What kind of students the school is looking for

Colleges & Universities A-Z Columbia University
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<p>What they are looking for? In term of SAT, Ec....</p>

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<li>2400 (one sitting)</li>
<li>Three sport athlete (nationally recognized in at least 2)</li>
<li>President of 10 clubs (founder of at least 4 of them)</li>
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<p>You kids are getting lazy. Back in my day, you had to have founded at least 6, as well as a total of 500 hours of community service your senior year.</p>

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<p>what Karot, I distinctively remember it was 500 hours of community service in the FIRST SEMESTER of your senior year.</p>

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<p>Do work, son(s, and/or daughters). </p>

<p>I do 500 hours of community service EVERY HOUR. Think about that.</p>

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<p>you guys are funny haha</p>

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<p>Pfft…500 hours is nothing.</p>

<p>Now, back in MY day we had to do 1000 hours IN ADDITION to saving a third world country from some disaster (starvation, coup, civil war, etc)</p>

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<p>You must have written at least 4 minuets, cured a minor disease or taken your first company public
Plus 2000 hours of community service of course</p>

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<p>Community service? Public office is much preferred, preferably a position that meets in Washington.</p>

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<p>Clearly the answer to the original question is, “sarcastic ones”.</p>

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<p>I actually started an organization called “sarcasm without borders” to teach sarcasm to developing countries..</p>

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<p>Now I am waiting for the genetic link…</p>

<p>The Science of Sarcasm (Not That You Care)
[Katherine</a> P. Rankin, a Neuropsychologist, Studies Sarcasm - NYTimes.com](<a href=“http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html?em&ex=1212724800&en=51b0f096761db2f9&ei=5087 ]Katherine”>http://www.nytimes.com/2008/06/03/health/research/03sarc.html?em&ex=1212724800&en=51b0f096761db2f9&ei=5087 )</p>

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<p>Using just myself as an example (because I’m the only person I know personally who was admitted to Columbia), I had very strong ECs, but “low” SAT scores. The highest was my math score, which was 650 (or 640, I can’t recall). But I was also the Student Gov’t president AND Yearbook editor my senior year, part of the Chemistry Olympiad junior year along with being on a Chemathon team (Chemathon is as bad as it sounds) and class president, and the list goes on of ECs that I do. The goal is not to have a list of ECs you’ve done, but a list of leadership roles you have. ANYONE can be part of Math club, but only the BEST of be the president of the math club, you see?</p>

<p>And always remember to be well-rounded. Even though it’s an engineering school, they like to see that you’ve done other stuff that isn’t science/math related.</p>

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<p>If you’re an interesting and accomplished person, have relatively nice teachers to write recommendations, can take tests well and can show why you want to go to Columbia then you have as good of a chance as anyone else.</p>

<p>I got in (must have slipped by the admissions officers) and I can truthfully tell you that I don’t fit a “type” of person other than the very broad description I gave above</p>

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<p>Oh, oops- we’re talking about SEAS - my post was referring to the engineering school- sorry about that… :P</p>

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<p>Can someone attach a resume to the Columbia application? I mean it says to “refrain” from attaching materials to the ECs…</p>

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<p>Can you? Depends on if you know how to work a paperclip or not…</p>

<p>That’s besides the point tho, 1) why would you do something they tell you to refrain from doing? unless you have multiple nobel prizes, is your resume all that impressive that you need to waste some adcoms time with? and 2) this has been brought up so many times before I want to throw up, do a search.</p>

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<p>I sent in a resume because there was a lot that the application could not fit with my profile. I can’t say whether that got me in or whether they never looked at it, but it was very well formatted and gave much more information than the app allowed, at any rate they didn’t reject my application with it. I also brought it with me to my interview, and the interviewer was very pleased, saying it would be useful in his recommendation.
For most people: don’t waste your and their time. repeated information in a different format will only hurt you.</p>

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<p>2150+ SAT score
good EC’s,GPA,ESSAY!!!,Reccomendations,Apply Early Decision,and vise versa.</p>

<p>Good Luck!</p>

<p>And for SEAS you need to take MATH LEVEL 2 SAT 2 and Physics OR Chemistry SAT which i would shoot for a 750+ on all of them</p>