Chances for Columbia as an International student

Klem123446
Sat, 28 Jan 2017 11:32:54 +0000

High school:
Took IB with following courses: English a hl, Swedish a sl, economics hl, psychology hl, math sl and chemistry sl. 43 points in total.
A good but public IB school (like most in Sweden)
No GPA because its IB
Skipped 9th grade
SAT (the new one): 1530
770 Chemistry SAT subject (Had chemistry hl for the most part but ended up having to drop it)
780 Spanish SAT subject
770 German SAT subject

ECs:
member school’s party committee
Student council’s board composed of 7 people (10th)
Class representative student council (10th,11th,12th)
Board member of the environment club
Worked at a non-profit we met through the environment club (and collaborated with)
Debate club (One debate tournament, we lost)
English Tutor (10th)
IT club (11th)
Red Cross volunteer (10th, 11th, 12th)
Board member feminist club (10th)
Co-president of the intersectional feminist club (11th,12th)
President and founder of the language club (teaching new refugees/immigrants Swedish)(11th, 12th)
Did MUN (10th, a little 11th - won an award at a conference)
Mostly taught myself English
Taught myself Spanish

Background/demographics
From Sweden
No tradition of studying abroad/IB in my family
Lower middle class
I want to study Law

I have always really wanted to go to Columbia and study there. What are my chances as an international student and in general??

// Thank you so much for any responses!

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