<p>Decision: Accepted!!!
1560, 800, 710, 700
bilingual, coach synchronized swimming, mediocre grades (3.65 uw)
i'll post more later as i am currently at a pulic computer in my future home city (NYC!!!!)</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT: 800M 770V
[</em>] SAT IIs: 800 math2c, 800 phys, 770 lit, 750 writ
[<em>] GPA: N/A
[</em>] Rank: 1/43
[<em>] Other stats: IB, projected 42/45 points
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays: well-written but uncreative
[<em>] Teacher Recs: glowing
[</em>] Counselor Rec: glowing
[<em>] Hook (if any): legacy sort of... dad did his first year of law school at Columbia
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country: Tanzania
[<em>] School Type: Private
[</em>] Ethnicity: White
[<em>] Gender: Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness: math/extracurriculars
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: IB? Africa? Good academics? Semi-legacy? Don't know.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (SEAS)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1490 (710V/780M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 760/750/750</li>
<li>GPA: 3.96 UW, 4.05 W</li>
<li>Rank: 5/36 (unofficially) - top 20%</li>
<li>Other stats:</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: REALLY good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One excellent one, on pretty good one</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: No idea, ok i guess</li>
<li>Hook (if any): First generation</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Ohio</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: White</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: extracurriculars Weakness:rank</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: No idea</li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: Accepted SEAS</p>
<p>Stats:[ul]
[<em>] SAT:1530
[</em>] SAT IIs:2380+800
[<em>] GPA:4.56
[</em>] Rank:~4/150
[<em>] Other stats: Decent EC's, nothing outstanding
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Essays:Fine to Good
[<em>] Teacher Recs:Fine
[</em>] Counselor Rec:Fine
[<em>] Hook (if any):Its engineering.. and i went to a cool summer program.
[/ul]Location/Person:[ul]
[</em>] State or Country:NJ
[<em>] School Type:Public
[</em>] Ethnicity:White
[<em>] Gender:Male
[</em>] major strength/weakness:Strength is academic stats (SATS, GPA) weakness is EC.. nothing outstanding
[li] why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:Its engineering, its not too hard to get in.[/li][/ul]Other Factors:</p>
<p>Decision: Rejected
Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1450</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 740/740/750</li>
<li>GPA: 4.5612W</li>
<li>Rank: Top 5% of ~450</li>
<li>Other stats: 4's on 3 AP tests, NCTE Achievement in Writing Winner</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: OK. .</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Didn't read</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: OK, considering he didn't really know me</li>
<li>Hook (if any): I applied ED and got deferred</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian/Caucasian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: I'm modest.</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: SO PRINCETON WOULD ACCEPT ME INSTEAD!!!</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: I talked to my admissions counselor several times on the phone, responded to her after I got deferred with what she said the committee wanted to know about me, and knew someone on the Board of Columbia who contacted the admissions office for me.</p>
<p>I was a tad disappointed at the time, but getting into Princeton made me feel a whole lot better and reminded me how fickle the ivies can be and how getting accepted or rejected is nothing personal. I still love Columbia, and I still think it's a great school, and still wish I had gotten in, but I know that it's not the end of the world and that as long as I end up some place where I'm happy it'll all be OK.</p>
<p>Decision: waitlisted (at all 3 of my top choices... w. t. f.)
Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1600</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/800/790/750</li>
<li>GPA: 3.97UW</li>
<li>Rank: unranked</li>
<li>Other stats: </li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: very good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: dunno</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: dunno</li>
<li><p>Hook (if any): international level on violin
Location/Person:</p></li>
<li><p>State or Country: MD</p></li>
<li><p>School Type: Public</p></li>
<li><p>Ethnicity: Asian</p></li>
<li><p>Gender: Male</p></li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness: asian/premed/violin carbon copy</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: SO PRINCETON WOULD ACCEPT ME INSTEAD!!! -amen.</p></li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED into the Columbia school of General Studies and the list college of the Jewish Theological Seminary (I'm really excited about meeting everyone.)</p>
<p>Stats:
SAT:1410
SAT IIs:780,770,700
GPA:98
Rank:~10/350
Other stats: Decent EC's (Co-editor of Newspaper, All-County team etc.)
Subjective:
Essays:One of my essays was awesome, comparing a selfish and an unselfish family. The other one had to do with my search for a Jewish community, so it was especially awesome for this program.
