What are my chances of getting into Columbia Engineering ED?

Chance Me / Match Me!
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ED Columbia School of Engineering
Grade: Senior
Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)
Intended Major: Financial Engineering

I live in Long Island, New York
School Size: ~1200
Class size: 384

Unweighted GPA: 95.037
Weighted GPA: 96.507 (Weighting system is that we get half our points back for AP and a third for honors. Ex. If I get an 80 in AP Bio I would get a 90, but if I get a 90 I would get a 95)
My school doesn’t rank
SAT Score: 1480 (760-Reading 720-Math 6 6 6 on Essay) - Taking it one last time in November
SAT IIs 770 Physics, 780 Literature, 730 Math II

Classes (AP Score in parentheses)
8th Grade - Honors Earth Science, Honors Algebra I, Mastery Level Spanish

Freshman:
AP Environmental Science (4)
AP Human Geography (5)
Creative Writing I
Honors English 9
Honors Geometry
Honors Global History and Geography I
Honors Spanish II
Intro to Statistics
Gym
Public Speaking

Sophomore:
AP Biology (4)
AP World (5)
Business Ownership and Marketing
H Algebra II
H Chem
H English 10
H Spanish III
Gym
Research

Junior:
Accounting
AP Lang (4)
AP Physics 1&2 (4 on both)
APUSH (5)
Business Law 1
H Precalc
H Spanish IV
Health
Gym

Senior:
AP Calc BC
AP Physics C (Both Exams)
AP Psych
College (Regents) Spanish
Media Arts (Required)
AP Lit
AP Macro/Micro Econ
Gym

Work Experience:
Internship at private equity firm - Summer of Senior Year
Shadowed an executive at Barclays Center - Sophomore Year

Volunteer:
Speaker during the UN International Day of Peace (Local event not at UN)
Helped organize food drive to feed 60,000 people
Raised $100,000 for underprivileged in India (2015-Present)
Taught English at a school for the underprivileged in India (2012-Present)

Extracurriculars:
National Honor Society
Spanish Honor Society
DECA (2016-Top 10 Regional 2017-2nd Regional)
The Global Education and Leadership Program - this leadership program that is also taught at Brown and Lehigh (2014-Present)
Martial Arts - Jeet Kune Do - Black Belt
Piano NYSSMA - Level 5

Awards
Recognized by Indian Ambassador to US (Part of charity I raised $100,000 for)
2018 National Merit - Commended Student
AP Scholar with Honor
AP Scholar with Distinction
National AP Scholar

Recommendations:
AP Physics 1+2 and AP Lang Teachers
Part-time Columbia Professor (Family friend)
Principal at the underprivileged school I taught at

Common App Essay:
I wrote about how being good requires heart and being great requires drive (Hitler was great, not good). I wrote that I am good (talked about teaching thing) but need to learn how to be great, which is what I want to do in college.

I know my chances of getting in probably suck, especially because of my standardized testing and GPA but I just wanted some outside opinions.

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I think your GPA is very good, your rank would help determine chances better but GPA shouldn’t be detriment. A 720 on SAT 1 math is low for engineering, and a 730 Math 2 is also low. I would retake both of these for RD, theres not much you can do for ED. Your volunteer work is very strong, if you can make this the highlight of your app.

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I would say a slight reach just because of how difficult it is to get in, but best of luck! Chance me back please!

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I would say that Columbia ED is a reach for you. Your scores are not the best especially for engineering. Im actually wondering why did you choose engineering like you dont have any stem spikes, but are more suited for economics in that it prob would have been more beneficial if you applied to the College. Anyways, you volunteering is somewhat strong but I think it will depend on yous essays. Im also ED Columbia and saw in the thread you wanted people to read essays so just hmu