Columbia SEAS ED

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<p>Thanks for taking the time to read this! Columbia SEAS is my first choice.</p>

<p>Asian Male </p>

<p>I’ll be applying to their applied physics program because my research mentor went to SEAS for graduate school. I am working on a project involving superconducting materials with him and he highly recommended that I continue my study at Columbia University.</p>

<p>Location: Top public high school in New York
Gender: Male
Ethnicity: Asian
Rank: My school doesn’t rank
GPA: 94.0 out of 100(unweighted)
SAT: 780 CR 800 M 610 W (I’m afraid that the writing score might hurt me)
SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC 800 Chinese 780 Physics
ACT: 32</p>

<p>Senior Workload:
Physics C
Micro/Macroeconomics
Calculus AB
Scientific Research (Intel)</p>

<p>AP Scores:
5 Chinese
5 Physics B, I also have a 99 physics average
4 Chemistry
3 Calculus BC (took for fun?)</p>

<p>Awards:
National Honor Society (ARISTA)
Chinese National Honor Society
AP Scholar with Honor
Got into AIME twice (AMC 10 - 120 , AMC -12 - 100.5), got a 3 on the AIME
Graduated with top honors at Chinese language school
Some volunteer award</p>

<p>Sports:
Track for one year, probably won’t mention it
Table tennis, I play competitively against people 3 times my age</p>

<p>EC’s:</p>

<p>Math Team (for freshman and senior years, skipped soph and junior year)
Science Olympiad Physics and Tech (our team went to states and won first at regionals)
Chinese language school for 12 years, one of the top students
Volunteer at a local hospital (~500 hours)</p>

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<li>Single child, raised by single mother</li>
<li><p>Low income</p></li>
<li><p>Very fluent in Chinese, studying graduate material at my language school</p></li>
<li><p>The research I am doing is basically applied physics. I design different experiments and record results which will eventually culminate in me submitting the paper to Intel</p></li>
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<p>Thanks for your time.</p>

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<p>You ECs are a little narrow but I doubt it will hurt you very much for SEAS. Follow through on your research project and submit it. I don’t think your writing score will hurt as much as you think. I know a current freshman with similar interest and similar total 3 part SAT score (his scores are more balanced, but writing is still the least respected/considered score and your other scores are top notch), a little higher ACT, better ECs, and a goodly amount of research project acheivement. He was admitted RD as a Davis scholar. He had ISEF awards for projects. I believe that demonstrated research interest and acheivement is a strong positive for SEAS admission.</p>

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<p>Thank you so much for your response.</p>

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<p>anyone else wish to comment? they are greatly appreciated…</p>