Columbia ED Class of 2025 Discussion Thread

yoyostrings
Tue, 05 Oct 2021 04:19:15 +0000

ACCEPTED
Applied ED after being deferred from QuestBridge NCM

Profile:
-First-gen Asian female
-Modestly competitive high school

Stats:
Salutatorian (GPA: 98/100), test-optional, most rigorous courseload

Activities:
Quite a few, but the most important ones are:

-starting a youth mentorship organization and served as director (not as impressive as it sounds) with around 50 students in a span of a few months (1yr)

-did a competitive writing internship where I also published a piece of writing with their digital magazine (1yr)

-school debate team (captain) (4yrs), won a few regional awards, nothing major
-school newspaper (founder & eic) (3yrs)
-business club (co-founder & moderator) (2 yrs)
-creative writing (4 yrs) basically did some projects in my free time
-volunteered at my local library (2 yrs)
-two social activism organizations outside of school (1yr)

additional info activities (not as important to me)
-this social justice policy group I was accepted to ​(a few months) and started doing during senior year
-short commitments like one time all-day events or being involved in this online journal for a few months
-piano (2yrs)
-literature club (failed)
-miscellaneous volunteering

essays: were told that they are genuine and well-written

recs: decent as the teachers had a very good impression of me and i also happened to ask teachers whose class i did well in

I think I demonstrated a lot of initiative and leadership in terms of school-wide activities and did not spread myself too thin overall. I had things to talk about that connected my application together.