D Accepted!
SAT 1530(750math, 780 reading)
4.0 unweighted GPA
Nueroscience - Behavior Major
Hi guys, I did not apply to Columbia this year, but I really want to apply next year, and I was hoping that some of you might be able to post your stats? (AP scores, SAT II, ECs)
@asdssf you’ll succeed where you go so go for the full ride
dumb question, i got in but how do i see what major i got in as?
Accepted!!! (Still in shock!)
White Male from Semi-Rural New England
SAT: 1550 (750 EBRW, 800 M)
SAT IIs: 800 Math 2, 720 Chem (kinda low honestly)
GPA: 3.9UW, 4.3W
Class Rank: N/A, school doesn’t rank (definitely took one of the most, if not the most, rigorous course-load in class)
APs: Calc BC (5,5), Chem (4), Eng. Lang (4), Physics C Mech (4)
Intended Major: Mathematics
ECs/Awards:
Solid ECs, nothing extra-extra-ordinary, (political activism, significant leadership positions in clubs, student govt, performing arts, etc.)
Some state recognition + NMF, AP Scholar w Distinction, College Book Awards.
Essays: I think these are what got me in, I worked really hard on my supplements!
Reflection: I am incredibly thrilled to get in! I think what really made me stand out wasn’t any of my stats/achievements, but the fact that I really spent a lot of work putting every piece of my application together and constructed it around one general theme: the fact that I’m interested in many different things. I definitely consider myself to be very well-rounded and I tried to be unapologetic about that. I think that well-rounded students fit very well with Columbia because of the interdisciplinary nature of the Core Curriculum, and I made this very clear in my “Why Columbia?” essay. I also think that I curated the list of books that I chose to fit my application; I framed the other supplement around one of the books that I chose to include in my list and I felt that this supplement was the best essay I wrote in the entire cycle. Once again I’m SO THRILLED to get in and I still cannot believe it! #Roar24
Other Ivy decisions (if this helps):
Harvard: Waitlisted
Dartmouth: Waitlisted
UPenn: Waitlisted
Brown (deferred ED): Rejected
Yale: Rejected
@theloniusmonk I just saw this sorry. Thanks! I was editor-in-chief of the newspaper, but that’s my only newspaper EC. I was president of the Student Government, president of National Honor Society, founded my school’s Black Student Union, VP of STEM Club, Model UN, did a lot of volunteering at my school, organized service trips through NHS, tutored kids in English, History, Physics, Algebra 2, Trig & Calc, Color Guard, did Varsity Swim for 2 years, Varsity Track for 1
Participated in this summer entrepreneurship program, designed a prosthetic and a prosthetic startup & then won the contest at the end
I applied as an English Major to all those schools except Northwestern and Syracuse.
My EC’s were more Community/Service based than Journalism
waitlisted 
is there any hope of getting off the waitlist?
waitlisted
act: 35, National Merit Finalist, 800 Biology M, 750 Math 2, AP Scholar w distinction, applied for biochemistry
For Columbia, the middle 50% of applicants have SAT scores are between 1460 and 1550. The middle 50% of ACT scores: 33-35. https://undergrad.admissions.columbia.edu/classprofile/2022
Below a 1500 SAT and 34 ACT puts you, incredibly, in the bottom half of accepted applicants.
When making sense of rejections and acceptances, it’s important to understand that applicants with stats that fall in the lower portion of the admitted class almost always have a hook (legacy, athletic recruit, development (potential donor), child of faculty member, politically connected, or other “institutional priorities” such as racial diversity). And of course, full pay never hurts, even for ostensibly need blind colleges. If you got in with none of these hooks, you are impressive indeed!
Congrats to everyone who was accepted!
Waitlisted. 1560 SAT, 800 Math 2, 790 Literature, 4.0 UW, decent ECs (club positions, internship, published author). Columbia was one of my top schools, so I’ll be sending a LOCI soon. Hopeful but not expectant, ofc :,)
Congrats to all the baby lions and welcome home 
you’re in for an amazing time. Excited to see many of you in the fall!
“My main choices are between Columbia, Penn and Johns Hopkins with a full ride. I intend to major in computer science and quantitative fields and eventually hope to do quant or SWE after college. Any suggestions?”
They’re all great, either JHU because of the full ride, if affordable then Penn as it has the best CS/engr of the three, if SWE, is software engineering.
Still waiting for the thick envelope. Or is portal status all one gets? Somehow no information on financial aid portal.
Can’t decide between Columbia Engineering and Princeton Engineering. Will the coronavirus affect Columbia’s or Princeton’s fall semester more?
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In terms of institutional policy regarding classes starting, I suspect it will be very similar. Of course, the institutions do not exist in a vacuum. So realistically, a great world-class city like NYC will unfortunately be more affected than a quiet boring suburban town in a middling state. But, the situation keeps changing, so no one (including the colleges) have any real idea at this time.
Thank you.
Many students are take a gap year because of NYC’s situation.