<p>Hey Guys!!
I thought that, since nobody else has started this thread, I might as well do it. I was put on the deferred list during the early decision cycle and am trying to be more optimistic for the regular decision cycle!!</p>
<p>Before we begin commenting, I thought I would just let everyone know that they are all great and unique candidates for admission and if it were up to me, all of you would be accepted!</p>
<p>Without further a due, here's the Official Columbia University RD Class of 2017 Thread!!</p>
<p>I applied a few days ago, after researching Columbia a little it seems to be a perfect school for me! Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>Remove the spaces.
[ size=+2][ color=green][ b]Decision: Accepted**[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=orange][ b]Decision: Waitlisted**[/color][/size]
[ size=+2][ color=red][ b]Decision: Rejected**[/color][/size]</p>
<p>[ b]Objective:**
[ 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:
[ 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
[ list]
[ *] State (if domestic applicant):
[ *] Country (if international applicant):
[ *] School Type:
[ *] Ethnicity:
[ *] Gender:
[ ]Income Bracket:
[ ] Hooks (URM, first generation college, etc.):[/list][ b]Reflection
[ list]
[ *] Strengths:
[ *] Weaknesses:
[ *] Why you think you were accepted/waitlisted/rejected:
[ *] Where else were you accepted/waitlisted/rejected:[/list][ b]General Comments:**</p>
<p>I applied! Now, to wait 3 grueling months :/</p>
<p>Columbia was the last school I added to my list…literally decided to apply on a sudden whim 2 weeks before the deadline haha</p>
<p>Fingers crossed for all of us!</p>
<p>SEAS anyone? Hopeful electrical engineer here. Applied late November, have been playing the waiting game since.</p>
<p>Columbia is awesome! I applied as well. Only thing is…the city is quite expensive, ha. Don’t know if my parents would be able to afford me living in the city :/</p>
<p>@Burdened – Its way tooooo soon for that!! :)</p>
<p>I applied to SEAS a week ago. Columbia’s been on my list after they sent me an email & I looked them up in July, after my first SAT!! 
But since then, for every day that has passed by, I feel more and more likely to be rejected by Columbia!! Anyway, all the best to everyone!!</p>
<p>Any other International student here? Applying w/aid?? :)</p>
<p>@rishav17 hey there, I am an international student as well! where are you from?</p>
<p>India!
What about you??</p>
<p>I’m from Russia! yay</p>
<p>i’m from canada (:
also applied with aid…hopefully that won’t take us out of the running!</p>
<p>I’m from Texas, applied to SEAS, in-range SATs but low GPA explained in my essay
My writing is pretty good and I submitted my art portfolio for fUN$IEz
Columbia is the bommbb diggitaay, yaaaalll</p>
<p>What I learnt from a UPenn information session ( It holds good for all need aware ivies) – </p>
<p>‘The University pledges a certain amount off money each year as aid for international students. Those who apply for aid are pooled separately. From this pool they start admitting students in order of their academic/extracurricular achievements without any consideration of the aid required. This way they admit the best students, even if they need the most aid. Once their allocated amount dwindles down after having admitted a certain number of applicants. They look to admit students only with required aid less than the total amount left. In any case where there are too many brilliant students who have applied for aid, UPenn say they may stretch their budget but not by much.’</p>
<p>I think Columbia follows the same process too. What this means is that we will not be competing against the whole RD pool. Now you never know whether the Intn’l aid pool is more competitive (usually is) than the regular pool. So, hopefully we are lucky and none of the strong international candidates apply for aid!! :)</p>
<p>I applied RD!
In range GPA, pretty good courseload… but not-in-range scores. (ACT scores low by 1 point :/)</p>
<p>I’m from Mexico!
Hopefully Columbia takes the same approach to FinAid for Intl’s @rishav17 mentioned. Good thing about UPenn was that they’re need-blind to Mexican students, so… 
</p>
<p>Good luck everyone!</p>
<p>^You applied to UPenn too didn’t you?? So you have a good chance there too!! :)</p>
<p>Hopefully! Aaaah the wait is too long and it only just started!</p>
<p>I have applied for engineering. I’d say my chances of getting in are very slim, but it would be amazing if I did. I’m European. (no fin. aid)</p>
<p>@andreaval penn is need blind to canadians too :D</p>
<p>i hope columbia doesn’t make aid a major factor…</p>
<p>I heard that this year there were a lot more fu foundation applicants than in previous years. do you guys know if that is true?</p>