<p>^^^It was so eerie to me that the first person mentioned in that article was enrolled at Tufts before being admitted at Columbia off of the waiting list–that’s exactly my situation (and I hope the same works out for me!)</p>
<p>So how many of you guys actually sent Columbia your supplementary statement? I ended up sending it in May 1, and I committed to duke 
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<p>At the last minute, I sent in a letter. I committed to Northwestern.</p>
<p>@LeBricksJames
I also sent in my “letter” at the last minute on May 1st. I committed to Cornell University. I got a really fast response from my regional admissions officer though! BTW, I have strong reason to think that noone is going to hear anything until at-least several days after May 5th for this year’s cycle. </p>
<p>I sent my letter a week or two ago. Committed to Brown. @matrixsurgeon You’re right, earlier years show that the earliest that Columbia releases waitlist decisions, as well as Cornell and the other ivies, is around May 13th. </p>
<p>@tetrisdeity
Unfortunately, Columbia selects very few people from the waitlist anyways so its all crapshoot and we just gotta buckle down and hope… I believe 50 or 60 at the maximum in any given year? Some years even 0 too!</p>
<p>What other waitlists are you guys waiting for as well?? </p>
<p>Oh lord, for me there are four others. Carnegie Mellon SCS, Caltech, Cornell, and Dartmouth.
@matrixsurgeon 50-60 sounds about right, they had less applicants this year so they will probably have to admit a good number from the waitlist this year. :)</p>
<p>@tetrisdeity
I guess “good number” in this case is pretty much on a relevant basis haha. And wow four? I got waitlisted at like 6 top 20 schools which sucked but I decided only to stay on three for sake that Cornell is great and I am in love with that school! btw check ur pm</p>
<p>I sent my letter relatively early since columbia has been my first choice for quite some time. I’m waitlisted at 2 other places, but stayed on the waiting list at only one other school. The other place I was wait listed at was quite an unfortunate situation–smaller college, with only three applicants from my school, all 4.3+ gpa’s. What did they do? Reject the 4.3, waitlist me, and accept the girl with close to a 5.0 (who would never go) who is committed to Princeton.</p>
<p>I committed to JHU. I sent in my letter a couple weeks ago, and was sent a reply from my regional admissions officer. I’m also on the Cornell and Yale waitlists. I was put on the waitlist at Brown, but I declined their offer.</p>
<p>Did all of you send your letters to your regional admission officers? I only sent it to the admission office and had no confirmation. Now I’m pretty worried that they may miss it…</p>
<p>@felizfeliz
I don’t think that sending it to the admission office is a good idea. You should just send it to your regional officer like the majority of the people on this thread have done. You can find out who your regional officer is (if you don’t know) through the Counselors newsletter in the counselor section of the Columbia website. Most regional officers respond within a week (mine was a day haha). </p>
<p>Thank you @matrixsurgeon. I thought it better to follow instructions so I sent it to the email address that the waitlist letter requires us to send to. Now I regret having done so. I’d probably just email again to the regional AO though deadline has passed.</p>
<p>I sent it to both but didn’t get a confirmation from either, which I’ve heard is fairly common. </p>
<p>I sent mine to the admissions office. My high school college councilor sent a letter to my regional admissions officer; this officer sent me a confirmation that she received my letter.</p>
<p>Why is this thread so dead? Columbia is the most unresponsive admissions office.</p>
<p>So I’m guessing that no one has heard anything yet?</p>
<p>Usually Columbia does not do anything with its waitlist until atleast mid-May in terms of notifying people…</p>
<p>Do you know how they notify people? Namely international students…</p>
<p>@roguered they send an email to the account you provided on your application asking you to check the status of your application on their portal (similar to during ED/RD), and if its an acceptance, they follow up with a physical letter delivered to your address. <em>not positive the second part is the case for international’s though</em></p>