My graduating class is a whopping 51 people, and I’m the only applying to Columbia, ED or RD. We had a girl two years ago get into all of the Ivies, she’s now the US’s youth ambassador to the UN (sidenote: she is 1 billion x cooler than I am) Her parents are Somali immigrants, she’s URM and 1st gen and also the most amazing person I know/have ever met, so it’s no shock but it kind of sets the bar extraordinarily high at my school. Doing well = being on Munira’s level
Same! @ToastQueen and @1984ad my school sounds rather similar. I’m from MA so a lot of students study at schools like Northeastern, BU, BC, etc.
@katewithak what school did she go to? Also, my graduating class has 102 students. I’m sure that you must be a pretty cool person!
If you are recruited, the standard for GPA and SAT/ACT is slightly lower. But if by “eh grades” you mean 3.0, then it’s not happening.The coach that’s recruiting will give very specific guidance on grades.
If you’re not recruited, then being an athlete is just another EC.
AFAIK, the ED numbers would include those QB applicants who were matched to Columbia.
@1984ad Ohio! The only people who apply out-of-state usually go to schools in the south. I don’t even know if someone from my high school has actually gone to an Ivy League school…
@TomTanJoseR2022 we go to a private school in the suburbs of the Twin Cities (not going to say the name outright, but if you google Munira Khalif it’ll be pretty obvious)
My graduating class is something like 119 and I’m the only person that is applying to columbia at all– other kids are applying to harvard, cornell, and upenn but we’re the first graduating class so we don’t have a record for where students go to school yet.
@ToastQueen ohio, nice! im from upstate NY, and i have no idea who’s applying from my area lol. my class has about 350 people and i’m one out of two people who are applying to any ivies at all. we send some people to cornell once in a blue moon (mostly because i think we’re kinda closer to them geographically maybe?), but we rarely ever have ivy applicants/acceptances.
i’m kinda surprised that no one accepted with questbridge posted on this thread. i’ve only seen 3 random people get into columbia with QB so far, and all 3 shared it on twitter. i wonder how many there are!
@1984ad I’m a QuestBridge finalist, but I decided to apply to Columbia directly under early decision because the match rate is pretty low. It is rather strange that there doesn’t seem to be many people who matched with Columbia, though.
My friend is in QB and she applied to a school she didn’t want to go to and refused to look at her results today. I’m so confused, because so many people didn’t get the chance, yet she did and didn’t seize the opportunity to choose more than one school and even a school she wanted to attend.
@ToastQueen oh, i didnt know you could do that! so instead of ranking schools you just chose columbia only?
i wish i applied for questbridge. i totally qualify and everything, but my school tells the students about nothing. like, its at the point where i learned my gpa and rank for the first time ever a few weeks ago. and i was the only national merit semifinalist in the school and they only told me that i got it after basically all the deadlines passed. i wasnt going to continue on the path for becoming a finalist anyway (i took the ACT and didn’t want to waste money and time studying for the SAT just to “confirm” my score and most schools offer scholarships for being a semi-finalist). i never heard any mention of questbridge though, which is really disappointing since i probably would’ve utilized that opportunity.
@AcademiaSavvy what school? and why’d she choose it if she doesnt wanna go? 
@1984ad Yeah same I didn’t think I qualified for QB until I looked at my family’s tax returns when applying for aid after the deadline had passed. I think Princeton. She said she liked it, but since her mom wanted her to go so she didn’t want to?? I wasn’t that big of a fan of Princeton either bc they seemed more literature and humanities based (which she loves so I’m hella confused) from my perspective. I followed them on snapchat and instagram to try to get another perspective after touring, but it didn’t seem to change anything. ANYWAYS I just went off on a tangent lol.
I applied to Questbridge and wasn’t chosen as a finalist. I then decided to just apply ED to Columbia, but I feel so pessimistic because being accepted to Columbia ED is so much harder than being chosen as a Questbridge finalist.
How much clout do you think primary and secondary legacies get?
@AcademiaSavvy a lot probably. i think almost all types of admissions advantages are pretty unfair, but maybe thats just me
theres an option for nonmatched questbridge students to turn in their columbia app for ED review (qb app will not be reviewed in this case) and im planning on doing that. but i feel so hopeless because if they wanted to have me they would have matched me… sigh. i dont really see how i will have a better chance at ED but i just want to know in a couple of weeks vs. in March
@macktheknife if thats allowed then maybe QB students arent included in the numbers of accepted ED students unless they do that hmmm