<p>First SAT with no prep:
CR: 690
M: 610
W: 600</p>
<p>Private tutor this time, I hope to increase score overall to 2000, maybe even higher since I'm actually prepping this time.</p>
<p>GPA 3.5 scattered honors & AP. Honors and AP English should help me with the essay since I now have experience</p>
<p>ACT as a junior 31</p>
<p>High reach</p>
<p>But, I’m a blue-eyed, blond hair white male! An endangered species!!!</p>
<p>Even worse. Your SATs are nowhere near the Columbia’s 50%</p>
<p>High Reach</p>
<p>So, even if I get my SAT to 2050, or above, it’ll be a reach…keep getting email from Columbia, UChicago, ND,RPI, guess they’re just yankin’ my chain!</p>
<p>Do you have any ECs?</p>
<p>Please don’t give meaning to emails and letters from schools. You are just on a list based on little. Their job is to get as many people as possible to apply so they can reject a higher percentage and become more selective to rank higher on US News. Pretty ugly!</p>
<p>No special EC’s, travel baseball, challenger league volunteer, couple school clubs.</p>
<p>high reach definetly. if you can get your sat’s up that will make it a mid reach, but your academic course load doesn’t seem to rigorous and your gpa isn’t great.</p>
<p>No chance :(</p>
<p>Should I wait till newer SAT scores are available in late December to apply to ANY school?</p>
<p>I think you have a decent chance everywhere just make sure you have a safety schools chance me back. <a href=“http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1033113-chance-me-ill-chance-you-back.html[/url]”>http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/what-my-chances/1033113-chance-me-ill-chance-you-back.html</a></p>
<p>If anything apply to NYU as a low reach and Fordham as a safety if you’re dying to be in the city</p>
<p>Yes, I’ve visited NYU & Fordham but, they don’t offer much money 
Also looking at Binghamton.</p>
<p>NYU’s president sent me an email that pretty much said, “We only want rich kids”!</p>
<p>Can you post that email? So interesting.</p>
<p>Sorry, I deleted it. What mystifies me is if many(most?) have the funds and their endowment is over $2.5 billion, it would seem NYU would have the resources to significantly help those that don’t have the funds.</p>
<p>Math from 610 to 750</p>
<p>Total now 2040</p>
<p>Hoping for Columbia, NYU, Binghamton or Fordham</p>
<p>@stage4survivor</p>
<p>No offense, but you truly do not stand a chance amongst the thousands of 2250+ SAT’s who have applied to Columbia. Your GPA does not help you out in the case as well. Be realistic, there’s a reason why Columbia has ony 10% admittance, and reject perfect SAT’s and 4.0 GPA’s every year, so why should you get in when these overqualified candidates are rejected? Unless you have some outstanding extracurricular activity which can make you stand out, the only advice I can offer you is, sadly, start looking at other schools.</p>
<p>I’m not trying to be cruel, but simply honest. I do not want to bolster your confidence so high that you will inevitably crash come decisions day. Of course, I am not a Columbia ad com member and in no way can my words exactly match those given to you by the admissions office. However, since I have looked at pretty much all the decisions threads on all the Ivy Leagues from '12-'14, I can offer, somewhat, of an accurate prediction on your chances.</p>
<p>Best wishes in your college application process,</p>
<p>Piano.</p>
<p>P.S. Feel free to chance me back</p>
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<p>Well, not everyone who is accepted to Columbia has perfect scores, why not me?
Admissions must get bored with all the “perfect” applications!</p>