<p>If you end up going to grad school right after undergrad, the undergrad school becomes secondary thereafter. If you end up going to grad school a few years after working, that interim job becomes secondary. Don't sweat it.
Do the best you can where ever you go. It all goes by so fast anyway, just don't forget to enjoy yourself.</p>
<p>I've talked to many people and they all don't care where they apply ED as long as they get in. Many kids just apply ED to a top school with the highest admit rate and hope to get in. If I were you and you liked all three schools equally ( I mean literally EQUAL!!), then I'd shoot for NYU ED. Your gonna get in. Deferred at CU ED and in at Emory.</p>
<p>Columbia doesn't care about test scores as much as some of the other ivies. If you have killer EC's and an amazing essay, it'll make up for your good but mediocre SAT score (by Columbia's standards).</p>
<p>thank you all very much..big help..it's really quite a difficult time with all the competition and don't worry i will enjoy it!!!! (best four years of your life, right?)</p>
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<p>The OP doesn't appear to have the great ECs you speak of. And CU cares about numbers just as much as any other school...</p>
<p>i don't have great EC's?..i think that they a pretty good..i have devoted 400 hours of to community service and volunteer work (200 of which were at the hospital), interned on congressional campaign, captain of debate team and a page editor on teh school newspaper..i think those are pretty solid</p>
<p>Those are solid. Coming from a school with 13 Princeton Admits, 10 Columbia Admits, 7 MIT admits, 5 Penn admits, 9 Brown Admits, 4 Yale admits, and 4 Harvard admits, I can tell you that out of those 20-30 kids, only two or three had mindblowing EC's (i.e Olympic silver medal in chem).</p>