Chance Thread for Columbia University 2018

sky0863
Mon, 09 Dec 2013 22:00:44 +0000

Wow now I look so small now… Haha you guys are really competitive applicants. I’m an international applicant (small private in the rural) to Fu Foundation Engineering.

GPA: 3.82 UW (no rankings in my school - perhaps in the top 25%)
SAT: 2280 composite (is this too low?)
SAT 2: Math2C 800 / Physics 800 / Chem 770
AP Psychology 5
AP US History 4
AP Statistics 5
AP Chemistry 4
AP Music Theory 5 (aural/nonaural subscores both 5)
AP Calculus BC 5

AP courses: Psychology, English Language, Statistics, US History, Physics B, Chemistry, Statistics, Calculus BC
Eight not too much… Do you think taking college level courses like linear algebra could compensate this?

ECs, in my opinion, cannot be compared to others (definitely not that mine is better - in fact others’ EC seems just amazing) simply because I had very different chances. (ex - USAMO qualifier but never can participate in it - since I’m not a US citizen…) The most worried matter in my application is my GPA, SAT score and relatively small number of AP. Do you think this might hurt me badly?