<p>Decision: Accepted - CC</p>
<p>Objective:
SAT I (breakdown): 2270 (780 W 760 M 730 CR)
ACT: Didn’t take
SAT II: 770 USH 760 BIO E
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): School doesn’t do unweighted; 4.40 weighted.
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): 2/276
AP (place score in parenthesis): APUSH, Bio, Stats (all 5’s)
IB (place score in parenthesis): N/A
Senior Year Course Load: AP Chem AP Lit AP Calc AP Span AP Physics
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): AP Scholar, Harvard Book Award, and then a bunch of random in school/state awards…
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): National honor society (historian) Rotary/Interact (Treasurer) SADD (co-chair) National Spanish Honor Society (VP) Youth based volunteer group, Habitat for Humanity, Adventures in missions, etc.
Job/Work Experience: Worked two seasonal jobs that were heavy on hours (35 per week about.) and currently working at a steady 20 hr/week job during senior year
Volunteer/Community service: Countless hundreds of hours given at a hospital along with tons of community service in my hometown, mission trips across the country and various other things.
Summer Activities: Part of my EC’s above
Essays: I think they were good and probably what got me in. Common app was about spending the summer volunteering at Yale and getting to know a young boy with cancer, wrote my supplements very open-mindedly; wrote about the core curriculum, struggles we face in society today, my aspirations for medicine, etc.
Teacher Recommendation: Didn’t see either of them but got recc’s from my AP Bio and APUSH teachers who both really love me; I worked after school and did a lot of tutoring for APUSH and I’m a TA this year for my AP Bio teacher so we’re really close.
Counselor Rec: Didn’t see it but was most likely generic; counselor loved me, but he’s not the best.
Additional Rec: N/A
Interview: Went extremely well. Guy loved me and said he was going to send back a great report and all that. It probably helped.
State (if domestic applicant): CT
Country (if international applicant): N/A
School Type: Small public
Ethnicity: White
Gender: M
Income Bracket: ~$130000
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): First gen college + first gen American. Speak four languages, etc.
Reflection
Strengths: Grades and test scores definitely didn’t hurt, also my hooks are appealing I suppose to some schools. My essays I truly believe did it for me.
Weaknesses: A lack of leadership and a variety of EC’s, besides that I kind of covered most things.
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Honestly I could not tell you. I was not expecting acceptance at all yet here I am. I really think my essays were really heartfelt and definitely grabbed the attention of the admissions committee. They were my pride and joy.
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Columbia ED was the only one I’ve heard so far.
General Comments: I really am taken aback. I don’t know what else to say or how to convey how surprised I am at acceptance. Congratulations to all who got in, and those who were deferred or rejected, keep your head up and things will be fine. Columbia is definitely not the end all.</p>
<p>Go Columbia Lions!! CC’18!!</p>