<p>@moonandstars I feel your pain! I’ve been driving everyone nuts as the days countdown one by one. I wasn’t so bad about a week ago, but now I’m waiting on the mail. 
We’ll get there!</p>
<p>I admire your optimism. The longer it takes…the less confident I become.</p>
<p>@moonandstars: my mailing address is a Po box and FedEx doesn’t ship to those so they regular mailed it! If I answered the call on Tues I could’ve gotten her to FedEx it to my house address. Grr!</p>
<p>oohh. lol. No problem. Regular mail doesn’t take that long.</p>
<p>I was accepted! I’ve been on here for some time, keeping an eye on this thread in particular. Thought I’d post my stats:</p>
<p>GPA: 3.94
SAT: 1920
School: Brookdale Community College
Major: English</p>
<p>Background:
Graduated from an Honors Program
Obtained Distinguished Scholar Award
Created a gaming company early in high school called Delvice Studios
Started modeling in high school
I play piano
Fluent in French and Polish, proficient in Spanish
Spent an extended amount of my childhood overseas (In Bolivia and Poland)
High school wasn’t the sunniest period of my life
Worked multiple jobs straight out of high school while helping my parents out with their separate companies</p>
<p>For my essay I focused on the importance of diversity in my life.I chose to write the optional essay on the hardships I suffered right out of high school. (I’d be more descriptive but it’s too personal!)</p>
<p>Though I majored in English at the community college I went to, I can’t help but reevaluate my academic pathway while attending Columbia. There are soooo many enticing majors that I just can’t decide! Right now I’m thinking between: Comparative Literature and Society, Philosophy, Political Science, or Astrophysics. </p>
<p>Good luck to everyone still waiting for a response! Don’t give up hope! </p>
<p>I’d like to give a special thanks to wwwlk18, sylo23, chasethecarrot, CuNyu2011, JamesInGlendale, and HYPSMCo for their information! Also a thanks to everyone who posted stats, those were really interesting!</p>
<p>Good afternoon everyone!!</p>
<p>So I had my interview…</p>
<p>Overall, I’d say it went well. Ivonne Rojas is a very nice lady, with lots of pertinent questions! The conversation lasted 26min, was laid back and we even joked a couple of times…</p>
<p>I felt that I answered all the questions the right way. She responded to my comments by saying “Now I totally understand your choices,” “It makes sense,” etc…</p>
<p>I’m originally a Fine Art students but I want to be an economics/poli-sci major in Columbia GS. Even though my GPA at my CC is good (3.83) and I have an AA degree with Economics/International Poli-sci classes they were still worried about me being able to handle the workload…
I guess my answer was good because she said “we can definitely see that you have a very strong and hard work ethic” </p>
<p>BUT (there’s always a but)</p>
<p>I feel that I could have convinced her more. I was not the “passionate” student that was trying to strongly prove a point and show determination. I was this normal person having a normal conversation, answering questions about why my not so good grades in high school and why since I moved to the USA I’m this successful, perfectionist and workaholic person… (my answer was maturity).</p>
<p>She also asked me the classes that were the hardest. I was honest and told her that my English comp II honors class was the hardest (the only B I have) because even after three years living in the US we can still spot the detail that shows I’m not a native English speaker. </p>
<p>She said that Econ was heavy in math and that so far I did not have many math classes… which is definitely true even though with work I don’t feel it will be an issue in the end.</p>
<p>Finally, the last question just killed me! “What if you’re not accepted to Columbia? What is you backup plan?”
I answered I was already admitted in the university I’m currently working at (University of Central Florida). I said I would go there, that my major would be Economics with an International Business minor. She replied surprised “Ah, so no matter what you still want to pursue your studies?”</p>
<p>I want a bachelor, masters, and even PhD. degrees… I though I was clear on this in my application…</p>
<p>I guess I’m just going insane. I’d better drink some tea and go to bed :-p</p>
<p>@mllejack From what you stated above, looks like you are in. Seems like this years interviewee’s were already 80% through the door, the adcoms just wanted to speak with you in person and gauge your “personality.” </p>
<p>As far as the math, I think you could have gave her a good rebuttal; even though you didnt take much math, you are constantly reading econ books, or practicing/preparing for higher level math at your leisure. Somewhere along those lines. </p>
<p>Thanks to everyone else for posting their stats.</p>
<p>any admits get their transfer evaluation yet?</p>
<p>After being accepted, how long has everyone waited before receiving a financial aid award letter?</p>
<p>Make sure you follow all the steps on the New Student Checklist once you are accepted. And make sure you have filled out your fafsa, scholarship application, etc and you should be fine. </p>
<p>Checklist link: </p>
<p>[New</a> Student Checklist | General Studies](<a href=“http://www.gs.columbia.edu/new-student-checklist]New”>http://www.gs.columbia.edu/new-student-checklist)</p>
<p>Also make sure to register with “Skip” Bailey to plan your financing.</p>
<p>At this stage, you are probably going to receive an award letter a couple weeks before class starts.</p>
<p>Congrats to ChrisSkye89!!! I’m really happy to hear the news!</p>
<p>I got my financial aid awards online – check your financial aid application</p>
<p>@ RandomAdmit: Thank you so much for your comment! I hope you’re right!! </p>
<p>and Congrats ChrisSkye89!</p>
<p>if you made your deposit, have they pulled the funds from your account yet?</p>
<p>There’s discussion about that on storybook. In general it seems to take 3 weeks for the check to be cashed, but you’ll get a UNI and such earlier.</p>
<p>Yeah i havent even gotten an invitation for storybook yet :(</p>
<p>I never received my uni via email/mail like I was supposed to. I figured out my uni by looking for my name in the school directory from the search function on the columbia.edu homepage.</p>
<p>How long did you have to wait after an interview to receive your admission decision?
I had mine thursday (06.30) early afternoon and I’ve been going crazy since then, going back and for between picturing myself admitted and rejected…</p>
<p>I officially hate sundays and holidays now as fedex doesn’t deliver mail during those days…</p>
<p>It took me exactly week to receive a decision.</p>