<p>The day I read that I was accepted, I was working. I had to take an early break just so I could check online, and I was anxious as heck. The server was busy as hell's fires, and I was sweating bullets, and my heart was ready to jump out of my throat. That moment was it. I got deferred, and everynight for that whole week I had nightmares (well not really, but you know what I mean). The decision notification thingy wasn't loading, so I minimized it, and helped out some people with books and finding their tax papers (I work at the Bronx Central Library so we're always busy). The minute I get back to the computer, I see a new window with a picture of alma mater and a huge "Welcome" I was like ***? (I'm a teenager..what do you expect? lol) I maximize, and the first words I see are "Congratulations." That very minute, I start crying my eyes out because everything I have ever dreamed of has been realized by this very small, yet large moment. I called my mom, my bestie, my teacher, and my guidance counselar. By the next day, my guidance counselar sent emails to all the teachers in the whole school, so by the time I went to school the next day, EVERYBODY and I mean everybody, even sophmores I don't know knew.</p>
<p>Thoughts, comments, and tell me what your experience was like.</p>
<p>I got IN! I didn’t want to check, because I applied early and was deferred, so I was convinced I was going to be rejected/wait listed- I didn’t want to ruin my week, because Columbia was my first choice. So at 5:00, when the decisions were released, I decided to go for a run with my dad instead, and then when we got home, then I ate and talked to my parents for a while. I was sitting on the stairs, talking with my computer on my lap, checking facebook for other friends who got into Ivies. Finally, without telling anyone, I clicked on the Columbia link and clicked through the to the letter. In stead of finding the “Unfortunately…,” I found “Congratulations!” Then I told my parents and proceeded to not do my homework that night (understandably…?), while calling everyone I knew. haha, what’s more is that I had to actually PRINT out my acceptance letter, because I kept thinking I misread it. I’m a bit saner now!</p>
<p>LOLOL
to Transfer:Thanks! But keep on trying!! They’ll have accept you eventually!!! One of my friends is already in college, but he’s planning on transfering for junior year. You must transfer for spohmore year!! You must must MUST get in! </p>
<p>shwhitin: I printed it out too! And I showed it to my mom, and the guidance counselar who was like, “How am I going to hang this up?” Oh, and are you a New York state resident? The day after, I got from UPS the whole package (I still have the bag…) with the official letter. I am so going to buy a frame from the 99 cent store and frame it.</p>
<p>lol, I wish something like that happened to me. At my school, people were just like “Columbia, Congratz!” *Then they go off and fawn over the countless Stanford, Princeton, Harvard, Yale, and other Ivy school students.</p>
<p>LOL Columbia is just an Ivy as any other if not better! (it’s obviously hands down the best lol!) my school is outrageously small so news spreads outrageously fast lol</p>
<p>i actually didn’t have to go through the nervous opening of the decisions webpage. </p>
<p>i always check the mail when i get home from school, and when i got home on the 31st at around 1:30, i saw the UPS envelope in my mailbox. i knew it was a college acceptance because of the size, but i was actually expecting it to be Cornell. i was kind of shocked when i saw the light blue, but once i read the acceptance letter it finally hit me that i had gotten into one of the best schools in the country.</p>
<p>I was bummed about being waitlisted at HYP the night before. I thought my Columbia application was incomplete so I was expecting some letter regarding them withdrawing my application because of the lack of documents necessary. The next morning on April 1st I was doing a project on Colombia for Spanish and decided to see what if anything they had put on the decision site. I logged in and checked it and the weird video popped up and I realized I had been accepted. I didn’t believe it completely until I got the UPS bag with the light blue folder inside.</p>
<p>So I got in and I was checking the other Ivies and getting pretty bad news, but then I realized that I got into SEAS. which I didn’t even realize was a different school!
So, now I am in a dilemma because people told me 2 different things- A its easier to get into than CC , but B thats because its self selecting.
Now, I am deciding between COlumbia and Williams(my LAC) and the other non HYP top colleges.
