What are the Chances?

goodluck1
Sun, 12 Jul 2009 22:35:04 +0000

I was a little harsh in my previous post, but I just wanted to give you a heads up before the process began. One of my senior friends was waitlisted at Columbia (it was her dream school) with 2330 SAT, 800 Math II, 760 Chemistry, and 720 US History, 35 act, 7 aps(all 5s) by junior year end, an ISEF finalist, good essays and recs (i’m assuming it to be the case for the last two because i obviously don’t know for sure). She did, however, get accepted to MIT. Columbia’s acceptance rate dropped to 9%. I wouldn’t put my hopes on Columbia, because it is a bit abnormal from all of the other Ivies and top schools, but you should always give it your best shot, noone knows for sure what can happen :] Good Luck!