<p>ok well my friends at columbia do tell me that they think the interview is quite important.. If it went well then it could swing the adcoms decision! :) fingers crossed! gd luck everybody!</p>
<p>Silver, sadly that only applies to international applicants (which is you, right?).</p>
<p>I wish the interview had more weight.... :(</p>
<p>yep im an international applicant :)
does that mean im not really competing against the american applicants?
and ill just be looked at alongside the international applicants only.</p>
<p>apparantly about 100 people apply each year to Columbia College from Singapore.. and i don't know how many of those people apply ED.. but last year about 10 of those people were accepted.. that's quite a high percentage for a small geographical region right?</p>
<p>Hmm...I BELIEVE every college have quotas for the number of international applicants, so I doubt you are competing against American kids...but that might be bad for you because international applicants are usally much more qualified.</p>
<p>Haha...I wonder how ED works in Singapore? If you don't go does every college in Singapore blacklist you? LOL.</p>
<p>there is no ED in singapore. im not sure how unis work here..
and there are only like 2/3 unis neway.. i'm only applying to the us.</p>
<p>I mean how does one apply ED from Singapore to Columbia? Supposedly you don't go, do Singapore schools hold it aginst/blacklist you?</p>
<p>i apply just the same as u would apply.
and no singapore schools wont hold it against you.. why would they? even if they did, i dont think it'd matter very much to me.</p>
<p>there a lot of international students from singapore at columbia (if i'm correct it's the most represented of the internationals), so maybe that's a good sign for you</p>
<p>I had my interview today. It was kind of ackward because we were both first-timers but other than that I think it went well. My interviewer told me that I was a good fit into Columbia</p>
<p>do interviewers go back to columbia to tell the ad com about your character?</p>
<p>no, they write a letter</p>
<p>smithk: "My interviewer told me that I was a good fit into Columbia"</p>
<p>Do you think all interviewers say that to all their interviewees?</p>
<p>Because my interviewer said pretty much the same thing.. :S</p>
<p>my interviewer didn't say that</p>
<p>theory refuted</p>
<p>i'm kind of upset that i haven't been contacted for an interview yet though I live in NJ.</p>
<p>will it negatively affect me?</p>
<p>they contact you by phone right?</p>
<p>just a thought: for those of you using hotmail, set your filtering to "low" because otherwise mails from columbia get filtered as spams.</p>
<p>thank god i use yahoo.
But Columbia never sends me newsletters or updates or anything like that..
Am I not meant to be receiving regular mail from them?
I don't get anything :(</p>
<p>nope, Columbia is very unlike WUSTL or NYU in that matter.</p>
<p>where's WUSTL?</p>
<p>so it's normal that Columbia doesn't send out all those things right??
I've been in non-stop contact with my admissions officer.. lol :)</p>
<p>I need her to know me!</p>
<p>WUSTL - Washington University in St. Louis</p>
<p>yup, Columbia just doens't send out stuff, even after you get accepted the mailings are still sparse.</p>