Teacher Recs:The one that I read was good
Counselor Rec:Didn't see
Hook (if any):Well, my Aunt and Uncle went to the same program, and I really wanted the awesome experience of Columbia with a equally awesome religious education.
Location/Person:
State or Country:GA
School Type:Public
Ethnicity:White
Gender:Male
major strength/weakness:I'm basically your decent applicant. I make good grades when compared to the majority of students, but not tStrength is academic stats (SATS, GPA)
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered:Well, it is a joint program, so the acceptance rate is a little higher than Columbia college.
Other Factors:I'm pretty low on the socio-economic scale, and my single mother, did not receive and undergraduate degree.</p>
<p>DECISION: Accepted!! (SEAS)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<p> SAT: 1220 690M, 530V
SAT IIs: 650 (IC), 610 (Chemistry), 540 (Writing)
GPA: 3.9 w
Rank: 3/340</p>
<p>Sujective:</p>
<p> Essay: I thought it was great, (about how I dealt with certain problems in my life and family)
Teacher Recs: both really good (one from math teacher, and one from chem.)
Counselor rec: excellent
Hook: Interview it went extremely well</p>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<p> State or Country: NY
School Type: Public
Ethnicity: East Indian (Bangladesh)
Gender: Male
Major strength/weakness: personality was my strength / SATs were my weakness
why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I strongly believe I got accepted because of my essay and interview</p>
<p>Decision: REJECTED
Mood: TERRIBLE
vital statistics: poor
self-esteem: far below par
columbia: boo on you
princeton: hello, new jersey!</p>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED </p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1570 (770V/800M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/780/750</li>
<li>GPA: 3.88 UW</li>
<li>Rank: no rank</li>
<li>Other stats:</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Pretty good I'd say. Not poetry, but close to it haha.</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: One was awesome, the other one was just sweet.</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: I assume it was all right.</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Film buff. Present in basically all aspects of application. Listed Film Studies as a possible major as well.</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Rhode Island</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian (Indian)</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: Strength: Extracurriculars, Film hook Weakness: GPA maybe? </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Not sure, personally I feel the whole thing is a crapshoot. Cornell is supposed to be easier to get into than Columbia, but i got waitlisted there and accepted here.</li>
</ul>
<p>Decision: ACCEPTED (CC, John Jay Scholar)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1550 (800V/750M)</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800 Wr/800 M2C /760 Lit</li>
<li>GPA: 3.92 UW, 5.0 W</li>
<li>Rank: 3 out of 1045</li>
<li>Other stats: 5 in Stats, Lang, American Hist, Euro Hist; 8 AP Classes Senior Year; National Merit Finalist</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essay: Chose my own topic and I will assume that it made all the difference</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Both teachers know me very well, and one is the science Department Chair </li>
<li>Counselor Rec: My counselor is very enthuastic about me even though she just met me this year; the recommendation most likely reflected that (I suppose it is, to be unoriginal, a 'wow factor' of sorts)</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Literature (EC's and achievements were mainly related to short stories being published in various contests/magazines)</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: Florida</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Chinese</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li><p>major strength/weakness: Strength: The essay. Weakness: I had, as a grand total, 2 leadership roles, 1 internship, 2 community service involvements, 1 job, and 2 academic competition leadership positions (with no major awards in either) -- all mostly 2 years worth of involvement, since what I did freshman year, became completely undesirable in junior year</p></li>
<li><p>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: Despite the lack of commited ec's, I had high scores on everything and took the hardest schedule offered at my school. And the essay. The fact that Columbia didn't confine me to a specific topic allowed me to use real words: no tear jerker emotion pulling, or humour involved, but a rationed short narrative about why I chose to write instead of joining the status quo (or the water polo team, take your pick.) In short, I was a very one-sided applicant who lucked out with good SAT/SAT II scores</p></li>
</ul>
<p>hello everybody. i got waitlisted, and i'm confused..if i accept the waitlist, does that mean that if i get accepted by columbia, i'll have to go there and not go to the place i enroll at by may 1st? i got into dartmouth and penn, and i really don't know where to go, so if i do get accepted off the columbia waitlist, can i have the option of declining that acceptance?</p>
<p>Decision: REJECTED (College)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1580</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/790</li>
<li>GPA: 3.9 (on a 4 pt. scale)</li>
<li>Rank: n/a </li>
<li>Other stats: AP Biology- 5, AP Calculus BC- 5, AP Chemistry- 4, AP Computer Science AB- 3, AP English Language and Composition- 5, AP English Literature and Composition- 4, AP European History- 5, AP Macroeconomics- 5, AP Microeconomics- 5, AP Physics B- 5, AP Physics C: Mechanics- 5, AP Physics C: Electricity and Magnetism- 4, AP Scholar with Distinction</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Good</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: Read one- good</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Didn't read </li>
<li>Hook (if any): Debate</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: South Korea</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: </li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I can think of a hundred things right now. Maybe my GC ****ed up.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors: Did not interview.</p>
<p>ACCEPTED</p>
<p>1570 800 800 740
3.77 gpa (ne prep school)
Good amount of 5s since SOph year.
