| I don't think you should ED Johns Hopkins, you seem to be slightly more partial to Columbia. Apply ED to CU and if you're deferred or rejected, apply to JHU for the RD round. Sure, you want to concentrate more on your ECs w/o the pain of college apps, but RD deadlines are typically in January, still giving you a good 5-6 months to concentrate on what you love. Solid chances at JHU. Columbia's decisions sometimes seem completely random, so I say, go for it. If you get ED into JHU, I'm sure you're going to keep wondering about Columbia. ED is great and all, but if you equally favor both schools, the obvious answer would be to ED JHU because no matter how great your stats are, an acceptance there is less selective and more predictable. So, really, I feel like this chances thread is more "should I go for Columbia?" than anything else. And you certainly should. While not exceptionally stellar, your numbers won't keep you out. And an Asian with a humanities focus might be a breath of fresh air. Plus, NY > Baltimore.
And as the AP scores go, I think they only matter when applying to *elite* colleges. Fine, they're not evaluated as sharply as some of your other application factors, but they're not going to choose to kid who received straight 5s on every AP (thus standardizing their knowledge of calculus or history or etc) over the one who received 3s, unless the 3 student has something exceptional to offer. Show these schools you're exceptional. | 
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