**OFFICIAL Columbia University RD Decisions - Class of 2014!**

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<p>Decision: Rejected</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2260 (760 M, 740 R, 760 W)</li>
<li>ACT: didn’t take</li>
<li>SAT II: Math II - 750, U.S. History - 760</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.7</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 115/795</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): U.S. History (5), Physics B (5), European History, Calc BC, Lit, Psych, American Gov, Macroeconomics</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP’s above plus Jazz Studies</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Student of the Month at my school, won a state-wide music composition contest, AP Scholar, Academic letter</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Young Democrats (founder and president), Mock Trial, Amnesty International, Communications director for a state-wide organization, Hurdled for four years on track, ran cross country</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Maintenance man for three months, worked at Subway for three months, worked at front desk of music store for four months</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Beta Club, volunteered a lot for Habitat for Humanity</li>
<li>Summer Activities: was a maintenance man at a camp, Did a jazz residency at Julliard, read lots of books</li>
<li>Essays: About tripping and falling at a track meet, my AP lit teacher thought it was very funny. I also wrote about my involvement in the Democratic party, how I met Max Cleland and played golf with a senator</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: Very good, both were two pages</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: never saw it</li>
<li>Additional Rec: nope</li>
<li>Interview: In retrospect an interview might have been a good idea</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): GA</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant): USA</li>
<li>School Type: Public, one of the best schools in the state, over 4,000 students</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: M</li>
<li>Income Bracket: 50K-85K</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): I sent in a recording of me playing jazz guitar, a fast Charlie Parker song and a ballad. My school’s Jazz teacher played piano on them and thought they were very impressive</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: I thought I was pretty well-rounded</li>
<li>Weaknesses: My class rank</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I never really was motivated until my Junior year, before that I made pretty awful grades and didn’t do many extracurriculars</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at GA tech</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: I’m not mad, I’m just disappointed…</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted w/Egleston Scholars and Likely</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2300 (800CR, 800Math, 700 Writing)</li>
<li>ACT: 35</li>
<li><p>SAT II: 800 Math Level 2, 800 Bio M, 800 US History, 800 Chemistry</p></li>
<li><p>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.989</p></li>
<li><p>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 15 of 462</p></li>
<li><p>AP (place score in parenthesis): Human Geo (5), Euro History (5), Calc AB (5), US Hist (5), Art History (4), Calc BC (5), English (4), Biology (5)</p></li>
<li><p>IB (place score in parenthesis): Chem (5), German (5)</p></li>
<li><p>Senior Year Course Load: IB German (HL), IB English (HL), IB 20th Century World (HL), IB Chemistry (HL), AP Physics B, IB Biology (HL), IB Math (HL), IB TOK, Humanities 1100</p></li>
<li><p>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): ISEF (2X), MIT THINK, USABO Semi-Finals, FBLA Nationals (2x), National History Fair, Intel Semi</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Lot of Science, Math, and Bsiness</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Research Assistant at local university</li>
<li><p>Volunteer/Community service: Minority outreach program</p></li>
<li><p>Summer Activities: Classes at local university, research at local university, courses at Oxford</p></li>
<li><p>Essays: Eh… I dunno, I wrote about what interested me!</p></li>
<li><p>Teacher Recommendation: I had amazing teachers so I imagine that they were good.</p></li>
<li><p>Counselor Rec: Know him really well, amazing guy! So I think god!</p></li>
<li><p>Additional Rec: Professor that I’ve worked with for 2 years</p></li>
<li><p>Interview: 20 minutes over the phone</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): UT</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian American</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: 100k-150K</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: Erm i guess I’m well rounded</li>
<li>Weaknesses: Class rank :frowning: (School doesn’t weight GPA)</li>
<li><p>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m really not sure, but Columbia is an amazing school.</p></li>
<li><p>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</p></li>
</ul>

<p>Accepted: Yale (SCEA), Brown (w/ Likely), Stanford (w/ Likely), UPENN (M&T), Harvard, Rice, Wash U, Berkeley, Princeton, Cornell, University of Utah</p>

<p>Waitlisted: MIT</p>

<p>General Comments: Good luck to everyone!</p>

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<p>omg so excited i got in. T_T wow.
haha take that usc for rejecting me!</p>

