<p>i dont understand how people wrote as their intended majors IR, which i am guessing is international relations, and international affairs, if Columbia does not even offer that as an option for an undergraduate major? Not only is it not on the website, it is not on the drop down list on the online application.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 640 CR/630 M/670 W (12 Essay):1940 superscored
[</em>] ACT: 28
[<em>] SAT II: 650 Literature/680 US History/ 760 Spanish
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.95
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15/821
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 English Lang & Comp-didn’t send it in though
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Calculus BC, French 4 AP, European History AP, Government/Economics AP, English 4 AP, Theatre class
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): local-all in state and district, except for 9th place in nation on a French test
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Officer theatre club, student representative in school district meetings and school-wide meetings, French NHS, NHS, tennis, Invisible Children, competition one act play, A LOT OF THEATRE
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Barbecue restaurant, camp counselor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: World Challenge Organization, activities in NHS
[<em>] Summer Activities: travel to Mexico, work, college search, museums…not anything impressive
[</em>] Essays: Probably the strongest thing on my app…creative piece about ketchup packets
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: awesome!
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it, but I’m guessing good
[<em>] Additional Rec: amazing!
[</em>] Interview: I thought it went good at the time, so I’m guessing I did something right
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: thoroughly undecided, leaning into theatre arts/english/history/social sciences
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Texas
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): straight in the US
[<em>] School Type: large, public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Mexican citizen, US permanent resident
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle, middle class
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): a URM who’s interested in maybe pursuing a career in theatre arts
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Definitely my extra curriculars, ESSAY, recommendations, tough course load and excellent grades throughout high school
[<em>] Weaknesses: standardized test scores
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I still don’t know. I can’t wrap my head around my acceptance. Overall I represent a diverse student who can write, I guess.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I had only sent in one other application to Carnegie Mellon, but I think they really liked me because they contacted me a lot. I had insecurities that I only got accepted because of my racial diversity (not saying that it definitely did not help), but there are plenty of other Hispanics with way higher test scores than me. It just goes to show you that they really do look at your WHOLE package and what you can bring to campus.[/li][/ul]**General Comments:
I am incredibly excited. I can’t even begin to explain my happiness. No more applications or worries. I got A TON of financial aid. </p>
<p>To those deferred: Like many who have said before, there are plenty of incredible schools that will take you, don’t give up! </p>
<p>To those rejected: Things happen for a reason. Maybe CU wouldn’t have been the best place for you to achieve all that you are capable of.</p>
<p>To those accepted: we are going to party it up in NYC next year and I can’t wait!!!</p>
<p>my daughter got in, CC ED 2014 too. She feels thrilled to be accepted into Columbia, and is forward to meeting all of you. I would like to state, however, that please, please, when posting that you were accepted, to remember that a lot of very qualified kids who worked really hard have gotten deferred or rejected, and to respect their feelings. They don’t need reminders that they are fantastic and that they will get into great schools, " just not Columbia" or, " maybe CU just wasn’t the place for you",as someone said…or as another said, “NYU is a great NYC school, just not as rigorous as CU”…these remarks although well meaning,can be construed as condescending, even if that was’t your intent…one must tread lightly here…
Easy rule of thumb, if you were rejected, deferred, what would YOU want to read ? Probably not much outside of the stats.</p>
<p>…my suggestion, other people here want to know the stats, and can compare, so just post 'em…no need to editorialize, go to the facebook CU 2014 page to celebrate ( you deserve a round of applause ,sure)…</p>
<p>That’s my 2 cents…have a great academic year !</p>
<p>Accepted
[ *] SAT I 2200
[ *] ACT:33
[ *] SAT II: wh: 770, math II: 800
[ *] Unweighted GPA : 93.5
*] AP calc ab 5 physics 5 euro hist 4
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: political science in college, research assistant in polysci, talmud, calc bc, ap american
[ *] Major Awards arista honors society, ap scholar, senior fellow
[ *] Extracurriculars captain of chess and tennis team. Softball team.Made a website for class
[ *] Job/Work Experience: youth leader in congregation
[</p>
<p>Right on, GoBlueJays. The concept of “worth” (i.e., “I must be better, because I got in,” or “others must be better, because they got in and I didn’t”) is better addressed within one’s own community. No healthy person consciously thinks in those terms, but that is how one’s point-of-view is heard.</p>
<p>wow…I am terribly sorry if I offended anybody. My words were definitely not meant to be misconstrued or taken sarcastically, GoBlueJays.</p>
<p>No worries, jhfd92. No one thought you were being anything other than a very pleasant human. Congratulations, and enjoy Columbia as much as my son does!</p>
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<p>Then let her post that herself. What, she has no access to a computer? Amazing, since Columbia has required online applications only, for many years now.</p>
<p>epiphany, shhhhhh…</p>
<p>parents do embarrassing things on the interwebs. We all have to come to accept that. :)</p>
<p>[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted SEAS[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 2330 (760 R, 800 W, 770 M)
[ *] ACT: never took them
[ *] SAT II: 800 Math 2, 800 Chem, 730 US (didn’t send)
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.62 my school’s scale is wierd
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/328
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): US His (5), Calc AB (5), Calc BC (5), Stat (5), English Language (5), Chem (5), Music Theory (5)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[ *] Senior Year Course Load: AP english 12, AP Physics, Calc 3, Drafting 3, AP French, AP Psyc, AP Econ, PE/Health
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Achievement Academy Award. 1st, 2nd, and 3rd places in sci olym states? Merc Sci test 1st in county, 6th in state
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Math Club (Pres), Movie Production Club, (Producer), Key Club, Science Olympiad, Science League, French national Honor society, Columbia’s SHP
[ *] Job/Work Experience: Worked at Columbia’s Lamont-Doherty Campus handling sea cores
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: Very little. 110~ hours for Key Club
[ *] Summer Activities: Traveling, studying, working, playing,ect.
