u/TheVideoGamer1010

i'm so nervous about college admissions next year and i just wanted some advice on whether EDing to columbia (which is my dream school) would be reasonable for me.

Profile:

• Gender: Male
• Race: East Asian
• High school: large semi-competitive public high school in texas
• income: 150k-200kish
• hooks: none
• intended major: computational biology

Stats:

• uw/w gpa: 3.90/4.73 (4 b+ sophomore year; all As junior year minus 1 B+ second semester of ap calc), rank 40/900 ish
• psat: 1490
• sat: 1590 superscore (800 rw 790 math)

Awards:

• USABO top 225/6000
• science olympiad state & regs medals
• AIME qualifier (did bad on aime)
• US medicine and disease olympiad silver medal (top 20%? 10%? forgot)
• scholastic writing regional silver key 2x
• texas state ensemble contest finalist, other state-level competition awards for violin
• texas all state and all region violinist (3 years)

ECs:

• computational biology research (virtual) at a university medical center, paper in progress, publication highly likely
• ssp - i got accepted and am attending this summer
• independent research - first and sole author on computational biology paper, accepted and presented in ieee conference
• coauthor of like 2 other independent research papers that are under review at conferences (not first author, more like third-fourth author in each)
• science olympiad (4 years)
• varsity orchestra (4 years)
• founded a nonprofit where me and other violinists perform for children at daycares. 20+ daycares reached, 1000+ students performed for, taught 50-60 kids over summer
• senior editor of a high school poetry magazine, submitted my poems to a few small, local journals (not prestigious at all i just do this for fun)
• biology club vp
• volunteering at asian culture organization

last year (sophomore year) i got 4 Bs which brought my gpa down from a 4 to a 3.9 unweighted. this semester i just got a B (89, and my teacher won't round) in ap calc bc, and i feel like despite working hard to get As in all my other classes, all my hard work has been invalidated by this B and i won't get in anywhere good. i feel so depressed right now

title, i found out i got in but postponed my decision because i'm not sure if ssp is worth the money

Profile:

• Gender: Male
• Race: East Asian
• High school: large semi-competitive public high school in texas
• income: 150k-200kish
• hooks: none
• intended major: computational biology

Stats:

• uw/w gpa: 3.93/4.76 (all a's junior year), rank 30/900 ish
• psat: 1490
• sat: 1590 superscore (800 rw 790 math)

Awards:

• USABO top 225/6000
• science olympiad state & regs medals
• AIME qualifier (did bad on aime)
• US medicine and disease olympiad silver medal (top 20%? 10%? forgot)
• texas state ensemble contest finalist, other state-level competition awards for violin
• texas all state and all region violinist (3 years)

ECs:

• computational biology research (virtual) at a university medical center
• ssp - i got accepted and am attending this summer
• independent research - first and sole author on computational biology paper, accepted and presented in ieee conference
• coauthor of like 2 other independent research papers that are under review at conferences (not first author, more like third-fourth author in each)
• science olympiad (4 years)
• varsity orchestra (4 years)
• founded a nonprofit where me and other violinists perform for children at daycares. 20+ daycares reached, 1000+ students performed for, taught 50-60 kids over summer
• senior editor of a high school poetry magazine, submitted my poems to a few small, local journals (not prestigious at all i just do this for fun), scholastic writing regional silver keys from this
• science club officer
• generic volunteering

title. got accepted to both, cost isn't an issue for my family