<p>@wizsocc congrats! I applied from St John’s too but i didn’t get in. 3.86 college GPA, 1/60 class ranking in high school (international) but a mere 1800 SAT score. All the best at Columbia</p>
<p>Rejected.
School: a top public Ivy
Major: English/History
GPA: 3.93, SAT:2190,
5As and 1AB on my midterm report,
3.86 at Harvard Summer School
HS GPA 4.0
Rec from a Harvard Alumni with whom I have a close personal relationship and a TA at my school (co-signed with professor) who really recognizes me.
Read countless successful essays and invested numerous hours revising mines.
Extracurricular (probably my weakness): one year working as a staff for a nationally distributed literary journal.
One year playing at a band. Was presidents of my high schools MUN and literary club.
Besides, I’m an Asian international student, which probably won’t do my favor.</p>
<p>I can’t say how I was disappointed by this. Like every applicant, I definitely know my application is not perfect. But my sheer passion for literature and history since my childhood makes me expect myself as a great fit for an aesthetic place like Columbia. I’m not defeated by this decision, but it makes me feel so powerless…</p>
<p>@mkt289 same here, Asian international student. Columbia’s location and academic program would be such a perfect place for me especially since I’m taking art history and visual art. Oh well, wait until next year</p>
<p>@THuyser I tried expressing myself and said how Columbia’s location, academic environment and curriculum would be beneficial for my art history major… but yeah, maybe next year.</p>
<p>I’m beyond shock… I never thought I could get in but I made it. I didn’t believe my eyes when I saw the first word of the letter ‘congratulations!’. I’m an international student from an East Asian country (even worse than admission for US citizens and I’m Asian), and I truly appreciate how much opportunity Columbia University offered me. I’m just too excited but I have to go to a class. I will definitely post my stats after class though. </p>
<p>@WeberCubism Yeah, actually I said things about location, academic environment and curriculum as well, one by one. I’m still waiting for another school. If that one rejects me as well, I’ll just keep doing great at my school and go for graduate school. </p>
<p>hey guys, Ive been watching this topic from a distance because I actually never believed I would indeed be accepted. when I saw the admission I could not believe my eyes hahaha. My story is a little bit long, so I can post it later if someone wants (Im not at home right now). I feel really grateful to CC as a whole for the resources, they were really helpful.</p>
<p>I actually wanted to ask you guys: do the majors we put in in the Common App mean anything? Must we follow those choices? And if yes, must we even follow just the first one or can we pick from the three? Im not totally sure what I want yet :S</p>
<p>@werpofili I would love to see your story. </p>
<p>Rejected. Guess it’s going to be Cornell or Stanford, now. Congrats to everyone accepted!</p>
<p>Accepted as a junior! I’m going to go.</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED</p>
<p>Gender: Female
Ethnicity: mixed Latino/Asian/White
Current school: University of Houston Honors College
Current standing: Second semester freshman
GPA: 4.0, Dean’s list</p>
<p>High school: top 10%
SAT I: 800CR 700M 800W
SAT II: 800 US History 780 Literature
National Merit Scholar</p>
<p>Extracurricular:
Columnist at the college newspaper
Co-president of a city nonprofit organization
Summer intern at City Attorney’s office
English tutor
Regular volunteer at NPR/PBS
Essays and articles appeared in a couple different publications</p>
<p>High school stuff:
Staff writer at a movie/music review website
Studio art (eight years of studio art practice+ AP 2D and AP drawing, some regional and state awards)
Secretary of Japanese National Honor Society, set up exchange partnership
Studied abroad on the NSLI-Y program in South Korea
Couple hundred volunteer hours
Dance instructor, and member of a performance group</p>
<p>I am quite literally shaking. I got rejected last year, I don’t know how this happened.</p>
<p>Here are my stats </p>
<p>ACCEPTED
School: Oral Roberts University
GPA: 4.0
ACT: 35
Major: Econ and Math</p>
<p>Let me know through aP PM if you want to know about my EC’s or essays </p>
<p>Accepted. Northwestern University.</p>
<p>GETTING BLACKOUT TONIGHT</p>
<p>@bookznhoopz Looks like they didn’t hold it against you after all haha</p>
<p>For those accepted, where can we find the transfer credit evaluation for the courses we’ve taken so far?</p>
<p>somebody should make a facebook group!</p>
<p>accepted! I 100% expected the opposite, so I’m in shock. 3.78 GPA, 2290 SAT - if anyone would like more in-depth stats, PM me! </p>
<p>accepted. was rejected by ten schools last year so I was pretty surprised. stats:
SAT
780M
780R
660W
Subject SAT
770 M1
750 Literature
780 Us History
hs gpa 4.0
college gpa 4.0
college midterm report 4.0
The professors who wrote the recommendations really liked me.
Hook: pretty bizarre and rare life story highlighted in essays.
Overall really no explanation for how I was accepted given these average stats. to everyone who was rejected it sucks. I clearly remember how you probably feel right now from last year’s rejections. try to keep your head up!</p>
<p>Here’s my stat!</p>
<p>SAT1: CR 740 MA 760 WR 740 ( I only wrote SAT once)
SAT2: Math2C 790, Chemistry 780 (all one sitting)
GPA: 3.8+ from Canadian high school, my high school doesn’t calculate GPA
College GPA: 3.95 (with mostly A+s and one A-)
Essay was passionate about Columbia, all the academic opportunities it offer, social opportunities and environment Columbia provides. I think my essay was coherent and could all come into one theme. I’m just so grateful of the opportunities Columbia offered. </p>
<p>Denied.
I was completely expecting it, but applied anyways. I am OK with it; I got a great scholarship at another school. I also applied to Fu which I assume is more difficult to transfer into. My stats are:
College GPA: 4.0 (at a CC).
Lots of math/science courses. Also some of the liberal arts classes.
Lots of extracurricular activities. Some of the most relevant were volunteering and being a research assistant at a nearby four-year school.</p>