[ *] Essays: I think it is great, but might’ve come off as cheesy
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: dunno, but they like me
[ *] Counselor Rec: ditto
[ *] Additional Rec: from my employer, and the SHP Director
[ *] Interview: Didn’t have one for some reason
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: Of course!
[ *] Intended Major: Absolutely no idea
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): NJ Morris County!
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: Public
[ *] Ethnicity: Asian
[ *] Gender: M
[ *] Income Bracket: 90K combined from both parents
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Worked at a Columbia Campus. My Dad is employed by columbia?
Asian’s an antihook.
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: Not much. Essay mabey if they didn’t find it cheesy. Focused ec’s?
[ *] Weaknesses: I’m not special =[. No major awards or internships/research or anything like that
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: The person reviewing my app was in a good mood
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: don’t know, don’t care. It doesn’t matter anymore, yay!
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] I’ve always obessed with looking at previous year’s stats; it feels so surreal posting my own. It took like a day after the acceptance letter for it to really hit me. Feel a little guilty though since there are so many more qualified people than me who were rejected/deffered. </p>
<p>Manhattan Meet-Up:
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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] ACT: 33
[</em>] SAT II: Math 2C 800, Physics 670
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.59
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): World History (4), Psychology (4), Chinese (4), US History (5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Research, AP Calculus BC, AP Stats, AP Micro, AP Chem
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None. =/
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Track (Hurdles), Piano, Violin, Science Olympiad
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Work in a restaurant every week
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Key Club, Red Cross, won Mayor’s Award
[<em>] Summer Activities: Summer Ventures at ECU for Physics, Engineering, and Computer Science, NC State Engineering Camp in Computer Science
[</em>] Essays: About working for all of high school
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: I have no idea, but one of my teachers said that he wouldn’t write anything negative (of course), but I really have no idea what they wrote.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Really good. It was glittering, almost a bit too good.
[<em>] Additional Rec: My uncle, who was an alum of SEAS
[</em>] Interview: I was really nervous, but I think it just went okay.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes
[</em>] Intended Major: Engineering?
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): North Carolina
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Chinese
[</em>] Gender: Female
[<em>] Income Bracket: Low
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None, really.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Wide variety of extracurriculars.
[</em>] Weaknesses: No big awards or research conducted.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: My essay…maybe recs?
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not applying to anywhere else!
[/ul]General Comments: I can’t believe I got accepted, and I feel like I’m dreaming. I’m a bit iffy about going to SEAS though, since I don’t know how sure I am about engineering as a future career. But I hope it won’t be too different from CC.</p>
<p>halo laurazee, isnt these two UK universities?
University of Edinburgh(unconditional acceptance), University of Glasgow</p>
<p>pls clarify my doubts thank you!</p>
<p>@pwoods, do you think it would be too late for me to send my updated info on
Mid-March?</p>
<p>@ma
Maybe, since they will certainly have started reading applications and deciding who to admit by then.</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 660 Cr, 730 M, 750 W (2140; took it once)
[</em>] ACT: N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 660 French, 720 US Hist
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): approx. 3.745 (i calculated it myself rather harshly)
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): approx. 50/765
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Didn’t send
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Calc BC, Eng AP, Eco AP, French IV AP, Chem II AP
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):5th and 6th place on national french contest two years in a row, national hispanic recognition scholar
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): peer tutor, Key club, Orchestra, French NHS
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: i never kept a record of this; i didn’t think i would have to report it lol
[<em>] Summer Activities: travel;
[</em>] Essays: on a scale of 1 to 10 my why columbia essay was a 7? and my general essay an 8?
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: one was super good and the other was really good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: i didnt read it but my counselor likes me… i have a feeling she might blemish it up a bit for my regular decision applications 
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: none
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: si
[</em>] Intended Major: French, Psychology, Music
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Tejas
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): US
[<em>] School Type: Large public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 95,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): hispanic, first generation
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: mmmm recommendations
[<em>] Weaknesses: Extracurricular activities and test scores
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i was probably deferred because of my test scores… i’m taking math french and spanish this saturday and expect to get 750 + on all three… retaking SAT I in january and expecting to raise my CR in 700s and writing in math 750+
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: umm nowhere yet[/li][/ul]General Comments: sorry for the late post… surprisingly finals are going great!!! i guess i’m a bit motivated so that my midyear report looks good lol… congratulations to those who got in and hopefully Columbia accepts me in the spring… i guess my acceptance will be that much sweeter!!!</p>
<p>awww look at that… my post came out all pretty and stuff haha</p>
<p>hey, i was wondering what this columbia CE2 program is?
i’m a high school junior and really interested in applying to columbia next year</p>
<p>okay, i’m clearly new on this site, i was just writing to the guy that got accepted to SEAS and was varsity captain of (i believe) football and basketball?</p>
<p>The Columbia Engineering Experience (CE2) is a three-day program where students interested in SEAS stay on campus, meet people, visit labs, and learn about applying. I was sent an email about it a while ago. I didn’t apply since I wanted to go to Columbia College.</p>
<p>Did anyone get in as a scholar?</p>