<p>wow…just reading this thread hurts and I didn’t even apply to Columbia. Accepted to Cornell today ^ ^ though it seems like they accepted more people. Congratulations to everyone who was got in!</p>
<p>@roseknows
you have no idea how awesome your comment made me feel- that I helped you out. It’s what this website is for, right? To help all of us feel better when noone else understands how stressed out you feel waiting for your dream school. Oh yeah and to get questions answered of course. I got deferred, but hey, if we think we’re talented and gifted enough to seriously apply to these schools, we’re bound to end up somewhere amazing anyway. Accepted people- congrats, you guys probably all deserve it! And for us deferred/rejected people, let’s wow everyone with amazing mid-year grades and start collecting those acceptance letters :)</p>
<p>oh guys this is brutal 
I didn’t apply columbia ED, but I applied RD and now I’m REALLY nervous</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred
[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): 800CR/630M/780W(one sitting)2210
[ *] ACT:none
[ *] SAT II: 750Lit/720French
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.9 for last year, only 3.6 something overall (bad freshman year!)
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):19/90 [ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):APUSH, 5 (school only offered 2 classes for non-seniors)
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):none
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:AP French, AP Spanish, AP Bio, APMEH, AP English, Stats
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): won national essay contest with over 1400 entrees, won some state level essay contests, state level community service award
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience: 2 summers of chambermaiding,
[ *] Volunteer/Community service: tons! Anti-genocide activism, plus I founded an environmental club at my school.
[ *] Summer Activities: won all-expenses paid trip to D.C. for genocide-focused scholarship program, bought Rosetta Stone in Arabic with saved paychecks
[ *] Essays: the best personal essays Ive ever written (I started last spring)
[ *] Teacher Recommendations: glowing (Best in career)
[ *] Counselor Rec: amazing, twice as long as she usually writes
[ *] Additional Rec: none
[ *] Interview: eh, kind of formal, but went well
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?: hell yes
[ *] Intended Major: Foreign Languages
[ *] State (if domestic applicant): MA
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type: small uncompetitive public
[ *] Ethnicity: European
[ *] Gender: F
[ *] Income Bracket: middle class
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Zilch
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths: essays, recs, national award, expressed passion for learning
[ *] Weaknesses: that goddamned gpa. Grrr freshman year.
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Im hoping that they want to see my GPA improve throughout senior year.
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: havent heard from anywhere else yet!
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b] My best wishes to all of you. I hope I will make it in Regular Decision.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted SEAS</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 780 M 710 CR 770 W
[</em>] ACT:N/A
[<em>] SAT II: 780 Math II 740 Bio M, 700 Physics
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):, we don’t have GPA, 94.15/100 QPA
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Biology (5) Calculus AB (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):N/A
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Physics C: E&M, AP Chemistry, AP Calc BC, AP Gov& politics, AP Literature& Composition, Film & Genre Studies, Architecture
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): none?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
Varsity Tennis- Captain
Bharatanatyam (Indian Dance)
Science Olympiad- Treasurer
Math League
National Honor Society
some math/science camp
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: worked as a drafter at a civil eng company in NYC during summer '09
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: volunteer at my local hospital/library
[<em>] Summer Activities: dance, volunteering, working
[</em>] Essays:Pretty good, everyone liked them. wrote about dance for the long one, incorporated my job over the summer into the why eng one
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Excellent, from my calc/physics teachers
[</em>] Counselor Rec: probably pretty good
[<em>] Additional Rec: nope
[</em>] Interview: I thought it went horribly, but I guess not haha.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Civil Eng/BME
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant):NJ
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Public Magnet
[</em>] Ethnicity: Brown 
[<em>] Gender: F
[</em>] Income Bracket: 300k+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none?[/ul]
Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: errr, well rounded?
