Am I on the right track?

rpd1817
Sun, 16 Mar 2008 09:55:14 +0000

Hi, just wondering if anyone could give me a rough estimate as to my chances at Columbia

Currently a junior at a competitive private school, in top 5 in class seeing as how my school does not rank numerically

White Male, (but I’m also a first generation Croatian national, so dunno if thats worth anything)

Freshman Year: Took most competitve schedule offered to freshmen (Alg. 2, Honors and some seminar classes)

Sophmore Year: Took most competitve schedule offered to sophmores: (Honors English II, AP Stats)

Junior Year: I’m in all honors or AP’s w/1 study hall (AP US, Honors Spanish IV, AP Chemistry, Honors PreCal, Honors English IV which means I’m taking the AP English Language test, and Honors Green Campus which is an application class that deals with environmental issues affecting our school)

Senior Year Schedule (tentative): AP Euro, AP Spanish, AP Comparative Gov., Political Issues, Honors Physics, AP Calc. BC, AP English, and a Study Hall

GPA: About a 4.4-4.6 W, 3.8 UW

SAT: 680 M, 700 CR, 760 W (taking 2 more times)
PSAT: 219 selection index, so possible National Merit
Taking ACT in April and SAT II’s in May

EC’s:
-Member of 3x State Champion Varsity Wrestling Team
-2x State Qualifier in Wrestling, took 4th this year
-Freestyle+Greco State Champion
-Member of NC Jr. National Freestyle+Greco Team, Member of NC East Coast Duals Team, Member of NC Disney Duals Team
-Competed at Junior Nationals for Team NC
-Volunteer/Shadow at Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center doing research in Plastics and Reconstruction
-Tutor Hispanic children at local elementary school
-Member of NHS, Mu Alpha Theta, Spanish Honors Society
-President/Co-Founder of Film Club, Scientific Theory Club, and Badminton Club
-Member of Enivornment Club, Democratic Student Union and Celebrate Diversity Club (hold positions but didn’t found or anything like that)
-Class Secretary Freshman year
-Honorable Mention in Toshiba Exploravision Contest
-Chemistry Olympiad
-Have a steady job if that counts

Summer Plans: Living with a host family in Argentina for a month, working, probably going to Junior Nationals for wrestling again

Will probably have solid Recs from good teachers who know me and I can usually write a good essay when it counts

Just wondering what my chances would be at Columbia, I would apply to Columbia ED and have visited about 4 times to sit in on classes and do the student lunch etc.Thank you for reading and giving feedback if you did!