Official Waitlist Thread

<p>i can't believe it!! i went home, checked my email and found an email from columbia and i was like oh, here's hoping for the best... and it's like congratulations and i started SCREAMING in my house!! oh god! now i just hope they give me good financial aid!
good luck to all!! and btw, i got off the SEAS waitlist :)</p>

<p>does anyone know the approx percentages of kids who were rejected/extended waitlist/accepted from waitlist?</p>

<p>Congratulations! The Committee on Admissions joins me in the most rewarding part of this job — informing you that you have been selected for admission to Columbia University in the City of New York. </p>

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<p>great...now here's hoping for good fin aid.</p>

<p>hey, did anybody get off the non-SEAS waitlist?</p>

<p>i think onx did?</p>

<p>lol this is like american idol....next round will probably be in 2-4 weeks...now that i think about it, why would they let anyone else off the waitlist after the first round, especially after saying the class is pretty much full? Either they're bs'ing or they're deliberating over the final 'x', where for SEAS 0< x <20?</p>

<p>Congrats to Bunny and Onyx.</p>

<p>...and applegreen.</p>

<p>Did you get of non-SEAS waitlist?? or SEAS waitlist?</p>

<p>D still waitlisted..eee gads!</p>

<p>I just posted this as a response in the sticky forum but here: I spoke to the Admissions office and I asked one of the guys how many kids are on the SEAS extended waitlist. He originally said no, but I could tell he was a work-study. So I said "So what then, Hundreds? Tens?" Afterward he said, "Yeeaaaaaaa less than that." So I would have to say the number is Probably 10, no higher than 20. Barely matters though, cuz they will only go to the extended list if students that got off of the original waitlist choose not to go.</p>

<p>But uhh...I would love to know now how many kids exactly were let off of the waitlist...because that is the maximum number of kids that can be let off of the extended waitlist.</p>

<p>D was moved to CC extended waitlist yesterday.</p>

<p>The extended waitlist is only used if some students back out of enrolling for financial reasons.</p>

<p>I've never heard of anyone getting in off of it...but I'm sure it happens every once in awhile.</p>

<p>presumably, enrolled columbia students who get off the waitlist of somewhere else they'd rather be would open up some spots for extended waitlist students.</p>

<p>Yea exactly what snack and Iville said; those are the only 2 slim chances.</p>

<p>The summer waitlist could be used for a variety of reasons. People going to Columbia could bail out for a variety of reasons: financial reasons, they go to a different college, they defer for a year (family / health emergency, want to go serve in a foreign military or do something else, etc.)</p>

<p>The first 2 things is what I agreed upon with snack and iville. My question is your 3rd example. Deferring an acceptance for a year, does that effectively forfeit your spot for the current freshmen class but secure a spot in the following (2012) class?</p>

<p>.........yes</p>

<p>Yes, but you had to defer by early May...I think.</p>

<p>The odds aren't great for the summer waitlist. They're worse than getting in to begin with. I would think...</p>