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<p>[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected**[/color][/size]</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 800 CR, 760 M, 800 W</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>SAT II: 780 Math II, 770 Chem, 750 US History</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/52</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): Chem 5, USH 5, Lang and Comp 5</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis):</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, Bio, and Physics B. Other classes are honors. Toughest school offers</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Nothing major like USAMO or Intel. Won highest SAT score in county. Other things for piano. (Won a state wide competition for a scholarship, and placed in top 3 of a state wide competition twice.)</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Much involvement in piano, guitar, Cross country (captain), NHS (president), founded a guitar education club at school, initiated foundation of NEHS at school, yearbook graphics designer.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: Teaching guitar/piano students. (14 students over 4 years)</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Organize quarterly blood drives at church with Red Cross. (~500 total pints collected.) Christmas book drives with B&N. (~6000 books collected) Many other things with school.</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Teaching, piano masterclass, running camp.</li>
<li>Essays: I thought they were good. Personal and showed thigns about me that I wanted them to see.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: Great.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Sick nasty.</li>
<li>Additional Rec: Done by notable pianist Walter Hautzig.</li>
<li>Interview: Great.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): GA</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type: Private Catholic</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Pakistani</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: ~$120,000</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: Scores, essays, ec’s</li>
<li>Weaknesses: Took the SAT 4 times, maybe didnt focus enough on my passion.</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Accepted at UGA, Georgia Tech, Emory and Vanderbilt. Waitlisted at Duke, Brown, Harvard, Yale. Rejected at Columbia and Cornell.</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: Great job everyone.</p>

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<p>^SEAS or CC?</p>

46

<p>CC 10characters</p>

47

<p>^Are you gonna take places on the Yale and Harvard Waitlist?</p>

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<p>yeah i’m gonna take my chances haha</p>

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<p>rejecteddddddd! hahaha. hopefully parents let me go to cornell! congrats on getting in, this was my number one after mit was a negative.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to CC + NOP</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2010 (650 CR 640 M 720 W)</li>
<li>ACT: 28</li>
<li>SAT II:570 Literature; 620 US History; 590 Spanish w/Listening</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.6/4.5</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):21/577</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis):full IB</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: Spanish HL, World History HL, Math SL + Calc 1st year, French SL, English HL</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):Nat’l Achievement Commended, Pageant award, Nat’l French Exam, Voice of Democracy Certificate of Merit, among others</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Delta GEMS (Pres.), Wasserstein Project, Peer Mediation, Model, Magazine writer, tennis, national honor society</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: —</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Math/English/History Tutor, Babysitter, Church cleaner, Children’s ministry assistant</li>
<li>Summer Activities: LEDA Scholars Program (junior year) @ Princeton, Achievers Summer Program @ Indiana Uni., Pathfinders Summer Camp @ Indiana Uni., visiting family and friends back home in Indiana</li>
<li>Essays:Amazing</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendations: Both amazing (English teacher and my Spanish teacher)</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Really good</li>
<li>Additional Rec: I’m sure it was amazing.</li>
<li>Interview: I thought it was alright/good.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant):AZ</li>
<li>School Type:Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: AA</li>
<li>Gender:Female</li>
<li>Income Bracket: <35K</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, lots of good activities that related to helping community, first generation college student, LEDA Scholar</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: LEDA Scholar, Essays, Recs</li>
<li>Weaknesses: I don’t wanna say SAT scores and GPA. I worked hard. But to others, it may not be the best, but I’m me.</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:See strengths</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Princeton, Columbia, Penn, Cornell, Northwestern, USC, NYU, Boston Uni., Syracuse, DePauw, ASU; rej’d only at Stanford and UCLA
*Comments: Just very thankful, humbled, and to God be the glory.</li>
</ul>

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<p>Decision: Accepted to CC</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (780cr / 770m / 800w / 12e)</li>
<li>SAT II: 800 mathII, 790 bio-e</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.83</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): 5, 5, 5, 4, 4</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: most rigorous, as always.</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): see below</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): art (10x int’l/nat’l awards, 3x int’l/nat’l publications, 5x int’l/nat’l/local galleries, years of independent study, lessons, classes, workshops, city-wide activities, volunteering), varsity swimming (captain), culture club (president), service club (president), multicultural club (leader), social outreach program (president), school summer program (director), school board (elected official), yearbook (executive editor), research, and miscellaneous volunteering.</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: a little bit, but nothing major.</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: worked as a TA and teacher, but nothing crazy amazing.</li>
<li>Summer Activities: art, internships, research, work, volunteering, and relaxing.</li>
<li>Essays: columbia short answers were solid, and the essay was humorous and centered around a strange art endeavor–i included a picture too, which everyone said made the essay complete.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: presumably excellent, but i doubt they were anything jaw-dropping.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: i’m sure this was fabulous: specific, long, lively, and stuffed with anecdotes. we get along great!</li>
<li>Additional Rec: it went with the art supplement, and it was fine–nothing special.</li>
<li>Interview: nothing special. it was my first one, so i appeared disorderly and somewhat flustered. i got sweaty too!</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>Country (if international applicant): usa</li>
<li>School Type: small, secular, suburban, competitive private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: east asian</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>Income Bracket: didn’t apply for FA</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: ECs, leadership, awards, scores, senior year grades, essay, and a strong art portfolio.</li>
<li>Weaknesses: gpa! i have 8 semester B’s, but in all honesty, it’s okay if you can make up for it in some say.</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: artistic talent, leadership and success in ECs despite moving in the middle of high school, and essays.</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
accepted: yale, harvard, columbia, cornell, uchicago, wustl, swarthmore, pomona, nyu, wesleyan, carnegie mellon, uiuc.
rejected: stanford, penn, princeton, brown.</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: i was so thrilled to get into columbia after having three flat-out rejection in a row. i love nyc, and congrats to everyone! good luck, too, and i’m sure with the right attitude we’ll do amazingly at whereever we end up.</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted</p>

