College Confidential - Columbia 2012

Chance me please

jazar999-302356 — Fri, 13 Nov 2009 00:42:05 GMT

ethnicity: parents are from Iran

Legacy: my dad went to Columbia

4.0 GPA

top 10% of class

Sat: first time Math- 660 Writing-620 Critical Reading-680
second time Math- 750 Writing- 650 Critical reading- 650

taking 2 ap's as a junior Ap US History and Ap Physics C
SAT II: dont know yet

No athletic Teams
extracaricullars: debate 10th grade, college bowl, mock trial and model UN as a junior

No Community Service or tutoring

Any chance for me to get in

Chance me please 4 all Ivies, so nervous!!!! Will chance back!!!!

azn2400-310699 — Sun, 08 Nov 2009 04:22:15 GMT

Hey guys, chance me for ivies/HYSPM; I wrote a brief overview of my stats/ec's.

Stats:
SAT I: 2350 (800 W (10E), 800 M, 750 CR) (retook today hoping for 2400 but I don't think I did that well)
SAT II: Math IIC: 800, Math I: 800, Chemistry: 790, Physics: 800, U.S. History: 760, Chinese: 800
ACT: 35
PSAT: 224 (National Merit Finalist)
GPA: 3.974 UW, 4.625 W (one B+ in sophomore English)
Class Rank: 4/573ish
AP's: Have taken 11, all 5's except English (4, will not report), am taking 8 more this year

Athletics:
Cross country captain (starting junior year)
Badminton varsity captain (starting sophomore year)

EC's:
Key Club, President of Local Chapter for past two years
Debate LD Captain
Play two instruments since I was 6, piano and violin (first violinist for school orchestra)
Community Service: 320 hours
Scioly Captain
Science intern at local university, intel semifinalist
Started Charity Club, 100 members, Club President
Started Science Research Club, 20 members, Club President

Honors:
2nd in my state at debate tournament
All state musician, Piano Guild Award, honorable mention in Russian music competition
3rd at state badminton tournament
President Service Gold Award
School won state Scioly competition
Intel Semifinalist
USAMO qualifier sophomore year (only made it AIME junior year, >.<)

Other:
Asian Male
Writing essay about lab internship/Intel
Letters of rec good, especially one from BC calc teacher from junior year

Also, my parents have lowish income, could I get a scholarship to HYSPM??? So nervous!! thank you guys so much.

SEAS/ Fu RD Application

Skittled-305420 — Sat, 07 Nov 2009 21:09:14 GMT

asian male, extremely cool.

Columbia University SEAS for Chemical E. Not too sure about this yet... would it be possible to transfer to Columbia College after admission? Just wondering.

UW GPA: 3.904/4.0

Current Weighted GPA: 4.15/4.0 (only weight AP and honors junior year and senior year)
After 1st semester senior year, W GPA: 4.2-4.25/4.0

8 AP's, 5 honors.
Public, competitive high school with mostly asians. top 50 public school in America. Out of 500 students, school does not rank.

SAT:
single: 800M/670CR/680W -2150
Superscore: 800M/730CR/680W - 2210

sigh. terrible.

ACT:
Will take in December. Expecting 34+

SAT2: 800Math II, 780 Chemistry

AP Scores:
5 chem / 5 stats / 5 psych. taking chinese, biology, physics B, and Micro this year.

EC:
-Wrestling Varsity Captain
-Compete in Submission Fighting tournaments. This is a martial art, called Jiu- Jitsu. Won gold in various tournaments.
-VP of Martial Arts Club
-Track Varsity
-Church Youth Group Leader
-100+ hours , irrelevant
-Dental Experience w/ my renown family dentist. Interviewed him many times.
-Cultural Trip to China 3 weeks (will mention in essay)

WORK EXPERIENCE- N/A

-Won many grappling tournaments, wrestling tournaments
-Varsity Letters
-AP Scholar. Probably AP scholar w/ distinction or National after this year
-School does not give random awards. Must compete outside, which I didn't do =[

Recs:
1. Guidance Counselor - Amazing. Me and her are tight as hell and sometimes I'd talk to her about something not academic related. Homies. She has "profound respect" for wrestlers.

