<p>My kid received one yesterday with everyone else.</p>
<p>Fu Engineering. I have posted profile in other accepted threads. I would consider my kid more on the academic side without a hook.</p>
<p>Congratulations to everyone!</p>
<p>hmmm so it seems that to get a likely letter you need at least a 2300 SAT and 3.8 GPA…well there goes my chances lol!! but in all seriousness, Congratulations to everyone who received one. </p>
<p>March 29th where are you!!!</p>
<p>Congrats to all who got likely email. Does anybody know Columbia likely comes in waves or this is it?</p>
<p>^ I’d say they come in waves, since a number of users all received likely letters yesterday, and from posts over the last few years, they seem to be sent out roughly on a week by week basis (in “waves”)</p>
<p>Im honestly surprised I got this letter, here are my stats</p>
<p>Objective:</p>
<p>SAT I (breakdown): 2090 690 (R) / 740 (M) / 660 (W)</p>
<p>ACT: N/A</p>
<p>SAT II: 770 Math II, 690 Chemistry</p>
<p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.90</p>
<p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2% of 1025</p>
<p>AP (place score in parenthesis): (4) x 3 : literature, world history, US government</p>
<p>IB (place score in parenthesis): SL Math (7) SL Chemistry (6)</p>
<p>Senior Year Course Load: AP Calc AB, AP Physics C, IB English 4 HL, IB History HL, IB Spanish 4 SL, IB Photography 4 HL, Journalism 4 honors, IB TOK</p>
<p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Recognized by College Board as National Hispanic Scholar for PSAT</p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Newspaper (Editor-in-Chief), Pass it On Community Service Club (Vice President), Mu Alpha Theta (Member), National Technical Honor Society (member), National Spanish Honor Society (member)</p>
<p>Job/Work Experience: working for two years as a cashier at local supermarket 20 hr weeks</p>
<p>Volunteer/Community service: average / 150 hrs through Pass It On </p>
<p>Summer Activities: Travelled to Visit all Ivy leagues, Went to Nicaragua personally to hand deliver donated toys to impoverished children gathered through Pass it On.</p>
<p>Essays: Pretty original wrote about how a microwave timer began my passion for mathematics</p>
<p>Teacher Recommendation: Good im sure, never saw</p>
<p>Counselor Rec: Really good got to know me on a personal level and I read through it. Very thorough</p>
<p>Additional Rec: N/A</p>
<p>Interview: Very strong, interviewer told me he wanted to make sure I was his first ever candidate to actually get in</p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>State (if domestic applicant): FL</p>
<p>Country (if international applicant): USA</p>
<p>School Type: Public</p>
<p>Ethnicity: Hispanic</p>
<p>Gender: M</p>
<p>Income Bracket: < 70,000</p>
<p>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None really second gen college? First gen US born citizen</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: leadership, well-rounded, good essay, strong interview.</p>
<p>Weaknesses: Test scores, only one nationally recognized award</p>
<p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Apparently other applicants were better and only 77 hispanics accepted anyway</p>
<p>Scores: 36 ACT, 2350 SAT, 800 Math 2, 780 Chem
GPA: 4.64 weighted</p>
<p>I’m the cross country captain, am the president of a few things, a NMF, went to Boys State, and did summer research. I don’t have super spectacular awards, and I’m white, so I’m not sure what my hook was. I’m ecstatic though!</p>
<p>@debakianmj- what was your financial aid award like?</p>
<p>So has everyone who received one thus far been an engineering applicant? </p>
<p>And, thought I’d add my voice to the chorus of those who are surprised… I was always under the impression that most LLs went to recruited athletes (though I guess less so with Columbia’s ED), leaving other LLs for the super amazing academic applicants, like Intel winners and such…</p>
<p>I got my LL yesterday! I feel so much more relieved now. 
Congrats to everyone who got one and for everyone else there is still plenty of time so not to worry! A few stats: Hispanic, 4.00 UW, 34 ACT, multiple presidencies, AP Scholar w/ Distinction, a couple of other things. Just a thought, does anybody know if any of the other ivies have sent out LL or if and when they even do? Thanks. oh and I applied to Columbia College</p>
<p>@Quickster94</p>
<p>My D recieved one, she is not an athlete and she applied to Columbia College.</p>
<p>@Michael1293</p>
<p>Yes, other Ivies have sent out LLs. My D also recieved one from Dartmouth and has friends that recieved them from Yale and Princeton. Grats on yours, enjoy the next month or so before it’s paperwork time.</p>
<p>I got one :)</p>
<p>My son, who is the epitome of laid back, probably does not even know these “likely” letters exist from the Ivies, but I find myself scouring the vast reams of circulars that show up every day in the mail so that if anything shows up, I don’t inadvertently throw it away! As a parent, I am finding the necessity of having my taxes done right this minute to comply with financial aid deadlines to universities to which he has not even been accepted not a small bit annoying.</p>
<p>Laplatinum, I don’t think the Columbia ones come by snail mail - I think it’s only by email.
