This is what gives me hope

Stats: Accepted to Columbia

Stats:

* SAT: Cr610 Math590 Wr680
* SAT IIs:MathIIC570 Lit670 US Hist630
* GPA:3.17
* Rank:70/291
* Other stats:

Subjective:

* Essays:Good essay, used editing service
* Teacher Recs:Good recs, One from an alum.
* Counselor Rec:Very good
* Hook (if any):

Location/Person:

* State or Country:NY
* School Type: Small
* Ethnicity: White
* Gender:Male

Other Factors:Band, Computer Engineering Club

Decision: Rejected from Columbia

Stats:
SAT I: 760M, 740 V, 730 W 2230 Overall

SAT IIs: Math IIC: 790 US History: 720, Bio: 740
GPA: 4.5 W
Rank: dunno (top 10%)

Subjective:
Essays: good
Teacher Recs: good
Counselor Rec: good
Hook (if any): essay

Location/Person:
State or Country: LA
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male

Decision: REJECTED from Columbia

Stats:
SAT: 750 CR / 760 M / 720 W
SAT IIs: 800 Math iic, 780 Chem, 750 Bio, 780 Math ic, 710 USH
GPA: 97.5
Rank: No rank
Other stats: Physics B - 5, Psychology - 5, US History - 5, Euro History - 5, English Language - 3
Subjective:
Essays: Okay. Nothing stellar
Teacher Recs:Very very good
Counselor Rec: very very good
Hook (if any): Dunno. I go to the science program there?
Location/Person:
State or Country: NY
School Type: Public, VERY competitive
Ethnicity: Asian
Gender: Male
Other Factors: Pres of Astronomy club, mathletes, web club, volunteer, work, national merit, research, blah blah

Stats:

Accepted to Columbia

Stats:

* SAT: Cr610 Math710 Wr730
* SAT IIs:mathI700 chem630 lit600
* GPA:4.6weighted
* Rank:3/154
* Other stats:

Subjective:

* Essays:Pretty well written and interesting
* Teacher Recs:Brilliant, one told me he wrote the best letter ever.
* Counselor Rec:Equally brilliant
* Hook (if any):

Location/Person:

* State or Country:NJ
* School Type:
* Ethnicity:A.A./ Puerto Rican
* Gender:Male

Decision: Rejected from Columbia

Stats:
SAT: 2270
SAT IIs: 800 800 800
GPA: N/A, Perfect score for GCE A levels
Rank: Top 5% of my class of 850 students
Other stats: Class representative, Softball team member, Won Merit Award for Economic Development Board Junior College Book Prize
Subjective:
Essays: Self-deprecatingly humorous, everyone who read it loved it and I thought the Greek mythology references might have particularly appealed to Columbia but I guess I was wrong.
Teacher Recs: Great, or so they told me.
Counselor Rec: Ditto
Hook (if any): Nada.
Location/Person:
State or Country: Singapore
School Type: Independent
Ethnicity: Singaporean Chinese
Gender: Female

ACCEPTED to Columbia

SAT: (1670) 530M, 560V, 580W
SAT IIs: 590 MAth level1, 560 Lit, 610 U.S History
GPA:3.7 weighed
Rankriginally 3, but moved up to 2(Salutatorian, YAY!!!)
Other stats:

Essays: Pretty good, i devtoed a lot of time on them.
Teacher Recs: Really good. Im really close to my teachers and they love me!
Counselor Rec: Pretty generic, she doesn't really take the time to get to know the students, but I am pretty well known amongst my school faculty.
Hook (if any):URM (African American), first-generation college student, and Debater
EC: Debate, Internship at a prominent, corporate law firm, lots of Community Serivce.

State or Country: New York City
School Type: Small Public/ not competitive
Ethnicity: Black
Gender: Male

Decision: Waitlisted

Stats:

* SAT: 800 CR 790 M 770 W
* SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC 760 Chemistry 690 Literature
* GPA: 3.89/4.30
* Rank: School Doesn't Rank
* Other stats:

Subjective:

* Essays: Really good, I spent all of winter break and upwards of 15 drafts on it. I really, really tried to get in here.
* Teacher Recs: Amazing, I'm sure of it.
* Counselor Rec: Glowing as hell. She loved me.
* Hook (if any): First generation college student, I'm also half Pakistani half Chinese.

[ b]Location/Person:[/b]

* State or Country: CA
* School Type: Most competitive public high school
* Ethnicity: Chinese/Pakistani
* Gender: Female

Other Factors: I'm play jazz, was first chair in Wind Ensemble, Jazz Ensemble, I'm in the youth all-star band for my city. I founded and am president of a jazz society at my school, and helped organize a huge jazz dance as a fundraiser for music. I'm a National Merit Finalist.

Decision: Waitlisted

Stats:

* SAT: 800 M 800 W 780 CR
* SAT IIs: 800 Math IIC, 700 Spanish, 690 Chem
* GPA: 3.97 UW, 4.52 W
* Rank: 1/125
* Other stats: 4 AP Bio, 5 AP US Hist, 5 English Lang

Subjective:

* Essays: One about learning to balance team v. individual in cross country, one about watching a kid jump out of a moving car and die
* Teacher Recs: both were pretty good I assume
* Counselor Rec: pretty generic but nevertheless good
* Hook (if any): Hispanic?

Location/Person:

* State or Country: New Mexico
* School Type: small Catholic school
* Ethnicity: Hispanic
* Gender: male

Other Factors: EC's cross country/track runner (team state championship in cross country), student government (class treasurer), NHS, National Spanish Honor Society (Vice President, but technically president because our elected president left haha)
National Merit Scholar, National Hispanic Scholar, AP Scholar

Light AE wrote:I only had like 2-3 drafts lol...