<p>someone pat me on the back!!! =(. i am an asian student asking for full aid. don’t want to list the stats but my weakness is: SAT scores, strength is: ECAs. i am quite sure that kinda ensures a rejection. i dont know?!? i can relate to EgyptianHopeful when he says he is freaking out! AAAAAHHH! I love Columbia because it is an IVY in a big city! XD Why do you guys love it ? (i am looking for personal reasons, no stats! )</p>
<p>motoshokonna: It’s in the best city in the entire world!!! I think out of everywhere I looked it was an intellectual community, and that what I really really really want out of undergrad. It was the most diverse school I could find, which adds to the intellectual community part. And I get the vibe that it’s not so tightly wound as the other Ivys. Bc again, I want to learn and grow, not be stressed out over extreme competition for four years</p>
<p>Does Columbia ever really accept applicants with say less than a 2000+?</p>
<p>To motshokonna</p>
<p>I have the nearly the same reasons as wanderlust10.</p>
<p>I really enjoyed the atmosphere at Columbia. The students, to paraphrase the student I spoke to, realize they can be the hyper focused students but realize there is so much more Columbia can offer outside of the classroom. Columbians realize there is more to college than academics.</p>
<p>The academics attract me as well. I found the classes far more student orientated. Student led discussion augmented with Professor’s insight was the norm for the undergraduate classes I attended. This emphasis on critical thought was something I thought was lost at some of the other(and in a case more “prestigious”) universities I visited.</p>
<p>The combination of Columbia’s resource to assist in my development in the next four years of life is what really attracted me and makes it my number one choice.(Sadly, I didn’t have this answer in my interview. I had my interview in November whereas I visited in December. If only I knew then what I know now…)</p>
<p>thank you so much for your opinions!
it kind of sucks being an intl student. i wish i could visit the College and meet the people. (hence i ask). but i kinda guessed what wanderlust said about people in Columbia not being as wound up as in other Ivies. I guess they are down-to-earth, humble people who know how to respect anyone. I loved my interviewer from Columbia. He kind of really convinced me that it was the best!!</p>
<p>PS: more reasons-for-love would surely help!</p>
<p>To Motshokonna:</p>
<p>I think about Allen Ginsberg sitting around with Jack Kerouac and William S. Burroughs intellectually and creatively stimulated by their surroundings and forging friendships that would literally revolutionize literature…doesn’t it sound fantastic? Where else on earth but Columbia in NYC could people so smart and so curious and so motivated to learn come together and change the world?</p>
<p>And so:</p>
<p>Decision. Anticipation. Hyperventilation.</p>
<p>Ha ha ha! I am just so anxious I get high blood pressure each night (am busy during the day!). i am from a conservative muslim family where living alone (even for erudite purposes) are frowned upon, and my interviewer told me there are no all girls’s dorms in columbia?? is that true??</p>
<p>Yeah I think it’s coed floors but I might be wrong.</p>
<p>So now I know how I am finding out about Princeton and Harvard, but I still do not know how I am finding out about Columbia. Does anyone have an idea?</p>
<p>Don’t worry about it, when the time comes i’m sure you’ll get an email with instructions or it’ll be self explanatory, just make sure you have your application number (the one that begins with C not the pin) and your password and everything’s going to be alright (at least where checking your decision is concerned. As for the actual decision, no promises)
I am FREAKING out!</p>
<p>Yeah, I applied ED and was deferred, and they gave out the ED decision via an email instructing you to go to a website, sign in with your information, click another button…and voila! Your future. :)</p>
<p>Just got that same e-mail for RD:)</p>
<p>Yep, April 1st. <em>sigh</em> I guess I shouldn’t have been hoping that Columbia’d say “March 30th!,” anything sooner, anything… (;</p>
<p>Columbia is very far from down to earth. If you want down to earth, go to Brown. NOT columbia.</p>
<p>There are no all-girl dorms at Columbia but some floors in some dorms are single-sex.</p>
<p>Make sure to check your e-mail tomorrow. That’s what I heard about Harvard maybe all Ivys, you never know</p>
<p>Guys did anyone receive an e-mail from columbia with instructions about the decision…I received two because apparently there was a wrong pin on the first one!
So I guess tomorrow it’s D-DAY (D for decisions :P)</p>
<p>I got same e-mails with instruction and correct pin number but it was couple days ago. Is that mean anything?</p>
<p>i have a feeling that getting such emails mean you got accepted</p>
<p>No, lighto, everyone who applied gets an email telling them how to check their decision.</p>