<p>I have scored a 1500 on the SAT (1600 scale) and have a 3.45 cumulative GPA (weighted). I am still in my Junior year, and am taking and have taken several honors classes. I play some sports, but am not exceptional in any of them, and I have done moderate to minimal service hours. I am a reasonably good writer and have no reason to expect anything but the best recommendations. In short, I am not worried about getting into a college. However, I am wondering if I stand any chance of getting into Columbia, which is my dream school and first choice.</p>
<p>What is your college major?And why dont you try in other colleges aswell like Cambridge Univerity or Oxford University or Harvard,or Princeton or Yale?YAle should be much easier than Columbia.</p>
<p>1) why are you posting this in this forum? this was for the columbia class of 2009…</p>
<p>2) “Yale should be much easier than columbia” you do realize yale has a lower acceptance rate right?</p>
<p>3) you’ve given us very minimal information, its too hard to chance you without things like sat II’s, class rank, etc…</p>
<p>Johnnymy bet is that your GPA will be tough to overcome.</p>
<p>And do your research carefully before applying to an international school like Oxford or Cambridge just because someone on CC told you you should. They are VERY different schools with a very different setup from the typical US undergraduate structure.</p>
<p>Interesting comment on Cambridge and Oxford. </p>
<p>Look, with a 3.45 W you have little to no chance at any of these schools (Columbia, Cambridge, or Oxford) unless you go 4.0 this semester and first semester next year. </p>
<p>And as far as the English schools, they are not only the best schools in the UK, they are the best schools in all of Europe at the undergraduate level.</p>
<p>Getting into them is the equivalent of getting into Harvard, Yale, Stanford, Princeton, or MIT.</p>
<p>Speaking of which, the third best school in England is Imperial College (which is like MIT mostly focused on science) and next is University College, London. You would have a better chance at a slightly lower level college like Regents in England.</p>
<p>Also, I admire your SAT score (1500 is good), but you haven’t said anything about ECs, volunteer service, academic or sports competition, leadership posts, etc. Without these, Ivy league is not going to happen. Start working on these–and start trying to be more realistic about what college(s) you actually have a chance at. Go to the section entitled “What are my chances?” to get a better idea of what colleges you might be able to get into. </p>
<p>Best of luck.</p>
<p>In response to the above post, I must disagree. The LSE, and not Imperial, is the UK’s third-best uni.</p>
<p>In response to the above post, I must disagree. Imperial, and not the LSE, is the UK’s third-best uni. :-p</p>
<p>I think if Columbia is your first choice school, you should definitely apply no matter what these CC people say. I think you have a chance of getting in.</p>
<p>ammarsfound: shut up XP !!!</p>
<p>well thats what uni rankings say anyway :-)</p>
<p>since when are yale harvard and oxford ranked higher and easier to get into than columbia. do ur research.</p>
<p>Isn’t the acceptance rate for Columbia College below 10 percent? What’s the rate for Harvard or Yale?</p>
<p>Columbia is 10% or at least it was last year. Harvard is like 9%. It’s not that different.</p>
<p>Regardless of the US or UK school rankings, does anyone here think the OP has the slightest chance of getting into Columbia with a 3.45 W GPA just based upon their 1500 SAT? </p>
<p>Personally, I say not even a 1% chance.</p>
<p>I got into columbia with a 3.3 UW GPA (3.9 weighted) and 1550 SAT.</p>
<p>…the SECOND time.</p>
<p>Got deferred -> waitlisted -> rejected during my senior year of HS, during which time I was working full time while in the evenings finishing the last class i had to graduate (long story). Ended up taking a year off, working another year, and then applying ED and got in. The decisive factor was the work experience, as my admissions officer made clear - i showed i had the work ethic / maturity now that i didn’t have in high school, so since i clearly had the brains and talents, that was the missing link and they were willing to take a chance.</p>
<p>In other words, it’s possible but hard.</p>
<p>Denzera, note that the OP has a weighted 3.45 GPA (you had a weighted 3.9 GPA). </p>
<p>I will stand by my previous post.</p>
<p>a B+ average is a B+ average, dude. They don’t look good even if it says “honors” next to the course name.</p>
<p>I cannot believe Yale is much easier than Columbia. Please justify your claim. Thanks.</p>
<p>I am the parent of a senior who has received a likely letter from Columbia. Son got 2350 SAT first attempt junior year, 770 math 2c, 760 Latin, 800 Physics. School has scale going to 100, max unweighted is 93, he got 92, even grades all high school years, I mean grade trend, 24 academic solids, 2 languages Latin and French to the AP level, this year, indep study in Fr Lit, of course AP Physics, AP Chem AP Comp Sci and AP Calculus this year, also AP English, 5 APs so far in sophomore and junior year, 4 in Fr, 5 in Euro, USH, English and Latin. Studied Art Hist summer Cornell. EC: varsity tennis and chamber orchestra at school.</p>
<p>I was pleasantly surprised. His mother and I had constructed a school curriculum that would be blind to college. In 8th grade we asked, what should a civilized man know if he never could go to college. Hence emphasis on languages, classical and modern, art history and music. Son broke the Asian stereotype of textureless math grind as MIT’s Merilee Jones is reported to have said. So, my question to all of you: what got him in? Thanks.</p>