Total mess, need chancing and advice...

Colleges & Universities Columbia University
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<p>**Decision: Going ED **</p>

<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 710/700/680
[</em>] SAT IIs: 650 Biology, taking Math I in November
[<em>] GPA: 4.0
[</em>] Rank: school is slow, top 10 people though
[<em>] Other stats:
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: Interesting, I talked about my struggle with over-work and competition and how it can negatively affect the dynamics of the world.
[<em>] Teacher Recs: Solid, one describes more of my technical abilities as a student whereas the other one talks about my personality and creativity.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Old family friend, bullet proof.
[<em>] Hook (if any): First Generation Malagasy-American son of two doctors
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: New York
[<em>] School Type: Public
[</em>] Ethnicity: Malagasy (I know, like the movie)
[<em>] Gender: Male
[/ul]Other Factors:[ul]
[</em>]International Youth Leadership Forum 2008: China, Team Medicine
[<em>]Group Work Camps 2006 - West Virginia: Built houses for poor local residents, worked alongside reformed convicts.
[</em>]Stony Brook University 2005 - Helped Run a Free Clinic in a small rural village in Madagascar with some med students
[<em>]Crazy Musician: Symphonic Band President, take part in school plays, marching band, jazz band, orchestra… pretty much everything
[</em>]Senior Internship - Interning in the OR
[li]Youth Group - For my church, we do a lot of community service.[/ul][/li]General Comments/Concerns: My SAT Subject test is in November, and the application thing says all your testing must be completed by the November test date. Does that include the November test date? Also, I filled out my application and didn’t notice the downloadable forms so now I have a week basically to get my counselor to fill everything out. I feel like an idiot and I’m stressing out. Also, it says please do not fold this form- did you guys give your teachers a 9/12 envelope then? Does it not really matter, because my school just uses regular envelopes.</p>

<p>On a cuter note, my prospective prom date/crush and I are both applying ED. She’s smarter than I am, so she’ll probably get in over me. It would be something if we both got in though, yeah?</p>

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<p>I messaged them about the SAT II date of November because thats when Im doing them too.</p>

<p>But unfortuntally for you, they said I could only do it then because techinically it was still the last day of october eastern standard time.(since we are about a day ahead of you).</p>

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<p>^ roflmao at frankechanel. Maybe you should move to a different time zone notajock.</p>

<p>There have been several anecdotes on this forum that simply state that the november sat test date is viable for ED, so long as Columbia is pre designated as a recipient for the november SAT score, and yes… it doesn’t matter wherever the hell you are on the globe.
For the ultra paranoid, I have also confirmed this with a admissions officer on the phone two months ago.</p>

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<p>Good EC’s, work on that Bio SAT II though, that’s not a great score. If you can up that I think you’ll have decent chances.</p>

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<p>actually, I’m not sure you should apply ED. Your 680 could be higher–unless you have a killer essay.</p>

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<p>november 1st SAT IIs are fine, that’s what i am doing
that’s what the coach at columbia told me </p>

<p>lol i have a 700 literature and a 630 math I…will retake in nov math II and chemistry</p>

<p>I suggest you take math II as well if you have taken precalc, math II has a much kinder curve</p>

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<p>Girls don’t usually don’t end up with guys who are less intelligent than they are. I think it’s more likely that guys aren’t into girls who are smarter than they are, and less likely that girls shun dumber guys.</p>

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<p>“On a cuter note, my prospective prom date/crush and I are both applying ED. She’s smarter than I am, so she’ll probably get in over me. It would be something if we both got in though, yeah?”</p>

<p>You’re a keeper, aren’t you? :)</p>

<p>work that SAT</p>