[<em>] Weaknesses: interview
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: essays probably got me through
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: in at rutgers! and didn’t apply anywhere else =P[/li][/ul]General Comments:
yay!</p>
<p>**Decision: Accepted Columbia College **</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 770 M, 790 CR, 800 W
[</em>] ACT:did not take
[<em>] SAT II: Biology M - 780, Math II, US History, Chem - 800
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): out of 100, 95.3
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): does not rank
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Euro, US, Bio - 5
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): did not take
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: fall term - Shakespearean lit, intel research, AP Chem, AP psych, AP calc bc, AP gov’t
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): USABO finalist (top 20 in nation)?
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): ARISTA (NHS), newpaper, yearbook, science olympiad, Model UN, usabo - i had like no leadership
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: library, hospital, TA at prep school
[<em>] Summer Activities: fresh- volunteer at hospital, soph- internship at American museum of natural history, jr yr- did research on histones and cancer at mt sinai
[</em>] Essays: wrote in recipe form telling about my passion for science and wanting to be doctor
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: should be pretty amazing, bio teacher i had for 2 yrs who loves me, ap euro teacher who liked me
[</em>] Counselor Rec: should be pretty good
[<em>] Additional Rec: none
[</em>] Interview: it was like 50 min, the interviewer called me energetic?
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
[</em>] Intended Major: biology
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): NY
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public but you need an admission test
[</em>] Ethnicity: asian
[<em>] Gender: female
[</em>] Income Bracket: middle class?
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): not really sure i even have one
[/ul][ b]Reflection**[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: decent grade at a competitive school, shows passion for science, SAT scores, recs
[<em>] Weaknesses: lack of EC and leadership, essay might be, not sure
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: i’m actually very surprised to be accepted, though i have been told “i told you so” a lot so idk
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/li][/ul]General Comments: I expect the worst, and freaked out soo much about it. i am extremely happy to get in. congrats to those who did, and for those who did, it’s not the end of the world and i’m sure you will all get in amazing schools</p>
<p>Descision: Accepted Columbia college</p>
<p>dnt really have time to write everything now so just a breakdown.
SAT: CR 740 M 720 W 710
SAT II: Bio 730 US HIST 730
AP’s- Bio, US history, World history all 5’s
average: 97.85 (out of 100)
rank: 2 in 180
awards: National merit commended scholar, model UN, debate award, national honor society, national spanish contest</p>
<p>subjective:
letters of recomendation- VERY strong, plus 2 very strong outside
a ton of extra currics, great summer and outside school things
no interview
didnt apply for financial aid
hook- uncle went to the college (i dont know if that worked) and very strong essay</p>
<p>ill post more details later</p>
<p>yayyy</p>
<p>congratulations to everyone who got accepted!!!</p>
<p>only because these helped me when I was obsessively calculating my chances…</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 720 M: 670 W: 780
[</em>] ACT: 35 (35/34/36/34)
[<em>] SAT II: Lit: 730; US History: 740
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): ~3.8ish? school doesn’t unweight.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US History- 4
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: most rigorous. 6 AP, one honors.
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): - essay contest from a university.<br>
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): multiple clubs.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: tutored grade school kids last year, volunteer 3hr weekly this year
[<em>] Summer Activities:
[</em>] Essays: fantastic. Based on the award-winning one mentioned above.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: excellent
[</em>] Counselor Rec: excellent
[<em>] Additional Rec:
[</em>] Interview: decent, nothing incredible though.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yes.
[</em>] Intended Major: psych
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): OR
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: private
[</em>] Ethnicity: white
[<em>] Gender: M
[</em>] Income Bracket: 80k
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: test scores, essays, recs
[<em>] Weaknesses: sat II?<br>
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: No idea. Kinda worries me though, it wasn’t even a deferral - a flat out rejection makes me think there is something glaringly offputting about my app that I should be aware of in the future…
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: [/li][/ul]General Comments:
does anyone know if they’d tell me why they rejected it if I e-mailed?? some schools do…</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted CC!</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I: 2310, Critical Reading 800, Writing 790, Math 720 --
[</em>] ACT: 34, but I didn’t send it
[<em>] SAT II: 800 Math II (see the -- face on my SAT score), 790 Lit, 750 Bio, and 740? I think? in US History
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank: 12/750ish kids. Huge school.
