<p>According to my college counselor, she spoke to the director of admissions who said that Columbia will be "snail-mailing" all decisions on March 30, 2005. E-mail decisions will be sent at 5PM on March 31, 2005 (as we all knew). Good luck, guys!</p>
<p>are they sent to our email or do we check our status in the website?</p>
<p>sent to your email</p>
<p>That means the NY Metro area should see them midday March 31.</p>
<p>Whoa, that's scary. Does NY Metro area include Long Island?</p>
<p>yup..........................</p>
<p>are they big or little envelopes?</p>
<p>ed-ers received big envelopes. willl ny-ers receive the package before the email?</p>
<p>yupppp i will.....ill be receiving the package at 1pm..march 31st......I DONT WANT A PACKAGE....first...packages are bad luck for me....i like emails better:</p>
<p>whoa - sent march 30th?? my mail comes at 10:30 AM (REALLY early, I know), so maybe I'll get it in the mail before online on march 31st!!! I think I do have a chance to get into Columbia (1370/710/700/700 8/77 rank 4.7w/3.85uw pretty good ECs and really good essays/recs.) I've seen people get in with lower stats, and without hooks and URM status, so I'm hoping and praying!</p>
<p>LoL @ crypto86's intense pre-analyzation at chances during such hectic times.</p>
<p>Good Luck to you crypto86. I remember when I first opened my ED-acceptance e-mail around 5 p.m. on the day (Thursday) before the decision date, I spent the previous hours telling myself how good other colleges will be once Columbia rejects me. So you can see that I was quite ecstatic when I received my decision.</p>
<p>The moral of the story is (LoL)....expect the worst, if it comes, fine. If it didn't, then celebrate like a madman :). Then of course, those who are eternal optimists will disagree with me wholeheartedly.</p>
<p>I would disagree but I don't at all recommend my pre-decision frame of mind to the faint of heart. Yeah, I was at quartet rehearsal, so I wouldn't get my email until 6:15. Starting at around 4, I was like, in an hour, I'm getting into college. Wow. At 5, I was like, oh my god, I just got into college! At 5:45 I said I had currently been accepted to college for 45 minutes. On the car ride home I started screaming in the car when I got to the town next to mine. I wasn't sure about it, but for some inexplicable reason I was so happy. And then I got in, and it was so great. I was getting myself psyched for it for hours beforehand instead of getting myself scared of it. But I guess I was totally crazy because if I hadn't gotten in. . . that would have sucked. A lot.</p>
<p>WoW, now THAT is an eternal optimist.</p>
<p>LoL, let's share our decision stories!!!</p>
<p>Aahh, I hope it doesn't come in the mail before I get the e-mail because then my mother's going to see the envelope and the minute I walk into the door and see her face, I'm gonna know whether or not I got in. Augh, that's how I found out for my MIT deferral/rejection. :( It was terrible and then she got all pitying and it just made everything 325234324 times worse, blargh. It's much nicer when you get bad news in private, on your own.</p>
<p>And wow, jono, that is pretty crazy, lol.</p>
<p>what is the subject line of the acceptance/reject email?</p>
<p>Subject: Columbia University Admissions Decision</p>
<p>Then you open it and it just might say. . . this!</p>
<p>"Dear Awesome Person,</p>
<p>Congratulations! The Committee on Admissions. . . ."</p>
<p>lol jono, good luck to all of you...</p>
<p>my story? i came home and my internet wasn't working, but i thought the decisions wouldn't be up until the next day. i first decided not to worry about it..but since my internet wasn't working, i had a feeling based on murphy's law that the decisions were out. then my friend calls me and tells me her friend had a friend (isn't that a mouthful) found out through her email already. i called frantically around my city to find someone's house to go to check my email. i went to this girl's house and she says "i doubt that they're out already" but i checked my email and there it was. congratulations...and a lot of hugging and screaming. then i ran out onto the balcony and screamed it really loud.</p>
<p>Wait, you're saying you got your decision already?</p>
<p>lilsmiley got in ED</p>