<p>yea my interview was also intense…i HATE the question about what you have that other applicants dont…i mean isnt that their job to tell me? lol overall i felt really idiotic the whole time, especially when they asked me about US and france involvement in history and such (im interested in the Reims campus). im just praying that the interview does not play too much in the decision…because if it does, im screwed D:</p>
<p>“Columbia School of GS is only for students who do not follow a regular curriculum.” Wrong. </p>
<p>GS is nontraditional in only one aspect: its diverse student body, and the requisite admissions policy that stems from such diversity (from JTS/GS and Sciences Po dual degree students to older, returning, and international students.) Once accepted, however, GS students are fully integrated into the traditional undergraduate curriculum. As such, “A Columbia undergraduate class could include students from any of the following schools: GS, Columbia College, the School of Engineering and Applied Science, or Barnard College. GS is unique among colleges of its type, because its students are fully integrated into the Columbia undergraduate curriculum: GS Students take the same classes with the same students and professors and are granted the same degrees as students at Columbia College or SEAS. The school awards both the Bachelor of Arts and Bachelor of Science degrees. GS students, who comprise of approximately 25% of all Columbia undergraduates, have the highest average GPA of all the undergraduate schools at Columbia.”</p>
<p>Per wikicu, Columbia’s ostensible encyclopedia: [School</a> of General Studies - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia](<a href=“School of General Studies - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia”>School of General Studies - WikiCU, the Columbia University wiki encyclopedia)</p>
<p>Thanks for your input @tsar10027!</p>
<p>Yes indeed, in case of rejection, we would be considered to Columbia school of GS only ;)</p>
<p>My bad. I obviously did not understand quite well the difference between Columbia College and Columbia school of GS. </p>
<p>11 days left before they give us an answer. 11 days left before receiving their rejection letter :’(</p>
<p>I hope they send us emails! Gaaaaah. :(</p>
<p>I received an email today stating that my application was still under review… But that decisions will be sent out by the end of the month. Does it mean that I still can hope??</p>
<p>I haven’t received ANYTHING. Does this mean I can’t even hope to be considered for either SP or Columbia GS? :(</p>
<p>Well, I don’t know, but I received mine as an answer from an email I had sent last month.</p>
<p>Does it seem like they do or don’t want previous overseas experience? You’d think that would be a plus but it seems like students who have already spent a semester overseas are not getting as many of the interviews.</p>
<p>Hi everyone: My daughter called the admission office this morning to ask when & how notifications would be sent and she was told that decisions would be out on Friday, March 30 via email. However, I know that in my daughter’s case, she has received rejections in the form of a letter (not email) whereas her acceptances have been in the form of an email followed by a letter/envelope with more info. No idea if this program will follow the same pattern. @Artemis95: My daughter spent a semester abroad as a junior and she did get an interview. But I have to assume that doing so is not a critical factor for being considered, since many well-qualified students (for many reasons) might not have the means or opportunity to study abroad. @Terpischoria: I think you mentioned in an earlier post that applicants who are not selected for the dual BA program would only be considered for Columbia. That is not the case: the applicant indicates which program (SciencesPo or Columbia) they would like to be considered for in the case they aren’t selected for the Dual BA. Good luck everyone and keep us posted!</p>
<p>@Rhiannon78: Are you 100% sure? Because the official representatives on the Facebook site specifically said that emails would not be sent out. All these conflicting messages…</p>
<p>Especially since during a friend of mine was told during her interview that answers would be sent out March 29th… I guess that works with what they said on the Facebook page though, because they said they would send everything by the end of March (obviously that means that candidates will be receiving envelopes at different times, given mailing time to different states and countries). I guess that makes me a little confused about the emails too, given that they’ve said they would only be sending snail mail… Oh well, guess we just have to wait and see!</p>
<p>hmmm who knows at this point…they told me during the interview that letters would be mailed march 28…(tomorrow ahhh!) and that i’d know before april 1…but i live in the US so im guessing its different in europe. im super nervous but goodluck everyone and i guess if its not meant to be its not meant to be ><</p>
<p>@sgi1994, millie12, etc: There has indeed been a lot of conflicting information floating around. My daughter was told during her interview that she would be notified (they didn’t specify how) on March 28th-which would be today. Then she called the office yesterday and they said emails would be sent out Friday. </p>
<p>At one point, I either read on the website or was told by someone in admissions that notifications would be April 1. So I really have no idea what to believe. In any case, everyone should hear something within the next few days. It seems ridiculous to me that given many applicant are out of the US that they wouldn’t use email to at least notify those that had been accepted, even if rejections went out in regular mail form!</p>
