<p>I know that 3 of us here on CC were waitlisted (me, Wraider, and someone else). Does anyone know:
1) How many kids get waitlisted? The letter said that the list was very short.
2) How many generally get in off the waitlist? I know that this must fluctuate a great deal, but if anyone knows of any statistics or even anecdotal evidence - a friend, etc. - I'd love to know.</p>
<p>Thanks for your time.</p>
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i am on the waitlist as well. i've been wondering the same things...has anyone called?? i'd really like to know what our chances are of getting off the waitlist even if its speculative. i need something, i'm going nuts waiting</p>
<p>Does anyone know what we should do if our 2nd semester grades won't be available until mid-June, even though we have to update Columbia before then?</p>
<p>soo today is the day they begin accepting transfers off the waitlist... anyone hear anything yet?</p>
<p>Nope. 10 char</p>
<p>Anything yet?</p>
<p>I did talk to someone today who answered my question before I even had a chance to ask it (as if he had answered the same question a dozen times already). He said that they anticipate releasing decisions by the end of the month. I asked what about this week and he said "yeah the end of the week is the end of the month". so take it for what it's worth</p>
<p>Just got an email: not accepting any transfers from waitlist. Oh well.</p>
<p>Penn it is.</p>
<p>Omg so transfer waitlists heard today, us normal waitlistees must be coming up soon... I just checked my email but got nothing.</p>
<p>Actually, I doubt there's a direct correlation. We're going into different classes.</p>
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*Our incoming transfer class has been filled, which leaves us with the regrettable task of releasing you from our waiting list so that you may go forward with your plans for the coming year. *
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Oh well. Congrats on everybody who did get in this year as transfers, though. Apparently this has been an extraordinary year at Columbia in that both the quality of the applicant pool and the responses to our offers of admission have exceeded our expectations.</p>
<p>Thanks Wraider, Columbia was my dream school. Getting to transfer to it has been a dream come true (if it helps there's a slight chance I won't be able to afford it- no help :( )</p>
<p>for what its worth, i never would have had the opportunity to transfer to columbia had i gotten off the georgetown waitlist last year as a freshman. turns out, not getting off that waitlist really worked out well for me. i hope you may all have similar experiences.</p>
<p>Yeah, I'm not terribly upset. Penn has a cognitive science and neurobio major, Columbia just has bio with like 3 neuro classes. And then there's the ranking and prestige factor, which obviously helps sway me to Penn. But New York... alas.</p>
<p>Columbia is more prestigious than Penn, you're just taking the US News too seriously. Not to cause a heated debate or anything...</p>
<p>I...agree with that last one. lets leave it at that. Both are still great schools and really high up there.</p>
<p>Haha, the last time I got involved with a similar thread, they locked it down and deleted half of people's posts.</p>
<p>I'll agree with you that Columbia has lots of prestige, especially due to their impressive number of nobel prizes. Penn, especially in the early 90s, wasn't a prestigious university in the least; it was worse than Cornell. Now, however, it appears to be on the upswing, and as long as it does well in US News, it will continue to attract great students, which will in turn bolster its ranking, etc. I would say that in 20 years, Penn will be well entrenched, as well as Columbia, in the hierarchy of elite colleges. Right now it's only beginning.</p>
<p>Anecdotal evidence of the generational gap in Penn's prestige: I told someone who was 26 years old that I was transferring from Cornell to Penn, and they were surprised that I would do such a thing. When I told a friend my age on the same day, he was more surprised that I had been waitlisted from Columbia and accepted to Penn, and not the other way around.</p>
<p>Anyway, I do agree with you folks, but you should still be aware of the trend. Penn's coming back in a big way.</p>
<p>Makes sense, good post. And when the hell am I going to find out if I have gotten off the waitlist or not, these people are abusing my sanity. Its basically July and I'm still holding out.</p>
<p>I feel for you. Here's what I know:
1) Columbia appears to have overenrolled for those transferring into the class of 2011.
2) A number of other Ivy league schools - the NYTimes mentioned Penn, Harvard, and Yale - are or have enrolled heavily from their weight lists.</p>
<p>Draw from that what you will. I believe Columbia expected a high yield, however, which would explain the low acceptance rate. Penn and Yale, on the other hand, feared for a drop in yield, and accepted slightly more under early decision as a result.</p>