<ul>
<li>Essays: Clever, if I do say so myself</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Apparently good, though I didn't read it</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Same as above</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Potential classics major?</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Canada</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Excellent essay, extensive music ECs</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Too happy to question! </li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: Mediocre interview (not my fault)</p>
<p>Sry Zant. Best of luck to you! By your waitlist, I would say that you are going to get into at least 2 other Ivies (they waitlist good applicants who they know will go somewhere else). Congrats KitKatTail!! Are you going to Columbia or Harvard?!</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1410</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 730/690/620</li>
<li>GPA: 4.1 W, 3.8 UW</li>
<li>Rank: 3/294</li>
<li>Other stats: AP US History - 5</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: One was serious and engaging, the other was humorous-both well written</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Both were great.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Never saw it, but we're close so I'm sure it was great.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I don't know... I don't think so.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: NYC</li>
<li>School Type: Catholic - crappy :-)</li>
<li>Ethnicity: East Indian (Bangladeshi)</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: writing, weakness: no leadership EC's</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I'm going to attribute it to randomness so as not to bruise my ego. </li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: I don't know... crappy interview? Oh well, he had a really thick accent that I tried my best to understand, though I may have misinterpreted here and there. I also got lost on the way to it and wandered around the village for forty minutes. I was about to cry at one point... so I was generally frazzled during the interview.</p>
<p>jaug1: I'm still not sure yet; they both look so exciting! I'm going to have to do some serious visiting between now and May 1rst. I never thought I'd even get in to ONE of these schools, let alone both!</p>
<p>Bluesteel, those who live close to the city receive their decisions by mail early today.</p>
<p>Kitkattail, if you have any questions about Columbia, I will help to answer them as best as possible. My AIM is Teedoff101. </p>
<p>Sry Princeton!! Columbia is getting tougher and tougher by the year and your rejection does not mean you aren't an extremely qualified and great person.</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1540</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 780,740,710</li>
<li>GPA: 94.4</li>
<li>Rank: n/a</li>
<li>Other stats: AP US/ AP English Lit Self-Study, AP Environmental (4,5,4 respectively)</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: I think they were good.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One was amazing, the other was good.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I think it was amazing, my counselor loves me.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Don't know, I'm still in awe.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: NYC</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness:</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I don't know! This is so mindboggling. I really thought I'd be rejected because they emphasize "high stats" and all.</li>
</ul>
<p>OMGGGG I CAN'T BELIEVE IT. like.. seriously. omg. i never even considered columbia cuz i assumed i wouldn't get in</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (College)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1490</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 780, 720, 720</li>
<li>GPA: 3.91 UW</li>
<li>Rank: none @ school, but top 1-2% i'm pretty sure</li>
<li>Other stats: AP Lang, Psych- 5, USHistory- 4</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: it had the potential to be very, very confusing.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: no idea</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: dunno</li>
<li>Hook (if any): none</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: i showed interest in french and what i did. </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: probably, dare i say it, my different essays? no idea. wow. i can't believe it.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: i didn't even get an interview while ALL of my friends did, and i thought that was definitely bad. ahh, wow. good luck, everyone!</p>
<p>Congrats to all those accepted!! If you have made up your mind, welcome to the Class of '09!!! If you haven't and you have any questions about Columbia drop me an IM at Teedoff101 on AIM. Best of luck to all of you!</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: not stellar</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: i think she likes me.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: i think she likes me.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: MD</li>
<li>School Type: tiny private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: female</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: quick and violent addictions</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: also shocked. thought i'd be on the "highstats-reject" list.</li>
</ul>
<ul>
<li>Essays: very good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: didn't read, probably all great.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: didn't read, probably great.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: CA</li>
<li>School Type: competitive private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: philosophy major(?), some good leadership ECs, but maybe not enough, etc... i don't really care to reflect on it much more... :)</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: umm, not sure. i guess i must not have shown enough interest, though i had visited the campus and did my best to show them how much i wanted to go there.</li>
</ul>