Is Columbia a match for me?

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<p>Hey, I recently completed my junior year at a competitive private school in New York that sends 50+ out of approximately 200 to ivies, or ivy-like schools. I have a 4.0 UW GPA or a 4.45 W, a 2390 SAT score (800 M, 800 CR, 790 W), and am involved in many EC's. </p>

<p>Specifically, I am president of Model UN, vice president of National Honor Society, Co-president of Habitat for Humanity, Treasurer of SADD, Secretary of REEF club, active member of our school's math team and I have won several national awards as a result. </p>

<p>Additionally, I am currently interning at a local hospital, have traveled to Nigeria with several other peers to help raise funds for AIDs awareness, traveled to South America and New Orleans through Habitat for Humanity and have helped out there as well.</p>

<p>I am thinking about applying ED to the college, major in biology and possibly go pre-med. Any feedback would be greatly appreciated!</p>

<p>Thanks so much!!!</p>

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<p>I forgot to mention, I have a 800 in Math Level I, 750 in Math Level II, 760 in Biology, and an 800 in U.S. History. </p>

<p>I also took AP Biology, AP Chemistry, AP Physics B, AP World History, AP United States History, AP Calculus BC and AP Psychology. I received a 5 on all except AP US History (4) and AP Physics B (4).</p>

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<p>Those are impressive stats. Based on those, I’d say you’ve got good chances, but there’ll be many like you, not to burst your bubble. I’ve said this a million times before on this forum, but it’ll come down to the essay–so make sure that’s strong.</p>

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<p>You have everything you need except your essay. Work hard on that and you will do well.</p>

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<p>you are very qualified, if you apply ED, you are one of the few people that i’d say will be very hard to reject, it’s very unlikely that you’ll be rejected, if you are rejected, one of your teachers/councellor really hates you, or you really mis-understood the essay.</p>

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<p>yeah you have a great shot at getting in for sure, but that doesnt make columbia a match for you.
youre going to have to ask yourself questions other than your stats such as whether you like the city or the rural campus, whether you like the core curriculum, etc.
it is my pure guess that you havent looked deeply into those matters that should decide whether columbia is a match for you
congrats on the nice stats though, you have that part down solid
what national awards did you win with your math team?</p>