<p>must you really add insult to injury at this time?</p>
<p>Perhaps an insult, but where did the injury come from? If you get rejected, it's not an injury, it's a stupid college rejection. Not to sound misogynystic, but take it like a man.</p>
<p>at any other time your talk would have perfect validity, and at any other time I may even say those things myself. But tonight, at this time, is just not the right moment.</p>
<p>I agree. Timing is everything. And you have terrible timing right now. Save the insults for another day.</p>
<p>SAT - 1490
SAT II - 770, 700, 700
AP - 5, 5, 4, 4, 3</p>
<p>National Merit Commended
AP Scholar with Distinction
International Baccalaureate Diploma Candidate</p>
<p>Yearbook Sr. Editor
Varsity Fencing 9-12, Captain
Emergency Medical Technician
more stuff..but irrelevant now...</p>
<p>Rejected.</p>
<p>Yep, Yushi, it's happened again. We were part of Columbia Massacre 2003. I may be part of Columbia Transfer Let Down 2004, but I still have hope left.</p>
<p>"smith, I don't see silver, either. There are 2 possibilities:</p>
<p>1) She woke up late so she didn't get to check her email before she went to school. She's at school now so she'll probably come on here when she gets home.</p>
<p>2) She gets rejected and is crying like crazy right now. Silver, if you're reading this, don't blame yourself. You could have got in with your stats. It's Columbia's loss, not yours.</p>
<p>Given her love (obsession) with Columbia, I think 1) is highly unlikely. Prove me wrong, silver!"</p>
<p>well i'm very sorry that i could never prove you wrong...
best of luck my dear RD-ers..</p>
<p>i guess even the most obsessed get stabbed in the back....
well thanks for a good time.. i'm still so attached to the columbia board..
:(
i feel so empty right now.. i'm at a friends house and i still find myself on here.... i need some time to get over things...</p>
<p>well thank you for your support. and good luck.</p>
<p>i guess i'll never really find out if columbia was what i glorified it to be .... i'll never know what it would have been like and if in fact it was for me.. and if i would have loved it as much as i said i did... if it actually is what i made it out to be..</p>
<p>I talked to my counselor... he said the reason I was not accepted was because of my B average this year. Well, **** Columbia... I had a very hard transition year (I moved from cle to NYC that year), and I was able to get an A- average in the 4th quarter, and an A average this quarter, with a few AP courses. So, obviously they know I can get As when I am not under huge change... but whatever, another school is going to get me, and be luckey.</p>
<p>Carrera, maybe posting pictures of you and "your carrera" in your quaint suburban town didn't rub off so well on the applicatoin either...</p>
<p>lol, I hope pictures of you and your car doesnt hurt your chances, then again maybe it does i sent pictures of me restoring a 91 Camaro...got deffered from dartmouth...</p>
<p>this year? you mean senior year?? or junior year?</p>
<p>stcoleridge... fúck you... Harvard does not accept *******s so be prepared when you get rejected... And that is not the picture I used.</p>
<p>Sorry, I ment B aveage junior year.</p>
<p>Oh nevermind... you have a legacy... too bad some of us have parents who came from "quaint" public schools that most people have not heard of.</p>
<p>Im a Columbia College First Year (08) - Im writing you guys and especially glOry as what he/she wrote touched me...and brought back some painful memories.</p>
<p>I applied to Yale EA - I figuered that if i got in great but I could still be able to see what other schools where I was accepted RD would offer me in the way of financial aid. FinAid was important to my college career. Honestly, any other college would have had to stand on their heads for me not to accept Yales offer but, as I had never been through this process before, I just liked the idea of the built in safeguard of EA.</p>
<p>As it turned out, Yale deferred me which really came as no shock. I applied to enough good/elite schools so that I felt reasonably confident that I would have a seat somewhere decent in the Fall. What happen to me STILL makes little sense I guess because there really is little sense to make out of the whole application process at so-called elite schools - especially from the applicants prospective. </p>
<p>For safety sake, I applied to and got in at:</p>
<p>UGA, Maryland and GW</p>
