p>