<p>DECISION: ACCEPTED!</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (750M, 800R, 800W)
ACT (breakdown): 33-didn’t submit
SAT II: 760 World History, 800 BioE, 790 Math II
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 4.0
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no rank
AP (place score in parenthesis): All 5s
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: difficult All APs
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): hahaha nothing </p>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<p>Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): model UN, music (cello), EIC of newspaper, local speech competitions, research
Job/Work Experience: N/A
Volunteer/Community service: local nursing home, tutoring, hospital, etc.
Summer Activities: research, camp for an area of study I find interesting, volunteering
Essays (rating 1-10, details): My common app essay was definitely like a 9 or 10. My Columbia-specific essays were probably 7-8. </p>
<p>Recommendations (rating 1-10, details):</p>
<p>Teacher Rec #1: biology teacher-definitely excellent
Teacher Rec #2: english teacher-excellent
Counselor Rec: She knows my name without looking it up (no small thing in my big school) and really likes me.
Additional Rec: research professor-extremely strong
Interview: Only 20 minutes long, but she went to my high school three years before I did and we had a nice chat. We both have an interest in the same semi-obscure subject and sort of bonded over that. </p>
<p>Other</p>
<p>Applied for Financial Aid?: yes
Intended Major: French/linguistics but a premed student
State (if domestic applicant): CA
Country (if international applicant):
School Type: large public that sends ~3 students to Columbia every year
Ethnicity: white
Gender: female
Income Bracket: too much to get a significant amount of financial aid
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): nothing?</p>
<p>Reflection</p>
<p>Strengths: Essays? Recs?
Weaknesses: extracurriculars/awards for sure
Why you think you were accepted/deferred/rejected: my research professor’s letter was so good that I was asked to confirm that I wasn’t a grad school applicant. Tbh it was probably that letter that got me in. Everything else about me is generic.
Where else were you accepted/deferred/rejected: MIT (deferred lol)</p>
<p>General Comments:
I actually don’t know why I got in. I feel very unworthy haha. Columbia has been my dream school for as long as I can remember, and I have longed to move to NYC since I was about 5 years old. I am beyond ecstatic. I look forward to meeting everyone next fall!</p>