[</em>] AP: I sent all of these in. Human Geography 4, Art History 5, Calc AB 5, Calc BC 5, World History 5, US History 5, English Lang 5, Physics C Mechanics 4
[<em>] IB: n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Hard. Probably too hard for senioritis to combat. Which is why my grades have dropped this semester. Which is why I’m relieved to have been accepted. AP Gov, AP Macro, AP English Lit, AP Stats, Newspaper, AP Euro
[<em>] Major Awards: Nothing super major, but my school newspaper won 7th in the nation at the NSPA/JEA conference this fall, out of all 18-page plus papers; I also won the 1st place writing sweepstakes award at the Dallas Morning News High School Journalism competition last year
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars: Newspaper (editor-in-chief), Junior World Affairs Council (a cultural club, vice president), Model UN (vice president), National Honor Society
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Interned for two summers at a local newspaper, then interned/became a part-time employee of the Dallas Morning News this summer. Still work there now.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: This is where I was weak. Overall about 100 hours. I wish I did more of this.
[<em>] Summer Activities: went to J Camp (Asian American Journalists Association) in Boston this past summer; interned at various newspapers; STUDIED MY BUTT OFF FOR SATS
[</em>] Essays: about my experience at the DMN and why journalism is important to me. It was the FIRST college essay I wrote, and I initially only dashed it off (in about two hours) because my mom was forcing me to finish one. Little did I know that it would end up being my real Columbia essay… I didn’t write about the heavier stuff that I thought I would; I actually kept the essay light and humorous, with a serious touch at the end when I contemplated the future of journalism and what it means to me.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: One from my two-year English teacher, who wrote me a one-of-a-kind rec. The other from my three-year Latin teacher, great.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Would have been generic but she liked me.
[<em>] Additional Rec: From my boss at the DMN, great
[</em>] Interview: Investment banker who interviews all the people who apply to Columbia at my school. I wasn’t insanely charismatic, but we joked a bit about football (I live in Texas) and talked about the Core. He was pleased that I knew a lot about the Core and said that the way I described my hopes for the kind of institution Columbia was exactly right. WHEW.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Yes. Full ride.
[</em>] Intended Major: Intl affairs
[<em>] State: Texas
[</em>] School Type: LARGE public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Asian. lol.
[</em>] Gender: F
[<em>] Income Bracket: low, <60k .
[</em>] Hooks: I’m part Native American… jk. I wish.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Strong focus on one thing I was good at and loved – journalism. Good recs. Love for Columbia nurtured by four years on CC. 
[</em>] Weaknesses: Asian. Female. Short. 720 math
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I would hope that Columbia saw how genuine my application was. I know a lot of people at my school have ‘enhanced’ or even just flat out lied on their applications and tried to mold themselves into someone they’re not… I was just truthful. I put down 10 Things I Hate About You as one of my favorite films and Agatha Christie as one of my favorite authors and it felt gooood.
