Asking Columbia Students How They Got Into Columbia | GPA, SAT/ACT, Clubs, etc. — Transcript

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1. 0:00Columbia University might be one of the
2. 0:01most polarizing colleges in America and
3. 0:03even though this place has been ranked
4. 0:04higher than Yale Harvard and Stanford in
5. 0:06the past few years Columbia's reputation
6. 0:08is absolutely plummeted in the past few
7. 0:09months you see Columbia admissions
8. 0:11officers have been faking their numbers
9. 0:13for years trying to stay at top the US
10. 0:14News rankings but ever since their
11. 0:15deceptive ways have been exposed the
12. 0:17school has been hit with a bunch of
13. 0:18lawsuits tons of assault allegations
14. 0:20student suspensions a destroyed
15. 0:22reputation and a drop in the rankings by
16. 0:24over 16 spots but even though Columbia
17. 0:26has been through the absolute worst this
18. 0:27past year they still boast a whopping 6%
19. 0:30acceptance rate so in order to find out
20. 0:31just how prestigious this place really
21. 0:33is we're back in New York City to do one
22. 0:35thing and one thing old ask the students
23. 0:37how the hell they got in here so I don't
24. 0:39want to play any games here you know I
25. 0:40want to cut right to the chase you got
26. 0:41to be honest with me though
27. 0:43okay what' you eat for breakfast this
28. 0:45morning going to be honest here I didn't
29. 0:47have time to eat breakfast this morning
30. 0:48what so I did not eat breakfast this
31. 0:50morning haven't had breakfast yet
32. 0:52toothpaste toothpast the most balanced
33. 0:54meal I was going to get a coffee and a
34. 0:56croissant and go study a baller hey okay
35. 0:58that sounds like a plan cupcakes boiled
36. 1:00eggs and a chabani a chabani yogurt so
37. 1:03chabani if you want to sponsor me hit
38. 1:05the DMS hit the DM all right you feel
39. 1:07warmed up now ready get into the good
40. 1:08stuff yeah I'm ready all right sweet
41. 1:10let's do it so first question what is
42. 1:11your name where you from and how many
43. 1:12years have you been at Columbia so my
44. 1:14name is Andy Andrea cheer Grace Julian
45. 1:17Joe Holden Ashton I'm from upstate New
46. 1:20York I'm from the Bronx I'm from New
47. 1:22Jersey New Jersey Portland Oregon
48. 1:24Stafford Virginia Berkeley California
49. 1:26Chicago Illinois shinen China from
50. 1:28columia Columbia B Ohio which is the
51. 1:31Northwestern corner of the state and I'm
52. 1:33a first year at Columbia College this is
53. 1:35my second year first year first year
54. 1:37third year I'm a freshman I'm a
55. 1:38sophomore I'm a junior I graduated this
56. 1:40past may actually all right
57. 1:42congratulations so your name's Aston and
58. 1:44you're a junior yes that is literally my
59. 1:46name in my age too what your you're
60. 1:48Ashton yes BR that is crazy look at that
61. 1:52small world see I knew I'd get along
62. 1:53with you and what was your number one
63. 1:55reason for coming to Columbia I think
64. 1:56the fact that I got in um to be honest I
65. 1:59thought it would would sound great to
66. 2:00say I'm from Colombia and I went to
67. 2:02Colombia honestly it's probably the
68. 2:04location of the campus I'm a city boy
69. 2:06basically so I needed to be in the city
70. 2:08I want to be in the city I just like the
71. 2:10city it was also close to home New York
72. 2:12City you're in the best city in the
73. 2:13world it's in New York so there's a lot
74. 2:15of opportunities here I mean being in
75. 2:17the bustling city has been always a
76. 2:18dream of M New York City is such a great
77. 2:20place to live the location's super great
78. 2:22we're both swimmers on the swim team so
79. 2:24that was obviously a big reason I
80. 2:25actually play on the football team here
81. 2:27Ivy League school in New York City
82. 2:29doesn't get much better that my parents
83. 2:30wanted me to go to an ivy league so here
84. 2:32I am yay making mom proud I love it I
