<p>wow guys, i really appreciate your encouragement, and i’m impressed with your statistical detective work invisible. the thing is though, i’m willing to bet that none of the 2350+ people you saw on that thread had class ranks below the the top 10%. in that sense i’m a kind of unusual case because there’s usually a very strong correlation between those two statistics. and i guess i shouldn’t be too negative, but i also want to avoid anything close to optimism, otherwise i’d be reallllyyyyy disappointed if rejected.</p>
<p>also do you think you could post the links to those decision threads? i can never seem to find them…</p>
<p>Curtis, from this point on, you are NO LONGER ALLOWED TO COMPLAIN ABOUT YOUR CHANCES AT COLUMBIA NOR ABOUT YOUR STATS. Seriously. Have fun in New York! </p>
<p>-fledgling :)</p>
<p>who’s curtis? lol…</p>
<p>Curtis = InvisibleMonster. In case you haven’t looked at his location closely enough… :p</p>
<p>ahh…clearly i hadn’t, lol.</p>
<p>Oh my lord, there’s like no chance for me. Honestly, as someone has said before, these stats are blinding. Spill those 2300 secrets please.</p>
<p>Hope I’m not a loser if I jump in at the end here?</p>
<p>SAT: 800 cr, 610 m, 740 wr
ACT: 30
SAT II: 790 US History 720 Lit
GPA: 4.0 W (idk UW)
Rank: 3/65</p>
<p>EC and Awards: NMS Commended (New York), President of NHS, MUN, School Lit Magazine, Student Body. I do Mock Trial, and am heavily involved in a bunch of drug prevention programs around the state as a youth leader. (300 hours of leadership training in group devlopment and facilitation)…I run track and xc…do plays and musicals…tutor? And a few other things…and I like walks in the park and hot chocolate on cold windy days.</p>
<p>Clearly I’m hoping to get in more on extra stuff than my academics. Is that going to work?</p>
<p>@InvisibleMonster If we get in then I’ll teach you to knit!</p>
<p>Reading through this thread makes me want to cry and smile at the same time…</p>
<p>There are so many 2300+ SAT, highly ranked people that it’s honestly making me nervous just reading this.</p>
<p>At first I thought college admissions was about beating the odds, but I’ve come to realize that it’s more than just a good SAT or GPA. You all seem like amazing people who I could never even come close to - but I will be so happy for those of you who get in even if I can’t say the same for myself. </p>
<p>The part that makes me smile is realizing that I’m not the only stressed out ED applicant, freaking out every other minute about something I could have done better in my application or scores I could have raised. In this, I drop all of my sense of competition from now until Dec. 9, because there’s really no point in stressing about scores, GPAs, and resumes I can’t control anymore. After all, we’re all just high school seniors, in the same boat, trying to get in to the school of our dreams.</p>
<p>That’s my two cents/pep talk/thought process on all of this. Good luck to all CC/SEAS EDers! :)</p>
<p>i like this musicaldreams haha</p>
<p>ya all seem like nice, motivated ppl haha. no shame in rejection/deferral, as long as you did your best!</p>
<p>anyways, a little thing on the SAT’s? What i noticed was that SAT cant always be looked at literally. like for a liberal college like columbia (columbia college, that is) reading is by far more important than math…thus im kind of worried my cr is only 730. They would prefer, i think like a 780 cr/680 math over someone with like 750 cr/750 math, since reading has far more of an impact that algebra level math…</p>
<p>but for SEAS, ive noticed that reading matters alot less…thus i have seen alot of people getting in with extremely low reading scores.</p>
<p>idk, just a bit of piece of mind? lol</p>
<p>good luck to ya’ll…and still no email from columbia regarding release dates =/ … since most of us (myself included) have dwelled on dec 9th release date, it would be pretty disappointing if they changed it to the 15th or something lol</p>
<p>I agree, although it really depends. I think if Columbia sees an applicant who is well on his or her way to a career in the natural sciences or math, but not necessarily engineering, then perhaps a higher math score and a lower CR would correlate with their app and it would still be okay.</p>
<p>Or maybe they just like people who have good scores all around >_< haha</p>
<p>Does Columbia consider the score that makes your application the strongest? Because there is a huge disconnect between my SAT (2150) and my ACT (34)…</p>
<p>Musicaldreams, I believe they’ll consider your 34, since it’s higher. 
Good luck to you! You seem like a geat person as well. :)</p>
<p>I think I might just want to go to Columbia just to meet you all
Have ya’ll been approached by Columbia to send in first quarter grades?</p>
<p>^^^Tried to ask my GC today but she was at a meeting.</p>
<p>If this makes you cry, just be happy that you’re not a Yale SCEAer. I’ve heard that the thread is quite intimidating.</p>
<p>holy ■■■■…i just email results indeed comes out thurs at 5!!! good luck yall!!!</p>
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<p>:D I just saw the e-mail as well!</p>