2. AP Chem Teacher- eh I did ok. Got an A then got a B 2nd semester. He likes me. WE are both athletes. Had 25 ED rec letters but chose to do mine earlier.

3. AP Stats: Bs'd this class and got A's both semesters and a 5 on the test. We are extremely cool and she is really really chill. I'm not too sure about this cause I was an idiot in her class, not being too serious.

-I'm very poor. Single parent, and she is unemployed too. Qualify for all fee waivers. Tell me scholarships I can get!

ESSAYS:
-Fighting / Wrestling / Mixed Martial Arts. i like it.
-Family, being first born son in a very traditional family. still working on it. my grandparents had 4 kids, all had daughters. and then my dad made a son. lot of stress. then my parents are divorced. so i live with my mom. trying to piece it all together.

THANKS!!! YOU GUYS ROCK.

Some valuable information/opinion about Columbia please!

hopingtogetin-309783 — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 01:58:30 GMT

Hey. I'm a college sophomore but at a community college. I'm hoping to transfer in Fall 2010. I know it doesnt really make sense to ask about my chances of getting into Columbia but I'm too nervous to even apply. With my high school grades I couldnt think of applying to even a small liberal arts college. But my A Level results (similar to what the IB is) are pretty good. Also, in my first semester at the community college, I earned a 4.0 but it was my second semester where I got all A's but 1 D in Calculus II so my 4.0 fell to a 3.59. I'm retaking the course but there is really no chance of getting an A in the class. So, I'm really scared. But I have A's in all other classes.

I gave my SAT 1 twice only to get an 1810. I didn't study both times but I know if I study I can do well. Should I give it the 3rd time? Just the thought of telling schools I'm applying to that I gave it 3 times, is already killing.

And, I am in a few honors societies (just an an active member) but not any other extracirriculars. I know they count a lot so can someone help me with what I should do to improve at least my EC to increase my chance of getting in.

I was wondering if I should even consider applying.
I love the school and the city and I really want to get in but honestly tell me, do I even stand a chance?

chance me

yd99001-230451 — Sat, 26 Sep 2009 05:46:03 GMT

by the end of my junior year.. i'll have..

GPA:5.4
RANK:In top 10
SAT1:2300
ACT:33-34
SAT2:don't know yet
PSAT:national merit scholor finanlist

AP classes:
env.sci,phychology,calc AB, calc BC, World History, Art History,
Biology, Physics B, latin, Music theory

EC's:

9th
Wind-ensemble band (played clarinet) district, regional, area levels

Science Fair

10th

Wind-ensemble band(palyed clarinet) district, regional levels

Jazz band- played piano

Deca- sophomore representative
-International business plan-district
International business plan-State
International businiess plan-International Alternate
-Race for the cure

Interact- Secretary

Key Club- Editor
-awarded as a best member

Latin-NJCL competition-district
NJCL competiton-area
NJCL competition-State

Science Fair-placed 2nd w/partner @ school

diversity club- represented South Korea @ school

NHS- nominated as a NHS member

11th
Deca-Secretary @ school
-district vice president
Internation business plan-district,state,international(placed 1st)

Interact- Vice president

Key club- Editor (2nd year)

Latin-NJCL competition
Vocabulary-distrct,area,state,national(placed 1st)
Greek Mythology-district,area,state,national(placed 1st)
Decatholon-district,area,state,national(placed 1st)
Greek Art-district,area,state,national(placed 1st)

Science Fair-1st @ school,regional,state
Intel-final stage

diversity club-represented South Korea @ school

NHS-junior representative

outside of school...

Adventures in medicines- 10~12th
(medicine program @ local hospital)
Volunteered @ E.R. (hosptial)
+300 hrs (11th-12th)
Korean school-9th~12th
+1200hrs
VBS(summer) volunteered as a teacher's ass. 9th~12th
+200hrs

Job
tutoring (10th,summer)