Is Columbia ED too high of a reach?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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Indian Male from New Jersey

Tests/GPA
SAT I superscore (breakdown M/CR/W/Essay): 800/730/800/10 (2330)
SAT II: Bio , 760; US. History , 800; Math II, 800
Unweighted GPA: 3.94
Rank: top 1-5%, no official rank in school

APs: Don’t know my scores yet but I took APUSH, BC, Physics H, AP English, AP Spanish, AP Macro
Senior Year Course Load: AP COMP sci, AP Principles, AP English, AP Statistics, AP GOV, Multi-var Calc

President of Model UN Program and SG of Conference
Best Delegate: 5 times
Oustanding Delegate: 3 times

President of FBLA:
First Place at States
Coached Euro-challenge team to top 10 finish in country
Wrote cirriculum for club to become a class

Co-Captain of Quizbowl
-Top Public school in country
-finished top 15 at Nationals last year out of 264 teams
-Highest scorer on team
-Won numerous awards

Captain of History Bowl
-Finished second in sectionals, states, and regionals
-Highest Scorer on team
-Next year projected at top 10 finish in nationals

Vice President of Student Association
-Raised fundraisers where over $5000 go for new books for the school
-Raised money and give annual speeches to Board of Ed regarding school finances

-Started my own company where we make educational videos on a sharing platform

-Captain of Freshman and Jv Basketball Team

-President of Students for Cruz-New Jersey

-President of Students for Trump-New Jersey

-President of Students against Hillary

Income Bracket: high

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You have essentially the same post for a bunch of different top tier schools. The bottom line is that any of these schools are reaches for pretty much everyone. If you love one of these schools above all others and have no need to compare financial offers, then by all means give it a shot and apply to your favorite school ED. Just recognize that these schools cannot accept all of the qualified applicants so be prepared and in addition to these reach schools, be sure to create a list of match, and safety schools that you can afford and would be happy to attend.

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what is your interested majors and which columbia college are you talking about? the engineering school is “easier” to get into (higher acceptance rate), but has more qualified applicants and alos most of your ec’s are relevant to the liberal arts area in which case it is a crapshoot. i’d say an average - low chance since you’re pretty generic compared to all the qualified candidates and you have nothing that WOWs me. I’m at columbia now, and most of the people there I know were super duper amazing at one thing as wel that made them stand out amidst all their other ec’s (ie they interned at linkedin or were amazing at art). obviously you don’t have to be like that to get in, if you have interesting enough essays.