<p>On the Columbia supplement it asks whether or not you've visited the Columbia campus as well as how you've become familiar with the school. Now, I selected 'No' for if I've visited the campus (traveling to New York has, unfortunately, simply been unfeasible for me) and didn't select anything for how I've become familiar with Columbia (it wasn't required, so for whatever reason I thought it wasn't worth my time to check a few boxes). Do you think this is any kind of detriment to my application?</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm stressing over the small stuff...</p>
<p>not to add to this pressure cooker, but i’m pretty sure not checking any boxes will hurt you, and not by a small amount…</p>
<p>If you haven’t visited NY (which is fine, I didn’t) they will understand, especially with the economic conditions and such. But not even checking the website, ordering the viewbook, take the time to talk to local admission officers comes across as that you aren’t really interested in Columbia…and every college cares about yield (prob except for Harvard, since they always get around 80% yield rate lol)</p>
<p>It was a joke… Columbia is more or less my top choice, I just carelessly overlooked checking any of the boxes. Obviously I’ve actually read about the college. Oh well, I probably wouldn’t have gotten in anyway. I doubt not checking a few boxes was the final straw.</p>
<p>um, they track interest, sure, but they are not as draconian about it as some schools. i knew someone who worked at emory and said that if someone hadn’t visited (and had the means to) they would deny the candidate without thinking twice.</p>
<p>Not totally sure, but I think not checking some of the boxes is kind of hurtful, but I don’t think it’s the end-all, be-all of things. If it comes down to the wire, though, they’ll probably take a student who showed more interest than one who didn’t, even if those students have basically the same qualifications. Unfortunately, since Columbia had a huge jump in number of applications, they might think that you’re one of those people who applied just because it was one extra button-click on the Common App instead of a whole new application.</p>