Rejected - (Conlumbia)

Decision: Rejected - CC


SAT I (breakdown): 2350 (800 CR, 760 M, 790 W,)
SAT II: Math IIC 790, Chemistry 770
Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): school doesnt rank
AP (place score in parenthesis):
IB (place score in parenthesis): 42/45
Senior Year Course Load:
Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): Duke of Edinburgh's Award - Silver, Harvard Book Prize, couple of Best Delegate Awards for MUN
Subjective:
Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Varsity Squash & Football, founder of a few clubs at school, community service team, prefect, student council chair, MUN
Job/Work Experience: Hospital internship over summer
Volunteer/Community service: lots and lots of community service
Summer Activities: tutored, business competitions + debate conferences
Essays: thought that my ca essay was really good (really unique). might've messed up on the supplementary essays - really rushed them and sent them off right before the deadline because i had to rewrite them after my laptop crashed
Counselor Rec: Not sure, but should have been fairly ok
Additional Rec: should be good, didnt see
Interview: went really well. we were interested in the same major so we talked a lot about it

Other
State (if domestic applicant):
School Type: International
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Income Bracket: 60K
Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): None

Reflection
Strengths: Scores/grades, main essay
Weaknesses: supplementary essays, ethnicity...no..really
Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Not very sure..i was really surprised when i read the email because i was hoping for a deferral. i think that might have been because my supplements were weak and also because i sent off my application quite late...
Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: Didn't apply to other ED. waiting for EA's, and hoping that ill get in somewhere for regular admissions...

General Comments: Columbia was my dream school since middle school. it just seemed so right and perfect for me, and everything was going so well..i really dont know what to do, its hard to say goodbye to your dreams...so long New York

所有跟帖： 

• graciously accepted the rejection. -陌上花开缓缓行- ♀ (66 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 10:49:45

• 就冲这句话也没拒错.”i really dont know what to do“ -Duckegg- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 10:52:36

• “might've messed up on the supplementary essays ” -又当爹来又当妈- ♀ (171 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 10:52:39

• lesson learned - back up your essay -shangri-la- ♀ (35 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 10:54:09

• Asian boy syndrome: -高船- ♂ (38 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 10:56:20

• 瞎猜到一把 -flagsix- ♂ (302 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 11:05:44

• 同意，特别是小的学校，每年就1-2个名额，如果有比较好的小黑小西，其他人就没有啥机会了 -kitty_cat- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 12:31:46

• International student -我是大海- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 11:11:04

• he is international and C has no money for him. -壮士- ♂ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 11:11:48

• 国际生挺难的。 -旖旎风光- ♀ (0 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 11:15:14

• My 2 cents: -Africangrey- ♀ (219 bytes) () 12/07/2012 postreply 11:24:31