<p>@helloJan and any of the older College Confidential people- Do you know any current or prospective Post Bacc’s at GS? </p>
<p>I still haven’t heard from admissions… I called last week and admissions was great- polite and quick to tell me that my decision was on its way. (but I still haven’t received a thing…) </p>
<p>After doing some research on Student Doctor Network . com - I’ve seen that this type of thing is not uncommon… Are there any current or prospective Pre Med Post bac’s that you could put me in contact with?</p>
<p>You might email Sean Trulby <a href=“mailto:srt2132@columbia.edu”>srt2132@columbia.edu</a>. He’s the student life officer at GS. If you ask, he may be able to put you in touch with a current postbac orientation leader who’d be happy to answer your questions.</p>
<p>Thank you 
I saw that the Adcom did update my file today around 1pm
so, i’m guessing that they’re still going through their evaluating processes. . ? </p>
<p>Thanks again.</p>
<p>Hello Everyone,</p>
<p>I am from an Ivy League University (I was an ED candidate) but I have had a break. I had to withdraw from all my courses due to medical reasons.</p>
<p>I matriculated two years ago. I took some classes at the Columbia Summer Session as an undergrad at my home Ivy (which was not Columbia) during my break and basically failed cause I had a lot of issues getting back into school work. (I also have a very complex guardian situation where my guardian was in jail). Also, I was too eager to prove myself again (this comes from the fact that in high school I was taking classes at UPenn as a senior in hs, had a 3.9 GPA from a Prep School, had national answers in science, and received letters from schools like Yale to apply).</p>
<p>It was really recently that I did those courses. I am wondering if I bring those grades up by taking courses elsewhere if I can bring up my grade to get in, or if that is not a possibility at all.</p>
<p>I am feeling really hopeless…if I was smart enough to get into an Ivy straight out of HS in ED, I feel like it is in there somewhere - it has just taken me a long time to find it again. Also, I have had really ****ty health issues where I have had to have been in the hospital & my ever so loving guardian who clearly was not who we all thought he was.</p>
<p>Also, do I have to send those transcripts from the summer? Since it was just a summer course and it wasn’t at my home institution and I was on leave.</p>
<p>If I do, does anyone have any suggestions on how can I improve or what I can do? I mean I think that I need three more semesters to pull up my grades. But does that mean that my grades at Columbia’s summer will overshadow all of my grades at a non-Ivy while i try to pull them up?</p>
<p>Sorry for the huge jumble, I am just feeling like super helpless about this whole situation.
I have seen a lot of GSers post that they had a horrible hs record…but I have a horrible college record and a stellar hs one. I feel like a lot of that is because I never got into the rhythm of college cause I had a horrible first year experience.</p>
<p>I really appreciate hearing feedback. I never lurked this forum when I was applying to college the first time…I was a bit too arrogant, but now I feel like I need it.</p>