<p>FYI: here is the link to the article!</p>
<p>Good luck to all!</p>
<p>AARGH!! and they seem so proud of that itsy bitsy number</p>
<p>Yep. And I noticed on the Yale forum that their apps are down this year: Nineteen thousand, some-odd as compared to over 21,000 last year.</p>
<p>This actually should boost Columbia's perceived status, I suppose. Doesn't help the nerves of those waiting to hear, however. </p>
<p>Look at it this way, though: If you get in, GREAT. If not, Columbia has obviously become even more exclusive than in the past and you are in good company.</p>
<p>It sucks that if you are from North Dakota and you applied to Columbia, from reading that article you know you didn't get in.</p>
<p>Just what I was thinking, menunno. At least you don't have to wait if your from north dakota because they already know the results.</p>
<p>Sheesh: I didn't even notice that! That is really an awful way to find out...</p>
<p>Yeah...picked up on it quick. </p>
<p>Clue a helpless mom again....what's CAS, SECS or whatever all the schools/decisons?</p>
<p>Lol about the North Dakotans. Surely they should release this info after a couple days?</p>
<p>I assume you are talking about SEAS: that is Columbia University's engineering school ( School of Engineering and Applied Science, I believe); and CC which is, of course, Columbia College (one of the undergrad schools at Columbia University). CAS= not sure about that one or from whence it came. Same for SECS....</p>
<p>thank you.....I've read so many acronyms on so many different universities. Daughter keeps me straight but when she's gone, I'm lost!</p>
<p>They could've just said that admitted students represent 49 out of 50 states and leave the rest to the imagination...</p>
<p>Spec is hoping they just don't have internet in North Dakota yet (the print edition should take a few weeks to reach them; it has to go overland via sled-dog).</p>
<p>Or maybe they didn't get any applicants from ND, so they it didn't really matter.</p>
<p>can we not talk about the 6.8 % admission rate?? i am absolutely terrified!!!</p>
<p>or 8.6 i mean</p>
<p>Good luck to everyone waiting!</p>
<p>I include the following quote from the Spec article because it shows that stats are only a small part of the picture and what a huge role luck plays as they try to put together a class, not just judge each applicant on individual record alone. Though not getting accepted always hurts, it is not a personal failure. Perhaps this year Columbia needed tuba players who grew up on farms. </p>
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"You need people who are liberal, people who are conservative, people who grew up in cities, and those who grew up in rural settings, those who have lived in cultures outside of the U.S.," Director of Undergraduate Admissions Jessica Marinaccio said. "We have been seeking diversity."
"They are all extraordinarily bright and have all made different impacts on their communities," she said. "What the class as a whole brings is different voices, different experiences. ... That, hopefully, is what we try to construct."
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<p>VERY good point, SAC!!!</p>
<p>To be fair, Jessica's quote is the exact same thing you'll hear from every other top school's admissions spokesperson every April.</p>
<p>It's officially harder to get in to Columbia than Harvard.</p>
<p>Wow, that's crazy.</p>