<p>That might be too easy (essentially any gpa lower than 3.0 or sat under 1600). It is quite intimidating logging into CC and reading the resumes people post. This is an accomplished crowd. I truly wonder what percentile most cc users fall into. There’s no way the 3000 who applied ED all have 2200+ and 3.9+. My sisters, when they applied to college, applied ED to Brown and Vanderbilt. They each had 29s on the ACT. A respectable score. I see those type of applicants filling the majority of the ED pool (and I hope). Applicants with 29s are impressive students, they are intelligent, and maybe they are great assets to campus. I don’t like to score bias, these are my sisters I’m talking about, but that alone put them on the edge. I see the majority of ED applicants people who are on the edge. anyone concur.</p>
<p>Just to play your game, though.</p>
<p>Name: Herman Cain
School: Great Neck High School
SAT: 2320
SAT II: math ii - 780 chemistry - 740
GPA: 3.3
Activities: Junior varsity cheerleading, ping pong, blogging</p>
<p>P.S. I hope you noted that Great Neck is the high school where the SAT cheating scandal originated from. My prospective applicant paid Eshagoff to get his 2320 while he cheated on his girlfriend</p>
<p>haha at first I was confused…I was like “why is he giving him a 2320 SAT? thats a pretty good score…” Then I read your part underneath and laughed</p>
<p>As to your comment about the resumes on CC I completely agree. It took me a while to realize that everyone here is probably in the top middle half (at LEAST) of all applicants.</p>
<p>4.0 GPA, 2400 SAT, most rigorous schedule possible, Winner of International Math, Science, and Writing contests, half Native American, half Tibetan raised by a gay interracial couple, wrote their essay about escaping slavery in their home country of North Korea, then went back to break their parents out of a concentration camp and helped to build the family from penniless peasants to millionaires by working in a coal mine to earn money to invest, doesn’t have the right number of syllables in their essay. (if you didn’t know, that’s what ‘holistic’ means)</p>
<p>Yeah, it is definitely something you have to consider when using cc. I’d venture to say many people read and don’t post, though. I read cc threads for a good 6 months before joining and then another 4 months before posting. Just to clarify “on the edge,” I meant lower edge. I think many ED applicants are students who feel they need the ED bump. I don’t know whether or not there is one. I’m just going to drop some numbers for fun.</p>
<p>150 recruited athletes
300 students with SAT above 2350
1050 students with SAT 2150-2350 (middle 50% of last year?)
1500 students with SAT below 2150</p>
<p>Hahaha! Someone is into calculating numbers for fun! I just meant Columbias 2015 entering class middle 50% is somewhere in that range. The numbers I put down are how i think the ED pool is divided</p>
<p>This is in no way directed at the people applying this year but about everyone’s schools’ past applicants. This happens at my school, so I was just wondering. I know a few kids last year who were all hype about getting into Columbia ED, but were rejected. While a kid, who no one even knew applied ED, got in. This happens a lot at my school, does it happen at your guys schools too?</p>
<p>People who apply ED and are frantic about the school usually get rejected or deferred, but those who are nonchalant and cool about it (don’t seem to even care about getting in) actually get in?</p>
<p>@free2rhyme: I think that’s because the people who are frantic feel that they have a weak chance in the first place, and that kind of self-doubt is never beneficial. Usually the nonchalant people are confident about their chances within reasonable limits, and that way they have better chances in practice.</p>
<p>@ceviche: I’m studying stats in Math HL too. :)</p>
<p>@Panther But Columbia is a reach for everyone, so everyone should be concerned. But with my personal anecdote, the person who got into Columbia ED was just a naturally chill person. The people who were rejected had pretty good stats too; I know one had a 2370 SAT (class rank: 3 out of 444; president/leader of literally 4-5 clubs).</p>
<p>LOLSAURUS: part of my ED agreement was missing because Columbia was having problems with Naviance but they emailed me about it so my counselor just faxed them a paper version the next day to make sure it got in… You should call them tomorrow to see what is up</p>
<p>so question to all my fellow EDers… when did you know for sure you wanted to apply ED to Columbia? I actually decided pretty late… like mid to late November…</p>