Gs

<p>Wondering if I am on the right path for an ED Columbia application my senior year. Currently just wrapping up first semester of sophomore year. Here are stats this year...</p>

<p>ranked #1 out of 40. public high school in new hampshire</p>

<p>Ap US history: 92
Hon Alg II: 90
Chinese II: 96
Hon Eng 10: 93
Chemistry: 92</p>

<p>93 is an A-. Will colleges care as much with letter grade differences with other schools? grading pretty rigorous as well. This is just first semester, and its a brand new high school for me (left old school after freshman year)</p>

<p>looking to start crew team at this school as well. Any thoughts on what I will need for the rest of this year, and what type of schedule I should aim for when it comes to next year as well?</p>

<p>will my pilots license help at all? and if not accepted my first year of eligibility, i may go to china to work in business (as i know chinese) and re apply. Then what about my chances for applying to General Studies? I heard acceptance rates increase after taking a year off and re applying as a general studies student?</p>

<p>Thanks!!!</p>

<p>thanks</p>

<p>Be sure you actually want to go to General Studies if you apply. GS is a different college experience than a traditional institution. We have no dorms, we have vastly different financial aid (meaning, you’ll potentially tens of thousands more each year), and the average age is around 29. You can have a social life that’s entirely traditional students, and academically we’re fully integrated, but GS is not CC, and you need to remember that.</p>

<p>While you’re eligible to apply after just a 1 year gap, the average student is substantially older. Most (but certainly not all) GS students transfer in some credits from previous institutions. The grades you posted aren’t particularly relevant to your admission, but to me they aren’t particularly noteworthy as either good or bad.</p>

<p>I suppose the most important thing to note is that you can’t apply at all without a one year break in your education. High school seniors are not eligible to apply to GS, nor are students who went straight from high school to community college or university. So, to say it increases your chances is accurate, as you will go from having your application tossed in the shredder to at least having your application read assuming you submit it.</p>

<p>The mere fact that you have a pilots license and speak Chinese won’t get you into GS. How your pilots license and the fact that you speak Chinese affect who you are and how you fit with GS is more important and it’s up to you to make that distinction. Starting a crew team shows initiative and that you’re involved, but again, why you did (or are doing) it and how it relates to being a GS student is up to you to articulate.</p>

<p>The problem with your plan:
You are not eligible to apply to GS if you’ve been rejected admission to the other undergraduate schools at Columbia within the past THREE years.</p>

<p>Source:
[url=&lt;a href=“http://gs.columbia.edu/transfers-within-columbia]Transfers”&gt;http://gs.columbia.edu/transfers-within-columbia]Transfers</a> Within Columbia | General Studies<a href=“bottom%20of%20page”>/url</a></p>