<p>Hmmmm. Kind of regretting I didn’t apply ED.</p>
<p>this is particularly disappointing for those who would have applied regardless of the commonapp switch…</p>
<p>any chance theyll accept more this year?</p>
<p>this is particularly disappointing for those who would have applied regardless of the commonapp switch…</p>
<p>any chance theyll accept more this year?</p>
<p>does anyone know how this increase of regular applicants will affect transfer chances? cant be well im guessing?</p>
<p>Transfer admissions likely won’t be affected by the first year pool unless a school miscalculates their yield (the wrong way).</p>
<p>that is a huge relief, is that normally true for all universities & ivies? i always thought that they admitted transfers but they lowered the number a lot if a ton more regular applicants accepted</p>
<p>Yeah that’s what I meant. It doesn’t matter if they have a million apps, its how many actually enroll. If they miscalculate yield and too many students enroll, then transfers suffer. But if there are a million apps and Columbia accepts too few (or the perfect amount) then transfer admissions are unchanged.</p>
<p>I kinda regret not applying ED too…
Where does it say this by the way?</p>
<p>oh gosh. every school is having more applicants. I’m hoping that a person from my school who got ED already doesn’t lower my chances of getting in RD T_T</p>
<p>I know, literally every school’s number of applications is increasing this year… 
Do you think they will admit more?</p>
<p>no they don’t admit more, unless somehow they find more beds to put students, it doesn’t make sense to admit more.</p>
<p>will they calculate the yield rate differently though is the question…</p>
<p>^ I think that since this is teh first year Columbia used Common APP and the first yr they had such a huge influx, they will stay to the conservative side and not accept much more students than last year, if any. Harvard also stayed conservative when they eliminated the EA a couple years before, but that first year figured out that they still had a lot mroe room and thus more than 100 ppl were taken off the waitlist. </p>
<p>My guess is that Columbia will accept around 2,400, just like last year; other than that its up in the air (whether they will end up taking a lot from waitlist, whether the yield will be different, etc.)</p>
<p>They won’t aim for a larger class, and they will probably assume a slightly lower yield based on experiences at other elite schools previously adopting the common app. Rarely does a school grow a class in a given year unless its an accident (which has happened when schools have miscalculated yield). Also at times a school may have a very set strategic plan to grow. Columbia did grow its classes slightly over the last 12 years I think, but that’s over. I believe that Princeton grew as well over the last decade as well as well as a couple other Ivies.</p>
<p>I feel columbia is going to take in the same number of students - 2300 or so and then take people off the waitlist to make it ~2400. They should stick to this, because yield is highly unpredictable. Especially in a year where Columbia has jumped to top 5 on US News (helping yield), adopted the common app (hurting yield), acceptance rate up there with stanford / harvard (helping yield), bad news in the media (like the drug busts, hurting yield). It really is unpredictable, so Columbia should be careful not to over-enroll the class, there’s less harm when you take people off the waitlist than when you over-enroll.</p>
<p>LOL sorry for “lowering” your changes, jsungoh =P
you’ll get in. i know it and so do you(:</p>
<p>(btw we both go to the same school lol…)</p>
<p>what major is Columbia known for?</p>
<p>ivy consider starting your own thread about this.</p>
<p>Excuse me, but I’m confused, why is everybody attributing the sudden increase of applicants to the Common App? I don’t see the relation between the two, please explain. :</p>
<p>masterofpupets, the common app lets you reuse letter of recs, essays, and student information. is a HUGE time saver to ONLY have to worry about finishing the columbia supplement (because the common app is, well, common to all the schools to which youre applying), rather than having to fill out the columbia app, the supplement, and THEN doing all your common app schools’ apps.</p>