Apparently these likely emails used to say ‘PS: a copy will come in the mail’ but mine didn’t say that.</p>
<p>did anyone here get one that is from the midwest?
i noticed on some of the other likely letter forums for columbia’s peer institutions that no one so far has gotten one who lives in the US (yes i know this is email, but maybe the midwest doesnt get evaluated till later? idk)</p>
<p>could more of you guys post stats? thanks :)</p>
<p>Hey acha- do you mean other Ivies have not sent theirs out? As far as I know, I’ve had a few friends get some from Dartmouth, and I myself have also received one from Harvard (phone call, then snail mail). I received my Columbia likely email on Monday and I live in the US (FL to be specific)! I have heard that likely letters come out in waves, and I had a few friends get Dartmouth letters a week or so back, and another one received one very recently (Sunday or Monday I believe!)</p>
<p>I have seen people receive them since early January from Harvard (knitswim), Yale (lot of them are STEM oriented), Dartmouth, and now Columbia. </p>
<p>Not certain if Brown, Penn, Princeton and Cornell have sent any after the early round.</p>
<p>oh i meant regionally…because everyone that i’ve seen on CC that has gotten one is NOT from the midwest…regardless of which school.
i checked brown, yale, columbia (obviously), dartmouth, and duke! haha.
im not sure if this is just a regional thing? or idk. </p>
<p>SORRY for the confusion. when i said US i meant the midwest. haha, my bad. </p>
<p>but congrats knitswim! could you maybe post stats?</p>
<p>I got one too on 4:25 on Monday for Columbia College!</p>
<p>Here are my stats!</p>
<p>OBJECTIVE</p>
<p>[li] SAT I (breakdown): 2340 one sitting (800 W, 790 CR, 750 M)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] SAT II: Latin = 770, Math II = 770</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.21 unweighted (A- = 3.67, A+ = 4.33)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesn’t rank, but I’m in Cum Laude (within 10%)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] AP (place score in parenthesis): AP English Language and Writing (5)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Senior Year Course Load: AP Latin, AP BC Calculus, AP English Language, Auditioned Jazz/Rock Band, AP US History, Independent Study in Molecular Biology (1 on 1 with my teacher, almost like Williams’ tutorials)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Latin Awards (Golds and a silver), Cum Laude; various local and state debate trophies (one national trophy), various school awards</p>[/li]
<p>SUBJECTIVE:</p>
<p>[li] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Auditioned Jazz/Rock Band (3 years); Astronomy club (2 years, founder/president), Auditioned, nationally recognized a cappella group (1); pit band in musicals (1);Editor of school newspaper (1); non-auditioned a cappella group (2); Varsity Science Olympiad (2); JV and Varsity debate (2); Advisory leader in community service (only offered 1 year); liaison to national charity in junior year; Habitat for Humanity ReStore (2)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Job/Work Experience: 7 weeks (summer) in major university biology lab doing research, outreach research program in astronomy sponsored by JPL (published in major astronomical journal)</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Volunteer/Community service: raised about $15k for school WISER, Stop Hunger Now, Amnesty International; organized service project for the junior class, raised $4,000, H for H ReStore</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Summer Activities (fresh, soph, jun): Debate camp, biology research, astronomy research</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Essays: [/li]Common app = VERY PERSONAL - wrote about overcoming illness and how it motivated me in common app;
Book/publication essay = wrote about Death of a Salesman and applied it to current events
Favorite academic class = wrote about an experimental literature class and how it changed my worldview
Why Columbia = specific details about what I would do there (academically and extracurricularly), talked about the core</p>
<p>OTHER:</p>
<p>[li] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes, will apply</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Intended major?: biology, classics, astronomy</p>[/li]
<p>[li] State (if domestic applicant): NC</p>[/li]
<p>[li] School Type: independent</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Ethnicity: white</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Gender: M</p>[/li]
<p>[li] Income Bracket: 100k</p>[/li]
<p>[*] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): NONE</p>
<p>Are any more likely emails gonna come as they review more applications or is this it?</p>
<p>i know this is true for dartmouth and UVA (so i’m assuming it’s something similar for columbia) but likely letters are sent in three waves: early february, late february, and early march.
sometimes they can come as late as 10 days before the official date.</p>