<p>Should I send a letter / essay to Columbia asking to be admitted from the waitlist? I want to, but the site says that they strongly discourage supplements.</p>
<p>The decision letter says a “very brief (one-page maximum) supplementary statement of your own” is fine.</p>
<p>Is this “supplementary statement” typically a letter of how badly you want to be accepted off the waitlist (and why), or a letter containing new news about yourself? Or both?</p>
<p>Thanks</p>