<p>For those who were deferred, I would recommend the following if you have not already
done so.
1. Write two letters. One to your regional admission officer for your area, and one to the Dean of Admission. On these letters center your name, address and contact information ect in the center and your social security number or Columbia ID number so immediately they know who you are.
The text of the letter should be something like this.
Dear ___<strong><em>,
My name is _</em></strong>___ and I am a senior at _____________ school in _______state.
I recently applied for Early Decision admission to Columbia College (or SEAS) for the Class of 2013. I am extremely disappointed to learn that I was deferred. Columbia remains my first choice. I will definitely attend Columbia if accepted regular decision.
I have many passions and talents I hope to bring to the Columbia Community if accepted.
(This is where you include a synopsis paragraph of your extracurriculars, ect)
I am very excited about Columbia. It is my hope that I will be offered a place regular decision in the Class of 2013.
2. After writing these letters, every two months send a letter to your regional admission officer updating them on any recent awards, accomplishments ect. This is to keep your name in their radar. When it comes time for regular decision, Columbia will be interested in yield (the number accepted who will decide to come to Columbia) and will want to take a certain percentage of applicants who they know will accept their offer.
3. Continue to send any additional supplemental information you think will help. It cannot hurt.</p>
<p>Thanks, I think I'll write them right now.</p>
<p>how do u know who ur regional admissions officer is?</p>
<p>Your guidance counselor should know. You could also call the admissions officer and ask</p>
<p>Do you think emailing them is a good idea or is a letter better?</p>
<p>my IB predicted grade went up, and I have received three other recommendation letters. (different ones from the one that I submitted to Columbia)
do you think it is a good idea to send them these?
I don't want them to be annoyed, but at the same time, I really want them to know how much I would love to attend.</p>
<p>Is there a deadline for these supplement materials?</p>
<p>one more extra rec is good enough. they're trying to make their decisions as quick as possible and the last thing you want to do is annoy them. </p>
<p>send in supplemental material before march at least. the admin officers get to their deferred pile last, after they're done with the regular decision pile.</p>
<p>^whut... Why would they go to the deferred pile last?!?!?! I thought the fact that we've applied ED helps b/c it shows our committment? What if they fill up the slots w/ RD applicants before they even get to the pile?? T.T</p>
<p>i thought that they looked at us all fresh and new with the RD applicants.....
like starting from the beginning ........</p>
<p>Yeah... not really. At least according to former Dartmouth admissions officer Hernandez.</p>
<p>collegebound5, how do you know that this is what to do if you're deferred? doesn't seem like a bad idea, but i just want to make sure i'm not following misleading advice. did someone tell you this? do you know an admissions officer who says this?</p>
<p>My daughter just got into Columbia College early decision.
I know there was a poster here or two who criticized me for saying I helped people
with college admissions, but I do. I have helped and continue to help applicants
all over the country. I love to do it. don't charge for it, and I have
become very knowledgeable about the entire process from how to showcase
oneself in the application, ect. I have a son at University of Pennsylvania who was accepted to 7 ivy league or top tier schools. He is a sophomore. My son who got into all those schools continually wrote to the regional admission officers and Dean of Admissions
with updates.
I have also helped a lot of students who were deferred and continue to help students
at the private school that my daughter attends</p>
<p>ill re-ask the question, which would be better: email or normal mail?</p>
<p>Thank you, collegebound5. But how do you get the contact info for your regional admissions officer? Or for the dean of admissions? The only place I could think of sending it to is the regular address for the admissions office...</p>
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<p>This sentence is extremely unnecessary and extremely negative. I'd refrain from using anything like it. It's obvious, adds nothing, and doesn't need to be said.</p>
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Columbia remains my first choice. I will definitely attend Columbia if accepted regular decision.
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<p>This is weaker than it could be because it tells rather than shows. Something like "Columbia remains my first choice and I will definitely attend if accepted because ___________" would make it stronger.</p>
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<p>No, you'd ideally wait until you have something different/new to tell them so you don't waste the adcoms' time with stuff they already know.</p>
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<p>Well, send them supplemental information that an objectively reasonable person would think will help. You may think it'll help if Columbia knows you won some dinky award, but only worthy accomplishments should be noted.</p>
<p>I’m sorry for reviving such an old thread, but are any of you deferred people going to do something like this?</p>
<p>Also, I just saw on the NU board that only 48 students out of 1770 ED applicants got deferred. That’s a shockingly low number (to me). How many do you think Columbia deferred? Do they release the actual numbers?</p>
<p>^I don’t believe Columbia releases figures regarding the number of deferred ED applicants (in the last two admissions cycles, at least). Columbia seems somewhat circumspect about which admissions statistics are released, and when. Columbia may be attempting, in its small way, to reduce stress among applicants by keeping statistics out of the media mainstream.</p>
<p>my daughter got deferred can you help?</p>