<p>If you are serious about Columbia (I'm sure you really are) write the adcom a letter telling them exactly why you want to go there. Make sure you include other updates on your academics/EC's. That may just get you accepted. At least its better than doing nothing.</p>
<p>it's just not the same, you should enjoy the college you're at, not work just to leave</p>
<p>hi! i heard about you from a friend who applied to columbia...incidentally, i'm from singapore too! but i'm in houston right now... well anyways best of luck on everything else!</p>
<p>lol.. which friend told you about me ????</p>
<p>"If you are serious about Columbia (I'm sure you really are) write the adcom a letter telling them exactly why you want to go there. Make sure you include other updates on your academics/EC's. That may just get you accepted. At least its better than doing nothing." - they won't look at me again.. cus i got rejected... i can't appeal.. can i?</p>
<p>even if you can...appealing is not very successful, if you can, you might try, but I'm afraid it'll give you false hopes you don't need right now chris</p>
<p>Actually, I read (I think it was in the Newsweek Hottest colleges) that if you really want to attend a school, you can appeal a rejection. Just make sure you put all your effor into it. Make them see that you are made for Columbia and why you want to go.</p>
<p>i know.. i don't really want to..</p>
<p>i wanna just dust off columbia right now.. it's the last thing i need at the mo.. but i'm just really attached to the columbia BOARD ...</p>
<p>i really love u guys..
what makes me so sad.. and shocks me is that none of the original crew got in.. my friends.. they didnt get in.. or they got deferred ya noe?
its shocking</p>
<p>If you guys will permit a parent from barging on this discussion, this is the third year that I've seen the pain of rejection and deferral (usually followed by rejection) on CC. All I can tell you is it's okay to feel the pain...and that the odds are extremely high that a year from now you will be very very happy where you do wind up.</p>
<p>My D was a Yale rejectee and that's the crowd I followed most closely last year and to some extent on to this year. I think every single one wound up someplace terrific. (I'll confess that while <em>i</em> had some regret my D didn't get into Yale, I don't see how she could be happier than where she is.)</p>
<p>So hang in there and good luck, to all of you.</p>
<p>all of the regulars...none accepted. It terrifies me to think in a year, I will be in this position. I haven't been here long, but I hope I haven't wreaked too much chaos. It's scary to know the exact same pain is coming, and there's nothing to be done about it.</p>
<p>celebrian25,</p>
<p>That's exactly how I'm feeling right now. I'm scared and depressed already--by the way, what school would you be applying to next year?</p>
<p>And to everyone who did not get accepted, keep your heads up, and good luck.</p>
<p>it's between columbia and yale...it comes down to fin. aid really as much as I hate it, I'm not sure if I can be bound to columbia because of the money and there not known for great fin. aid packages. Columbia is by far my #1 choice, but darn those 40k a year</p>
<p>i wanna write..</p>
<p>dear jessica and the whole adcom,
thanks for rejecting me. it's the best thing that ever happened to me.
you opened up so many new doors for me, that i would have never known about otherwise.
best of luck in the future.</p>
<p>a very grateful applicant who got rejected from your institution,
christina</p>
<p>oh chris. You deeply sadden me. I know your bitter now, but it wasn't meant to be. How about you send it after you become something, thus you'll have passed through those doors</p>
<p>yep.. i think i will...
i wlil send it when i know where i'm going..</p>
<p>i'm not sooo bitter. i'm coping surprisingly well ..</p>
<p>my friends are over to my house right now.. i think i'll burst out crying when i see them though....</p>
<p>i'm gonna get through this though.. believe me i will....
i'm strong.. i can cope. and i'll achieve smoething great..</p>
<p>yes columbia.. was not ment for me</p>
<p>i dont want to even try transfer
where i go.. i will be happy
and i'll llove it. and i'm not just trying to console myself..</p>
<p>i'm fine..</p>
<p>I know you're fine. but it sucks a lot for you. You're a great person who knows your stats don't make you a great person. It's just columbia that doesn't know that</p>
<p>well it sounds trite to say that i know how you feel
but the truth is that like many people (myself included) you invested too much emotionally into one school when you knew (or maybe you didnt) that its almost a lottery about who gets in and who doesnt. and so you set yourself up for a huge disappointment. </p>
<p>does it suck? yeah, it sucks big time.
should you be bitter? you have a right to be, but it's not healthy.
should you appeal? yes. do it. but after you finish your other apps.</p>
<p>i appeal and say what..?</p>
<p>I don't recommend appealing. You would never feel the same about Columbia. Just turn on your heel and go in a different direction. Hard as it may be to believe, there are TONS of other great places and great kids at all of them. Go to a place that wants you. Remember: "if they don't appreciate you, they don't deserve you."</p>
<p>silver_wavez Hi, I usually post on the Yale board, but was following the Columbia board too. Please read the post on the Yale board called Listen Up, by coureur. It's about her d that got rejected from Y last year and how well she did after that. I think it will give you hope....</p>
<p>i thought u couldn't appeal.. after getting outright rejected in the ed round..</p>
<p>i dont know..
im confused and im scared..</p>
<p>thanks everyone for support. and andi i read the post.. its a wonderful story.. it def. does give hope..</p>
<p>but im still so scared that ill get rejed from lots of other places too.</p>
<p>her d was obviously amazing to have gotten in to harvard mit.. etc..</p>
<p>but i just dont think im like that..</p>
<p>i dont noe where ill go.</p>
<p>im just still upset and i dont noe where im going and what will happen to me. im just fearful that i wont get in newhere</p>