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Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>chances at columbiiaaa
female nyc
SAT IIs- 800 790 800 800</p>

<p>GPA- 95.8 rank- not good 75/800</p>

<p>AP - world history 4 ap bio 5 ap psycology 5 ap american 5
recommendations- they will be excellent im giving it to the best teachers who loved me</p>

<p>I have a problem though during freshman grade i recieved some poor gades- a few 70's and a 65 down from the 98's i got in 8th grade(its on my transcript because they were high school courses)</p>

<p>National merit- scorring 230 on psats</p>

<p>I'm south asain-bangladesh</p>

<p>VARRSITY- SOCCER two year</p>

<p>I volunteered at coney island hospital for 140 hours, i work at my college counselers office, I voluntteer for 10 hrs on weekends at Ny downtown hospital, im a stem cell research at columbia medical center , jewish museum of heritage intern, ive worked in a hospital during freshman yr as a job, volunteer for enviornment cautions, scholors program for junior fellows- we had to do a big project with help on doctors etc now we go on trips to participate and learn in labs, i tutor kids at my old elementary for free
in school - HOPS (help out poverty stricken), Writing club, math team, debate team drama club SING (play put on , competetion btwn better show, freshman-soph vs. juniors vs seniors), model UN, bio med society
This year I raised 1,500 dollars for 3 fundraisers I organized to help starving children in ghana and I am having a fundraiser to buy an acre of endangered rainforest</p>

<p>Awards-Academic awards= 10,000 scholorship won from an essay contest, Arista (like an honor society), archon (people with a lot of community service, Hoping to be intel semi finalist, national merit (, Christ Bozes High School Medical Essay award 500 dollars, The Laureates of Tomorrow - Nobel Essay Contest
spongelover2007 is invisible</p>

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<p>good chance. write good essays and hope for the best. Haven't taken the SAT yet?</p>

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<p>yes yes i forgot to post---2370 on sats</p>

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<p>Um, why do people post these things when you know what everyone is going to say?</p>

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<p>...........okkkk</p>

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<p>Being from NYC helps, I think.
Your Freshman grades will hurt, I think.
And all though you are extremely qualified, you're nowhere close to a guarantee.</p>

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<p>Holy cow, you've got a great hook. You can write about how you were discovered by the Starburst company!</p>

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<p>I don't think being from NYC helps because more people apply from the area. It's like applying to Princeton from New Jersey.</p>

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<p>Being from Nyc actually doesn't help, since a lot of people apply there and my freshman grades hurt my rank really bad</p>

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<p>"GPA- 95.8 rank- not good 75/800"</p>

<p>What kind of school do you go to? You're a strong non-hooked applicant, but are there many kids from your school who apply to Columbia? I think your chances are good, unless the 74 kids who are higher ranked than you also decide to apply.</p>

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<p>lol, umm they have higher GPA's than me because my school is obsessed with GPA, none of them have higher SAT scores however and they aren't rele involved much except for i'll see 2 kids</p>

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<p>Doesn't Columbia have some sort of policy about accepting a certain percentage of students from NYC? And if the percentage is greater is than the percentage of applicants from NYC, then it helps...or if the NYC pool is on-average less qualified, which I would think is true.</p>

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Doesn't Columbia have some sort of policy about accepting a certain percentage of students from NYC? And if the percentage is greater is than the percentage of applicants from NYC, then it helps...or if the NYC pool is on-average less qualified, which I would think is true.

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<p>No.........</p>

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Doesn't Columbia have some sort of policy about accepting a certain percentage of students from NYC? And if the percentage is greater is than the percentage of applicants from NYC, then it helps...or if the NYC pool is on-average less qualified, which I would think is true.

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<p>that's only true of state schools, which columbia is most certainly not.</p>

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<p>I'm pretty sure there is something about that, whether it's official or not. Columbia certainly LOVES taking kids from Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens.</p>

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I'm pretty sure there is something about that, whether it's official or not. Columbia certainly LOVES taking kids from Brooklyn, The Bronx and Queens.

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<p>90% of the kids from the city that i know at columbia went to fairly prestigious private schools like collegiate, exeter, andover, etc. which is a fairly good reason to explain your (perhaps true or false) statement</p>

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<p>Do you go to a specialized high school? If so, they'll be considerably more forgiving of your rank. Either way, I say about a 50 percent chance.</p>