Official Columbia ED Class of 2014 Results!!!

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<p>Hey guys so with decisions in less than 2 days <em>yikes</em> i guess it's time to start up 2014 ED decisions thread! Template taken from Duke ED forum, so props to them for having it.</p>

<p>Good luck everyone!!!!!</p>

<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>[ b]Objective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] SAT I (breakdown):
[ *] ACT:
[ *] SAT II:
[ *] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0):
[ *] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable):
[ *] AP (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] IB (place score in parenthesis):
[ *] Senior Year Course Load:
[ *] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.):
[ /list][ b]Subjective:[ /b][ list]
[ *] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis):
[ *] Job/Work Experience:
[ *] Volunteer/Community service:
[ *] Summer Activities:
[ *] Essays:
[ *] Teacher Recommendation:
[ *] Counselor Rec:
[ *] Additional Rec:
[ *] Interview:
[ /list][ b]Other[ /b][ list]
[ *] Applied for Financial Aid?:
[ *] Intended Major:
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ *] Income Bracket:
[ *] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):
[ /list][ b]Reflection[ /b][ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ /list][ b]General Comments:[ /b]</p>

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<p>never mind lol</p>

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<p>That’s A LOT of information. People will probably be too elated/depressed to type all that out.</p>

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<p>I think what people should just do instead is keep it simple.
Just put Accepted, Rejected, Deferred and whether it was for CC or SEAS.
Then we can get a running overall sense of the statistics (at least for this site).
This way, it will all be easier to read, easier to manage, and probably a lot more insightful.</p>

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<p>On the 2012 decisions thread, it was like: rejected, post stats later. Or: Accepted. Stats later.
And we never saw them again.
But there was a whole lot of people willing to post all the stuff so…I think I’m going to choose the red one and fill everything out:)</p>

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<p>No no no, seriously, post stats. It’s a favor to future CC users so that they can crap their pants and obsessively compare themselves to admitted student profiles. Which is necessary.</p>

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<p>Fill as much as you can out. Just copy and paste it into your reply and delete stuff you think is unnecessary (maybe recs, or ap scores and such). It’s just a tool for future candidates I thought we should make.</p>

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<p>Stats are so worthless. I’ve looked in past threads and my numbers truly do make the necessary cut-off…but after that, it becomes impossible to compare.</p>

<p>Besides top 10%, I can’t really equate my GPA, since the # of APs and also the grading scale itself–out of what max–differ.</p>

<p>When we talk about extracurricular, it becomes a horror show. National forensics recognition vs. national karate success? Professional international gaming vs. international art competitions?</p>

<p>You can’t really assess these things. It is so pointless to continue comparing. Excellent applicants are rejected all the time…some ‘inferior’ applicants are even accepted. But who is to say that they are inferior? And who is to say that ‘superior’ applicants were rejected? It’s really arbitrary in the end.</p>

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<p>I’ve browsed many ‘official results’ threads before, and I can’t believe this is the thread I’ll finally be posting my own results in.</p>

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<p>Why kthanksbye?</p>

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<p>although statistics are sometimes misleading, they still show these general trends that will inevitably help future applicants make right decisions/get a sense of wher ethey are</p>

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<p>Okay, I’ve filled out my stats and saved them to a word document, and I solemnly swear I shall post them regardless of Columbia’s decision. Good luck to you all.</p>

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<p>Hey guys I’ll edit this afterwards with my results, but in the meantime, here’s my stats:</p>

<p>Good luck everyone!!!</p>

<p>Pick one:
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Deferred[ /b][ /color][ /size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected[ /b][ /color][ /size]</p>

