Dreamer choosing between ED at Columbia or Pomona - thoughts and chances for both??

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>Hey all, just started senior year and am trying to decide which school to apply ED to. I'm looking into studying international relations (considering premed as well), and am looking for a good foreign language program - which both of these offer.
Going to Columbia would be amazing, but I don't know if it's too crazy. </p>

<p>Should I play it a little safer and apply to Pomona instead, a school which while very different I've also come to love?</p>

<p>What do you guys think are my chances for both??</p>

<p>GPA: 3.76 UW, have always taken the toughest courseload at my school </p>

<p>taking 3 APs and 4 college classes senior year (at the local, highly-ranked lib-arts college)</p>

<p>SAT:
730 W, 750 R, 740 M (took it twice, this is the superscore)</p>

<p>AP: 5 spanish, 4 English, 4 French, 2 Euro :( (got an A in the class though...idk what happened...too bad I already accidentally sent these to Pomona, will it be a big drawback?) </p>

<p>Extracurricular:</p>

<p>4 years running for HS, pretty sure I'll be a captain this year (we vote next week)
lots of volunteering @ interesting places each summer (eg. orphanage in India, shelter for Homeless girls in Colombia...)
Volunteer Coached a youth track team last spring
City Youth Commission for 4 years, Co-Chair this year
Violin since I was 5, Pit orchestra for HS musical since freshman year
Founder and president of Chamber music club at HS
Spanish tutoring
Worked at Kumon learning center helping little kids with homework
A good amount of community service at misc. events
just started a new Debate Club at my school which I'll be president of
Nat'l Honor Society, participated in Chem Olympiad soph. year (and will again this year)</p>

<p>will also be submitting a strong visual art portfolio from my Honors Art class last year (my schools art program is said to be one of the strongest in the state)</p>

<p>I'm expecting fabulous recommendations because I'm very close with all the adults I've asked, and will strive to make my essays fantastic as well!</p>

<p>Middle class, both my parents went to college and postgrad
live in the North East USA but was born in Colombia (so race: Hispanic)</p>

<p>hook (sorta?) - won a competitive State Department scholarship to spend last summer studying Hindi in India for seven weeks, should help since I'm really into International relations and studies. Also native Spanish speaker (don't know if that actually helps..)</p>

<p>I'm also looking at Tufts, John Hopkins, Wesleyan, Rice, Pitzer, Dartmouth, Williams if you'd be willing to chance me on a few those too. Thanks SO much! I'd appreciate any advice!</p>

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<p>96 views but no posts?? anybody?</p>

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<p>I’m not super great at chancing, but your stats look really good. ECs are sort of random, though. It seems as if you tried to do basically everything without a lot of direction. However, you seem to have pulled it off reasonably well. Don’t stress about the 2 in AP Euro- Pomona requires you to submit all test scores anyways. Did you consider re-scoring it, or did you feel like you messed it up? My friend recently took on the CollegeBoard and was successful, so try it if you feel you got the wrong score.</p>

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<p>You have a good chance.</p>

<p>My D attends Pomona (2nd yr), and if her experience thus far is any indication, you will love it there.</p>

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<p>Thanks for the input! Posted this a while ago, and have since decided that ED at Pomona is the way to go. The only thing that worries is they don’t have as much Latin American studies courses as I’d like, but the other colleges seem to have enough so I’d be happy…</p>

<p>Has your daughter taken any courses in the other colleges? would you say it was easy for her to work it out?</p>