<p>I do have to say that the lack of information/conflicting information is not making me feel great about how the program is being run!</p>
<p>We will reporting back whatever we hear (whenever we hear!) one way or the other.</p>
<p>Hello my friends. It seems like there are many questions on what the admissions criteria to the SciencesPo Columbia program actually are. Here’s what I, as a current student at SciencesPo (NOT in the dual BA) can share with you.</p>
<p>Each acceptance is HIGHLY individualised. Due to the fact that there are only 30 students accepted into the program (Le Havre only has THREE dual BA kids), they are looking for someone truly able to integrate within BOTH the SciencesPo community AND the Columbia community. The Le Havre campus itself only has 154 students, it is a very close community.</p>
<p>Firstly, the interview is THE MOST IMPORTANT PART of your application process. It is here that they gauge your suitability for the program, especially to the campus that you chose. you must deliver to them an interesting story, why you will succeed specifically at the campus that you choose. You have to be charismatic and engaging, you have to capture your audience. </p>
<p>They want diversity. we are 40% international in SciencesPo overall, and at our campus, only about 20% come from a high school in France. They want you to have experienced the world, lived at and seen places that gives you a unique perspective. Most of the students have studied abroad before. Personally, I’ve studied in Taiwan, Hong Kong, and the USA. we have other students hailing from South Africa, Russia, Cambodia, Vietnam, Poland, Burma, Armenia, Germany, Norway… the list goes on.</p>
<p>At the Le Havre campus, knowing many languages is not something marveled at, it is something to be expected. For example, I speak 4 languages and I seek to learn 3 more next year (Chinese, Cantonese, English, French; learning Russian, Japanese, Indonesian), my neighbor speaks 4 languages and learning 1 (Russian, English, Spanish, French; learning Chinese), and another friend speaks 3 and learning 1 (English, Swedish, French; learning Chinese). Speaking multiple languages is a cool thing, they like that kinda stuff here. </p>
<p>I hope I helped shed some light on what SciencesPo looks for and, good luck with admissions decisions this weekend. I look forward to the outcome of your applications.</p>
<p>Hi everyone, </p>
<p>I got a call today informing me that admissions letters had been sent today by fedex, and that candidates would be in all likelihood be receiving their answers by post tomorrow (I assume it might be a little later for students outside the US).</p>
<p>My interview was an absolute train wreck; I remember thinking halfway into it, “How bad would it be if I just turned off my computer and pretended that my Skype wasn’t working?” They really tore me to pieces!</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone! I probably won’t attend even if I’m admitted (and I’ll give myself a 0.01% chance after that miserable interview) since I was accepted to my first choice school on Friday. Once again, I hope everything works out!</p>
<p>I got my acceptance letter today. 
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<p>Keep an eye out for a Fed-Ex cardboard envelope at your doors/in your mailboxes/etc. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone, again. :D</p>
<p>Congrats ovalspud! Chinnc, thank you so much for that input. I suck at interviews but I have nine months to get ready? Good luck to everyone else and I hope I see you there in 2013!</p>
<p>I’m late finding this thread but I’ll throw out some data points. My daughter applied directly to Sciences Po in Reims for this coming fall, had her interview in late February and was accepted a week later before the Sciences Po team had held interviews in Chicago, NY, DC and Houston (we are in the SF Bay Area). This obviously means they start giving out places on the fly. She was competing for one of only 20 spaces allocated to all of North America. I do know that Sciences Po only interviews about 20% of its applicants and takes a fraction of those it talks with. This is likely a bit different than the dual degree program. I know the interviews are not the same. It’s an Oxford-style three-panel member interview where you are given a random topic, 30 minutes to yourself, then give a 10-minute talk on the topic followed by increasingly hard questions. Nothing Skype-ish about this.</p>
<p>Classes in Reims are taught in English as its focus in Euro-American studies. You get the BA in three years, the last of which has to be “abroad,” meaning outside France. So she could, conceivably, do a year at Columbia. If you do attend one of the new BA campuses – the first was started only 10 years ago – you are guaranteed a space in the 2-year Masters program in Paris. Tuition, room and board at Reims will run $20K/year all in, so $60K for the BA. (The year at Columbia (or Stanford or wherever) also gets charged at the Reims tuition rate of 9,000 Euros.) My daughter was also accepted in-state at UC Davis, which would run $37K/year. So, by my reckoning, going all the way through the masters will cost a total of $100K-$125K and, yes, FAFSA applies to US students at Sciences Po.</p>
<p>Hope this helps. To those who do get accepted, congrats, and, my 2 cents, you’d be crazy not to take it.</p>