<p>Hey guys,
Like many of you, I'm absolutely in love with Columbia from what I see so far. I've only taken the SAT I once and never got a chance to retake becuz of taking SAT IIs or just too busy. </p>
<p>680M 750CR 800W</p>
<p>I read on this forum that they mostly look at math+cr becuz of the writing section's novelty. This puts me at 1430, which is pretty darn low and 600 somethings don't exactly look good. Should I retake in December and try to get 700+ (I'm not applying ED)? I think the highest combined math and CR score I would be able to get is 1500. Is it worth it? After learning that Columbia takes highest combined score, I am really leaning towards retaking it.</p>
<p>ummm, extra info: as for SAT IIs, I have 800, 790, 780 and 730. Perfect is a rarity for me.
ECs&leadership are pretty healthy..which are to blame for some of my schools.
Please help! I need to sign up, although already late, SOON! Thanks :]</p>
<p>crap,mine's the same,though worse in a way (cr 800 m 630 w 770 = 1430). sat 2s are similarly unpretty too.
Mine's ED though eek, and I'm retaking it in Nov.I'd signed up for it before I got my sat scores back though; I probably wouldn't have otherwise. though I didn't know the part about only really considering the cr and math scores, oh dear.</p>
<p>A single 680 will not exclude you from admission to any top college, ever. Two scores in the 600's, though, may. Don't sweat it. I would suggest not retaking it again unless you're absolutely sure you can get a significantly higher score.</p>
<p>How are your math/science grades? If you have lots of B's in math/science and you don't seem well rounded enough, it might hurt you. One sub-700 score isn't going to get you rejected if your application is strong in all other ways.</p>
<p>Math matters for CC. With the applicant pool that CC gets, they have the liberty of weeding out people who are very weak on the math/science side.</p>
<p>A bad verbal score is less likely to hurt you with SEAS, as compared to a bad math score with CC. SEAS isn't going to reject some math-sci stud (Intel award, Physics olympiad, etc.) with a weak verbal score.</p>
<p>Columia2002,
As a Columbia alumnus, your evaluations and insight certainly carry weight around here for prospective applicants and students. To help frame your comments, would you be willing to share some of the details about your own application experience, and even give us some insight into What Life is Like After An Undergraduate Education At Columbia in terms of your professional or other pursuits after you graduated?</p>
<p>Specific questions might include:
What attracted you to Columbia?
Did you apply ED or RD?
What kinds of scores, grades, ECs, (hooks, if applicable), etc. did you have?
How did you do academically at Columbia?
What did you major it?
What did you like most and dislike about Columbia? Why?
What extracurricular activities did you engage in while at Columbia that you found particularly rewarding?
How about other social (non-academic) pursuits at Columbia? What did you enjoy doing?
Did you engage in any internships/work? If so, what kind, and how did you find those?
What did you do after you graduated? Work? Enter Grad School? Did you find Columbia helpful toward those goals? Howso?
etc., etc.</p>
<p>Ok, this post made me anxious. Any thoughts on how a M660 V800 W750 would play out? I've had A's in math all four years and am taking AP Calculus AB this year, and haven't shirked on sciences either. Would that help compensate at all?</p>
<p>hold on one second...
according to the collegeboard's website, the mid-50% of admitted CC students had an SAT Math range of 660-760, so as long as you're w/in that range you should be fine.</p>
<p>I myself have a relatively low math score (680) whereas my Writing (790) and my CR (730) seem just fine; xsamantha, i wouldn't be intimidated at all by your SAT math score</p>
<p>SAT scores are not as relevant as one might think. For the class of 2008 or 2009, Columbia admitted only 16 percent of kids with 1600 SAT's. Also, Columbia has accepted a kid with a 980 SAT. Also, check out the old ED Thread fromn last year. Many kids who were accepted got sub 700 scores on their SAT I's and II's. At the end of the day, you have your amazing candidates, the candidates with no shot, and a bunch of people in the middle. If you are in the middle, from there, it's all luck.</p>
<p>hey i had trouble finding it yanks could u send me a link that has the roster for admits rejects and denies for last year's e.d. i wanna c how my chances r</p>
<p>there was one constant from almost all of the kids that got in- they were musicians. maybe columbia was looking for musicians that particular year, but the one thing i understood from the thread was that columbia places a lot less importance on SAT's and GPA's then we think and a lot more importance on the essay and little things like the why columbia essay. Actually, one might say that a great essay is as important as a great SAT score.</p>
<p>i thot my writng stuff was good but its funny everyone before told me columbia was more number-based than the other ivy's but that roster heavily disputes that so i guess columbia is more subjective based than any of us thought</p>
<p>naturally. i mean, considering that columbia's app isn't as large (in the sense of the number of questions they ask) as many other college apps, i suppose that the little things would count.</p>