<p>i was really depressed to discover that only 6 waitlisted students were ultimately accepted last year ...</p>
<p>how many students are typically waitlisted at Columbia College?</p>
<p>Tons. More than 1,000. Sorry.</p>
<p>does anybody have a success story, to give us<em>waitlisters</em>hope???
has anyone here been waitlisted then accepted? what did you to do get off the waitlist?</p>
<p>6/1000, wow
any insider knowledge on what was special about those 6?</p>
<p>Most likely $$$</p>
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<p>A success story will artificially boost your hope. If all 6 of the people who were accepted last year off the wait list posted their stories, the fact still remains that it's impossible to get off.</p>
<p>Guys I don't know where you heard that only 6 got off, but the real fact is that in 2005:</p>
<p>Columbia College
Students Offered Wait List: 2017
Students Accepting Wait List Position: 1504
Students Admitted from Wait List: 45 </p>
<p>Fu Foundation School of Engineering and Applied Science
Students Offered Wait List: 2435
Students Accepting Wait List Position: 1794
Students Admitted from Wait List: 65</p>
<p>Hopefully, this gives you a little more hope, since 64 and 45 are a lot more than 6. I'm waitlisted too and I don't even know how I did, because I thought I had no chance at any Ivy League.</p>
<p>6 was 2006's numbers. It varies from year to year. In my year, it was zero.</p>
<p>Source for the waitlist numbers? I've been looking for them. I know the website lists the number accepted and mentions that the average number of waitlists over the last 5 years is significantly higher than just 6 for cc.</p>
<p>Someone posted a link with the 6. It's very unpredictable-- some years it's zero, some it's do. The average really isn't that relevant with this sort of bimodal distribution.</p>
<p>The undergraduate admissions office lists how many waitlisted applicants it accepted and the 5 yr average. <a href="http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php%5B/url%5D">http://www.studentaffairs.columbia.edu/admissions/applications/stats.php</a></p>
<p>I was looking for a source for number of students put on the waitlist.</p>
<p>The 6 were only from the Columbia College. There also were 20 taken off the waiting list for the Engineering School. That makes me feel better, because I'm on the waiting list for Engineering.</p>
<p>Daughter waitlisted too. Very frustrating but I suppose it's better than an outright rejection.</p>
<p>According to the Princeton Review "The Best 361 Colleges," for the Columbia University-Columbia College class of 2010, 2017 people accepted a place on the waitlist, of which 2% were admitted, that's about 40-41 students.</p>
<p>the princeton review often publishes information that isn't too accurate imo</p>
<p>If it makes anyone feel any better (or artificially raises anyone's hopes), I got in from the waitlist, and I'm now a sophomore here. Take it for what you will. Good luck, everyone.</p>
<p>Musikalgeak- how could they offer the waitlist to 2435 people from SEAS when only 2420(last year) applied in the first place?</p>
<p>im pretty sure 2420 were admitted. there is no way that only 2420 people applied.</p>
<p>.... 2420 ppl were not admitted given that Fu is only like 400-500 ppl per year.</p>
<p>Applicants 2420
Admitted Students 486
Admitted Waitlist Students 20* </p>