<p>Objective:[ul]
[<em>] SAT I (breakdown): math:760 writing:740 reading:750
[</em>] SAT II: chemistry:780, chinese:760, math2:730, USHistory:700
[<em>] Unweighted GPA (out of 4.0): my school doesn’t do a 4.0 scale. I have an average of 87.something (I don’t know my new GPA with my fall term grades), and the average GPA from people in my school who got accepted into columbia is an 87.5
[</em>] Rank (percentile if rank is unavailable): no idea sorry. not top 10% though.
[<em>] AP (place score in parenthesis): Both Englishes(4), Chemistry(5), US History(4), CalcAB(5)
[</em>] Senior Year Course Load: Advanced Physics(prepares you for the AP C Mechanics exam), Applied Math 2 (goes beyond Calc BC), Latin 3, a lot of amazing electives
[<em>] Major Awards (USAMO, Intel etc.): National Merit Semifinalist (they don’t announce anything beyond that until February), Silver Presidential Volunteer Service Award
[/ul]Subjective:[ul]
[</em>] Extracurriculars (place leadership in parenthesis): Drama(14 productions total), Choir/Voice lessons (Madrigals), Community Service, GSA (Head)
[<em>] Job/Work Experience: None
[</em>] Volunteer/Community service: 250+ hours with a nonprofit exchange program, 2 weeks at an orphanage in Shanghai
[<em>] Summer Activities: Community Service, World Science Festival, Entrepreneur’s Class, Finland Exchange funded by the Finnish Parliament, orphanage in Shanghai
[</em>] Essays: moral decision I had to make with my host family in Finland. It’s pretty decent, but would’ve been better if there hadn’t been the 600 word limit.
[<em>] Teacher Recommendation: Both pretty amazing.
[</em>] Counselor Rec: Pretty->very good. She’s my dorm head too so she knows me pretty well.
[<em>] Additional Rec: None submitted
[</em>] Interview: None, though I did meet the person who was going to be reading my app in person when she visited my school. I was the only one who really talked in the beginning so she probably remembers me.
[/ul]Other[ul]
[<em>] Applied for Financial Aid?: No
[</em>] Intended Major: Philosophy
[<em>] State (if domestic applicant): Massachusetts
[</em>] Country (if international applicant):
[<em>] School Type: small boarding school
[</em>] Ethnicity: Asian
[<em>] Gender: Female
[</em>] Income Bracket: Well off enough to not need financial aid. My parents won’t tell me anything beyond that.
[<em>] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.): Lived in Shanghai for the second half of freshman year, attended a British international school there
[/ul]Reflection[ul]
[</em>] Strengths: international experience, very good preparation because of the insane academics in my school, huge upward trend in grades, grades reliable in the sense that Columbia knows my school really well, good but not amazing extracurriculars
[<em>] Weaknesses: pretty mediocre sophomore year because of adjusting to a new school, freshman grades don’t really mean too much because of the switch to a British system, an Asian with my SAT scores kind of throws me into the pile of “oh look another Asian”.
[</em>] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected: rejected, probably, because my sophomore grades drag me down too much. I had an 84.5 average sophomore year, and an 89.something average junior year. Senior year fall term is just about the same as my junior year grades. These look horrendous next to everyone’s straight As, I’m sure, but my school practices grade deflation like crazy. Columbia knows this though.
[<em>] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected: University of Edinburgh(unconditional acceptance), University of Glasgow(unconditional acceptance), [</em>] The rest of my list: Brown, Duke, UPenn, Georgetown, Harvard, Middlebury, Tufts, Vanderbilt, Barnard, Wash U St Louis, and no safeties because I got into Edinburgh!
[/ul]General Comments: If I’m a pessimist, it would be that much easier to take the blow. At the same time though, it’s more likely for something to happen if you believe it’s going to happen, so maybe optimism is the way to go. I’m a natural optimist anyway, so I guess optimism it is. GOOD LUCK YOU GUYS</p>

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<p>@laurazee: Do you go to Andover?</p>

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<p>No I go to Groton. Do you go to Andover?</p>

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<p>laurazee: Oh, you go to Groton? Do you know Trudy? :)</p>

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<p>since the whole finaid controversy is going on, can we add whether or not you received confirmation/missing info request forms to that list?</p>

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<p>i didn’t apply finaid but everyone else should add that on!</p>

<p>@x.wondergirl I know Trudy pretty well actually! How do you know her?</p>

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<p>Good luck everybody.
Twelve years of work. We’ll see if it’s payed of in about 20 hours!</p>

<p>Love,
Cornell ED</p>

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<p>No, but my good friend does</p>