Chance Thread for Columbia University 2018

teszzz
Sun, 22 Sep 2013 22:30:19 +0000

Here are all my stats…I am female, Chinese, bilingual, and a first generation immigrant. I attend a small-ish sized public school in upstate New York, with the graduating class at around 360 students. I plan on majoring in Linguistics, Political Science, or doing the 5-Year Program @ SIPA (if I can get in!) Thanks!

Academics:
Class Rank: unknown
Unweighted GPA: unknown
Weighted GPA: 99.011 (sorry, my school does it out of 100 and I’m not sure of the conversion)
Sophomore Year- World History: 5
Junior Year- US History: 5
Calculus AB (subscore): 5
Calculus BC: 5
English Language: 5
Chemistry: 5
Senior Year-
Politics
Economics (Macro)
Physics B
Chinese
Spanish

Testing:
SAT: 2250-twice, super-scored. I scored a 2240 on my second test, but I’ll probably send both. I’m most worried about my math score…
720 CR / 790 W / 740 M

Subject Tests:
US History- 710
Math II- 750

ACT: 34-once. I winged it and did pretty well. yay!

Extracurriculars and awards:
President of Student Council
Member of Senior Executive Council
Co-Founder and President of Division C Science Olympiad (High School Level)
Alto Section Leader of Jazz Choir
Select Women’s Choir
Aid Through Music (Music Volunteering Club)
Rochester Philharmonic Youth Orchestra
Member of NHS (Mentor Coordinator)
Notre Dame Junior of the Year Finalist
Volunteering in the city to fix houses, serve at soup kitchens, etc (with church)
Worship Leader and Student Leader in Youth Group @ Church
Conference All State as Alto 2 in Women’s Choir (as well as countless All-Counties and Area All-States on both violin and voice)
Mentor at Elementary School
Empire State Games for the Physically Challenged (volunteer)
Wellesley College Book Award
National Spanish Exam Bronze

Work:
Teach violin 2x week
Internship at Governor Cuomo’s Rochester regional office this summer (I’m hoping this will be a plus)

I plan to have a few teacher recommendations as well as a recommendation from the governor’s regional representative, whom I worked under. I hope that will somewhat distinguish me from other applicants. Thanks for taking the time to read this!