ivies, ucla & berk chances?

i’m 15, sophomore, asian female from california.

hooks:

  • legacy at columbia (dream school, planning on applying to columbia ED)

stats:

  • 1410 on psat, 1550 on sat (retaking in march)
  • 3.99 unweighted, 4.5 weighted
  • 200+ volunteer hours
  • school doesn’t give rankings, but around top 10%

classes:

  • taking ap euro and all available honors classes
  • self-studying ap psych and apush
  • committed to ib (most challenging courseload at my school)

junior yr classes:

  • ap calc ab (ib math hl)
  • ib english hl
  • ap chem (ib chem hl)
  • tok/econ
  • publications (school newspaper & ybk)
  • spanish 3 honors (ib spanish sl)
  • ib bio sl

senior yr classes:

  • ib math hl
  • ib english hl
  • ib chem hl
  • tok/gov
  • publications
  • ib history sl
  • ap spanish 4 (ib spanish sl)

ecs:

  • executive officer of fbla (first place sweeps, personally won first at state and regional twice)
  • executive officer for rotary interact club (recognized/awarded by city council members for work in club)
  • editor in chief of nspa all-american finalist and cspa gold crown ybk
  • individually placed top 10 in california for nspa news writing and design
  • presented at national nspa journalism conference
  • organized benefit collab, donating $500+ to international charity
  • student government
  • usa fencing all-american and all-academic team, attended summer nationals, junior olympics, and 3 north american cups
  • hoby finalist, national honor society and california scholarship federation member
  • yale young global scholars summer program

Outstanding SAT, superb GPA, world class fencing & accomplished news writing & editing all seem to point to good things in your future.

Welp, if you don’t slip up much, you’ll be at Columbia in a few years haha. Good luck, although I doubt you’ll need it!

You are a very competitive applicant. I don’t think you need to take the SAT again. You should focus on SAT subject tests. A 1550 on the SAT is a great score. Your ECs are good, just continue working on getting leadership positions and awards