The thing is that I am really into math and science, but I was wondering if anybody knows if SEAS is respected at Columbia and outside (ie for grad school etc) If I go to COlumbia, I am planning on doing the combined plan. Any thoughts?</p>
<p>I actually had a scholarship interview that day. That whole morning my stomach was in knots. But after the interview ended at 5:30 my dad decided he had to run a whole bunch of errands first so I had to sit in the car and wait for him. I was so anxious. When I got home I went straight to my computer to check my email (to get my Columbia username). The first thing that I saw was that my friend had gotton in. The next was my denial letter from Harvard. Then I checked the Columbia website and saw that i got in! I was so excited. I just kept screaming and then my little brother started screaming as well even though he didnt completly understand what was happening.</p>
<p>Let’s see… on March 31st most schools in my area were given the day off to observe Cesar Chavez Day. Since I’m in California, my final hour was 2pm. I remember waking up early, say around 9am with no homework and practically nothing to do. I decided to watch Twilight for the first time on OnDemand to get my mind off college stuff. After that, I took a nap from about 11am to 1:30 and had a dream where I found out I was rejected by two out of my four ivies: Princeton and Yale. In the dream, the rejections came through postal mail and for some reason, I was not able to find my Columbia decision. </p>
<p>Upon waking up, I occupied myself with a game of Tetris until 2pm, which also helped to ease the anxiety of waiting for the servers to load. I opened all the colleges I was expecting responses from (Princeton, Yale, Columbia, Cornell) in tabs on one window and switched my original plans of opening my dream school, Columbia first to opening whichever site loaded the fastest.</p>
<p>The first was Princeton–rejection. Yale–rejection too. I had to reload the Columbia page the most since a blank screen kept coming up. I opened Cornell for reassurance, having already gotten a likely letter and I began to tell myself positive things about Cornell. Columbia still had a blank screen. I gave up… remembering how hungry I was and took a break from the computer. About 4 minutes later, 2 bites into my meal, my friend called me to me he was waitlisted at Columbia. I had to go back to the site that very moment! This time, I only reloaded the page once–and there it was. A single word caught my eye: Congratulations!</p>
<p>I found a likely letter in the mail around the beginning of February. I was so excited! I told all my family that day, and my friends the next.</p>
<p>On March 31, as I watched rejections and waitlists from all the other ivies, my Columbia acceptance was that much more special. It was equally rewarding to find out that I was named a John Jay Scholar.</p>
<p>I got my financial aid package on April 1st. Not disappointing!!</p>
<p>I came home from school on a Friday and my family was out. So I was checking my email, like usual. and I got a letter from Columbia, which isn’t surprising because they keep sending out info. I read it, and then, not quite understanding, hop onto CC and read the boards. Turns out it was a likely letter (never got one before). So I call my parents and tell them about it, and they’re like, “Are you sure?” “Sounds pretty ambiguous.” I proceed to email my guidance counselor, who tells me it’s pretty much a guarantee of acceptance. My parents still don’t believe me.</p>
<p>So on the day actual results come out… I forget to check Columbia altogether, since I got a likely letter already. Then one day a nice big envelope comes in the mail, and my parents are finally appeased. They thought I might not get into any university, including my safeties. lol</p>
<p>First of all, I appologize for bringing up this post from a month ago, but i just created an account on college confidential, and I thought that this one was interesting. Congrats to my future class mates by the way =).</p>
<p>I remember very clearly the day that I found out about my acceptance. I actually did not know on what day Ivy League college acceptances would be posted, so at first I was not very nervous. Several of my esteemed friends knew about the decission dates, however, and pressured me, during the middle of an Academic UIL meet, to find out if I had been accepted. Little did I know, people had asked me on my answering machine at home as well. It was sort of a big deal, because for some reason or another, everybody expected me to get in everywhere lol. I was very scared after learning that decisions were available because I had only applied to five schools, only one safety… The first result I checked in front of some of my friends was Harvard. When they found out that I was wait-listed, everybody grew silent, including my usually over-active mind/imagination. When I opened the Columbia decission page, after holding my mouse over the link for about nine minutes of awkwardness, I didn’t know what to do. I jumped up and down, hugged my mother, and started crying. It was the best ever =)</p>