To try or not to Try

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<p>Senior at a private, college prep school in California with a max. of 550 students. School doesn't rank students.</p>

<p>Courses:
9th (No honors or AP's offered)
Ancient World History
English 1
Biology
French 2
Geometry
Dance 1</p>

<p>10th (No honors/APs offered for english)
AP Euro History
English 2
Chemistry
French 3
Algebra 2
Dance 2</p>

<p>11th
AP US Hist
Accelerated English 3
Physics
Ap French Language
Precalc
Dance 3</p>

<p>12th (AP French Literature wasn't offered so it'll be explained in my counselor's rec)
AP American Government
AP English
AP Environmental Science
British Literature
African History
Calculus</p>

<p>GPA:
11th Grade Cumulative Weighted: 4.28
All 3 years Cumulative weighted: 3.98</p>

<p>SAT [my biggest problem :( ]
SAT I: waiting for my score to arrive but im only expecting around a 2050
SAT II: French- 700, US Hist- 660, Going to take Math 2c & Literature in November</p>

<p>Awards/Honors:
High Honor Role (4 years)
National French Contest: 8th place regional, 9th place national [2004]
Honorable Mention [2005]
Maternal Outreach Management System (MOMS) Volunteer award
Search For Talent (Piano)- Honorable Mention
AP Scholar Award
"Recognition of Academic Excellece, Extracurricular involvement, Leadership Potential"- Congressional Student Leadership Conference [2005]</p>

<p>EC's:
Student Ambassador (11th, 12th)
Community Service Club (4 years, Vice Pres. 11th grade, President 12th grade)
Mock Trial Attorney (11th, 12th)
Newspaper Editor (Campus Life Page) & journalist
Literary Magazine Staff
Senior Leader
Piano- 10 years
French Tutor & member of French club</p>

<p>Volunteer Activities:
Maternal Outreach Management System (MOMS) Volunteer
Tutor to Wilson Elementary School 4th graders
YMCA youth leadership volunteer</p>

<p>Focus:
My passions are English and law, and hopefully you can see that by my EC's, outside school activities, and classes. For example, instead of taking AP maths sciences, I've taken several Englishs and tried to focus on things I enjoy.</p>

<p>I know my Sats aren't good at all but should I even bother applying? lThank you so much for your time.</p>

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<p>If you want to go to Columbia, then you should apply. There's no sense in defeating yourself without even trying. Good luck.</p>

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<p>The only thing that made my eyebrow arch a bit was your senior science-environmental instead of something more challenging like chem/bio.</p>

<p>But like bing said, just try it. Columbia's app is fairly straight forward. You don't have anything to lose (except for the 60 odd dollars of app money but who gives a about that)</p>