<p>Objective:

  • SAT I (breakdown): 2300 M800 CR720 WR780
  • SAT II: MathII 800 Physics 750
  • Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
  • Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 3/180</p>

<p>Subjective:

  • Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Theater, Literary Club, MUN, Student Government, debate, etc.,
  • Summer Activities: Summer school, etc.
  • Essays: Spent a lot of time on them. Seems to have paid off.
  • Teacher Recommendation: Regular ones
  • Interview: Didn’t have one</p>

<p>Other

  • Country (if international applicant): China
  • School Type: Public
  • Ethnicity: Asian
  • Gender: Female
  • Income Bracket: High
  • Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): International? If it doesn’t make things harder =)</p>

<p>Reflection

  • Strengths: Attitude, thanks to Woody Allen XD
  • Weaknesses: No fancy stats/awards, being international
  • Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Good Fit, passion for the city
  • Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: AD: Brown, Amherst, Midd, Vassar, Wesleyan, NYU, UVA WL: Chicago, Wellesley REJ: Yale</p>

<p>General Comments: App is really unpredictable, if not totally random. Bon Courage!</p>

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<p>**Decision: Accepted SEAS **</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 2060 (740 CR, 630 Math, 690 Writing)</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>SAT II: 660 Physics (wasn’t sent to Columbia though), 640 Math 2, 570 Chem (I took Math 2 and Chem twice, in October and November. 1st time: 610 Math 2, 520 Chem)</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 1/533</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): English Lang (4), US History (4)</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis):</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: AB Calculus, AP Physics, AP Chem, AP Gov/AP MacroEcon, AP English Lit, and 2 electives.</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Choir, Theater Arts (President - 11th), Interact Club (President - 12th), Varsity Tennis, Class Officer (Treasurer -10th, President - 11th&12th), Business Professionals of America, UIL Spelling and Vocab Team, National Art Honor Society, National Honor Society. </li>
<li>Job/Work Experience:</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: Hospital volunteer, Japanese Festival volunteer, Community theater volunteer, sporadic little events within my community.</li>
<li>Summer Activities: Park volunteer, Local Math&Science summer program, Girls State, Duke TIP Summer program. </li>
<li>Essays: I had the advantage of having the QuestBridge essays (family/financial situation, etc.) and responses along with my Columbia app ones. :smiley:
My Columbia essay was about my volunteer experience at the hospital and accepting the deaths of patients. Why Columbia was mainly about NYC and its diversity. I also connected engineering to art in one of the short answers, I think.</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: AP English Lang/Lit teacher and Pre-AP Algebra/Pre-Cal teacher. Both were great. :)</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Blah. She doesn’t know me well.</li>
<li>Additional Rec:</li>
<li>Interview: No interview.</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): TX</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant): US</li>
<li>School Type: Public, doesn’t send to top schools often.</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: F</li>
<li>Income Bracket: > $50000</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): QuestBridge Finalist, Weird situation (out-of-place naturalized Asian immigrant in a predominately Hispanic school/area), family/financial situation. </li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: Essays, Recs.</li>
<li>Weaknesses: Test scores.</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Sheer luck. </li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
Accepted: Baylor, Brown.
Waitlisted: UChicago, Rice, Duke, UPenn.
Rejected: Harvard, Yale, Princeton, Cornell.</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: I still can’t believe it lol.</p>