<p>For calculated matches, I applied to Tufts and WashU. I was accepted at Tufts but deferred at WashU and ultimately rejected from their wait list. A WORD OF CAUTION IF APPLYING TO WASHU IF YOU NEED FINANCIAL AID. Though not well known, WashU is NOT need blind - your ability to pay does enter into their acceptance decisions - this is NOT the case at almost ALL other elite schools other than Johns Hopkins who at least spells out their policy in their admissions materials. What this means for you is this - where you may be at the 75 percentile of all applicants in a school that accepts around 30% of he applicants and probably will get in, WashU will accept need based apps at about the 95 percentile - i.e. if you could get into Harvard or Yale, you would get into WashU AND with a better overall package - WashU uses their aid to steal away HYP acceptees - it helps to up their numbers in a less geographically desirable location. If you need financial aid do not waste your time applying there UNLESS you are:</p>
<p>Hispanic or Black (they pay to get their diversity numbers up)
Grabbed up by HYP</p>
<p>Had WasU been more forthcoming with their aid policy, I certainly would not have waisted my time or money visiting. Actually, my parents had pushed me into applying there as they perceived it a good match and an excellent fallback school if I could not get into one of my Ivy choices.</p>
<p>And their were my reach schools - the Ivys that I applied to. Actually, I fell into the 50 - 75% of all applicants at these schools though the reality of that is a bit skewed by minority numbers. So I applied RD to:</p>
<p>Cornell - accepted but I really did not want the perceived isolation of the finger-lakes region of New York state but I would have gone if things had turned out differently.</p>
<p>Brown - accepted</p>
<p>Columbia - really wanted a very urban campus but according to the acceptance numbers - 11%, it seemed doubtful for me but I was accepted. A shocker!</p>
<p>Penn - for that very urban experience, I established this as to the one I would get in with a high 20s acceptance rate. They did tell me that I should STRONGLY consider applying ED - I did not want a binding agreement if accepted (where I could check other financial pkgs). I felt that my app was strong enough to get me in RD but I did not count on Penn taking an unprecedented 50% ED. Not only did I not get in but I was outright rejected. </p>
<p>So why did Columbia take me? Easily, 85% of the apps have what it takes to succeed. They, as all Ivies and other elites, look for some bit of something to set apart the apps(other than those ultra brilliant ones who are perfect in every way AND get in most everywhere). I truly think that fo fill the general student bodies of all elite, 1st year classes, they look to what the applicant writes and Im not necessarily talking about the obvious essays but sometimes the way one answers a seemingly insignificant question.</p>
<p>Some months after my acceptance, I got up the nerve to contact the admissions officer for my region and asked why me? The Interest section of the app is where they ultimately look if the rest of the app is generally solid - and most specifically the rather innocent question Please tell us what you find most appealing about Columbia and why? What I wrote was not a literary masterpiece but it was a simple statement from the heart eluding to the wonders of Columbia/New york - things that I could not find elsewhere. I guess they felt that I would get a lot out of the Columbia experience.</p>
<p>Remember, I got in regular decision with these stats:</p>
<p>SAT I 760V750M
SAT IIs 730/750/800
Very highly competitive public school - 25/468
Very good recs
Moderate ECs - some regional/national rec.</p>
<p>In retrospect - on Columbias app, I knew what I was doing when I answered those questions - it fell into place - perhaps I was not as adept at recognizing this in some of my other apps. You guys need to find these questions and be very careful how you answer them - get help especially about the cities in which the schools reside.</p>
<p>I was incredibly lucky - I know it. You can do it too - at another school - at this level ALL these schools are awesome. Really. Very best of luck to you all</p>
<p>So I got rejected. I spent a day being depressed, but I think I've kind of gotten over it. Now it's time to rebuild- get out there and rip **** up, work real hard, have some fun... Learn from it, I guess... And hopefully we'll be luckier the second time around. Good luck!</p>
<p>MD/NoVA = Maryland/Northern Virginia</p>
<p>YeaH Oasis...u think a lot like me!!..lol...we're gonna burn cu down!</p>
<p>hey arsalan- where else are you applying?</p>
<p>cornell, upenn, boston u, carnegie mellon, williams, vassar, william and mary...these r some of em...wat abt u?....</p>
<p>where are other rejected ed'ers applyin?</p>