<p>Current GS student here. I have a little secret to share that I hope puts your anxious minds at ease. And that is:
You'll get in.</p>
<p>It's pretty simple actually. Everyone basically gets in. You have little, if nothing, to worry about.</p>
<p>So . . . congrats! You might as well start celebrating now.</p>
<p>I really want to believe you MrGSverb, but for some reason I’m even more worried now! Haha. So that gives GS an acceptance rate somewhere in the neighborhood of 100%? Is it really that easy for Fall '11? Did only like 50 people apply?</p>
<p>MrGSverb that’s not even remotely funny! Jk! Btw when did you get in? And what drives your conclusion?</p>
<p>Maybe he means that those that fret so much about whether they get in and are on these forums are the ones most likely to get in because they are the most motivated</p>
<p>That makes perfect sense</p>
<p>Well I hope he is right</p>
<p>I can assure you all that their acceptance rate is not 100% - i know from first hand experience</p>
<p>well that just takes all the fun out of the application process, now doesnt it.</p>
<p>booo.</p>
<p>I don’t care if the acceptance rate is 100%, I just want to be one of those that gets in</p>
<p>i would rather not get in to a selective school than get into a school who accepted everyone. i am actually half expecting to not get in. but i want it to be a fight at least.</p>
<p>Well only a couple more days until they should start sending out some notifications to ED applicants</p>
<p>really? i thought we had to wait until May. well good luck to you baxter.</p>
<p>From past threads people started receiving their decision in the beginning of April. They said 4-6 weeks on the site. I think the May 1st date is the latest they will send out notifications to ED applicants</p>
<p>I wasn’t as nervous until I started looking at this forum… suddenly I didn’t feel like the greatest applicant on earth. </p>
<p>So thanks MrGS… even if you are wrong.</p>
<p>Juniper: What makes you nervous on this forum?</p>
<p>Whaaaat? I totally thought it was 100%! jk. Yeah, I’ve heard (/read in other threads) that people find out as early as early to mid-April. The sooner the better!</p>
<p>I agree, the wait is killing me</p>
<p>“everyone gets in.” okay, so a 23% acceptance rate (Slightly higher than Cornell last fall) is everyone I guess.</p>
<p>Columbia GS:
[College</a> Search - Columbia University: School of General Studies - GS - At a Glance](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>Cornell
[College</a> Search - Cornell University - At a Glance](<a href=“College Search - BigFuture | College Board”>College Search - BigFuture | College Board)</p>
<p>Cornell’s acceptance as a University with seven colleges is at 18% . Cals is actually like 36% if you are a New York Resident. School of ILR is around 50 %, and the Hotel school is around 30%. What brings down the acceptance average is Cornell CAS which hovers around less than 10%, and the Engineering school (I forgot what the acceptance rate for engineering), and the school of architecture.</p>
<p>All these are separate schools and contain their own “core” curriculum per-se. General Studies is literally Columbia College with a higher acceptance rate.</p>
<p>Didn’t the person that started this thread has only one post? Obviously you all are posting in a ■■■■■ thread. </p>
<p>The problem with GS being “Columbia College with a higher acceptance rate” is that the quality or rather perceived quality of your peers is one of the most important things for this kind of school. Columbia doesn’t have a killer business department like Penn, or a killer econ department like the Univ. of Chicago, or a killer engineering department like MIT, or a killer computer science program like Waterloo… if that were the case, one could argue that it wouldn’t matter as much how do you get in as to graduate from one of those programs. What Columbia has is the prestige of being an hyper selective Ivy League school providing a top notch general education to people who are “the best and the brightest” which at the most basic level just mean people who score higher in some standardized metric. This is the basic formula and it’s used in other countries as well. But you take off the last part, like the 50% admittance rate and no SAT requirement of 3 or 4 years back and you start getting into shakier and shakier ground and the ill will and negative sentiment that one can sometimes see starts popping up a la “you are just a glorified community college that lets everyone in, you are not real Ivy league, you deserve to get in debt 300K because you didnt have the same SAT score I did and you still got in, we dont want you in our alumni network, etc, etc”.</p>