Is there any chance for me with these scores?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>Hello!
I'm an international applicant (Indian), female, interested in the Liberal Arts. My SAT 1 scores are 780 WR, 710 CR and 650 M. I'm taking the Eng Lit and Chem sub SATs this Nov; expecting 650-750 on them.
I have strong high school grades- 97% with CGPA 10, in class X, 85% (but still in the top 10%) in class XI, and i have yet to take the 12th exams (expecting 90%+).
ECs:
1.Commonwealth Essay Competition (international) runner up/bronze medal winner/commended/highly commended in 2008/2011/2007/2006.
2. School magazine editor.
3. Interviewer, script-writer and narrator for an official school documentary.
4. Have a huge amount of data from a 2 yr project (as part of a UK school exchange program) on a local lake, as a member of the Leadership club: Interviews, reports, articles, photos, poems, skits.
5. School cultural captain and House Captain (our house got 1st prize in EVERY competition that year).
6. Team member for a science project that won 1st prize at the national level science exhibition.
7. Contributed an article in an award winning local magazine.
8. Exhibited oil paintings and photographs twice in IIT Bombay's annual exhibition.
9. Have a blog where i put up my articles.
10. 60 hours of community work teaching.
11. Have sports prizes for inter-house athletics and throwball competitions. (1st prizes)
12. 1st prizes in one interschool and multiple within-school essay competitions.</p>

<p>My app essay and recos will be pretty good. I need financial aid >90%.
Is it worth applying?
Thank you for chancing me, and all the best :)</p>

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<p>Hello, I’m also from that whole indian subcontinent area. If you want you can compare your scores to mine:</p>

<p>Sat I:
Math: 740
CR: 720
Wr: 660</p>

<p>SAT II</p>

<p>MATH LEVEL 2: 740
physics: 710</p>

<p>gpa: 101.2 weighted unweighted about 96</p>

<p>Here’s the thing though, Columbia is an extremely hard school to get into, and they literally take in the cream of the crop. And unfortunately, Indians are not a minority so you get no benefits in that respect. You might have a slight chance because of the ecs but you need to boost those scores way up. I got flat out rejected lol. And the good part of your SAT I is the writing but most colleges only pay attention to the combined math and cr scores. So I advise you boost that math score way up ( if you ahve time that is). Trust me, the SAT math section is the easiest and quickest way to up your score in the shortest amount of time, so concentrate solely on math if you’re planning on taking another test.</p>