85. 2:36just felt like Columbia offered me the
86. 2:38most different experience from the ones
87. 2:40I've had so far my whole family went to
88. 2:41Colombia honestly so it was big
89. 2:43inspiration to come here I know it's
90. 2:45like not so popular here but like I kind
91. 2:46of like the want to go for the core Core
92. 2:48Curriculum we call it the Core
93. 2:50Curriculum where we have to like read a
94. 2:51lot of like literature books study a lot
95. 2:53of history politics civilization you get
96. 2:55taught things that you don't know what
97. 2:57the [ __ ] they are but then somehow you
98. 2:58make sense of it man that's life and oh
99. 3:01man hopefully I
100. 3:03graduate and building off of that on a
101. 3:05scale of 1 to 10 how happy are you with
102. 3:06that decision I would actually give it
103. 3:08like a 8.5 I'll be honest an 8 and a
104. 3:11half I would say like an eight or nine
105. 3:13I'm pretty happy with it I'm pretty
106. 3:14staked yeah it's been a good ride
107. 3:16probably eight I'd say eight I think at
108. 3:178 I don't regret the decision but when I
109. 3:19was in school my answer would have been
110. 3:21different what about when you were in
111. 3:22school what would you say probably a
112. 3:23four I would say at this point of the
113. 3:26year it's 5 to 6ish but if you ask me
114. 3:28this question a month earlier maybe a 78
115. 3:30mostly because like in the winter the
116. 3:32the sun set's really early and then like
117. 3:34it also coincide with midterm season so
118. 3:36you could get really depressing around
119. 3:37campus you come to Columbia for academic
120. 3:39gger and you're going to get academic
121. 3:40Giger lots of late nights in the library
122. 3:42it says that the core is getting me I
123. 3:44will say lium anyone you ask over there
124. 3:45going to tell you lit home is getting
125. 3:47The Best of You oo yeah that sounds hard
126. 3:49that's that's more for me I'm going to
127. 3:51be honest it's a 10 I would say a 10 10
128. 3:5410 out of 10 definitely a 10 I don't
129. 3:56think I would be happier anywhere else
130. 3:58very happy there's no no reason I
131. 4:00shouldn't be man this has been the best
132. 4:01thing ever I was excited I was jumping
133. 4:03all around the room screaming to my mom
134. 4:05that I got in I never actually visited
135. 4:07Columbia before I came here so moving in
136. 4:09it's just such a beautiful campus the
137. 4:11classes are amazing the prefences are so
138. 4:13down to earth I used to not think like
139. 4:15this was going to be something that I
140. 4:16would take on but man God's plan I'm so
141. 4:19glad I did not get to me presidents of
142. 4:21Nations like in that library right
143. 4:23behind us where else do you have
144. 4:24craziness of New York City jumping in
145. 4:25the New York City subway eating New York
146. 4:27City Pizza New York or nowhere people
147. 4:29New York or nowhere it's God's plan hey
148. 4:31but you you still got to come to
149. 4:33Missouri and vote for my sister so
150. 4:35obviously you got into Columbia which
151. 4:36means you had some pretty good high
152. 4:38school
153. 4:39stats so what was your gbaa your test
154. 4:42scores and were you in any
155. 4:43extracurriculars in high school my high
156. 4:44school gbaa oh I don't remember I think
157. 4:47in high school I had a
158. 4:504.9 and then my GPA was uh 39 or 40 3.97
159. 4:564.1 4.2 I believe I think I had a four 3
160. 5:014.49 4.4 54 unweighted was a 4.1 and
161. 5:05weighted was a 5.2 I maintained in a
162. 5:08minus average I first came to high
163. 5:10school didn't speak English and had like
164. 5:12a 2.0 at the beginning freshman year and
165. 5:14then learned English to go AP classes
166. 5:16and then got a perfect score ever since
167. 5:18and graduated University at 19 wow yeah
168. 5:21that's a huge come up story holy [ __ ]
169. 5:23test scores I got a 1540 1550 1520 1570
170. 5:28a 1570 15 1400 so I actually applied
171. 5:31here test optional had a lower SAT score