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<p>OH wow sorry, DOUBLE POST.
Can anyone explain NOP to me?</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted (SEAS)</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<ul>
<li>SAT I (breakdown): 740 CR 800 Math 710 Writing (took 3X, combined 2250, single 2220)</li>
<li>ACT:</li>
<li>SAT II: 800 Math 2 720 Physics 750 Biology</li>
<li>Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.92</li>
<li>Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): N/A, top 5%</li>
<li>AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 BC Calculus, English Lit; 4 on everything else (4 others)</li>
<li>IB (place score in parenthesis): 6 on IB Chinese SL</li>
<li>Senior Year Course Load: IB Program, all IB Classes except for an Honors Engineering class</li>
<li>Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar of some sort, the one below National AP Scholar</li>
</ul>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<ul>
<li>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Founded Honor Society, although in reality was a pretty deadbeat leader, leader of a couple of other school clubs</li>
<li>Job/Work Experience: part-time job at the National Air and Space Museum</li>
<li>Volunteer/Community service: school club, used to play piano for nursing home residents</li>
<li>Summer Activities: SEAP internship, PROMYS program</li>
<li>Essays: mind-blowingly jam-packed (those 100 word limits were a killer)</li>
<li>Teacher Recommendation: good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: good</li>
<li>Additional Rec: decent</li>
<li>Interview: short, but good</li>
</ul>

<p>Other</p>

<ul>
<li>State (if domestic applicant): MD</li>
<li>Country (if international applicant):</li>
<li>School Type:Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity:Asian</li>
<li>Gender:F</li>
<li>Income Bracket:Upper Middle Class</li>
<li>Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): none</li>
</ul>

<p>Reflection</p>

<ul>
<li>Strengths: artwork, Essays maybe?</li>
<li>Weaknesses: SATs, APs, Teacher Rec #2</li>
<li>Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: my art is very dynamic/intellectual, not necessarily technically amazing</li>
<li>Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: accepted: University of Maryland College Park (Full Banneker/Key Scholar), Carnegie Mellon, Northwestern, Cornell; Waitlisted: Princeton, Duke; Rejected: Stanford (EA), Harvard (figures)</li>
</ul>

<p>General Comments: I was so f*ing lucky to get into Columbia</p>

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<p>Accepted (CC)</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>]SAT: 2400
[</em>]SAT II: Math II - 800, Chem - 800, USH - 800, Bio - 770,
[<em>]GPA: 4.6
[</em>]Rank: 1
[<em>]Other Tests (AMC, AP, IB): Chem, Micro, Macro, USH, Calc BC, Bio, Eng Lang: All 5’s
[/ul]Subjective[ul]
[</em>]Essays: Pretty good, not amazing.
[<em>]Recs: Same as essays
[</em>]Supplementary Material: Research paper
[<em>]Summer Activities: 2 years of Sci Research, Boys State, Research internship camp, CTY
[</em>]Hook(recruited athlete, legacy, Nobel Prize): Research and US Trail Orienteering team
[/ul]Personal[ul]
[<em>]Location: NJ
[</em>]High School Type: Public
[<em>]Ethnicity: See username
[</em>]Gender: M
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>]Extracurriculars: Orienteering, Tennis, MUN, Mathletes, Academic Team, etc
[</em>]Awards: Siemens Finalist, NMS Finalist, some other state/national stuff
[<em>]Accepted: Harvard, Princeton, Columbia, Dartmouth, UPenn, Cornell, MIT
[</em>]Waitlisted: Brown
[<em>]Rejected: Yale (deferred early), Stanford
[</em>]Advice? Commiserations? Feel like bragging?: Summer research def helps. Got the Rabi Research Award, but probably going to Harvard >.> [/ul]</p>

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<p>Decision: Accepted with Likely Letter (CC)</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): 750 CR, 790 M, 780 W, 10e (1 take)
[</em>] ACT: 35 (w/o writing)
[<em>] SAT II (if submitted): 800 Math II, 800 Chem, 800 USH
[</em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 3.9
[<em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): top 10%
[</em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): BC Calc (5), USH (5), Human Geo (5), Physics B (5), Chem (5), English (5), Euro (5), Comp. Pol (5)
[<em>] IB (place score in parenthesis): N/a
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: AP Lit, AP World, AP Stat, AP Econ, AP Gov, AP Bio
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Boy scouts (not eagle), Quiz Bowl, Model UN, Rock Climbing
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: Student Researcher
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 400+ hours at science museum
[<em>] Essays: Anecdote about my rock climbing hobby, it was pretty well liked.
[</em>] Teacher Recommendation: I think they were both pretty good.
[<em>] Counselor Rec: This is her first year, so I dunno.
[</em>] Additional Rec: Research Mentor
[<em>] Interview: Amazing, 2 hours long and we shared the same favorite book (Infinite Jest) and were both planning to attend Bonnaroo this year
[/ul]Other[ul]
[</em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: Nope
[<em>] Intended Major: It was Chemistry or Biology, I can’t remember.
[</em>] Country (if international applicant): N/a
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): TN
[</em>] School Type: Magnet
[<em>] Ethnicity: White
[</em>] Gender: Male
[<em>] Income Bracket: Just enough to not get financial aid
[</em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[<em>] Strengths: Scores, grades, essays
[</em>] Weaknesses: My extracurriculars. I’m really lazy.
[<em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Test Scores + Grades + essay
[</em>] Accepted: Columbia, Brown, Dartmouth, Northwestern, WashU, Vandy, Rose-Hulman, Wooster
[<em>] Waitlisted: Duke, Emory
[</em>] Rejected: Harvard, Princeton, Stanford (deferred EA)
[/ul]General Comments: I had hoped I would get into Columbia, and I did. It’s looking like this is where I’m going.</p>

