<p>How AZ?</p>
<p>10char</p>
<p>The state of Azirona 
Grand Canyon State?</p>
<p>Yep, he goes to a public IB high school in Phoenix. No likely letters from any other schools.</p>
<p>I just got one for CC</p>
<p>If likely recipients would not mind saying - What time and date were the likely emails sent to you? Thanks</p>
<p>I just got one, so excited!</p>
<p>^^^^ what did it say?</p>
<p>Just got one today for CC. At 6pm West Coast time.</p>
<p>Here’s the text of the beginning of the letter:
</p>
<p>And it goes on to talk about admitted students days and stuff.</p>
<p>I’m so excited. I am freaking out!!! Congrats to all who have gotten likelies, and to those who haven’t, don’t worry–the vast majority of applicants accepted will not have gotten likely letters.</p>
<p>Oh, and I was deferred from Yale (like Silverturtle), which is a bit funny, but different strokes for different folks I guess.</p>
<p>I am not a URM or an athlete and do not have any other sort of hook.</p>
<p>lol I was deferred by Yale too. That sent me into a pit of a panic, but I guess I can relax now. People were right when they said to not read too much into a deferral. Easier said than done though.</p>
<p>Congrats quomodo! I got the same letter at the same time, since ivyhopeful15 was wondering. I’m so proud of the College Confidential community that so many of us received likely emails! I didn’t even know that Columbia College sent out likely letters.</p>
<p>Yeah, me neither, jgedwards. When I saw the message in my email with the subject “Your Application to Columbia” I thought they were gonna tell me I was missing something! And nne718, now I remember you from the Yale SCEA threads. 
Silverturtle got a likely too I think, and he was deferred also–I guess Yale doesn’t know what it’s doing! ;)</p>
<p>My D got one yesterday evening. Yale deferred. Excited!</p>
<p>Is it normal practice for likely letters from the same institution to be delivered in batches like this? I guess they have finally reached the second end of the app pile and are discovering more great candidates there. I just wonder whether Columbia is awarding an unsually large number of likelies this year, and if so, why or to what effect.</p>
<p>CONGRATS!</p>
<p>To the people who were deferred from their EA choices…Did any of you guys change your application after being deferred? </p>
<p>I changed my Common Application essay quite a bit after being deferred…and I wonder if changing my essay correlates to my getting a likely letter…? Or maybe the essay has nothing to do with it (which could very well be the case) and all the top schools are just random in their selection?</p>
<p>I made a few tweaks to my commonapp essay, but I don’t think they were substantial changes. Columbia didn’t get the essay that I wrote for the Yale supplement, and I think that made a difference. My supplement wasn’t very good. It was really rushed. Yale also didn’t get my subject test scores at the time, and one of the recommendations was different (the one I changed was from a 10th grade teacher, which Yale doesn’t seem to favor). I also fixed some typos in the commonapp here and there.</p>
<p>I really wish that colleges would have more “standardized” (I don’t know if this is the most accurate word to describe what I’m trying to say) method of choosing applicants. Or a more consistent way, maybe, is what I’m trying to say. I was deferred early from Stanford and I really thought my Stanford deferral meant I wasn’t going to get into any other “top” school…But then my Columbia likely came and now I’m slightly more hopeful. But a Columbia likely is no indication whatsoever of my chances of getting into other Ivies…Sigh. :(</p>
<p>Also got one last night after they finally received my SAT scores (after three sends). Congrats everyone!</p>
<p>Any international students applying for financial aid got the email?</p>
<p>wait. so it seems that all of columbia’s likely letters aren’t going out at the same time. does that mean that some could still be going out in the near future?</p>
<p>I wouldn’t expect them to send any more past next week. I think Harvard is sending likelies up to the 15th, so maybe Columbia is similar.</p>