Hey Everyone,
I’m a high school senior trying to decide and finalize where to apply. I visited Columbia and loved it, but I don’t know if I can get in. I’ll have around a 3.72 unweighted GPA when I apply, and around a 4.5-6 weighted, if everything goes as planned. I got a 2290 on the old SAT, 35 on the ACT, and am going to take the new SAT as well to try and make as solid a case for myself as I can. I’m a captain on my school’s debate team, and I interned in a neuroscience research lab over the summer, and will have a good recommendation from the PI of that lab. If I can write good essays, how likely is it that I’ll be accepted? Is it worth it to apply early, or should I look elsewhere?
Thanks.
Just some other extra stuff, 800 Math SAT 2, 770 Bio SAT 2, Was one of the top 200 debaters in the country, played soccer, baseball, and basketball for most of my life, was a camp counselor for a few summers. I’m in a magnet high school, so I got to take a lot of advanced courses that probably look good on a transcript (e.g. quantum physics, Linear algebra) I’m an upper-middle class white guy, so no diversity points there.
Yes, you have a solid chance at Columbia.
Just wondering, what advanced courses does your school offer? I go to a public school so I’m just curious about the course selection at your school.
@WsRQEf It’s one of the top STEM magnets in the country, so it’s in a public school. We’ve got (for math) calc 2, discrete math, multivariable calc, linear algebra, logic, and maybe some other ones im forgetting, (for bio) immunology, genetics, cell physiology, marine bio, entymology, (for chem) Analytical chem, physical chem, bio chem, organic chem (for physics/engineering) materials science, optics, mathematical physics(which is insanely hard), and (for comp sci) Modeling and simulation, Intro to Artificial intelligence, analysis of algorithms, and a few others im forgetting. I took all of the bio classes and chem classes, but im not super in to physics. I’m generally very happy that I went, but if i had gone to my home school, i would have had a much higher gpa, and maybe could have more options in applying to schools.
Ok, remembered the ones I was forgetting; we have political statistics and sports statistics, quantum physics, computational methods (comp sci), and robotics. We also do a full-scale research project from the second semester of junior year through senior year.