How is this possible?

Kamikaze558 · 05-25-2009, 12:18 PM

A student from my high school who graduated two years ago got into Columbia University. Here were his stats:
GPA 3.72/4.00
Rank: 13th out of 500 kids
SAT 1: 1930
SAT 2: 800 SPanish and 660 Math 1
Took 4 total AP's in 4 years in high school.
Esaay: About being Hispanic in America.
Extracirric: Ran track, SPanish Honor Society, National Honor Society, and took college COurses at Columbia over the summer.
OTHER INFO:
He lives in New York and is from a Hispanic background.

I thought that you needed 2200+ SAT's and extraordinary stats to get into Ivy league schools. How is it possible that he got in?

pinkyy · 05-25-2009, 01:47 PM

SATs aren't always everything... it's pretty shallow for you to overlook everything else on his resume.
Columbia's average range by the way is 2050-2320. Some people get higher, some people get lower and 1930 isn't too far off.
It seems like you wanna hear that he got in just because he's hispanic...
That might not be the case-- his GPA is good, his ranking is not too bad either and he was probably able to get a Columbia professor he had over the summer to write a stellar recommendation for him.