<p>Okay, so I attend a religious high school (Catholic) on Long Island.</p>
<p>The first thing...
I know that 24% of Columbia's class is from NY... So I've always been kind of confused -- Is applying ED from Long Island slightly better or worse than applying from, say, NJ or PA or MA? (I know it's def worse than applying from WY or UT or KS.)</p>
<p>Second thing...
If anyone was accepted to Columbia (preferably ED) and attended a religious high school, I was wondering if you could post a brief overview of your stats here... The reason I ask is because one person from this board who was accepted to Columbia ED and came from a religious school seemed to have decent, not amazing, stats that kind of mirror mine. When I attended a Columbia info session, the man said that they handle public and private/parochial school kids in terms of apples and oranges, so I'm guessing that they kind of separate the three categories, and take the best of each bunch.</p>
<p>Also, my friend was accepted ED to Dartmouth from my school (the only to apply ED to Dartmouth), and yet kids with much much better stats were rejected RD... This kid had high 1300s SAT, low 700s on SAT IIs, very good GPA and rank though (97.5 GPA, Top 5%), but his ECs sucked, he had no leadership positions at all, and had no particularly great talents (also no sport, no legacy).</p>
<p>So I'm just wondering, I guess it's weird to think that a certain type of school can have typically stronger or weaker candidates, which is why I ask that if anyone from a religious school who was accepted to Columbia ED post their stats here... Because taking what the admissions rep said, if kids from the same type of school are viewed in comparison to each other, maybe my friend (and others) with seemingly mediocre stats was actually one of the better parochial school candidates... And maybe the reason that stronger students were rejected Dartmouth RD from my school was because they were viewed with a much larger # of similar kids, from the same school.</p>
<p>Eek, sorry for the ramble.
Any insight is greatly appreciated.</p>