<p>I'm currently a junior, who is considering applying to Columbia SEAS this upcoming fall (through ED). I was curious what type of stats accepted students had (ED and RD)?</p>
<p>Please post your stats if you are comfortable doing so. Thanks a bunch!</p>
<p>i always feel kinda cocky/lame showin off stats, but as long as it's to give ya somethin to aim for and not just for bragging rights:</p>
<p>white male. 4.67 weighted, 3.96 unweighted, 800math/770verbal, 800mathIIC/780chem/730writing. 5's on my three ap tests so far. national merit scholarship winner, other nerdy awards. captain of football and volleyball teams. no clubs whatsoever, absolute minimum community service required by HS to graduate (40 hours, just completed a week ago.) solid essays, sketchy teacher reccomendations.</p>
<p>sorry if that's not the kosher template for stats, i'm pretty new to the board. good luck, and hopefully i'll seeya there</p>
<p>edit: sorry i forgot to mention that I applied regular decision</p>
<p>Thanks, kylejscholz. I'll probably be applying ED to SEAS. Does anyone know the average stats of those accepted ED to SEAS?</p>
<p>Yeah, I never really liked posting stats either, but then I realized how much it would have helped me if I knew these stats when I was a junior...</p>
<p>I'm really different from kylejscholz.</p>
<p>Chinese male. 4.4 weighted (Never bothered calculating unweighted). 800 math/730 verbal. 770 Math IIc/790 Chem/700 Writing. Never bothered with sending in my AP scores...</p>
<p>A lot of extracurriculars. Key Club President senior year, VP junior year. Rescue Squad member as a first-aider (counted as about 300 hours of community service). Employed as a teaching assistant. Summer internship at a lab at Rutgers University. Submitted a research abstract to the American Chemical Society that was accepted and presented at the National Meeting in San Diego (I think that was what helped the most). Newspaper Editor. Orchestra. Private lessons in violin, singing, and guitar. Lots of science clubs and science competitions.</p>
<p>Solid essay that poked fun at myself but also really emphasized my ambition. Teacher recommendations...One was a "one of the best students encountered in my career" rec from my chem teacher that I had for two years...The other was from my math teacher who really didn't like me but gave me a pretty supportive rec (I HAD to ask her because of SEAS's requirement of a math teacher's rec)</p>
<p>I applied ED to SEAS and was accepted. I strongly urge you to apply ED if you really want to go there because...to be perfectly honest I was NOTHING compared to some of my friends that applied to SEAS RD...and they got rejected. I think they set their standards a little higher RD.</p>
<p>I forgot to mention that my school does not rank...only gives percentiles. I was in top 5% of class.</p>
<p>Will a lack of experience in engineering/research hurt my application?</p>
<p>Hey, I was accepted to SEAS RD and I will be attending (yay!)</p>
<p>Here are my stats:</p>
<p>Female, Indian, 1430 SAT, 720 Math IIC, 720 Writing, 640 Chemistry.
Average: 95.4 unweighted</p>
<p>Although my stats are not phenomenal (unfortunately :( ) I think its more impt to be well rounded than to have a 1600 and 97 and nothing else. So for me I sing classical Indian music, I volunteer in several places, I am part of all the honor societies my school offers (lol), I also did research for a year and a half and became an Intel semifinalist. I got a rec from my mentor which was very good, and four teacher recs, and one guidance counselor rec (I may have overdid the recs lol).</p>
<p>But what I am trying to say is while I am not a good testaker my other activities show the different aspects of my character that make me who I am and its important to show that in your app. (But also do well on the SATS) ;)</p>
<p>Anyway, good luck. </p>
<p>~ps</p>
<p>Does anyone know if it is possible to switch from CC to SEAS? I don't know if I want to yet, and I think I'll wait until I get onto campus during the first week, but I want to know what I'll have to do if I want to switch into biorngineering. Also, do we buy our texts [if we want to read them] over the summer?
thanks guys.</p>
<p>for those accepted to SEAS, what math course did u take junior yr & what was your final grade in that class (if you don't mind saying)?</p>
<p>my junior year i took honors trig, a- first semester, a+ second</p>
<p>Junior Year -- Precalculus and Calculus (99 and 97 respectively)
Senior Year (its also impt)- College calc both terms</p>
<p>Junior: AP Calculus BC B+...it was because of a fluke D on my midterm...this low grade was prolly made up by the teacher's rec for me...i really should have gotten an A in the course though...and the teacher knew that and wrote that</p>
<p>Senior: AP Stat A</p>
<p>junior - bc calc, A in course
senior - multi variable calc</p>
<p>is it easier to get into Columbia SEAS than it is to get into the actual university?
I was looking at the admissions rate.. and it seems to be so.</p>
<p>qualifications are generally same if not higher...it's just that there's a smaller pool of applicants so you may not need as big a hook or be as outstanding...scores and general intelligence are basically the same though...</p>
<p>take note that the only people that want to go to SEAS are people that really want to do engineering...which is why they really do not let people transfer from SEAS to CC easily...in fact my friends that weren't really into engineering or science but had same scores did not get in SEAS...</p>
<p>and people in general do not really aspire to be engineers as much as study liberal arts and do stuff involved with that...so that's why they get less applicants and have to admit more people</p>
<p>check the other threads...</p>
<p>ah...
but say i wanted to go to SEAS to study physics... would I get a better education at SEAS than the college?</p>
<p>if you study at SEAS it's applied physics...at college it's pure physics</p>
<p>oh.. can you tell me the difference, please?</p>
<p>1560/790/770/760 ranked near top of class, lots of activities</p>
<p>I decided traditional engineering isn't the right path for me though...good luck!</p>
<p>thethoughtprocess...so where are you going?</p>