Columbia+NYU Chance

Chance Me / Match Me
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<p>GPA-School doesn’t give. CGPA= 9th grade-8.8, 10th-8.8, 11th-74%, 12th-Don’t know
School doesn’t rank, all kids have seen their grades fall in 11th grade.</p>

<p>Subjects-Commerce in 11 & 12(Accounts, Business Studies)+Econ+Math+English(Max of 5 subject, Eng. is compulsory; other choices are Humanities and Science, in that ascending order of difficulty).</p>

<p>Prizes-Proficiency in English(2 years running), 4 C’s(compassion, caring etc etc) 2 yrs.
Doing great at the Commerce subjects(90% each) and English(about 75-80 which is as good as it gets in my school, not so great at Math and Econ.(60, 70 respectively) so far.</p>

<p>SAT </p>

<p>Attempt 1-1950; CR 670 M 530 W 750, </p>

<p>Attempt 2-2120; CR 730 M 650 W 740; Another attempt in October to crack the 2200</p>

<p>SAT II’s-Taking Eng Lit, Chem and MII between November and Dec</p>

<p>Recs.-Should be pretty good, thinking of asking this year’s Math teacher because she likes me(so far )
Extra will also be good.</p>

<p>Work Ex-Interned at a Venture Capital Firm for 2 weeks, they don’t usually take HS kids(lucky me!)</p>

<p>Research Work-Writing a paper on Venture Capital on India, have spoken to a bunch of famous entrepreneurs who will think(emphasis here) about endorsing it, considering self publishing on the iBookstore, and thus distributing it on a large scale for free</p>

<p>EC’s-

  1. Secretary General of an intl. Model UN Conference(200-odd kids from all sorts of places around the world), been for about 15(a couple of international ones), won in 13 of those, including a Best Delegate at the Ivy League MUN in Beijing(That’s organised by UPenn), also chaired a couple of MUNs. This is effectively the main EC on my CV.
  2. Founded online MUN club in school
  3. School council/govt. member
  4. One of the first members of my school’s IT club, headed the Quiz dept. for a year, trained kids in quizzing
  5. Did about 10 local quizzes
  6. Editor-in-chief of my current club’s newsletter until March this year
  7. Was a columnist for my school magazine(online+off.) for a couple of years
  8. Member of the leader’s club
  9. Member of the business club(see .6)
  10. Assistant House Captain last year(also student council)
  11. Head of school team in the Asian Regional Space Settlement Design Competition for a couple of years, qualified once for the regionals(though that was in 8th grade)
  12. Team Manager, Formula 1 in Schools India, won the “Outstanding Sportsmanship award”
  13. Ardent debater, also read a lot about politics(have a blog with lots of political opinions, amongst other things, to that effect)
    These are just the few key ones, I have a bunch more, which I can’t remember :stuck_out_tongue: .</p>

<p>Community Service-1. Attended this village camp in the hills, compulsory for my entire grade though
2. After school teaching
3. Taught old people how to use computers in the 9th grade</p>

<p>Essays should be decent too, I think I can write fairly well. </p>

<p>Not applying for FA.
Intended major-Intl. Business, or Econ.
Ethnicity-Indian
Gender-Male</p>

<p>TOEFL iBT-111</p>

<p>ED1: Columbia ED2: NYU</p>

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<p>Your SAT scores are on the lower end of the spectrum for Columbia. Since you’re looking at business and economics, your math subsection is expected to be much higher. A two week internship doesn’t sound like much. Many applicants will have longer internship experiences. Some of your other extracurriculars are impressive, but listing so many may not be a good idea. It can give the impression that you are involved in many things, but committed to few. </p>

<p>Not applying for Financial Aid will help since international admissions are NOT need - blind.</p>

<p>Overall, I think you have a solid chance at NYU Stern. Your chances at Columbia are harder to gauge.</p>

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<p>Understood. Thanks for the opinion.
Would it be safe to categorise NYU Stern/CAS(undecided on that) as a match, and Columbia as either a mid, or high reach?</p>