Columbia University

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Columbia University Information

— SAT Range

1470-1570

SAT Range to be competitive

— ACT Range

34-35

ACT Range to be competitive

— Acceptance Rate

4%

Includes early and regular decision plans.

— Median Income

$83,300

Median earnings for graduates.

— Application Fee

$85

The school's application fee.

— Deadline

1-Jan

Deadline for regular decision.

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Columbia University

For applicants to Columbia College, please tell us what from your current and past experiences (eith...

The essence of science is best described by Jacob Bronowski: “ask an impertinent question, and you are on the way to the pertinent answer”. Through asking impertinent questions about biology and chemistry, I have discovered these sciences are pertinent to everything. Growing up in Florida near th...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

Columbia students take an active role in improving their community, whether in their residence hall,...

I could talk for hours about subjects that interest me; in fact, I have. Science has been one topic of many a monologue throughout my life. If a friend ever has a question about even the most complicated scientific topic, they turn to me to explain it in great detail. So, during my freshman year of ...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

List the titles of the films, concerts, shows, exhibits, lectures and other entertainments you enjoy...

Goodfellas - Gives you criminal urges and then immediately thwarts them. Grey’s Anatomy - Surprisingly educational. Los Zafiros’ Hermosa Habana - Learning Spanish the fun way. Easy Rider - I’m nostalgic for a year I never lived. “Colliders to Cosmos: Physics of the Very Small and the Very L...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

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The New Yorker - My love for New York City runs deep, and so does my love for The New Yorker’s adorable cartoons. Unsettling Stories - This site keeps me up at night, whether it be because I’m reading its stories or am too scared to sleep. ScienceDaily - Scientists are printing cells like sheets ...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

List the titles of the books, essays, poetry, short stories or plays you read outside of academic co...

Angela Davis’ Women, Race, & Class - They don’t teach you about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s racist tendencies in history class. Stephen King’s The Stand - This whole quarantine thing would be made a lot more interesting by a fight against the antichrist. Stephen King’s “Survivor Type” - Doctor gone...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

List the titles of the required readings from academic courses that you enjoyed most during secondar...

Sophocles’ Oedipus the King - Freud’s theory is a bit reductive. Antoine de Saint-Exupéry’s Le Petit Prince (read in French) - A somehow profound story about a space-traveling child and a talking fox. Tom Standage’s An Edible History of the World - Two of my favorite things: food and history. R...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

Columbia: list some of your favorite books. ...

Angela Davis’ Women, Race, & Class - They don’t teach you about Elizabeth Cady Stanton’s racist tendencies in history class. Stephen King’s The Stand - This whole quarantine thing would be made a lot more interesting by a fight against the antichrist. Stephen King’s “Survivor Type” - Doctor gone...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

Why do you want to attend Columbia?...

My tour of Columbia began at Low Library. The student guide spoke of how Low was actually an administrative building famous for none other than the steps my Converse-clad feet stood on, and I couldn’t help but imagine myself sitting on said steps with two friends from my literature humanities class ...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

The lessons we take from obstacles we encounter can be fundamental to later success. Recount a time ...

For the budding musician, Guitar Center is a lush jungle: Rickenbackers hang from the walls like ripe mangoes ready for the picking while the rattle of hi-hats is the hiss of a dangerous, yet enticing serpent--that serpent being assistant manager Josh on his thirty-minute break. As an amateur guit...

Alexia Vayeos (Columbia University)

Columbia University

Why are you interested in attending Columbia University? We encourage you to consider the aspect(s)...

Columbia serves as the intellectual anchor of the most diverse city in the world. Its unparalleled educational opportunities are integrated with the acknowledgment and acceptance of being part of a broader, inclusive community. This human-oriented ideology gives my ambitions in computer science and ...

Moksh Shah (Georgia Institute of Technology)