<p>Hey guys do you think its a bad sign if the representative talking to me didn’t tell me how I did in the interview, and then when I emailed him following the interview just to thank him for his time, he never responded? I mean, I really thought the interview went well… Idk, could someone give me some insight?</p>
<p>@raca1111 you’re not allowed to have any contact with them (even if it’s only to say thank you) prior to the interview. I was informed of this by the alumnus who interviewed me.</p>
<p>Just an fyi, my interview went quite well I do believe! There were some more personal questions (“What are some of your main interests?”) along with more Columbia specific questions (“What are your thoughts on the core?”).
Overall, I think you just need to know the basics of the school (And since we’re ED, I highly doubt you don’t know it!). The personal questions will come to you like that because no one can speak more appropriately about yourself than you. Just go in and enjoy it! Mine lasted an hour and a half, a bit longer than the “45 minutes give or take 15 minutes” so I’m happy with how it went down.</p>
<p>anyone else going through phases when they think that they’ll be accepted to thinking that they’ll be miserably rejected.</p>
<p>^^ oh yes. I’m convincing myself to be content with a deferral.</p>
<p>^id be perfectly fine with a deferral. rejection will hurt though.</p>
<p>^ Same here, Although deferral may hurt slightly, I’m telling myself that deferral can turn out to be positive since I can also get RD results from other Ivy+ schools. But I still want to get in in ED round desperately to relieve university pressure. Perhaps I’m justifying deferral so that I can prevent any psychological shock :)</p>
<p>I agree with all of you; however, phasing ourselves out nearly an entire month before we receive a decision is pretty unhealthy. We’ll all end up where we’re meant to be</p>
<p>^^agreed. whatever. application submitted so theres nothing more i can do. anyone else from the NY area/applying to SEAS?</p>
<p>^^Yup, I’m a NY SEAS applicant. I’m going for financial engineering, wbu?</p>
<p>same. are you URM or ORM?^^</p>
<p>going for biomed btw.^^</p>
<p>My Columbia alumni interview is in an hour. Wish me luck…</p>
<p>good luck. do you think if i didnt get an interview this week i wont get one at all?</p>
<p>My interviewer told me that interview reports are due this Friday. Thanksgiving being on Thursday and all, if you haven’t gotten an interview at this point, I don’t think you’ll get one :(</p>
<p><em>sigh</em> thats unfortunate. prob not getting in.</p>
<p>What the heck? My interviewer emailed me to schedule a meeting, and I emailed back… Still haven’t gotten a follow-up. I really hope this gets done by Friday</p>
<p>@AMRF08: I’m a major ORM lol…I’m Indian. Add that to the fact that I haven’t done anything spectacular, and I don’t think I should expect anything other than a deferral. Rejection would sting though. </p>
<p>I didn’t get an interview email either. Strange. I’d think my area would be swarming with alumni, cause a lot of people apply to Columbia each year. It has the largest sample size on Naviance, at least. Still, if it makes no difference, I guess I shouldn’t complain. That leaves me with a problem, however: it’ll be regular decision time and I still won’t have had an interview. MIT will be my first :(</p>
<p>Don’t sweat it. The alumni network that handles interviews tries its hardest to get everyone an interview, but then again, getting an interview doesn’t necessarily better the possibility of acceptance.
We
will
all
get
through
this
my
friends</p>
<p>@logicx24: ah well im white if it makes any difference. idk what that makes me in the engineering pool. </p>
<p>lets play a game- post the first thing you will do if you miraculously get in:</p>