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<p>ED at Columbia</p>

<p>Ok, here it is. I'm getting ready to send out soon, and i'm nervous about it. just want a little feedback. thanks in advance for anything/everything</p>

<p>Ohio school, a few ivies per year, graduate of Harvard ‘95
Caucasian male; father owns small law firm, mother is real estate agent/golf instructor</p>

<p>AP Chem-5
AP Stat-5
AP Euro Hist.-5
AP Language & Comp.-5</p>

<p>Taking at end of Sr. yr:
AP Gov't
AP BIO.
AP Eng. Lit
AP Calc.
AP SPANISH</p>

<p>SAT I: 2305
Math: 790
Reading: 755
Writing: 760</p>

<p>SAT II:
Math: 790
Physics: 780</p>

<p>UGPA-3.75
w/out 9th grade-3.9</p>

<p>class rank: 12 of 630 (largest class in school history)</p>

<p>9 APs total, all other academic classes enriched (honors), including Spanish 4. Physics taken, but no AP offered. 4 semesters of photography as an art.</p>

<p>EC’s:</p>

<p>4 year letter winner in golf (2 time district qualifier)
School newspaper, editor
Spanish Club, President
In the Know (quiz bowl) co-Captain Sr. year (3 years on the team)
Astronomy Club
10th grade-Founder
11th, 12th-President
(led many fun and informational learning sessions and observational events) </p>

<p>Student Council senate (VP 9th grade)
Member of the local astronomical society, 3 years</p>

<p>Jobs: Summer before 10th grade-golf course (200+hours total)
Barnes and Noble bookstore-2 years</p>

<p>Volunteer work:
-COSI (Science center) exhibit performer, maintainer 14hrs/month (around 160 hours)
-Local library assistant (bookkeeping, etc.), “intro to computers” instructor
Community service, cleanup, etc: around 90-100 hours
Local observatory website helper</p>

<p>Awards:
National Merit-semi finalist
AP scholar (from jr. year)
AMC 10 and 12 (honors), AIME participant</p>

<p>Various golf awards, medals, team MVP, and the Murphy award for Excellence on and off the course</p>

<p>I won 3 prominent amateur science fiction writing contests-short story</p>

<p>Published: 1 science fiction poem</p>

<p>Reccomendations: I have excellent recommendations from respected teachers</p>

<p>Essays: I’ve spent a lot of time writing and revising, I’m very confident in them</p>

<p>I’ve wanted to go to CU for 3 years, I have visited twice and I loved it there</p>

<p>thanks</p>

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<p>
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Reading: 755

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<p>You can get SAT scores that aren't in multiples of 10 now?</p>

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<p>I'm sorry, must have been a typo somewhere
I was trying to recall them off the top of my head, but I looked them up here</p>

<p>740 reading, 2290 total</p>

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<p>You look like the profile of the standard admittee. The essay ought to be a knock-out. You're not an Intel science fair finalist or anything godly, so you're competing against a few thousand people whose profile look like yours. Your activities show a lot of breadth rather than depth, which is not what they like to see - so you have an opportunity to play up your passion for something. What will set you apart will be demonstrated passion for learning or something specific. Passion is the key word. Find something you truly care about deeply and write about it with emotion - it will shine through and make yours "not just another dull read".</p>

<p>Best,
D</p>