**What's a profile of an "average" Columbia accepted applicant?**

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<p>Anyone who attends or was accepted can you please help me? I want to see if I have a solid chance or if it's a reach.</p>

<p>GPA?
Rank?
APs?
SAT I?
SAT II?
ECs?
Ethnicity?</p>

<p>Also does anyone have any advice for the essay topics? I really want the admissions people to get to know me as a person, academically and personally, but I don't wanna write about my hardships (which I really have had my share of some) because I feel if I go that route, it'll just be cliche. </p>

<p>THANKS!!</p>

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<p>depending on the hardship, i believe that it is possible to write a personal essay without sounding cliche. I actually wrote my essay about a pretty personal event in my life. I spoke with my admissions officer shortly after I was admitted and he told me that he loved my essay.</p>

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<p>gpa depends on where u at rank better be top 5 percent aps depend on ur school but if ur skool offers alot of aps like 20- 30 u should take like 10 sat 1 1480 sat ii's 720 + , ecs is nething with passion
but ethnicity r u kidding that doesnt deserve an answer</p>

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<p>Based on my observances, the average Columbia kid is a suburban white kid from an upper middle class family who attended a private school in the Northeast/Atlantic region.</p>

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<p>so u think a hispanic male from georgia in top 5% of his class might have a chance?</p>

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<p>damn it, another hispanic male....that's not a bad thing...i just realized im not as alone....</p>

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<p>what about SEAS?</p>

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<p>really where u from zack?</p>

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<p>well, im afraid to say, cuz my mom's from a small country, so small, there are probably no other applicants with that origin, and so any admission officer roaming these boards would know for sure who i am.....i'll tell you, im not mexican or puerto rican</p>

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<p>ooooookay.................</p>

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<p>Yes, something like this would be really helpful. It would probably eliminate all of those chances questions. </p>

<p><a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=16882%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/showthread.php?t=16882&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>

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<p>compare to last year (05)'s stats.. these are much more number oriented..</p>

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<p>"so u think a hispanic male from georgia in top 5% of his class might have a chance?"</p>

<p>How does this necessarily follow from the average student being a suburban white? I know nothing about you other than your race/geography.</p>