<p>If you havent been contacted for an ED interview, you're not getting one. ED reports were due today.</p>
<p>does that mean they are starting on reviewing now?
or have they already started?</p>
<p>getting an interview or not isn't any indication of you getting in is it?</p>
<p>So when does the admissions committee actually start to review the applications? How long will it take them?</p>
<p>my friend and I both applied to columbia and only I had the interview. What does that mean? She's really worrying about it. We both live in a same city</p>
<p>Yes, I was going to ask the same question about whether they have started reviewing...
although I would be really surprised if they haven't. 10 days is certainly not long enough to sort through more than 2000 applications - at least I sincerely HOPE it's not.</p>
<p>gulp! 200 applications a day...</p>
<p>If they work 12 hours a day... thats about 17 per hour...haha, not happening</p>
<p>you'd never know</p>
<p>So how long do they spent on each application?</p>
<p>For ED, the entire office meets for about a week and a half. The initial reads have probably already happened.</p>
<p>What are the "initial reads"? So when will the entire office start to meet this year? Have they already started?</p>
<p>Columbia2002 can probably answer this one but I'll give it a shot; this is how I rationalized this process: I think that the files are given an initial read through to see if there are any OUTSTANDING, off the charts applicants that can be immediately accepted (like the regional officer stamps accepted on top of file, and has the director look over it to see whether he/she agrees,) or the opposite- an applicant with very very low scores/grades/ecs/etc. I doubt there are many <em>truly</em> outstanding applicants applying ed to columbia ; many of the students, I think, who are academic and athletic olympians choose to apply to a variety of schools RD (like Harvard, Yale, MIT, Columbia etc.) and then choose from their acceptances. So it would make sense if the initial read through was quick...
I think though that both ED and RD they receive a lot of applications from people who are just applying for the hell of it or people who do have a small shot, but are uninteresting, lackluster applicants... maybe 1/3. That leaves around or a little less than 2/3 qualified, part-of-the-pack candidates (decent SATs and grades, etc.)- that's where the tough choices begin... I suppose what happens next is they have some quota to fill, which varies on the strength of the applicant pool that year- like one year it was around 40% accepted ED. Once they have accepted the olympians, they probably accept students in a hierarchy from the strongest students (this part is intangible... it could mean the most interesting candidates with the most "spark" to the most consistent candidates... who knows!)</p>
<p>The initial read is done by your regional admissions officer. That person presents their applicants to the entire committee, and the group decides. To my knowledge, there is nobody who is an autoaccept. Obviously, the committee will spend little time debating someone who is a true superstar, but a decision is still made by more than one person. There are autorejects that don't go to the committee, however.</p>
<p>What would be a "good" example of the "autoreject"? Does the regional admissons officier do the "autoreject"? Also, when did the regional admissions officer actually start to review the applications? What about the interview reports, weren't they due this week? How can the regional admissions officer decide before he/she gets the report?</p>
<p>i doubt if any CCer is an auto-reject but i guess it would be super low GPA .</p>
<p>Plenty are. Auto-reject doesn't mean just based on the numbers. It means the regional interviewer looks at your app, reads it, and determines that you're way below what Columbia is looking for.</p>
<p>interviewer determines whether I am in or not?</p>
<p>Sorry! I meant regional admissions officer. Regional interviewer doesn't make any sense!</p>