@tyruanos you can check if your financial aid documents were received in the financial aid documents track. I think if it says received there everything’s fine
Just got an e-mail confirming that decisions will be released next Monday at 6pm!
Same here. Now we wait…
Not gonna lie, my heart stopped a little when I saw an email from Columbia Undergraduate Admissions
Any one from ca?
Yeah so we get it at 3 in the afternoon
I got mine as well, I am excited and scared at the same time
Do you think if we log in using a proxy server with a different location that we can see the decision earlier? Or will they actually be posting the decisions at 6 pm?
@arp987. They will be posted EST. Not based on local time.
Do you think the major we selected has any affect on our admissions? Are certain majors more likely to get accepted than others, due to popularity and such? I applied as a Human Rights Major, but am not sure if it is a major that receives a lot of other applicants, making me less likely to stand out.
can we please chance eachother
why isnt this thread receiving lots of comments- all the other ivies have tons and tons of pages
Dartmouth is also low as gas as comments are concerned.
*far not gas. Sorry
never got an interview, oh well
when did you submit your application? pretty sure it’s first come first serve
I submitted 3 days before the deadline
me too and I didn’t get one either
Do you think I even have a chance? I have a 32 composite ACT, 3.5 GPA. I do a lot of community service and have been in almost every club offered at my high school. I’ve gotten several awards for my musical ability and I have excellent recommendations from my counselor and teachers. I’ve taken 4 AP Classes (two 5s and two 4s) and am currently taking a Dual Enrollment class and 2 AP classes as a senior.
I’m getting so nervous as the deadline gets closer, so feel free to chance me
SAT: 1350/1600 650 - reading/writing 700 - math
ACT: not submitting
GPA: 96.6/100
Class Rank: 28/401 - top 7%
High School: Public
Intended Major: Human Rights
AP: US History (4) Lang (4)
Senior Year Work Load: AP English Lit, Journalism II, AP Stat, AP Psych, AP Gov, AP, Spanish (year five of Spanish)
First semester transcript: A average
Leadership: Editor in chief of school magazine which has won national awards, Student Council Treasurer, American Legion Auxiliary Laurel Girls State,14. Selected for recognition as a Delegate representing my high school and the state at the Congress of Future Young Leaders in Washington, D.C. by the National Academy of Youth Leadership.
Honor Societies: National Honor Society, World Language National Honor Society, Quill and Scroll National Honor Society
Extracurriculars: 4 year cross country, indoor and outdoor track member and JV captain (my teams so fast I’m too slow for varsity lmao), plays piano, member of JSA, attended Yale Daily News Summer Journalism Program, content creator for The Odyssey a online blog, hospital Volunteer, head of toy drive at my school,
heavily involved in American cancer society - team leader, committee member, 8 year volunteer, relay for life volunteer, making strides volunteer, Cancer Action Network volunteer
Work: babysitter, works at local cafe
Letters of Rec: excellent, very close to those teachers, did very well in there classes, one is my journalism teacher who always tells me I am a great writer
My essays: By far the strongest part of my application. My English teacher said they made her cry and showed so much passion. I wrote about I am Malala and how it inspired me to want to have a career as a reporter who investigates human rights abuses and how I want to tell the stories of those who cannot tell their own. I wrote about how I think we can work to solve the human rights issues occurring in the globe.
For my ‘Why Columbia’ Essay, I wrote about a moment when I was driving at night on the New Jersey turnpike while my parents were arguing about the high price of tolls and how my father needed a job. I wrote how I looked at the NYC skyline and saw hope and got a feeling that was so hard to describe, a feeling that I was excited for something but did not know what it was I was excited for. I described how nyc gave me hope that these 16 years of arguments will merely be a memory, and that it contains the opportunities that will allow me to exceed. I also went on to say I crave knowledge, and that columbia’s core curriculum contains that knowledge.
I know this is pretty lengthy, but I thought I should share just to help calm my nerves haha