<p>Amherst is giving me a full ride... all grant money. Things are looking up. At least other colleges appreciated me.</p>
<p>I may just take a spot on the waitlist for the heck of it. I don't expect to get in, nor do I really care anymore, especially after looking over Columbia's art department and not being very impressed.</p>
<p>Uh...you should save the waitlist spot for people who really want it.</p>
<p>I too have been waitlisted so I want to beg anyone who is set to attend another school, PLEEEASSSEE keep spots open for the rest of us who want to go to CU sooo much. Thank you. Also for those of you admitted, if it's not your first choice, help out us waitlisted and worried kids.</p>
<p>I wrote a poem for my one-page statement. Good idea? Eh, I figure I don't have much to lose. Did anyone else do something different?</p>
<p>why is the Columbia waitlist thread so much deader than the Princeton waitlist thread?</p>
<p>So just wondering, how many waitlisted are totally hard core Columbia?</p>
<p>i am a waitlister who is definitely, as you describe, "totally hard core Columbia"... don't remind me :(</p>
<p>well, i guess i'm just hoping for the best now!</p>
<p>darkling, just a word of encouragement. I wrote a poem for my essay on the real app, I modeled it after Sylvia Plath's sonnet: to time and wrote a sonnet: to my future. I guess the adcom really liked it because I got in regular decision despite grades and scores that, while I thought they were really good, are definitely on the low end of what I've seen from other successful applicants on CC. I hope they appreciate your creativity!</p>
<p>I was waitlisted but am not staying on the list. I'll be going to either harvard or princeton (if i get off that wlist). Good luck to you all!</p>
<p>In a way I'm happy I was simply rejected--I don't have to worry about it anymore!
Good luck everyone- I REALLY hope you all get in!!!</p>
<p>I'm really "hard core Columbia" I will go if accepted, although it will be a little wierd because I am accepting a spot at UNC where a few of my friends are going. Well, chances are they wouldn't have to understand. And it's not like I'm great friends with them anyway.</p>
<p>I am definitely "hard core Columbia"</p>
<p>Does anyone know when acceptance/rejection letters for waitlisted students were sent out?</p>
<p>I know that Princeton calls you in advance to let you know if you were accepted; does Columbia do this?</p>
<p>Waitlist accept/reject letters will be sent out mid to late May (according to last year's boards). That's the first round. Last year, they also sent out letters which kept a small group (-100, I think) of people on the waitlist in case they had a round 2. Those people were not notified until late June.</p>
<p>Btw, I'm also a hard-core Columbia-wannabe...but I'm trying to consider myself rejected so that I don't get false hopes...the prospects of getting in are waaayy tooo slim....</p>
<p>i took myself off the waitlist... im opting for harvard or yale instead.</p>
<p>Does anyone know approximately how many people </p>
<p>were placed on the waitlist this year?</p>
<p>were placed on the waitlist last year?</p>
<p>accepted a place on the waitlist last year?</p>
<p>were taken off the waitlist last year?</p>
<p>I have random stats from two years here...</p>
<p>W=1143
A=64</p>
<p>W=939
A=42</p>
<p>I'm not sure what years these were from, but I'm guessing within the last 5. I had copied them off some other CC post.</p>
<p>Wow. Our chances look very slim.</p>
<p>"they also sent out letters which kept a small group (-100, I think) of people on the waitlist in case they had a round 2. Those people were not notified until late June."</p>
<p>It actually wasn't till almost mid-July.</p>