<p>*grateful. LOL I love how you correct your typo while making another one XD Anyways yeah, fingers crossed for all of the other schools we hope to get into and grats to everyone who’s getting in.</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Objective:
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[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 2310 (800 CR 710 M 800 W)
[</em>] ACT:
[<em>] SAT II: French 800 US History 770
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/60
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load:
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):[/ul]Subjective:
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[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Many leadership positions
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: French tutor
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 500+ hours
[<em>] Summer Activities: Foreign exchange program, work, online classes
[</em>] Essays: Done last minute, but good
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Very good
[</em>] Counselor Rec: I think good
[<em>] Interview:[/ul]Other
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[</em>] State (if domestic applicant): CA
[<em>] Country (if international applicant):
[</em>] School Type: Public
[<em>] Ethnicity: Hispanic
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/ul]Reflection
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[</em>] Strengths:
[<em>] Weaknesses:
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[*] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/ul][ b]General Comments:**</p>
<p>Hi folks!</p>
<p>This is my first post. I’ve been lurking around this forum for quite a while now. Congratulations to those who received likely letters from Columbia. I received one (from CC) as well around a week ago.</p>
<p>Though I’m personally not inclined to divulge stats or anything of the sort, I want to expel the myth about likely letter recipients being perfect/mostly racially underrepresented/anything like that. </p>
<p>I have a SAT score that is nowhere near perfect. I assure you my racial status did not work in my favor during my admissions process. I am also an international student applying for financial aid. </p>
<p>I am just someone who got lucky, someone whose application just <em>happened</em> to be on top of the right people’s desks. </p>
<p>To those accept: again, congratulations! Hopefully we will be able to talk a little more about what interests you about Columbia. And - who else is browsing this site obsessively to look for posts that reassure us we will most certainly not be rejected after a LL?</p>
<p>To those still waiting: feel free to consider me as <em>that person</em> that really doesn’t seem qualified compare to XYZ people you know. I humbly accept that title with pleasure. ;)</p>
<p>If you didn’t get a likely letter, does that mean you weren’t accepted?</p>
<p>@ dilllpickle</p>
<p>No likely letter is not an indication of anything. </p>
<p>They might not have read your application yet. Likely letters are pretty random that way.</p>
<p>I’m getting a little paranoid here… you see the likely letter doesn’t actually say that you’re accepted, plus I just found out that my counselor hadn’t send my midyear report to any of my common app schools a couple days ago-- including columbia. I only faxed my midyears out yesterday!! I did get a likely letter a few weeks ago, but now I’m really worried that I won’t get accepted on account of my missing a mid- year. They probably think that I’m totally irresponsible for not checking in with my counselor back in February. That would be terribly awfully disppointing!!!</p>
<p>Just have your counselor send it and explain the situation to your regional rep. You’ll be fine.</p>
<p>Yup. Contacted my counselor and had her email every one of my common app colleges yesterday. I honestly do not know why none of the schools except for stanford asked for my midyear when it was missing.</p>