<p>Do I have a shot? I got into Penn, Brown, and Dartmouth, but I doubt that means anything for this decision.</p>
<p>I sent Columbia a one page update with most recent concert charity effort.</p>
<p>I’m not entirely sure, but I do know that a fair amount do get in. Two of my friends who are currently attending got off the waitlist. They found out in July</p>
<p>Predicting WL actions is extremely difficult. 1) you don’t know how you stand vis a vis the other WL folks and 2) the college’s predictions on how many WL spots may open up varies widely year to year. Regardless, congrats!</p>
<p>can anyone tell how many are waitlisted by columbia?</p>
<p>To positive12. You might try Columbia University’s website under admissions to see if it has posted wait list statistics for the class of '16. Maybe the Columbia student newspaper has printed that info. You might also try a web search on the Columbia site. We have had the “wait list” argument on the site with someone who is no longer here, but who insisted on posting “disinformation” about hundreds of kids getting off of the Columbia wait list. It simply IS NOT true. Columbia’s acceptance rate was lower than Princeton’s this year, which may or may not be predictive of a very high yield among admits. I would take butterman’s claims that “a fair amount get in” with a real grain of salt. As in, I don’t buy it. What I do buy is that he knows two people who did get in off of the Columbia wait list, which stat may well say something more about the perceived academic quality of butterman’s friends (high), than about fluidity on the actual list itself. Best option: prepare for the “worst,” (as in accept elsewhere by May 1st), and hope for the “best,” as in be prepared to “eat” your deposit at another school if you do get off of Columbia’s wait list and that is REALLY where you want to go to school. In other words, do not stress over and procrastinate about this wait list. Assume it won’t happen and act accordingly. Then, IF it SHOULD happen, do what you need to do.</p>
<p>“A fair amount” getting off the Columbia wait is is totally unrealistic at this moment, so prepare for any contingency and don’t lose out on a “sure thing,” if that is what you have at another school. But, of course…good luck!!!</p>
<p>A few people here may know that I applied to Columbia (SEAS) twice; the first time I applied RD and was waitlisted, and ultimately they took zero people off that waitlist. The second time I applied ED and got in. The “zero people” thing was for those starting in Fall 2001 (class of 05), I got accepted to the class of 06.</p>
<p>If you’re local, it wouldn’t hurt to try and make an appointment to come in and discuss w/ admissions. I don’t know if they let you do that, but right now is the time they have the most bandwidth all year, so it’d be worth a shot.</p>
<p>A counselor at my school worked at Coumbia admissions for years, and said that she’s heard there won’t be much movement on the waitlist this year. It’s disappointing for me as well, I am on the WL as well.</p>