I recently received an email that I had been selected as a potential candidate for the NOP by Columbia University, and have to do an additional interview. I researched about it online, and found that the primary criteria for the program is academic, according to the university. is this a possible sign that I might be accepted in the future? Are there any undergrads with similar experiences?
I also got the email. Did you have your interview yet? I did mine Tuesday.
How did your interview go
@Rolen3 @esnicole9426 wow this is late sorry! We mainly talked about the human rights programs and college life, nothing out of the ordinary. She said it was great I was published, and mentioned the NOP at the end. I don’t think i made any glaring errors 
@floraha @esnicole9426 My interview seemed very similar. She also mentioned NOP at the end. Honestly, she had not mentioned the interview was for NOP before the interview happened so I thought it was a normal interview hahaha. I thought it went well nonetheless. What are your stats?
@Rolen3 This is basically a copy paste from a job resume but here ya go (personal stuff edited out for privacy :
High School, class of 2018 (4.39 GPA) 1420 SAT
Honor Roll; AP Scholar with Honors; Mathlete First Individual in Category, 2014 and 2015; Mathlete 1st Place (team) 2015; Poetic Award (National Winner); Poetry (National Best of Issue Award and Easterday Poetry Award); ISAC 2018-19 State Scholar
Activities
School Newspaper 2015 - present
Editor-in-chief; political analyst/columnist; double state qualifier for the Illinois High School Association journalism conference; founder of “Humans of __” a photojournalism project
XXX 2015 – present
Founder and editor of online human rights magazine; self-published articles featured by Oxford University, Yale University, Columbia University, and Cambridge University
Political and Human Rights Activism 2016 - present
Founder and President of Students Interested in Political Affairs; organizer of Develop Africa school drive; fundraising coordinator of the Rohingya Relief Fund (independent campaign chapter)
XXX 2015 - present
Creator of independent human rights project; authored a curriculum revision proposal for the school district of XXX, XXX, “Acculturation-Identity Proposal for Sociolinguistic Plurality: A Culturally Sensitized Approach to Second Language Acquisition of European Roma Diaspora Communities”
Summer Educational Experience
Stanford Summer Humanities Institute Summer 2016
Received full scholarship to attend a summer residential program at Stanford University studied epistemology during the program’s philosophy course, “Truth, Reason, and Belief,” taught by Stanford professor Krista Lawlor; completed an undergraduate-level research paper, “The Predictability and The Problem of Prejudice: Examining the Ethical Implications of the Application of Inductive and Deductive Reasoning on Human Behavior”
Princeton Summer Journalism Program Summer 2017
Selected for 10-day journalism program for low-income students at Princeton University
Oxbridge Columbia University College Experience at Barnard College Summer 2017
Received full Academic Achievement Scholarship to attend the program; attended courses in human rights and creative writing; analyzed the humanitarian fallout of Western arms sales to Saudi Arabia and interpreted the Iranian proxy conflict in Yemen as a final research project
Other Volunteer Work
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i accidentally put the name of my HS lol glad i caught that
I got in!
My daughter did too. Will you be attending the summer program too?
@sunsheyen Summer bridge? I believe not because I’m most likely committing to Stanford