to those of you that did get in…
where are you from?
did you get an email first or a call?
should we expect phone calls or an email? by when?
I got a call from an admissions counselor this morning asking if I was still interested and she told me they’d have another update by the end of the week. Did anyone else get a call?
That sounded like a good news for you.
Where did you already SIR?
UT Austin, and have already paid about $700 in miscellaneous fees
@Snappled what was your intended major (if you listed one)?
No phone call for me :’(
I ain’t got time for this - I need to cram for finals. COLUMBIA, WHY ARE YOU LEADING ME ON?
No phone call for me either @marshmallowpop … I hate my life
All I want now is a closure, and of course it’ll be the best if I am offered admission. Geeze, the whole process is like Sarah Harvey being kept captive in A’s dollhouse for two fking years.
i didn’t get a call before they admitted me… i just got an email to check my portal for an update
Good guy @ibbi1824 Giving hope to us filthy casuals 
I got an email that my portal had been updated mid-May. I had been waitlisted from Columbia College and was then accepted! Yay, very very happy.
the core wouldve made life unbearable anyways…
a third of my time HAS to be devoted to classical studies?? **** that 
@ggwpafk823 were you rejected?
just checked my portal for the first time since the 31st… Still says Im waitlisted… Probly take myself off…
So, anybody receive an update?
I received an email this Wednesday that my admissions status had been updated and I checked and had been offered a spot :D. I accepted after looking at my financial aid package which made attendance possible. They gave me until June 10th to accept or decline so that might be about the time when they can reevaluate how many spots are left and continue pulling for anyone still waiting.
Good luck to all. My daughter has been assuming she would never get off the wait list, and it’s quite likely she won’t, but it’s very heartening to see how many have! She’s pretty much oriented on going to the school she committed to, Stanford, and not letting the wait list make her feel as though everything is up in the air. But as wonderful as that school is, Columbia is a somewhat better fit for her major and for her interest in living in NYC.
Good luck to you all!
So…all we know (from this mostly defunct thread) is that one person was given until 6/10 to accept (and it looks like s/he did). Our school year just ended. Is anyone sending final transcripts in?
Reflecting, I wonder if the waitlist experience is as crummy at the other schools as it is for CU (it’s my only waitlist, so I have nothing to compare.) By crummy, I don’t mean just the expected crumminess of being on hold, or feeling like one of the last kids on the bench while sports teams are picked. I rather mean crummy, as in, how the CU deals with those few people who were willing to go the extra mile, submit a secondary statement, wait 2-1/2 months, demonstrate above average interest in the school. While the area admissions rep did send an email acknowledging receipt of my supplement in May, you’d think we’d at least get the occasional update that the process is still underway.
Maybe I got spoiled by all the emails from schools before March 31. Even though there was a chance the ultimate result would be a denial, each school at least seemed to have some interest in maintaining good will. Nothing like that after the waitlist. Despite the platitudes about being highly qualified for admission, etc…the outstanding waitlisted are really nobodies to this school (as they no doubt turn their attention to bombarding the rising seniors with promotional material.)
I’m really at the “eff Columbia” stage now (maybe that’s the plan?). Were it not for that awesome city, and the circular reasoning that says it’s great because it was extra selective this year, all you have to do is go read the Spectator and the comments to say, “jeezzz, wut was I thinking?” This is probably sour grapes, I know, but I do believe you can assess a lot about an institution about how it behaves when it’s not in public relations mode, handling its less glamorous duties…
@Calculemus
Couldn’t agree more. I sent my transcript today along with my last letter for Columbia yesterday. Hopefully someone will read it, considering how unresponsive they are. At this point, I am just trying to convince myself not to care and after the last email the whole wl thing doesn’t faze me that much anymore. Either NYU or Columbia, I’m heading to NYC and I can’t see NYU experience will be worse than Columbia experience in most ways.
@Calculemus I was waitlisted 6 times this year (mostly by colleges I didn’t care too much for like WUSTL), and I was accepted by two schools off their waitlists (Hopkins and Cornell, but I chose to stick with UPenn since the financial aid was similar and I liked Penn more). Even the schools that rejected me did so a while ago, and they were courteous when I emailed them; their admissions offices seemed to actually care about those they had waitlisted. Of the six schools that waitlisted me, Columbia has been by far the least responsive, least caring school. Now, that doesn’t mean that I wouldn’t still like to attend, but it certainly has changed my opinion of the school.