[</em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: UT Austin[/ul]</p>
<p>I just wanted to end this by saying… I’m happy. I’m really happy. But my heart also goes out to everyone on this board who might have had their dreams crushed today. I wish we could have all gotten in and had a huge celebration here. To everybody – for making College Confidential informative, generous, and enjoyable – THANK YOU!! I strongly believe that things happen for a reason. That life works out in the end. Is there any other way to believe?</p>
<p>^^ I want to know the answer to that as well: can we call and ask why we were rejected?</p>
<p>^my friend got deferred from upenn ED last year. he called the office and they told him it was because his SAT math score was lower than normal</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted!</p>
<p>Objective:
• SAT I (breakdown): 740 CR 760 M 800 W
• SAT II: 800 US History, 780 Biology-E, 780 Chemistry<br>
• Unweighted GPA (out of 100): 99.1, (school does not rank)
• Senior Year Course Load: 6 AP’s</p>
<p>Subjective:
• Extracurriculars, Model Congress (President), Mock Trial (Captain), Research Club (Chief Student Coordinator), Orchestra (Principal cellist), Electric String Ensemble (Principal cellist)
• Volunteer/Community service: 1000 hours +, founder of a volunteer program at a public hospital<br>
• Summer of 2008 – I started my own volunteer program at a public hospital
• Summer of 2009 – Epidemiology intern at New York’s Mt. Sinai Medical Center (I designed my own study that examined discrepancies in low income African Americans’ health care in Bedford-Stuyvesant, Brooklyn’s housing projects. I have finished collecting data and I am now working on a paper), and I continued expanding my volunteer program
• Essays: The “magic” of playing with dolls and stuffed animals in the basement when I was a toddler…and how it has come to affect my perspectives on the world around me
• Two very strong teacher recommendations (An AP Spanish teacher and a research teacher) and one very strong guidance counselor recommendation
• One supplement recommendation from volunteer supervisor
• Interview: My interviewer told me I had the best interview he has seen in 25 years of doing interviews. An incredibly engaging and fun interview! </p>
<p>Other
• Applied for Financial Aid?: No
• Intended Major: Anthropology, biology, urban studies
• New York City suburb
• Fluent in Spanish and Mandarin Chinese
• Ethnicity: Asian Male </p>
<p>**Miscellaneous Awards **
• Regional Finalist, Young Epidemiology Scholars Competition 2009
• Top 5 Statewide Winner, New York State Science Congress 2009
• New York United Hospital Fund Volunteer Achievement Award 2009
• Semifinalist, Junior Science and Humanities Symposium 2009
• 1st Place, Long Island Undergraduate Psychology Conference 2009
• Highest Honors, Long Island Science Congress 2009
• Best Speaker, Columbia University Model Congress 2007 and 2009
• 2 research publications to date
• AP Scholar with Distinction 2009
• Semifinalist, National Merit 2009</p>
<p>Strengths: Eloquence in public speaking, lots of research awards/accomplishments, many club leadership positions, amazing interview </p>
<p>Weakness: My SAT scores could have been a little bit higher </p>
<p>**Congratulations to everyone who made Columbia’s Class of 2014! 
“The harder I work, the luckier I get.” – Thomas Jefferson. **</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected, Denied, Dead.</p>
<p>SAT1: CR Totally abysmal. 590 M770 W660
Total: 2020 EW! (I wanted to do them again, but it was too expensive, cause I have to fly all the way to Hong Kong and pay for the Hotel just to take the bloomin’ test. The Collegeboard should seriously reconsider their refusal to place test centers in Beijing. Statistics’ll show ’em.)
SAT2: M1 750 M2 730 BM 700 ERGH.
TOEFL: 117 (My computer dropped dead halfway through the speaking test, otherwise I think I would’ve made a 119…)
GPA: converted from a 100 point scale, 25 points for every 1 point on the 4.0 scale, 3.8.
Rank: 12/413 I know. Ew.
Honors: We don’t have these. But everyone knows the Chinese curriculum is like insanely hard.
Recommendations: Stunning.
Counselors: Splendid.
Essay: Terrible. I think it’s too choppy, but my dad thinks it’s great…but he says that ’cause he’s my dad.
High School: One of the best in Beijing. First in my district. Sadly, the school profile didn’t say that much about it. It just mentioned some wimpy statistics about how many teachers the school had. Sad huh. It took me all I was worth to get in to this crazy school.
Extracurricular: Not extremely spectacular as not much are offered here anyway. And no job experience; it was basically impossible unless you did something illegal.
School Newspaper Editor in chief.
Choir since I was in 4th grade…until 11th grade. Won second prize in Beijing Art Festival. Was one of the few that actually got the award, as it was a limited 5 within like forty singers.
Dancing. I have a complete dancers background. My parents are both dance teachers. And though I don’t do it professionally, I do Chinese Ribbon Dance, and Tap dance. Amateur, unfortunately
My Junior High Schools first School Representative. The selection process was rather difficult.
