ED Columbia v. ED Cornell v. ED Johns Hopkins

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I'm having trouble deciding on where I should ED to. </p>

<p>Here are my stats before I continue: <a href="http://www.cl.ly/2Y2q1U0R2a43020F0H1y%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://www.cl.ly/2Y2q1U0R2a43020F0H1y&lt;/a>
My UW GPA is 4.0.
My W GPA is 4.8 something.</p>

<p>Apart from what's documented in the above link, I volunteer at a multitude of places (I'm not sure how relevant this information is to admissions, but I'll list them anyway):
Florida Hospital - around 200 hours(?); I help out with tasks ranging from filing patient files to shadowing and assisting a surgeon throughout his day.
Teen Court - around 80 hours; I serve as a juror/advocate for a Teen Court program downtown.
A Gift for Teaching - around 20 hours; I distribute donated school supplies to teachers.</p>

<p>Also, through NHS and Beta, I, as the VP for both clubs, help in organizing canned food drives, money collections, and other charitable actions to help out the community</p>

<p>If other information is needed, please ask!</p>

<p>Now, the main issue for me is deciding whether or not it's worth it to apply ED for Columbia as I'm not sure if it would be a waste or not. The early decision acceptance rate for Columbia is around 20%, but I don't know where I stand.</p>

<p>I would love to go to any of those three colleges equally. But of course, if my chances of getting accepted into Columbia are favorable, I would like to ED there - NYC, just by itself, is worth it.</p>

<p>Your opinions will be valued. </p>

<p>Thanks.</p>

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<p>Columbia. It’s a “better” school (if you don’t mind a very small, very dense urban campus) that has “more” money.</p>

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<p>Aaronburr, you dirty scoundrel! We do not seek the likes of you at Alexander Hamilton’s alma matter.</p>

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<p>^whaaat? But Columbia. I know somebody who got in ED and is very excited to go.</p>

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<p>clearly someone isn’t very well versed in their American history… </p>

<p>[Aaron</a> Burr - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](<a href=“http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aaron_Burr]Aaron”>Aaron Burr - Wikipedia)</p>

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<p>lol owned…</p>