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<p>Damn, REJECTED. wtvr, at least I’m not the only one:
[YouTube</a> - Hitler gets rejected from college](<a href=“http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3YJjdXZBM]YouTube”>http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0w3YJjdXZBM)</p>

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<p>ACCEPTED!!</p>

<p>I won’t list everythin here, if you’re interested just see my other posts</p>

<p>SAT: 2140(600M, 790CR, 760W)
3.75 GPA
Born in Mexico, lived in the US, graduated from school in india–NOT indiana (American citizen). been to three high schools in Idaho, Ohio, and India
Aout 10-20% of class
5 in AP Pol and Gov, 5 in AP English Language
APs: EVS, English Lit, English Lang, Statistics, Euro, USH
TONS OF THEATER, MUSIC, WRITING, DEBATE
essay was on a summer camp in gtown and how i raised $5000 for it, and how i was the only mexican there, and the youngest student.
i put inglorious basterds as one of my fav movies. but also TONS of foreign films</p>

<p>Reflection:
I’m not too sure how I got in. I’ve heard that Columbia likes artsy, passionate kids. I fit into that, but my SAT and GPA are much lower than most (although my GPA was 3.9/4 last three sems of HS, with 5 AP classes senior year). i was also rejected from Vassar, Uchicago, and Yale, but admitted here, at Gtown, and Middlebury.
college admissions are completely RANDOM</p>

<p>Tips:
i got into some schools i shouldn’t have gotten into, and was rejected/waitlisted at some I was sure i would get into. i spent too much time on CC and stressing about colleges. apply, stress about your essays, and then chill and don’t think about colleges until decisions start rolling in.
aiight peace!!
to me, columbia accepts the people with most POTENTIAL, not just the ones that look great on paper.
oh, btw, i applied to Columbia College RD, NO LIKELY LETTER</p>

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<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>

<p>Objective:</p>

<p>*SAT I (breakdown): 730 CR, 740 Math, 800 Writing
*ACT: 33
*SAT II (if submitted): Math II 780, Lit 730, US History 720
*Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):3.96
*Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 4/395
*AP (place score in parenthesis): Lit 5, Calc AB 5, US History 5, Chem 3
*IB (place score in parenthesis): Math 5 (taking 5 this year)
*Senior Year Course Load: All IB courses
*Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): None, unless State Acadec Silver Medalist and journalism stuff (NSPA, CSPA, ASNE) count</p>

<p>Subjective:</p>

<p>*Extracurriculars: Newspaper (EIC, 4 years), Asian Club (President, 4 years), Key Club (Treasurer, 4 years), CSF (4 years), Fencing (11, 12), Acadec (10)
*Job/Work Experience: Essay grader for an old teacher
*Volunteer/Community service: around 400 hours at library and park
*Summer Activities: Rotary leadership camp, college class, journalism camp
*Essays: My mom’s influence on my aspirations; kinda corny; B-
*Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see
*Counselor Rec: Didn’t see
*Additional Rec: Nope
*Interview: Nope</p>

<p>Other
*State (if domestic applicant): CA (northern)
*Country (if international applicant):
*School Type: Public
*Ethnicity: Asian
*Gender: Female
*Hooks (URM, first generation college, research, etc.): None</p>

<p>Reflection
*Strengths: “Why Columbia”
*Weaknesses: ECs
*Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: I’m a very average applicant and Columbia is not the average school.
*Accepted: U Chicago, UC Berkeley, Wesleyan University UC Davis
*Waitlisted: Columbia University, WUSTL
*Rejected: Yale, Brown</p>

<p>General Comments: I kinda expected a waitlist or rejection so I’m not too shocked though I’m still very disappointed. Columbia has been my #1 college choice since I was 11. For any lurking admissions officer, I’m keeping my fingers crossed for a waitlist acceptance and would still choose Columbia in a heartbeat.</p>