<p>okayy PROJECTED stats by end of junior year:</p>
<p>race/gender: asian female
GPA: 4.7 w, 3.9 uw
rank: school doesn't rank, but probably top 5/500
PSAT: 235 (80cr, 80m, 75w)
SAT2: 800BioM, 800Chem, will take like 3 this year just for fun
APs: one 5 so far
Courseload: hardest possible + more at my school...
school: very conservative school in NJ...doesn't let anyone take APs unless they're sure you'll get a 5...everyone gets 5's...we won the siemens award..frosh year honors / ap classes don't get weighted
Junior APs: physics, bio, english, calc, us
recs: can probably get great ones</p>
<p>ECs (by end of junior year):
Captain of Varsity Girl's Tennis - 10 11 12 (30 hours a week for about 3 months)
President of origami club - 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week rounded up for year minus tennis season)
president of cancer awareness club - 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of this volunteering club - 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
president of future doctors club - 9 10 11 12 (like 1 hour a week for a year minus tennis season)
VP of animal protection club - 9 10 11 12 (like 2 hours a week for a year minus tennis season)
captain of math team - 9 10 11 12 (10 hours a week if you count self studying)
captain of science olympiad - 10 11 12 (like 10 hours a week for about 1/2 year >_<)
Columbia science honors program (3 hours a week for a year)
etc.</p>
<p>awards
new jersey science league 2nd place biology 1 (1st place team)
"" 6th chem 1 (3rd team)
fbla intro to biz comm. 1st place at states
fbla into to biz comm. 2nd place at nationals
lots of regional math awards, such as individual first place in county for geometry algebra etc.
some science olympiad regional and hoepfully state awards
AMC10 school winner, AIME, want to make usamo this year
im also studying for chem physics and bio but i kno that means nothing rite now
i won a regional USTA tennis tournament (Level 3)
Piano awards-Associated royal board school of music or something level 7 piano
ARBSM level 5 music theory pass w/ merit
blahblahblah
etc.</p>
<p>summer:
i have about 100 hours at the local hospital
want to get another volunteering job over the summer
want to go to a summer program such as MIT WTP or SSP; going to apply</p>
<p>i kno half the things mean nothing but can you chance me please ^__^</p>
<p>You seem academically strong, and it appears you're going to do well on the SAT I.</p>
<p>You'll have to take a lot of AP exams this year.
Math II, Physics, Language, and U.S. History would be good ideas for SAT IIs.</p>
<p>I'm speechless as to how someone can be the president of so many clubs and organizations... and Columbia doesn't care for the number of hours you've invested in these things, FYI.</p>
<p>but then i really want to make USAMO...and that's like 5 hours/day MINIMUM for two months...and on top of 8 hours of school and 8 hours of sleep ....... you do the math</p>
<p>well, actually my friend did do some math... I have hard time believing you have any free time for yourself during tennis season. lol</p>
<p>I'd say if you write solid essays and etc. you have a great chance. The people on CC can blow things way out of proportion sometimes. All I can say is, on the Columbia Application you're only allowed 7 spots for ECs and no spot for hours, and they pretty much hate additional info, lol. And you're also only allowed to list 3 of your most important awards (personal or academically)... so my only advice is to choose wisely to show a certain passion in something. gl!</p>
<p>They do not "hate" additional info. They simply discourage it to scare enough people that they won't have heaps of resumes from every applicant. That doesn't mean your application will automatically sink if you include extras. I was accepted with quite a bit of additional info sent in. You just have to decide for yourself whether or not it will make your app stronger.</p>
<p>hmm...yeah i was look at the columbia appp cuz, and they say to "use additional space as necessary"--if i don't fill up two whole pages front and back of all the clubs i've ever joined (which would be realy ridiculously funny) it should be ok right =) besides, most applicants probably have never heard of CC and they do what they want to do without knowing what colleges "want"</p>
<p>it's also a sign of confidence, in yourself and in the meaningfulness of your accomplishments, that you decide that an admissions committee should know (and would want to know) what additional info you're telling them. Basically, they want you to be the judge of that and make you think before sending.</p>
<p>(because let's be honest, we could all say a lot more crap about ourselves than anyone would want to hear, and admissions officers have way too much to read as it is)</p>
<p>xdub: ah yeah, my bad. I found it almost impossible to list 5 awards and describe them within the character limit, no matter how I tried, so I just think of it as 3 I guess.</p>
<p>NightOwl1082: Yeah, that was too harsh... but I don't think telling them how many hours you put into each EC a week qualifies as necessary additional info. Everything I sent in as additional info was just explaining clubs specific to my school or how some of my teachers/coaches left my school and how it affected my ECs/classes.</p>
<p>And, the type of person you described sounds like a total loser to me.
Regardless of whether or not she gets into a good college, she'll still be a loser in my book :D</p>
<p>By the way, why are you posting under another username?
Did they ban you for spamming all the boards with your profile?</p>
<p>your stats are leaning toward engineering/science...
if you're applying for SEAS you're a shoe in(seriously)
I just got in this year SEAS and i have almost exactly the same academics as you
but you got me on all those math awards, tennis, allthose leadership positions</p>
<p>CC would be harder especially seeing as your profile is geared towards math/science</p>
<p>but if you do decide to go to Columbia i'll cya there</p>
<p>^what a pity, but anyway, CC doesn't become harder because your profile is geared towards math and science, it becomes harder if you have little else on there. i'd say good chance to either school.</p>