@WaHiHi Thank you! My BA (University of TN) is in Theatre (which makes that 2.9 even less impressive ). I’m going to major in Math at Columbia.
@anxiousgirlny9 yes, I did! Im so sorry I forgot to post about it! I was accepted on Wednesday.
On Wednesday around 2:00 pm pacific time I had two red X appear on my portal. Around 4:50 Pacific Time I got my acceptance. They did not send me an email, I logged on and saw the application notification.
Here are my stats:
-High School GPA (2011): 2.32
-College GPA: 3.98 (I only got one B in political science)
-Major: Biochemistry
-EC: Vice President of Chemistry Club, Secretary of Females in Stem, a short summer internship at the Smithsonian Biology Reserve, Volunteer Imbedded tutor for General Chemistry and Organic Chemistry, Annual science award for my college
-My letters of recommendation were both very strong. One of them was from my General Chemistry II professor who, was also my Chemistry Club advisor, and for whom I volunteered for as her imbedded tutor. The second one was from my Organic Chemistry professor who I had for the entire series and whom nominated me for the annual science award at the college.
-essays where pretty solid
-I submitted my application on April 15
I hope everyone hears soon!
@elleko15 Congratulations !!! Those are very impressive stats !!!
@anxiousgirlny9 thank you! I’m super excited!!! I can’t wait for y’all to get your acceptances!
Hi All! Just submitted my application yesterday, really hoping to get in! Would love to have some feedback on my stats.
23 yeasr old, International applicant, applying for politics/philosophy
Highschool in UK, hon academic scholar
First undergrad in humanities at one of the dual degree partners of GS, dropped out to focus on my startup in N Korea(I know…), poor GPA 2.x/4
Relative success with the start-up, been reported on NY Times, Reuters etc
Re enrolled at another university last year, majoring in management, GPA 4/4, best in class
Poor GSAEperformance(271/291/5) due to constant network disruption (I live in a country with restricted internet access)
Internship: 2 public sectors(legal, one in Europe, one in Asia), 1 NGO(IR thinktank), 2 private sectors (compliance, lobbying)
Board members on 3 international associations (arts, charity, business)
Recommendation mediocre, one from a diplomat(general sectary of the IR think tank), one from an artist I helped(poorly written as he doesn’t speak much English)
Hoping to hear back from GS soon, if rejected because of GSAE, then I will retake to apply for spring 2021
@elleko15 I hope we all get accepted! Do you think they will release decisions today or on Wednesday again ?
@anxiousgirlny9 i think they have been releasing decisions on Wednesday and Friday, so hopefully you hear back then. How did your appointment with admissions go? Were they able to expedite your decision?
@elleko15 They asked me to write an email requesting the expedited decision since she wasn’t able to do it over the phone. Hopefully I get it … She did say however that they were trying to get decisions for people that applied before the June 1st deadline as soon as possible but with what is happening in the US I do not know if it will delay things further…
Does anyone know how to apply the Institutional Scholarships for GS? I checked their website that today is the deadline, but I got a message “Please note that if you have not yet been assigned a Columbia University ID (CUID), you will not be able to access this form. From the day you submit your application, it takes up to 5 days for your CUID to be created.”
I think there is a glitch in the system, today I was able to schedule a Planning Day and into Orientation but I haven’t gotten my admission decision. However, last week I wasn’t able to schedule them… Have anyone else noticed that too?
What are your stats?
What are your stats?
I can schedule those too, but I’m pretty sure they haven’t started reviewing my application
@WaHiHi when did you apply?
It was completed three weeks ago
rejected good luck everyone…
@anxiousgirlny9 I am so sorry, I was rooting for you. No matter where you go, I am sure you will do great things(:
Sorry to hear that, If you do jot mind when did you submit your app? And what is your stat? Thank you! Wish you all the best
Sorry to hear that, If you do jot mind when did you submit your app? And what is your stat? Thank you! Wish you all the best