<p>Hey guys. I'm not sure where I want to apply for early decision. Would my chances of getting in at Columbia be better than Dartmouth or Brown? I like all 3 schools equally the same, I just want to get in early!!</p>
<p>Asian American male living in Hong Kong
British GCSE (freshman & soph years): English A+, Math A+, Music A+, Chinese A+, Co-science A+, Economics B
Full IB predicted 40/42 (before TOK & EE)
SAT: 2280 (M 770/ CR 760/ W 750)
SATII: MathII 780, Chinese 790, Literature 730</p>
<p>ECs:
Taekwondo - Black belt (since 13), official examiner for Hong Kong Taekwondo Federation, assistant teacher
Church - youth leader, worship leader, bible study leader
Varsity Tennis (3 years), captain senior year
Varisty Soccer (3 years)
Tutoring at local community center (~200 hours)</p>
<p>Employment:
Summer before senior year: Marriot Hotel, restruaunt & housekeeping (60 hrs/wk)
Summer before junior year: Ben & Jerry's</p>
<p>Other:
Junior year - (Co)Organized breast cancer charity dinner/auction that raised over $60,000 (& awareness)
Senior year - planning to (Co)Organize hepatitis charity dinner/auction similiar to previous one
Summer before freshman year: went to Cambodia on church missions trip, ended up getting heptatis
from drinking unclean water or something. Spent a month in hospital (but I'm ok now). Writing about the experience
for common app essay & it ties in nicely with the charity dinner.</p>
<p>I like your EC's, and your essay topic looks pretty solid.</p>
<p>Word of advice on this forum: It's prowled be insecure d<em>bags who didn't get into Columbia or have a stick up their a</em>* because they did; so do yourself a favour and separate the grain from the chaff.</p>
<p>"I like all 3 schools equally the same, I just want to get in early!!"</p>
<p>This is a dumb thing to say / feel. C is actually quite different from D and B, and D and B also have a fair share of their differences. This will eventually make a big difference in who you turn out to be. The difference in chances is minimal and will be outweighed by where you do and don't fit. Being too lazy to submit a few extra apps is the height, how are you going to get through papers in college?</p>
<p>Figure out where you want to go, do more research, ask people who go to these schools, and then apply with strong reasons for going. This way you'll actually have a good shot.</p>
<p>If you're after Columbia, better schools to look at for a similar experience would be UChicago and Penn, and perhaps Harvard but I don't think anyone needs to be reminded that Harvard exists!)</p>
<p>D and B are definitely similar to each other than to Columbia, but still quite different</p>
<p>I agree. These are all fantastic schools but they are fundamentally different places in terms of environment. Selectivity wise they are too similar to say you'd have a better chance at one or the other. Brown and Dartmouth are more similar to each other than they are to Columbia.</p>
<p>to answer your question...just based on statistics, you have a better chance at Dartmouth and Brown...Columbia is the third hardest to get into right now, this year they are expected to have around 18k+ people apply and they are taking around 1000. -_-</p>
<p>^You don't know what you're talking about. 22000+ people applied last year, and a little over 2200 were admitted. Each year's freshmen class has 1300+ people, obviously they have to overadmit in order to have the right number of students for each year...where did the 1000 come from?</p>
<p>Admissions at top schools seem somewhat arbitrary, and there's no clear guidelines. There have been people on CC who were accepted to HYP and rejected from Cornell. As long as you have the stats, which you do, you have a shot. Now you have to work on the essay.</p>
<p>"You don't know what you're talking about. 22000+ people applied last year, and a little over 2200 were admitted. Each year's freshmen class has 1300+ people, obviously they have to overadmit in order to have the right number of students for each year...where did the 1000 come from?"</p>
<p>Before you shoot your mouth off, the 1000 is the number for columbia college.</p>
<p>1300 is SEAS + CC. CC admits like 1000-1200 students.</p>
<p>OP didn't mention whether he was applying to CC or SEAS, and in any case, the total number of admitted students to CC is closer to 1700 than 1000. I was just trying to correct the numbers in case OP gets the wrong impression.</p>