Official Columbia University 2016 RD Results

diveluca
Thu, 28 Mar 2013 19:06:13 +0000

Decision: Accepted - SEAS

Objective:[ul]
[] SAT I (breakdown): 2070 (630 CR, 690 M, 750 W, 8 Essay)
[] ACT: 29
[] SAT II: 760 Bio E, 650 Math 2
[] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): 97.36/100
[] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 8/308
[] AP (place score in parenthesis): 5 US History,5 US Gov.,5 Biology, 4 World History
[] IB (place score in parenthesis): None
[] Senior Year Course Load: AP Literature, AP Language, AP Chemistry, AP Macroeconomics, AP Calculus BC, Adv. Chem 2(pre-AP Chem), Intermediate Band
[] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Acheivement, Questbrisge College Match Finalist
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): 4 years Marching Band (12th-Tuba Section Leader), 3 years Environmental Club (12th-President), 2 years Interact, 2 years Beta Club, 3 years National Honor Society, 1 year Empower CSHS (co-founder)
[] Job/Work Experience: 5-week summer internship @ UGA College of Pharmacy
[] Volunteer/Community service: Adopt-A-Highway, Food Shelter, Humane Society, School Rain Garden
[] Summer Activities: Internship mentioned before…visiting grandparents (used to my advantage in essay)
[] Essays: Can’t remember right now, but all of them went back to overcoming financial hardships.
[] Teacher Recommendation: Amazing!!! I have a good relationship with nearly all of my teachers.
[] Counselor Rec: Also amazing. My counselor and I are quite close.
[] Additional Rec: None
[] Interview: None

[/ul]Other[ul]
[] State (if domestic applicant): Georgia
[] Country (if international applicant):
[] School Type: Public
[] Ethnicity: African-American
[] Gender: Male
[] Income Bracket: ~37,000
[li] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): URM, First Generation, low-income [/li]
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[] Strengths: Essays and recommendations
[] Weaknesses: Test scores
[] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Essays and Recommendations. I made my essays super personal (why not? I knew it would help admissions know me better)
[] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Waitlisted (University of Chicago, University of Pennsylvania, Yale, Princeton, Vanderbilt), Rejected (MIT,Cornell)
Accepted (Brown University, Emory, Carnegie Mellon and UGA)

[/ul]General Comments:
Questbridge helped pay for 10 of the 14 schools that I applied to (it rocks). The other 4 were covered by collegeboard waivers.