This is the official thread for those applying ED to Colby College.
List your unweighted GPA, any SAT /ACT scores, and ECs. What majors are you going into?
Ask your questions, the CC community is here to help!
Unweighted CGPA-3.935
SAT-1460
Honors:
National Maths Olympiad finalist
Integration bee winner
ECAs:
Leo Club(Helped establish a library)
Vice-President( At a student Club in highschool)
A research paper with international org
Tutor in a school
And few more…
What are my chances if I apply ED1? Should i go for SAT again and apply in ED2??
Excellent ECs, but you seem to be international? In that case, there’s no really point in applying ED, you’ll just get deferred to the RD round unless you are full-pay.
I opted to be test optional and we don’t calculate CGPA but my class rank is 10% out of 42 students and also got 3As, 5Bs, and 1C in my WASSCE
Honors:
Won the best debater in a regional Presidential debate competition.
Won the best student in my 9th grade.
Won a gold and silver medal in table tennis and football in my 9th grade.
ECAs:
Was a member of my school’s football team and table-tennis
Was the president of my school’s debate team for 2 years
Had an after school job after high school( learnt how to repair phones specifically)
Was also in my school choir
Was a member of the confectionery club in my school where we were taught how to bake.
I want to major in psychology and pre-law and i applied for ED am a first generation student and my close friend is also in Colby what are my chances of being accepted?
Does anyone have any idea when colby is likely to release the css fee waiver code
My son has to make his decision about Colby today.Does anyone have more information about the GES program?
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Look through the old Colby threads. There are a couple of people here whose kids did it. DS had a friend who did it – really liked it as it hot her FL out of the way, she made a good group of friends, had a fun COOT trip in Jan, and didn’t feel at all impaired socially.
(Sorry, feels like a lot of the folks with direct experience are not so active. But it’s not a crazy active forum, so you should be able to find this info without too much pain!)
I don’t know anything first-hand - kid is a 1st year there now, so hasn’t yet met the group that will be coming back in Jan. But I remember reading threads of people who’d done it and all had positive things to say. I think the drawback of not meeting people on campus first semester are balanced by having a tight cohort on the semester abroad that you then come back to school with, so it isn’t like you’re walking onto campus not knowing anyone - you have a group of close friends (hopefully) already. My kid’s loving the school in general!
Son hoping for Colby.
Got deferred ED Dartmouth.
EA’d and got into all, Tulane (feeder), Purdue, CU Boulder, Fordham, U Miami.
Applied Regular Colby, Colgate, BU, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Middledbury, Amherst, Carnegie Mellon, NYU (feeder), North Western, Wash U.
GPA 3.7
AP’s
Bio 5
Calc AB 4
Enviromental Science 5
US Gov 5
Music Theory 5
SAT 1530
EC’s
Tutoring Schoolhouse and otehr paid
Violin strongish accomplishments over 13 years
Camp Counselor
Attends academic private CA school
Looking towards sciences
Anyone get into Colby or Tufts?
GPA is unweighted, school doesn’t weight.
School doesn’t rank.
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