<p>There is no provisional type of admission at Columbia or, as far as I know, any other accredited 4-year. Either you’re admitted, and taken deadly seriously, or not. </p>
<p>The fact that you seem to think that this would’ve been an option - and have already cried bias - leads me to further doubt the validity of pretty much everything else you’ve posted. </p>
<p>I’m sorry, redline. I have to speak up on behalf of those students currently applying to my school. And to them I caution that, thus far, nothing you have written has been accurate.</p>
<p>hellojan,
You got your opinion and I got mine. I was discussing my situation from 5-years ago. This was a retrospective response that I have provided from my personal experience. While recent work is important, the response that I got from the GS admissions office made it perfectly clear that I had no chance to be a strong applicant for GS. I am not at all concerned about GS anymore. Since most of those who got into the school with above a 3.7 GPA, doesn’t really matter what I think? I don’t think so. However, in my case, my writing and critical thinking skills were lacking at that time. Thus the central theme at my former school was to strengthen those skills. While my program might appear light, in comparison to others, those were that classes that was available to me at that time. I have no regrets about the classes that I enrolled in, except for introduction to logic.</p>
<p>Johnny,
Does my old record really matter at this stage of the game? I think not. There are gaps to my record. Nothing is ever a straight line when money to pay for those classes are involved. For the time being, I am working to save my money. As for school, I am focused on my quantitative subjects that are as follows:</p>
<p>Calculus I & II</p>
<p>Okay, so we’re good here? Yeah? Cool. Let’s move on.</p>
<p>@redlinekid2: Yes, it did matter because that was the record GS rejected you with.</p>
<p>A bunch of other stuff springs to mind, but like hellojan said…</p>