Does Columbia formally announce its decision date?

<p>As I said in the title, does Columbia actually announce when it will announce the admissions decisions? Looking at last year's post, I noticed that everybody was expecting their decision on 7th 5pm. Will Columbia notify us when the decisions will be available?</p>

<p>No they will not. All they say is that it will be <em>by</em> December 15. Its frustrating isn't it...</p>

<p>then how did last year's applicants know that it will be announced exactly on 7th at 5pm?</p>

<p>I'd think they do. It was announced Nov 30, 2006 as indicated in the link below
<a href="http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/268713-decisions-december-7th-next-thursday.html%5B/url%5D"&gt;http://talk.collegeconfidential.com/columbia-university/268713-decisions-december-7th-next-thursday.html&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/p>