Email with Instructions

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<p>Just got this half an hour ago. At the top, they gave me my pin and columbia ID number...but the pin didn't work in the system. weird. did this happen to anyone else?</p>

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Thank you for your application to Columbia University. We are nearing the end of our evaluations and will soon notify candidates of our decisions.
The Columbia community is committed to environmental responsibility; in keeping with this commitment, we will provide some admissions decisions only online, not via regular mail. You may request that a copy of your decision letter be mailed to you after you receive it online; further instructions will be available when you check your decision. We plan to post all decisions on Thursday, April 1, 2010, after 5:00pm (Eastern Time). Please click here to receive your decision.
If you applied online, to view your decision you will need both the PIN and password you created when you submitted your application. Your PIN appears at the top of this e-mail. If you have lost or forgotten your password, click here to receive your password via e-mail.
If you submitted a paper application, a PIN created for you appears at the top of this e-mail. To receive your password, please here. You will then be able to use this PIN and password to check your decision online.
If you would like to withdraw from consideration entirely, please inform us of that choice as soon as possible by replying to this e-mail at <a href="mailto:ugrad-confirm@columbia.edu">ugrad-confirm@columbia.edu</a>. Be sure that your full name and Columbia Application ID appear in the response.
If you have questions, please contact the Office of Undergraduate Admissions at 212-854-2522 or <a href="mailto:ugrad-ask@columbia.edu">ugrad-ask@columbia.edu</a>.
Sincerely,
Jessica Marinaccio
Dean of Undergraduate Admissions

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<p>The same thing happened to me just now.</p>

<p>Did you apply ED and get deferred or are you an RD applicant?</p>

<p>I’m contacting Tech Support right now, but if anyone has any answers to this issue I’d be very interested in knowing.</p>

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<p>lol I was so afraid at first that the “If you would like to withdraw from consideration entirely, please inform us of that choice as soon as possible by replying to this e-mail at <a href=“mailto:ugrad-confirm@columbia.edu”>ugrad-confirm@columbia.edu</a>. Be sure that your full name and Columbia Application ID appear in the response.” meant that they were implying that I was already rejected…</p>

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<p>From what I know, the decision are given on the main appyourself portal thing. I used my old pin and it worked fine. The pin they give is if you</p>

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<p>The reason I’m confused is that the new email I’ve been sent has a completely different PIN and a completely different ID number. I applied Early Decision and was deferred and my old PIN still works for login, but the new one doesn’t work. I also tried the new ID number in the check the status of your application site and it doesn’t work there either, though my old one does.</p>

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<p>whoaness is right. The new one is only for paper applicants. I don’t know why they gave people who applied online a new one. Might have been an innocent mistake. There is also a funny sentence, “…in keeping with this commitment, we will provide some admissions decisions only online, not via regular mail…”. Some admissions decisions? How do they decide who gets an only online one. haha. But yeah, use your old pin.</p>

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<p>I’m pretty sure it’s the acceptances that get their letter via post and rejections that only view them online.</p>

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<p>@stupefy and others: The pin on top is for paper applicants. If you have applied online then you must use the pin and password you had used earlier.
<em>It works out in my case</em></p>

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<p>Oh, that makes sense.</p>

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<p>@stupefy and others: The pin on top is for paper applicants. If you have applied online then you must use the pin and password you had used earlier.
<em>It works out in my case</em></p>

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<p>Sorry, for double post :-(</p>

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<p><em>I applied to Columbia online</em></p>

<p>How is the Application PIN Number they sent me tonight
totally different from the one I had it for my application process?</p>

<p>If you applied online, to view your decision you will need both the PIN and password you created when you submitted your application. Your PIN appears at the top of this e-mail.</p>

<p>They say ‘Your pin appears at the top of this e-mail’.</p>

<p>I’m confounded…</p>

<p>any clues from the previous years?</p>

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<p>I logged into the system with my old PIN. I’m not worrying about it.</p>

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<p>yeah i used the old pin and mine worked fine. thursday seems so far away!!</p>

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<p>exstentrik,
i am deferred also and the same thing happened with me</p>

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<p>hi… i just got the same email…but the pin number and the columbia id on top are BOTH different from my original ones. Is this ok? or should i contact them?</p>

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<p>What if I didnt get this email? I got a very similar email for Cornell, but not for Columbia… Sign of bad things to come?</p>

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<p>Check if it is in your junk/ spam box :D</p>

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<p>I think this may well be a large mistake on Columbia’s part! You can imagine my horror when I saw that my Columbia ID was different from the one on my likely letter!! I thought they had mixed up my decision!! My pin was different too, I was like, “huh?” pity we can’t call them over the weekend, but hopefully they’ll fix it themselves or one of us will call them on Monday :)</p>

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<p>no, I didnt apply ED</p>