<p>Yes, I do know that on the website, it says clearly that interview is "positively not required" for admission to Columbia College. But I am getting a bit fidgety because I've had interviews with my other schools (Yale, Harvard, etc), but I haven't even so much as heard a peep from Columbia.</p>
<p>I live in Orange County, California.. Did anyone around this area have their interviews with Columbia yet?</p>
<p>I’m in the exact same position, as I’m also from Orange County and though I’ve had an interview with Yale and Harvard, no word yet from Columbia. I’m debating about emailing them, but would that be too pushy…?</p>
<p>They’re optional! Just calm down. Lacking an interview is not going to affect your chances.</p>
<p>Yeah, SoCal doesn’t have very many interviewers, actually.</p>
<p>First off, love the name. And the casual name-dropping of the more “prestigious” Ivies you’re applying to. You’re not applying to Columbia because you give a damn about the school. It’s just a worthy back-up to your top school (Yale?) and should naturally be on your list because it’s an Ivy. To answer your question, though, plenty of people (including yours truly) are admitted to Columbia without interviews. It is absolutely not necessary to have an interview.</p>
<p>Perhaps I’m being too presumptuous and harsh and you truly care about Columbia and would go there if admitted (though I doubt it), but you have to admit you’re asking for it by coming into a Columbia sub-forum with the handle “2014Yalie”!</p>
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<p>Good flame. I have to think a person like this is going to be neither a Yalie nor a Lion.</p>
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<p>Yes, I do think you are being a it too presumptuous to jump to conclusions like that. </p>
<p>While Yale is by far my first choice (hence my hopeful name, which you clearly have an issue about), Columbia is definitely the second college on my list, and NOT because it is an Ivy. In fact, unlike most people at my school who decide to apply to the “US Weekly Top 20 Colleges” just because they are so prestigious, I have both visited and liked Yale, Columbia, and Harvard. And so I decided to apply to those three Ivys because I can really imagine myself going to any of the three and being perfectly happy there. </p>
<p>In contrast, I did not apply to other Ivy’s… just because they are Ivy’s, like you claim. I visited UPenn, Brown, Cornell, Princeton, and Dartmouth, but chose not to apply to them for the sake of adding more Ivy’s to my list, because I did NOT like the school and seriously could not imagine myself being happy in either of those schools (no offense to anyone who applied/attends those schools, by any means!). </p>
<p>And while I did mention Yale and Harvard, I only did so because, like Columbia, they are Ivy’s, and I thought perhaps that the admission process would be similar. Would that have been too much of an assumption, do you think?</p>
<p>I did get a few other interviews to other non-Ivy, but still excellent schools (Northwestern, Pomona, GW, etc), but really, like everything else I’ve written so far, was this information necessary for CC users to reply in a courteous manner to my original question? Apparently not, for most other users, but apparently so, for you. </p>
<p>Again, I don’t understand why there was a need for me to go into this long explanation, but here you go. Hope you’re satisfied.</p>
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<p>I think you made a mistake of ignorance, but in this regard, Columbia might be the #1 US Weekly college.</p>
<p>for those that don’t get the reference - the EIC of US Weekly is from Columbia</p>
<p>re: your question. columbia operates its interview process differently than h and y. it is more about creating the random chance that everyone can receive an interview - instead of only those with high SAT scores. further, harvard lets non-ugrad alumni conduct interviews, to columbia’s system that is only ugrad alums (and grads from seas). so not hearing from columbia is well because cu is different.</p>
<p>finally - re: pwoods message. i don’t think pwoods is especially off key (even if he is perhaps more aggressive than i would be). there is a risk one takes in taking on a pseudonym that is so blatantly one-dimensional. i suppose i could interrogate you about your interest in yale and find cracks, so it is rather bold to place as your name 2014Yalie. i think pwoods speaks of a greater mistrust of name-use as it pertains to a person’s self-image. i love columbia, but chose the name admissionsgeek not because it denies my columbia love, but because it doesn’t render it obnoxious. for instance, 2014yalie impedes someone from in anyway believing you might like a school or might attend a school other than yale (which limits how helpful folks might be). it is good that you love yale, but using it in your handle is rather obnoxious - it thumbs it in folks faces. it is like wearing a US flag to a meeting of parliament in Canada.</p>
<p>having the same issue. live in the philadelphia metropolitan area and got interviews for yale, princeton, upenn, duke, brown, georgetown but not harvard or columbia. I applied back in november too!</p>
<p>hey stupefy, don’t read too much into it, likely at this point you wont be offered an interview (it is nearing the deadline). it means nothing about you as a candidate. you can like pwoods be admitted. </p>
<p>but please know, if you have any questions, or want to know anything about columbia, please don’t hesitate to ask.</p>
<p>@adgeek
My greatest concern with the modern college admissions process is that some people will apply to all the Ivies and then choose to go to Harvard or Yale. They’ll be keeping out kids who are a great fit for Columbia or Brown, but are not as attractive applicants. Then it’s lose-lose: Columbia chooses an applicant who chooses not to attend and an applicant who would great for the school is denied. The adcom is doing their job, choosing the best applicant; they can’t assume the applicant will choose Yale instead and on that basis deny them, and they’re not allowed to ask the applicant whether they’re applying to another school. And it’s not fair to ask applicants to only apply to their top choice, since they could be denied and then have no recourse. But this process still ends up hurting tons of schools and applicants. The ED process counteracts this to some extent, but not enough. I just don’t know what can be done; what do you think?</p>
<p>At any rate, though, I should hate the game, not the player. Sorry 2014Yalie. Good luck with Yale!</p>