<p>Female
Military School (9-11)
was officer
GPA unweighted 3.8 ish
GPA weighted 4.0
Medal for English 9th Grade
Medal for Math 10th
Consistantly Proficient or Honors
AP US History
currently taking AP Lit
switched to competitive public school (12)
SATs 1990 (took it again couple days ago so hopefully it's around the 2100-2200 range)
SAT 2 - Math 680, LIT 680 (I know it isnt great)
I'll be taking both the Japanese amd Korean Language SAT 2s.
My US History score was horrible
Vasity soccer- 9,10
Varsity track- 9, 10, 11
Cross county- 11
rifle team- 10
Varsity Golf 11
National Honor Society</p>
<p>EC
Vice President of environmental club
Yearbook club
Bible Study
Took a year off to study abroad in Japan after junior year-(did service activies and clubs as well as study at a college)
Also studied abroad in korea - art's school - majored in opera</p>
<p>SUMMER 04- went to Thailand, Taiwan, Korea and Japan and built schools/various service activites with handicapped children.
SUMMER 05-went to Korea/Japan for service activites
SUMMER 06-was part of a band/group and performed to advocate peace.</p>
<p>My dad is an alum - do you think that would help?</p>
<p>That's all I can think of for now...
I know my scores aren't that great but hopefully my unique experience in school would help.</p>
<p>Columbia has always been my dream school
Do you think I have a chance??
Any advice??</p>
<p>reach for columbia but since you're a legacy i think you have a decent chance. high match for barnard. fu may also be a match since it's considerably less selective than columbia and being an engineering school i am sure they need more women :)</p>
<p>"fu may also be a match since it's considerably less selective than columbia and being an engineering school i am sure they need more women"</p>
<p>-please don't write about stuff you don't seem to have knowledge of. perhaps seas would be more inclined to take women, but it shouldn't make much of difference, and there's no way to guage their tendency to take women over men. On the one hand you could say seas is something like a third women, and so they have incentive to take more women, on the other hand i could say that seas is a something like 30% women because they don't want to discriminate based on gender. regardless there is no way to get our bearings right on this one. also currently on campus if you include barnard there are slightly more girls than guys.</p>
<p>As for it being it easier to get into fu compared to 'columbia' (i assume you mean the college), there are several other threads on this, but essentially the only thing CC has over seas is lower acceptance rate, which is correlated but not entirely indicative of the difficulty to get in. average sats, class rank show seas to be the more competitive school. On top of that seas kids do as well in the humanity and social science classes on campus. Columbia 2002, posted a while back, that he was involved in a survey that showed the average seas gpa in non-engineering/applied science classes to be higher than the average CC gpa in those classes.</p>
<p>it's fashionable and incorrect to think seas is easier to get into because of an acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Just because there's an imbalance of something doesn't mean there's an affirmative-action program to correct it.</p>
<p>I don't see a lot of black people playing golf - the world #1 excepted - but that doesn't mean the PGA tour has lower standards if you're black.</p>
<p>Similarly, Columbia Engineering isn't going to cut you a break just because you're a women. They just want a greater quantity of qualified, competitive female applicants to apply in the first place.</p>