International Club, vice president.
Porcelain Crafts club.
Junior High and Senior High, Student Interpreter. English to Chinese and vice-versa. I translated for some major events with foreign schools at school. I think I lost the International Teacher her job…huh…but it wasn’t my fault, her English was…the apex of terrible!
Debate team. Won an English debate with Hong Kong students. Won the senior high school best-english-debater in Beijing.
Won first prize in the National English Proficiency Test Senior High Group twice.
And I read a lot of English books, unlike most of my friends.
But the REALLY sad part? Model United Nations is a HUGE asset for the application!!! But I was forbidden from entering…. I know I would’ve won heaps of prizes. Oh, well.
Hook(if any): I doubt this counts as a hook, but you know, my half NZ half Chinese identity.
Interview: I think it went terrible, like my answers weren’t witty enough. But my interviewer seemed to have enjoyed talking to me, because it seemed like he didn’t get much chance to talk about all the stuff we did. But it wasn’t a great interview either.
Financial Aid? FULL</p>
<p>I always knew I would be rejected. But completely crossing it out from my colleges list seemed a bit brutal…Congrats acceptees!</p>
<p>Decision: Deferred CC </p>
<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown): cr 640 m 650 wr 640
[ *] ACT: n/a
[ *] SAT II: bio 650 math 1 600
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 12/351
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis): 4 ap american history
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): captain of bowling 4 years, cross country/ track and field 4 years, basketball 1 year
[ *] Job/Work Experience: accounting intern and camp counselor over past 2 summers
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:cross country practice
[ *] Essays:okay
[ *] Teacher Recommendation: i think they were really good
[ *] Counselor Rec:awesome
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:went very well
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:yea
[ *] Intended Major:philosophy
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):new york
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:catholic
[ *] Ethnicity:hispanic
[ *] Gender:male
[ *] Income Bracket:money
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):first generation college student
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:hispanic and first gen.
[ *] Weaknesses:essay
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my essay was definitely why i got deferred
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted
Objective:[list]
[<em>] SAT I: M 780 CR 730 W 690
[</em>] ACT: 33 Didn’t send
[<em>] SAT II: 790 US 770 Math II
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9-4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 13/750+
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Bio, American, Physics, Stat (5), World, English lang, Spanish lang (4),
[<em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP’s: Psych, Calc BC, English Lit, Chem and then philosophy and gym
[</em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None to list really. Some science/academic team awards.</p>
<p>I’m so excited. Accepted people should meet up on Facebook or something.</p>
<p>Rejected rejected rejected!!!</p>
<p>ACCEPTED! Will post stats later</p>
<p>Haven’t been posting, just reading, but I’ve gotta do this for closure’s sake.</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR 740, M 720, W 800
[</em>] ACT: 32
[<em>] SAT II: Lit 770, US History 670
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.39. Killed me.
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): n/a
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang/comp 5, US History 5, US politics 3, Macroecon 3
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): n/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP English Lit, AP Environmental Science, Spanish IV, Calculus, Fascism (a unique course to be sure), Modern World Lit, Global Studies Seminar
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit semifinalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Fed Challenge (captain senior year), policy debate, varsity XC, Current Events Club, Harvard Model Congress
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: n/a
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: Spanish Honors Society, volunteered for Obama 08
[<em>] Summer Activities: 2008: Zarefsky Scholars Debate Institute at Northwestern. 2009: 2-week service project at rehab center for malnourished kids in Panama; 2-week philosophy course at Brown
[</em>] Essays: Good but long (725 words). My reactions to Atlas Shrugged.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Very good. Head of school taught me junior English, assistant head taught me AP US, and both love me.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Good
[<em>] Additional Rec: n/a
[</em>] Interview: Good
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: English/political science
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Wisconsin
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: Highly competitive independent
[</em>] Ethnicity: Caucasian
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] Income Bracket: 1M+
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None really. Uncle went to business school.
