Hesitant to apply ED?

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<p>The title essentially says it all. I mean, my stats are rather mediocre and I'm not even sure if I have a shot.</p>

<p>I'm in the International Baccalaureate Program and anticipate on receiving a diploma this May. HL: English, History, and Spanish. SL: Math, Biology, Visual Arts.</p>

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<li>Editor-in-chief of school's award-winning literary magazine.</li>
<li>Founder and VP of school's National Art Honor Society</li>
<li>SGA, Gay-Straight Alliance, Culture Club, Peer 2 Peer Tutoring for Underprivileged Kids.</li>
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<p>2010 on my SAT Reasoning: 610 Critical Reading / 630 Math / 770 Writing (But I just took it again last Saturday, hopefully I did dramatically better!)</p>

<p>Taking Lit, Math, and Spanish SAT II next month.</p>

<p>Going up to NYC to visit campus in a few weeks. What do you think? Yes? No? Absolutely no?</p>

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<p>If you love Columbia, then go for it. You don’t know if you don’t try.</p>

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<p>One of the main reasons I’m diffident is the ED aspect of it. If I don’t really have a shot at all, I could probably do ED elsewhere and save the time. I don’t know. But Columbia is one of my dream schools.</p>

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<p>It is the chance we are all taking. All 4,000 of us.</p>

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<p>Maybe you could check out your other options, which could be reaches, but not such high reaches … that way you will have a better chance of getting in there… instead of missing out on them too…</p>

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<p>if your grades are good and you have a bomb essay and recs, then i don’t see why you wouldn’t have a shot at columbia…in my opinion a 2010 is pretty good, i mean, people with 2300+ get rejected you know? it’s not all about the SAT’s…</p>

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<p>Do you really think there will be 4,000 ED applicants? Weren’t there only 3,000 last year?</p>

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<p>There were 2,995 CC applicants who applied ED. About 600 got in. Can’t remember the SEAS numbers.</p>

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<p>pwoods, that reads like combined stats - i say because columbia aims for about 44% of the entering class to come in early, so 600 admits early would be more than 44% of the class.</p>

<p>do you have a shot? with higher SATs sure; is ED a more forgiving admissions cycle? yes. so you will have to decide then if you think it makes sense. but regarding your concern about applying ED elsewhere. you can apply ED 2nd round to schools that would be more sure bets if you don’t get into columbia, or apply to non-binding EA programs so it isn’t as if applying to columbia precludes you from applying early to other schools. the rule is you can only apply to one binding ED/EA program at a time, but most EA programs are not binding. and ED 2 programs work so long as you were not accepted to an ED normal program.</p>

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<p>@adgeek</p>

<p>You’re right. I re-checked the numbers, and the total number of applicants for ED was 2,995, 631 of whom were admitted. ([Bwog</a> CC/SEAS 2014 Nine States Short For Now](<a href=“http://bwog.com/2009/12/11/2014-nine-states-short-for-now/]Bwog”>CC/SEAS 2014 Nine States Short For Now - Bwog)) The applicants were later broken down by school, which showed that 2,495 applied to CC and 488 to SEAS. ([Bwog</a> Class of 2015 To Be Regular](<a href=“Class of 2015 To Be Regular - Bwog”>Class of 2015 To Be Regular - Bwog)) Strangely, there’s a discrepancy of about 12 applicants, which I’m assuming is caused by those who applied and then withdrew.</p>

<p>Now that all that stats crap is out of the way, I’d like to second adgeek’s advice. If you know you love Columbia, then you should apply ED. Don’t try to “game” the ED process by applying ED to a school that you’re likely to get into, but don’t truly love. If you want to go to Columbia, then apply ED. If you get in, then great! If not, you’ll apply RD (and maybe even EDII, if you like some of those little LACs) and still find a school that’s a great fit!</p>