In a pickle.

Chance Me / Match Me!
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<p>I've recently been thinking about what college I want to apply to ED, or EA, and I'm really not sure about what to do. First I'll start with my stats.</p>

<p>SAT: 2240- single try, not superscored (680 CR, 760 M(1 wrong), 800W -12 essay)
-by the way, should I retake just to try and get higher in CR or get that 800 in math?</p>

<p>Subject Tests:
Math level 2: 800
Biology M: First try 760, retake- expecting at least a 780
US History: expecting at least a 770</p>

<p>I'm rank one in my class. 5.2 GPA weighted, 4.0 unweighted with the hardest schedule I could take.
AP:
My school doesn't offer any until junior year:
Junior year:
Us history
Biology
Calc AB
Language and Comp.
Psychology
I'm expecting all 5s, maybe one 4</p>

<p>Senior year:
Physics B (I'll probably self-study E and M too)
Calc BC
Stat
Chem
I might self study one or two more.</p>

<p>Major: Biology</p>

<p>EC (in school): Math league, varsity tennis, swimming, national honor society, science honor society, world language honor society, tri-m music honor society, marching band, woodwind choir, jazz band (I play trumpet, clarinet, oboe,bassoon and I will start playing cello this year- I'll probably try out for all state on one of them), student council, peer tutoring, I will also be trying to start a USA biology olympiad club at my school</p>

<p>out of school: boyscouts (patrol leader, and other positions), I will hopefully be an Eagle Scout by admissions, if not, I will be working on my project, job at Dairy Queen, and I might start volunteering at a local hospital (I want to go to medical school)</p>

<p>Okay, so here's my situation. My dream school is Columbia, but after looking through these threads, I see that you have a higher chance of getting into a school if other people from your school got in in previous years, and there's only been like one person ever from my school that's ever gotten in, and that was like 7 years ago. Meanwhile, the top of the class in other years has consistently been accepted to Princeton, Penn, Cornell, Brown...
So I was wondering if I should even try to apply to Columbia ED, and instead apply to Princeton (by the way, I live in NJ, so does that help for Princeton?), or a different Ivy.</p>

<p>Thanks!</p>

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<p>ED at Columbia if you like to have a core education…</p>

<p>You might want to consider Tufts, Johns Hopkins, Tulane (if you can stomach New Orleans; New Orleans is just not for any college-goer, plus you will get merit aid there) and Rutgers SEBS as an absolute safety.</p>

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<p>What an obscene, unabashedly misleading title.
Has nothing to do with your question.</p>

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<p>No one cares about writing. You have a 1440/1600. This is good, but for the likes of Columbia ED, it’s nothing special. You should prep more, retake the SAT, and apply to Ivys RD. You have a strong profile, and it would be a shame for you to bust your ED nut on Columbia. If I were you, I would apply EA (not ED) to a school like Georgetown, so that you already have an acceptance to a very good school, while you sort out HYP.</p>

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<p>For top schools like Ivies, you want to get your CR+M above 1500. That means you need to bring up your CR to 700+. Otherwise, you are most likely got deferred at EA/ED.</p>

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<p>If anything, Ivies care about writing more than almost everyone else that isn’t an UC.</p>

<p>Georgetown is the most selective school I know of that doesn’t care about writing, so perhaps Georgetown is a poor choice for EA.</p>

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<p>You should not retake that 760 Biology SAT for a 20 POINT INCREASE. Wow.</p>

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<p>I think you’ll find this applies for just about every school, for SAT, ACT, and subject tests.</p>

<p>Retake for your critical reading score, and do something more interesting with your other Saturdays.</p>

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<p>I’m definitely gonna work on my CR. On the SAT, I got 4 of the sentence completions wrong, and 4 of the passage based ones, so if I work on vocabulary, and getting every one of those right, I think I should be good to get a much higher score for Critical Reading. Does anyone have any good strategies for studying vocab?</p>

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<p>And I know, I didn’t need to retake the bio. It’s just that my major is going to be biology, so I want to show colleges that I know it. And also, I had already signed up for 2 more SAt subject tests before I got back the 760 score, and I had nothing else to take, so I just retook it to see if I could get the 800.</p>