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: Essay, teacher recs
[<em>] Weaknesses: GPA in the toilet
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: GPA in the toilet
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Nowhere yet!
[/ul]General Comments: Well it was tough to realize how much more work I have to do now, and that I won’t get to go to this fantastic f</em>*king school, but I knew all along that it would be a long long shot and I don’t regret applying. It was worth the risk of rejection and I’ve learned from it. I’ll be back for my M.B.A.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): CR: 800 Math: 800 Writing: 770 (superscored. all scores were above 700, though)
[</em>] ACT: N/A. chickened out and didn’t take it.
[<em>] SAT II: Lit 750 US history 790
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): uh…not sure. high?
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/like 135. small school. number one’s sort of a genius.
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): US history 5 World history 5 (school offers very few APs, and most of them are only available to seniors)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): HAHAHAHA yeah, right. us, an IB school.
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: as intense as possible. AP gov, accounting III, AP Calc AB, AP english lit, AP art history, lit mag, physics (no ap in our school)
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): fifth at FBLA nationals, national merit semifinalist. etc.
[/ul][ b]Subjective:**[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):varsity wrestling, 9-12 (captain 11,12) with various recognitions. all-state. Student council, 10-12, class office, (president 10, secretary 11) FBLA 9-12 (secretary 10, president 11) Lit mag 11-12 (founded it my junior year, current co-editor), and others that I can’t remember right now.
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: none. loser.
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: tons of hours at Relay for Life, soup kitchen, reading to elementary schoolers, coaching elementary-age wrestlers
[<em>] Summer Activities: NSLC (after 10) brown summer program (after 11), various wrestling camps
[</em>] Essays: Topic: the time I was on a train to DC and met this random hispanic guy, with whom I bonded by rubik’s cubing. The prose was eloquent but concise, which is uncharacteristic of most of my writing. I guess I just kicked it into gear for columbia.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: both were probably strong. luckily some of the best recommenders in the school happened to be the teachers with whom i had the best relationships.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: fine, i guess. our relationship was about as good as you could expect a guidance counselor/student camaraderie to be.
[<em>] Additional Rec: none. afraid of looking pushy. and I didn’t have any brilliant ideas.
[</em>] Interview: only half an hour long, but the interviewer didn’t seem like he was suffering too much : ). I think he was just busy, and we were both tired, as it was conducted over the phone at 10 pm. so, yeah, it went alright.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: yep.
[</em>] Intended Major: undecided
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): PA
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: public
[</em>] Ethnicity: caucasian
[<em>] Gender: male
[</em>] Income Bracket: about 120,000
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): recruited for wrestling
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: my essay, my comparatively low income, and probably my stats as viewed in the context of my school, which doesn’t fit into the realm of cutthroat private/magnet/prep school competition from which columbia admissions usually draws.
[<em>] Weaknesses: can’t blame my school for everything. I could have self-studied for APs, and i definitely didn’t volunteer enough. never won very impressive academic awards, either. geez.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I don’t want to say it was all about wrestling, and I honestly don’t think so, although my recruitment probably factored into their decision.
[li] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: haven’t heard back from uchicago yet, but i guess it doesn’t matter now.[/li][/ul]General Comments: Thank you, columbia adcom. I really didn’t deserve this. well, I did, but so did so many other qualified applicants…many of whom are my collegeconfidential cohorts. for those of you who got accepted, congrats. to those who were deferred or rejected, please believe me when i say that the selectivity of ivies is such that you can never really predict whether or not you’ll get in, and rejection definitely doesn’t make you any less impressive as a student or as a person. you’ll all get into great schools, i can guarantee it. and in a couple years you’ll probably thank the whims of the Fates that you DID get rejected, or you may have never ended up at your fantastic school in the first place. goodnight everyone!</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted CC!!</p>
<p>Oh my goodness I am so happy! I’ll put my stats up here later…</p>
<p>but congratulations to everyone who made it! I am PUMPED to go to school in NEW YORK CITY with all of you next year!</p>
<p>best of luck to you RD and Deferees!</p>