172. 5:34I had a 1370 I think that's why I
173. 5:36applied to dual degree my SATs
174. 5:38undisclosed confidential what was the
175. 5:40other oh extracurriculars honestly I
176. 5:42didn't do any extracurriculars besides
177. 5:43swimming extracurriculars I was
178. 5:45basically the typical like NHS but I did
179. 5:47work with the governor of Illinois and
180. 5:49representative and Senators I was the
181. 5:51captain of the Science Olympia team at
182. 5:53my high school for two years I was also
183. 5:55the founder and president for the
184. 5:57photography club I played frisbee I did
185. 6:00some political work I did speech and
186. 6:02debate mock trial as well as youth
187. 6:04leadership Toledo like 3 years of track
188. 6:07took that pretty seriously and also did
189. 6:09a lot of activities with like Latin you
190. 6:11speak any Latin yeah just a little let's
191. 6:14hear it no he asked Ellen oo I don't
192. 6:18know what that means but I like it was I
193. 6:19in model un I did Mo for all four years
194. 6:22I was co-founder of a young Democrats
195. 6:24Club at my high school and then I did
196. 6:26varsity diving I was JB Runner and also
197. 6:29black belt and Jiu-Jitsu all four years
198. 6:32as well holy [ __ ] damn you really take
199. 6:35all the boxes here yeah so you know
200. 6:36don't worry too much about test scores
201. 6:37obviously it's important but you know
202. 6:39there's other factors it's a holistic
203. 6:41application for a reason yeah absolutely
204. 6:43and I have one final question for you
205. 6:44guys here what is the craziest story
206. 6:46you've heard while you've been to
207. 6:47Columbia craziest story I have to think
208. 6:49about this one I don't know if this is
209. 6:51appropriate to say um dude I don't know
210. 6:53I mean the craziest story uh well the
211. 6:56godamn TA strike yeah I had a friend
212. 6:59that was woing in Hawaii and he would
213. 7:02like got stuck in some cult on a banana
214. 7:04Farm on L Library there's some guy that
215. 7:06comes here every day and tries to flip a
216. 7:08water bottle with his feet into a trash
217. 7:10can I think basically during like final
218. 7:12season the band goes into like the
219. 7:14library or something and interrupt
220. 7:16students when they're studying I I've
221. 7:18heard you know people like to be in the
222. 7:20stacks for reasons other than
223. 7:23studying okay so the TA strike was
224. 7:25happening and then so we didn't have any
225. 7:27discussion sections and only lectures my
226. 7:29friend was in Lee Ballinger's class on
227. 7:30the First Amendment and then a [ __ ] ton
228. 7:32of students busted in and started
229. 7:33shouting [ __ ] Lee Ballinger to which he
230. 7:35said he sat there and he went why the
231. 7:37first amendment is hard kids there is a
232. 7:39guy who flips bottles into trash cans
233. 7:41does he happen to do it with his feet
234. 7:43Yes yes we've heard about him today yeah
235. 7:46he seems like a pretty cool guy there's
236. 7:47also like you know a BDSM Club here no
237. 7:51there's not what um yeah yeah wow okay
238. 7:56all right that is definitely top in the
239. 7:58list this one 100% I want you to zoom in
240. 8:01for Focus okay some kid that born in a
241. 8:03third world country comes here dominates
242. 8:06Colombia and gets his sister elected to
243. 8:08Missouri Secretary of State that's going
244. 8:10to be the craziest story for the ages
245. 8:12and I'm saying it right here right now
246. 8:13at Columbia University at Columbia where
247. 8:16else bro where
248. 8:18else New York City man you really can't
249. 8:21beat this [ __ ] and if there's anything
250. 8:22we learned today stay away from Stacks
251. 8:24flip some bottles with your feet and
252. 8:25please for the love of God if you live
253. 8:27in Missouri vote for my man's sister
254. 8:31flip some bottles with your flip some
255. 8:34bottles with your feet flip some bottles
256. 8:35with it [ __ ] me that's hard to say