Tips to differentiate myself?

Colleges and Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>I am a rising junior with good grades and good extracurricular activities and I will do very well on the SATs based on my practice test results. My dream is to go to Columbia pans I was wondering if there were any more ways to differentiate myself. I'm in all honors/APs I speak spanish fluently but I'm a white female.</p>

<p>Thanks!!!</p>

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<p>No one can teach you how to be an interesting person. You’ll have to figure that out on your own or go to state school.</p>

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<p>Willow:

  1. do you have a true hunger for learning (not necessarily grades)?
  2. are you a person who influences others?
  3. are you valued, trustworthy, admired & emulated, a solid friend to others?</p>

<p>Do you know upperclassmen like this? Compare yourself to them. Are you truly like them? Does your principal consider you one of the handful of best students in your entire school this moment? Top schools are looking for these diamonds in the rough.</p>

<p>Here’s a burden to lift off your shoulders: you’ve already been this or you haven’t and you can’t change it or will another outcome or ferret out some formula or strategy. The die has already been cast. Good luck</p>

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<p>Here is a suggestion: </p>

<p>1) Go thru the stats last of applied and accepted students for the last 5+ years (they are all archived here). Find profiles of students who are similar to you (ethnically and geographically).
2) Print out profiles of at least 30 of these similar students and black out their names and other identifying info.
3) Make a similar profile/stats sheet for yourself</p>

<p>Mix up the pile of paper, and give it to a neutral third party (parents, relatives) and see if THEY can pick you out from the heap. If not then you haven’t done enough to differentiate yourself. </p>