White(kinda..darker than most hispanics but im still white) Male from MA</p>
<p>Hook: USAPhO, Renowned School, Superb Recs, Film?</p>
<p>Decision: Waitlisted</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1600</li>
<li>ACT: 35 Composite</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800, 790, 790</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 unweighted</li>
<li>Rank: 1/688</li>
<li>Other stats: 5- AP Calc BC, U.S. History, Spanish language</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: fair, probably not a good why columbia essay</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: don't know</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: don't know</li>
<li>Hook (if any): none, just your average applicant: decent ECs, minor awards</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:
* State or Country: Arizona
* School Type: Public
* Ethnicity: Asian- Chinese
* Gender: Female
* major strength/weakness: average in everything
* why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: nothing really stood out</p>
<p>Other Factors:
Waitlisted: Harvard, Columbia, Penn (Wharton)
Accepted: Georgetown, Cornell
Rejected: Yale
Waiting on: Princeton, Stanford</p>
<p>tafee, to the best of my knowledge the waitlist isnt binding...</p>
<p>also, any ed deferee get in and if so what did u do extra since getting deferred?</p>
<p>Decision: REJECTED :l</p>
<p>Test: 1390/29/730/660/630
GPA: 3.67uw/5.5w
Rank: 3/57
Subjectives: I thought I had really good essays, ECs, and all that.....guess not.</p>
<p>*I knid of had a feeling i would be rejected. Everytime I ever spoke to anyone at the school I always had such a cold reception. Anyways, it sucks, but it's their loss.....
Accepted @ UPenn, Princeton, Cornell, UMiami, NYU, and Smith College</p>
<p>Decision: WAITLISTED (College)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 1550</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 800/800/780</li>
<li>GPA: 4.0 uw</li>
<li>Rank: 3/451</li>
<li>Other stats: 3 5's on AP's</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: a bit shallow I think</li>
<li>Teacher Recs: I read one, it had good points but it wasn't exactly "glowing"</li>
<li>Counselor Rec: Didn't read</li>
<li>Hook (if any): </li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: middle GA</li>
<li>School Type: Public</li>
<li>Ethnicity: white</li>
<li>Gender: male</li>
<li>major strength/weakness: transcript and test scores I guess/extra cirrics</li>
<li>why you think you were accepted/rejected/defered: I think my essays could have said more about me; they didn't really stand out, at least not to me.</li>
</ul>
<p>Other Factors:</p>
<p>Decision: Accepted (SEAS)</p>
<p>Stats:</p>
<ul>
<li>SAT: 760M 750V</li>
<li>SAT IIs: 780 Chem / 770 Writing / 730 Math IIC / 720 Physics</li>
<li>GPA: 91.454/100 W</li>
<li>Rank: N/A</li>
<li>APs: Three 5's, Three 4's, One 3</li>
</ul>
<p>Subjective:</p>
<ul>
<li>Essays: Decent</li>
<li>Teacher/Counselor Rec: Didn't read</li>
<li>Hook (if any): Intel STS participant</li>
</ul>
<p>Location/Person:</p>
<ul>
<li>State or Country: NJ</li>
<li>School Type: Private</li>
<li>Ethnicity: Asian (Chinese)</li>
<li>Gender: Male</li>
<li>Major strenth/weakness: Comaratively low GPA.</li>
<li>Why you think your were accepted: Don't know, came as a surprise to me.</li>
</ul>
<p>It's always a shock to see familiar SNs and their seemingly random decisions. There ought to be some market mechanism for us to trade our decisions so we can allocate them more efficiently with our desires =)</p>